New SMASHING PUMPKINS Song Posted Online

March 3, 2010

SMASHING PUMPKINS have unleashed the third free song from the band's upcoming 44-track effort, "Teargarden By Kaleidyscope". The tune, called "A Stitch In Time", is available for download and will appear on the first of 11 limited edition four-song EPs collecting the material from the record, which itself will be issued as a box set once all the songs are completed.

"The song came in during a stream of consciousness moment while sitting backstage at a PUMPKINS concert in those wee, still hours between soundcheck and the show. The lyrics came just as surprisingly fast as the music, and the whole process took about 20 minutes," mainman Billy Corgan said in a question-and-answer session e-mailed to the press. "I recorded it on my phone, and so for a year it was the only document I had of the song. But the song stuck with me and I put it in my back pocket as something worth coming back to later." Corgan calls the track a protest song. "What I am protesting I'm not sure but it has something to do with real inner freedom and the consequence of what it means to be free," he said.

According to RollingStone.com, "A Stitch in Time" will be packaged with "A Song for a Son", "Widow Wake My Mind" and an upcoming track called "Astral Planes" to comprise the first limited-edition EP from the "Teargarden" package. The first EP, "Volume 1/Songs For a Sailor", will be released April 20.

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