September
2000
Machina
II/ Friends and Enemies of Modern Music has been released online. You can
download it at NSPAA. I
believe SP will be touring Europe and South Africa ,but no news on North
America yet. Keep you posted hopefully.
June
10 2000
Well
summer for me is next week, so then I will update my page a little bit
more. As most of you know the Smashing Pumpkins are breaking up at the
end of the year. This page will still be up then, but updating will be
minimal. I will try to complete and fix my page so its perfect, then I
will leave it be.
I
saw the Pumpkins the day after the breakup announcement in Berkeley and
it was awesome as usual. My review is here.
| HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIMMY! Cheers to the best drummer in the world. | |
March 26 2000 Happy birthday to James Iha who turns 32!!! This was slightly eclipsed by Billy turning 33 this month, but I still remembered. Everyone should buy his wonderful solo album. There is a studio version of the song Speed Kills , I'll have it up in awhile in .ram format....Buy the import Stand Inside Your Love single to hear it.
March
17 2000
Today
is Billy Corgan's birthday number 'Thirty-Three'. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILLY
from Speed Kills also celebrating a birthday is the lovely
Melissa Auf Der Maur who turns 29 today. Happy b-day to the leading lady
from SP!
February
28 2000 Machina review
SP
is suing Sharon Osbourne for 150k spfc
has more....New album comes out tomorrow!!!! Everyone buy it! SP will be
in SF on March 6th at Virgin Megastore (6pm) for a signing...see ya there!!!
February
10 2000
Concert
Review and meeting the band review!!!! here
More news.....D'arcy is has been arrested on charges of possessing cocaine. =( You can read about it here.
The
Everlasting Gaze....The new Smashing Pumpkins video is out on Video stations,
but has been snuffed by TRL. They did not premier the video for one reason
or another. But it is playing on MTV , MuchMusic, and even VH1. Damn
MTV, no wonder I love it so much (grrr).
January
20 2000
Sharon
Osbourne has dropped SP from her management, SP has flip-flopped single
plans and are releasing 'The Everlasting Gaze', the radio hit, as a video/single
first. That is being shot now, and will be on MTV/VH1/M2/MM and other music
video stations in mid February. MACHINA/The Machines of God
is being released on February 29th ,despite rumours. I have heard the album
,shhhhhh, and would like to say it is very,very good. Some of the
pumpkins best work is on here...very good, tell everyone to buy it.
There is yet another rumour going around that SP is breaking up after Machina
is promoted.....dont get to upset (D'arcy will never be replaced, Jimmy
isnt coming back, Rock is dead, blah blah blah). Either someone misunderstood
something or Billy's head is not on straight. This rumour has been around
before, SP is still alive. We might be seeing a b-sides album soon, no
info as of yet though. The Everlasting Gaze is number 6 on the modern rock
charts up 2 spots. Pretty good considering it the only song in the top
10 without a video yet. #1 should be a matter of time! For more info
on Machina go here.
January
1 2000
Speed
Kills is Y2K proof!!!! J/K.....Z Pumpkins played at an MGD blind Date on
December 29th. The concert got rave reviews. SP is starting
there 18-month tour in Europe in a few days. The new album 'MACHINA/The
Machines of God' will be out either February 8th or the 29th. There are
rumours going around for 8th and january 25th. The U.S. tour will
kick off in San Francisco in February of March.
December
23 1999
Smashing
Pumpkins played 2 hometown gigs a few nights ago , you can check out info
at SPFC. SP will be touring in
Europe in the coming months. 'The Everlasting Gaze', which is the new single
was #9 on billboard. Falling short of the crappiest band in existence (korn).
Well theres always next week. REQUEST IT!! Stand Inside Your Love video
has been shot and will be on MTV and VH1 in mid-January along with that
single.A few polls to check out are Rolling
Stone and Remarkable
Person survey and be sure to check out Project
33 and Corgan Congregation. I am
also 16 today!!!!
Peace
Love Empathy and Pumpkins -Matt
November
25 1999
Tour
dates are here
and it has been confirmed that Melissa
Auf
Der Maur has is touring bassist and is rehearsing for the upcoming tour.
November
23 1999
An
ultra-secret, exclusive listening party for the new Smashing Pumpkins album
was held Friday (Nov. 19) evening at the Whiskey Bar in New York City.
In attendance were a number of Virgin Records personnel -- most of whom
were hearing the finished album for the first time -- and about 15 key
modern rock radio programmers, who were flown in specially by the label
for the party.
The
record "MACHINA/The Machines of God" was handed in to the label earlier
in the week, and comes on the heels of 1998’s disappointing Adore set.
A source at the party told allstar that the new album definitely rocks
harder than the electronica-tinged Adore with "more guitars and more snarling
vocals."
The album’s release date is Feb. 29, 2000 (pushed back from its original date of Feb. 15) and the track listing goes as follows:
"Everlasting
Gate"
"Sunshowers"
"Stand
Inside Your Love" (the first single)
"I
Of The Mourning"
"The
Sacred + Profane"
"Try"
"Heavy
Metal Machine"
"This
Time"
"The
Imploding Voice"
"Glass
+ The Ghost Children"
"Wound"
"Crying
Tree"
"Blue
Skies Bring Tears"
"With
Every Light"
November
05 1999
Astonishing
and quite depressing news today! The
new album has been said to be Desolation
according
to USA Today!The bad news is that Melissa
Auf Der Maur has joined sp. This really
sux.
They could have picked someone better.
The
truth is no one can replace D'arcy!
November
01 1999
I
was at The Bridge School Benefit on Halloween
night. I saw Billy James and
special
guest Jimmy. That is all the pumpkins (since
D'arcy left). Here is my full review!
Enjoy!
October
14 1999
Smashing
Pumpkins have found management with
the Ozzy family. Ozzy's wife who also manages
coal chamber(blah) and metal legends Black
Sabbath and Ozzy himself of course has signed
The Pumpkins. Billy fired the money
grubbing
Q-prime last year.
September
24 1999
Hole
bassist Melssia Auf Der Maur has
left Hole and is pursuing many
goals
of hers: like photagraphy, solo
project etc. Word has it she might
be
doing work with the pumpkins. She will
NOT be a member though. She will
have
the Matt Walker & Kenny Aranoff benefit
of touring probably.
September
20 1999
Billy
and James are playing at the Bridge
School Benefit with bands
like
Green Day, Pearl Jam and The
Who.Tickets on sale 9/12 and
the
concert is the 10/30 & 10/31 @
the Shoreline in San Fracisco. I
am
going to be there!!!!
September
9 1999
D'arcy
has officially left the smashing pumpkins.
It was confirmed by
the
smashing pumpkins collection and Mtv.
The Album is due on February 15 2000
and
there will be a tour with the 3 remaining pumpkins
including Jimmy. No statement has been
made about replacement or anything. I'll
keep
you posted.
September
4 1999
On
Sunday night at 7:30 on fox and 11:30 on NBC there
will be pumpkins oriented shows on. The simpsons
Homerpallooza
and SNL with sp performance. Both re runs.
August
17 1999
Music
quote of the week on RockOnTv is
"You
give me a fucking kazoo and I'll write you a good song."
-Billy Corgan, of the Smashing Pumpkins
August
16 1999
There
is a rumour that the next Smashing Pumpkins
album will be
"Uneasy
feelings in a no Fly Zone" that info is from
the website Space Control
July
30 1999
The
new untitled Smashing Pumpkins Album has
been pushed back to February 2000.
SP
has been working with Flood in Chicago non-stop.
The new album is being worked on as
much as possible for the pumpkins to get as
a result to continue there reign and possibly
gain
higher status than previous!
July
27 1999The long-awaited soundtrack to Stigmata
finally has a confirmed track listing, with
10 tracks composed by Billy Corgan leading
the way. All but seven songs on the album
were scored by the Smashing Pumpkins frontman
(along with composer-jazz artist Mike Garson)
-- his first major foray into music scoring
(allstar,
May 11).
In addition to previously confirmed tracks by
Massive
Attack ("Inertia Creeps"), Remy Zero ("Gramarye"),
Remy Zero
is an very awesome band, and "Gramarye" is one of my favs(Get
Villa Elaine)
Chumbawamba
("Mary Mary"), David Bowie ("The
Pretty Things Are Going to Hell"), and the Afro
Celt Sound System featuring Sinead O'Connor
("Release"),
Natalie Imbruglia has added a Corgan-penned
track,
"Identify," to the album's lineup.
Tracklist
at Smashing Pumpkins
Collection
ALBUM
NEWS
we've
been pestering the band ceaselessly for an update,
and
we finally have one for you. the good news is the
new
record is now more than 60% completed,
with
approximately 21 songs still being considered
along
with a few select instrumentals. 11 of the songs
you
might recognize from the arising! tour, and 10 more
additional
songs that have yet to be played live by the
band.
the pumpkins hope to be finished in the first couple
weeks
of august, and are still planning a late fall release.
and
contrary to published rumours that the record is a
return
to the band's older styles, we ask and gently remind,
when
have the smashing pumpkins ever repeated themselves?
| June
16 1999 Sorry about lack of updates,
Well my site reached 1000 sometime and the pumpkins are finishing up there album, Billy has decided Natile Imbruglia is going to sing 'Identify' for Stigmata and D'arcy is going to be in a movie. To your left is a board with a list of new songs, some familiar ,some not. Heres info on the NEW album also go to Official Smashing Pumpkins site The songs on the right are: Glass' theme , Blue Skies Bring Tears ,Let me Give the World to you (Adore b-side), stand inside your love, Go, Heres to the atom bomb, Wound , Cash Car Star, Glass and the ghost children, Real Love, Speed Kills, I of the _____? , Dross, bringing the ____?, rain drops, with every light, Home, Virex, innosense, slow song, disco king and Radio |
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