SMASHING PUMPKINS Drummer Auditions To Be Held Next Week

March 30, 2009

Auditions will be held Friday, April 10 in Los Angeles for drummers who are looking to play with the SMASHING PUMPKINS. All interested parties should send their background info, photos and performance web links via email only to: [email protected].

SMASHING PUMPKINS mainman Billy Corgan recently entered the studio with audio engineer Kerry Brown to lay down pre-production demos of some of his new material. "It's going well and I'm very happy and in a great mood," Billy said. "I'm not sad (about drummer Jimmy Chamberlin's recent departure),actually excited to be working on new SP!" He added that "the songs sound like spring!"

There are five demos in total that Billy is currently working on and he anticipates the official recording process to begin sometime in May.

Corgan told the Chicago Tribune last year that the PUMPKINS would not release any more standard albums following the disappointing response to the group's 2007 comeback CD, "Zeitgeist". But Corgan added that more PUMPKINS music would continue to be released in some fashion.

The singer and guitarist also revealed plans to scale down the PUMPKINS' touring plans, following several shows last fall in which Corgan and audience members were hostile to each other over the lack of well-known material in the set.

Corgan recently wrote a letter to Congress in support of the proposed merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation, although he did not mention in his letter that Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff manages the PUMPKINS.

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