SMASHING PUMPKINS' New Independently Released Song 'G.L.O.W.' Is #1 Most Added At Modern Rock

As the SMASHING PUMPKINS get ready to launch their North American "20th Anniversary Tour" October 31, the band's powerful new song "G.L.O.W." is now the #1 most added song at Modern Rock Radio, receiving 94 adds in just two weeks and logging over 850 spins in its first week alone.

Now independent artists who are releasing music in unconventional ways, the pioneering and influential PUMPKINS are making "G.L.O.W." available via the upcoming Guitar Hero World Tour game. This marks the first time a band has recorded a new song exclusively for the franchise which will be released afterwards, giving Guitar Hero fans exclusive access to SMASHING PUMPKINS music before anyone else.

Bundled with two other rocking SMASHING PUMPKINS hits — "1979" and "The Everlasting Gaze" — "G.L.O.W." will be available post-launch (November 11) of the game as a three-song downloaded content pack. Additionally, on-disc with the October 23 release of Guitar Hero World Tour, Billy Corgan will appear as an in-game character and will bring with him "Today", the band's smash hit from their pivotal and four-times platinum 1993 album "Siamese Dream".

PUMPKINS fans will be able to see the group perform "G.L.O.W." live Friday, October 24 on the outdoor stage at ABC-TV's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Next, the PUMPKINS will make a return performance at the annual Bridge School benefit hosted by Neil Young in Shoreline, CA on October 26 (the second of the two-night engagement). The band last performed at this annual event — benefiting children with severe speech and physical impairments — in 1999.

The PUMPKINS begin a five-week North American "20th Anniversary Tour" on October 31. The run will be highlighted by multi-night stops in such cities as Chicago, Toronto, New York, Washington, Boston, Kansas City and Los Angeles. With such a vast repertoire, the PUMPKINS are coming prepared with completely different set lists in each of the multi-night engagements with no songs being repeated over the course of the two night run. Night #1 is being called "Black Sunshine," while night #2 will be dubbed "White Crosses." A special two-night ticket bundle will be available for all multi-night engagements.

The band's upcoming two-DVD set "If All Goes Wrong" is due out November 11 and consists of a 105-minute documentary, also titled "If All Goes Wrong", plus The Fillmore Residency, a full concert filmed in late July and early August of 2007 over five of the 11 sold-out nights at the famed Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, CA. From the opening note to the final chord, the documentary "If All Goes Wrong" showcases a band returning with an "enveloping epic force" (Los Angeles Times) as it traces the PUMPKINS during their 19-show residency, which began with eight shows at Asheville, NC's Orange Peel in late June and continued through 11 sold-out nights at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium. Interviews with band members, fans, journalists and fellow musicians reveal the fears, excitement, determination, exhaustion and tension inherent in Billy Corgan and his newly revitalized musical unit.