The Smashing Pumpkins fall 2011 tour dates, Oceania details

By April MacIntyre Aug 12, 2011, 16:29 GMT

The fall trek launches in Los Angeles on October 5 at the Wiltern Theatre and wraps in Philadelphia on October 22 at the Tower Theatre.

The Smashing Pumpkins--singer/guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist Jeff Schroeder, drummer Mike Byrne and bassist Nicole Fiorentino--will return to the road this fall for an intimate 12-city U.S. tour that will serve as a warm-up to a big year of touring for the band in 2012. 

The fall trek launches in Los Angeles on October 5 at the Wiltern Theatre and wraps in Philadelphia on October 22 at the Tower Theatre.

Mixing classics, deep cuts and a few songs from the upcoming album Oceania--now due out in early 2012 (exact date TBA)--the tour encompasses dates in the band’s Chicago hometown (October 14, venue TBA) and New York City (October 18, Terminal 5).

Tickets will go on sale shortly.

At all the shows, the Pumpkins will be joined by two support acts: Fancy Space People (featuring Don Bolles, who credits include the Germs, Celebrity Skin and 45 Grave) and Light FM, the band Nicole Fiorentino was in before joining the Pumpkins (see bio info below).

The Pumpkins are now hard at work putting the finishing touches on Oceania, which will mark their first full album since 2007’s Zeitgeist. 

Oceania is “an album within an album,” part of their in-progress 44-song work Teargarden by Kaleidyscope. Featuring 13 new songs, Oceania will be released in early 2012.

Also this fall, EMI Music will honor their legacy with an extensive campaign that will see the iconic band’s albums from 1991-2000 reissued in fully remastered deluxe versions, each with bonus material.

From EMI

EMI will roll out the global catalog campaign with the band’s 1991 debut album GISH and 1993’s SIAMESE DREAM, both of which are due in stores November 15. 

The excitement will continue into 2012 when EMI will reissue the 1994 compilation album PISCES ISCARIOT, 1995’s nine-times-platinum double album MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS, 1996’s five-disc box set THE AEROPLANE FLIES HIGH and 1998’s ADORE.

In 2013, their 2000 albums MACHINA/THE MACHINES OF GOD and MACHINA II: THE FRIENDS & ENEMIES OF MODERN MUSIC will be unified into one package.  A best-of compilation will also be released in 2013. The pivotal group’s many hits defined the alternative music era and continue to resonate on modern rock radio, influencing a whole new generation.

TOUR
 

WED 10/5

Los Angeles,CA

Wiltern Theatre

on sale 10am, Friday 8/19

FRI 10/7

Oakland,CA

The Fox Theatre

on sale 10am, Sunday  8/21

SAT 10/8

Las Vegas,NV

The Cosmopolitan Of Las Vegas

on sale 10am, Friday 8/19

MON 10/10

Denver,CO

Ogden Theatre

on sale 10am, Saturday   8/20

THU 10/13

Milwaukee,WI

Riverside Theatre

on sale 12pm, Friday  8/19

FRI 10/14

Chicago,IL

Venue TBA

on sale10am, Saturday 8/27

SAT 10/15

Detroit,MI

The Fillmore

on sale 10am, Friday 8/19

MON 10/17

Washington,DC

930 Club

on sale 10am, Friday 8/19

TUE 10/18

New York,NY

Terminal 5

on sale 10am, Friday  8/19

WED 10/19

Providence,RI

Lupo's

on sale 12pm, Thursday 8/18

FRI 10/21

Boston,MA

Orpheum Theatre

on sale 10am, Friday  8/19

SAT 10/22

Philadelphia,PA

Tower Theatre

10am, Friday  8/19

HOT LINKS

www.smashingpumpkins.com
http://www.facebook.com/smashingpumpkins
http://twitter.com/#!/billy
http://www.myspace.com/smashingpumpkins

Critical acclaim from the band’s 2010 dates: 

"Some of Mr. Corgan’s 21st-century songs, like the new ‘Freak,’ aim their rage at sociopolitical targets; many of them revolve around blunter, simpler riffs than his 1990’s songs…Yet by and large, Smashing Pumpkins are what they were: Mr. Corgan’s platform for tormented thoughts and invincible guitar. While his nasal voice and the magnified self-loathing of his lyrics allied him with grunge, Smashing Pumpkins were always on the rhapsodic, psychedelic end of the grunge spectrum. Now, it’s clearer than ever that Mr. Corgan made himself a latter-day guitar hero in full late-1960’s and early-1970’s style: with aerobatic upper-register leads, bulldozing low riffs, pealing echoes and outbursts of feedback....The new Smashing Pumpkins share Mr. Corgan’s sense of dynamics. The patient tension and release of their instrumental passages came from a pre-punk mindset, and there were extended stretches of free-form jamming in ‘United States’ and in ‘Gossamer,’ the 19-minute, metamorphic final encore."

--- Jon Pareles, THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 27, 2010

"...exhilarating performance....The frontman and guitarist Jeff Schroeder…engaged in dueling pyrotechnics on ‘Ava Adore’ and the new ‘Song for a Son.’ New bassist Nicole Fiorentino's thick lines stood out in ‘Ava Adore’ and the intro to the metal marvel ‘United States.’ And Jimmy Chamberlin's replacement on drums, wunderkind Mike Byrne, was nothing short of wild child all evening....He wedged the line ‘Oh, California, look what you've done to me’ into ‘Owata’; he seemed to delight in the unholy crunch of ‘Cherub Rock’; and he put more blood in the opening line of ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’ than three vampire movies combined. The new material — the Pumpkins played three of the four songs on the new EP, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope Vol. 1: Songs for a Sailor — fit in seamlessly with the old..."

-- Kevin Bronson, SPIN.COM (Los Angeles), July 1, 2010

"Opening with the new 'Astral Planes,' the Pumpkins' new lineup showed it may be the best since the original version in the '90s made the band icons of the alternative scene. The musical interaction between the four was excellent, breathing new energy into songs like 'Ava Adore,' 'Bullet With Butterfly Wings' and a ferocious 'United States,' as well as a crunching 'Cherub Rock' that had the Viper Room insane. But just as importantly, Corgan seemed to be having a great time with his new band, proving downright amiable at times."

---Steve Baltin, AOL SPINNER (Los Angeles), July 1, 2010

“On songs like ‘A Song for a Son,’ another newbie, he engaged in guitar heroics that would impress Queen's Brian May, showing his classic rock chops on the tune's epic closing....’Today,’ ‘Cherub Rock,’ and ‘Hummer,’ all gems from SP's 1993 breakout second album Siamese Dream, saw the Chicago native manhandle the neck of his Fender Strat (at 6'4" dude has some big hands), pausing to motion at the sold-out crowd before diving into another solo....Pop-rock hit ‘Perfect,’ from SP's electronica-tinged 1998 release Adore, rocked hard and loud yet was equally melodic and beautiful, and on ‘Bullet with Butterfly Wings’ Corgan ended a short pause for a sing-along with a piercing shriek and guitar blitzkrieg that knocked heads backwards....’Freak,’ another Teargarden track, was a union of pop-rock sensibility with heavy, distorted bass lines and lyrics that show Corgan can still be the romantic mouthpiece for disenfranchised youths. If ‘Freak’ was an indication, Pumpkins fans have something to look forward to."

--- William Goodman, SPIN.COM, July 27, 2010