Smashing Pumpkins News

Smashing Pumpkins pick new drummer after open call

Aug 18, 2009 9:00 am PDT

Drum roll, please. The Smashing Pumpkins have a new member of the band. The band posted on its Web site that 19-year-old Mike Byrne of Portland was chosen from the more than 1,000 drummers who responded to the group's open call to replace...

Smashing Pumpkins announce open call for drummers

Apr 1, 2009 2:00 pm PDT

Smashing Pumpkins have issued a statement saying that they are seeking a drummer to replace Jimmy Chamberlin, who left the band last week. Billy Corgan and company will hold auditions next Friday (April 10) in Los Angeles. They have asked...

Billy Corgan: Last Pumpkin Standing

Mar 23, 2009 12:00 pm PDT

The Smashing Pumpkins have just become a one-man band. Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has exited the group. Head squash Billy Corgan dropped the bomb without further explanation on the Pumpkins' website on Sunday. "Corgan will continue...

Smashing Pumpkins sheds Chamberlin

Mar 21, 2009 1:00 am PDT

Billy Corgan announced Friday (March 20) that he is heading into the studio to record a new Smashing Pumpkins album without any of his original bandmates. Jimmy Chamberlin, the group's original drummer and the only original Pumpkin to...

Rock vets unite in new band

Feb 17, 2009 9:00 pm PST

Former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos, Hanson's Taylor Hanson and Fountains of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger have formed a new band, Tinted Windows. The group has recorded its debut album at ...