SMASHING PUMPKINS Offer Subscription To Recording Process

April 22, 2009

According to The Pulse of Radio, SMASHING PUMPKINS founder Billy Corgan has announced that he is launching a subscription service at the band's official web site that will allow fans to track the progress of new PUMPKINS music as Corgan writes and records it in the studio. Fans would receive video diary entries, photos, lyrics and inside looks at the recording process during a 12-week period, all for a price tag of $40.

Corgan said in a statement, "The goal is to create a working model that is not profit motivated but rather information and access motivated. In exchange for a fixed resource base fans will be let inside in an unprecedented way to the creative process of preparing to make the next (SMASHING PUMPKINS) album while also inspiring an interactive dialogue that will help shape the work."

Corgan promises at least five studio updates a week for subscribers, with each lasting at least five minutes.

The video updates will eventually be collected into a film at the end of the recording process. Fans will not get access to any completed music.

The site says that "the project will be set aside for a future time" if there is not enough subscriber demand.

Corgan recently said that the next PUMPKINS albums could contain as many as 44 tracks, with segments of it released online over a two-year period.

Corgan recently auditioned drummers — including SYSTEM OF A DOWN's John Dolmayan — to replace Jimmy Chamberlin in the band.

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