The SMASHING PUMPKINS have announced a 12-show run of intimate venues including Ft. Lauderdale’s Revolution Live. This marks the iconic band’s first tour since December 2008 and will feature, says leader and founder BILLY CORGAN, “a balance of classics, a few obscure ones, and new ‘Teargarden’ material.” 

Recently, the Pumpkins released the four-song TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE VOL.1: SONGS FOR A SAILOR EP.  This is the first of an eventual 11 specially packaged EPs–taken from the in-progress 44-song work TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE–to be sold in record stores.

CORGAN and his band mates–guitarist JEFF SCHROEDER, drummer MIKE BYRNE and new bassist NICOLE FIORENTINO—are planning to invite select fans to attend their sound checks (details TBA). “We are going to do something unique, which is play an invite-only set during sound check of almost all new, unreleased songs,” says Billy. “We’re still figuring out a way to make it possible for some of the fans who’ll be in the line outside waiting to get in for that.”  Rehearsals for the tour “have been fantastic,” adds Billy. “I haven’t been this comfortable in a band situation since about 1995. Musically, we seem to have wound our way back to a more kinetic, electric, and psychedelic sound that reminds me of SP in the Gish-Siamese era.”  The decision to play intimate venues keeps in line with the Pumpkins’ “long-standing tradition of trying to start up new tours at smaller venues because it allows the band the opportunity to take some chances musically,” explains Billy. 

WHEN:           
TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2010, 8PM 

WHERE:         
INSIDE AT REVOLUTION LIVE
200 WEST BROWARD BLVD.
 FT. LAUDERDALE, FL
 (954)727-0950                                                                        

ON SALE:        SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 2010 AT 10AM

AT THE REVOLUTION LIVE BOX OFFICE, www.livenation.com AND

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PRICES           $45.00 – ALL TICKETS GENERAL ADMISSION – ALL AGES

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