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Smashing Pumpkins is one of the most sought-after concert tickets today. With a career that spans over two decades, this alternative rock band has been one of the most successful of its genre. Their sound is a blend a of elements from gothic rock, psychedelic rock, and progressive rock to dream pop and heavy metal. Coupled with bruising lyrics and anguished songs, Smashing Pumpkins live shows are sure to bring the house down.
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The Smashing Pumpkins are an American Alternative band from Chicago. Though they were formed in 1988, they got their break into mainstream in 1993 with their album, Siamese Dream. The Smashing Pumkins were well known in the 90's for their unique and artistic music videos.
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The Smashing Pumpkins released their final album, Machina II: The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music, in MP3 form and on 25 vinyl records, completely bypassing Virgin Records, the band's record company. Angry that Virgin didn't want to produce a follow-up to their earlier Machina release, the band cut the 25 albums and distributed them to friends, asking them to get the songs copied and distributed in any way they could, including MP3 file swapping via Napster, Gnutella, AIMster, etc. 23 of the 25 tracks on Machina II are new and unheard.
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Smashing Pumpkins have announced the name of their upcoming reunion album: Zeitgeist. The highly anticipated album will be released on July 7, 2007. The news was leaked this morning (2/7) to fans that had been added by the band as a "friend" on MySpace.com.
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Smashing Pumpkins have confirmed their first tour dates of 2007 with headlining performances at Germany's Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park festivals in early June. According to the band's website, the Pumpkins will perform at Rock Am Ring on June 2 and play Rock Im Park the following evening.
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For their first album of new material since 2000, the Smashing Pumpkins produce a meaty slab of bombast-saturated alt-rock -- Zeitgeist is many things, but subtle isn't one of them. Single "Tarantula" sets the harried pace, and there's plenty to bang your head to here, but the grace and variety the band made its name with is missing: Gone are the heart-wrenching ballads and aching melodies, replaced by aggressive songs that bear more resemblance to Velvet Revolver than the Pumpkins of yore. Makes you wonder whether the missing D'Arcy and James Iha were the heart of this band all along.
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