THE SMASHING PUMPKINS ‘(ROTTEN APPLES) THE SMASHING PUMPKINS GREATEST HITS’ OUT ON VINYL FOR THE FIRST TIME ON AUGUST 9, 2024 VIA CAPITOL/UME

Two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning iconic rock band The Smashing Pumpkins will release (Rotten Apples) The Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits on vinyl for the very first time on August 9, 2024, via Capitol/UMe.

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Spanning the first decade-plus of their discography, (Rotten Apples) The Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits comprises some of the band’s most recognizable anthems, including “Today,” “Bullet With Butterfly Wings,” “Cherub Rock,” “1979,” “Ava Adore,” and more. It also features their fan-favorite Lost Highway soundtrack cut, “Eye.” Plus, the collection notably concludes with “Untitled”—which would be the last song recorded by Billy Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlain for seventeen years until their 2018 reunion. The latter has never previously been pressed on vinyl. 

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(Rotten Apples) The Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits will be available as a 2LP on 180g black vinyl and multiple collector-worthy, limited-edition 2LP color variants pressed on standard weight or 180g color vinyl. Preorder (Rotten Apples) The Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits HERE

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Upon arrival at the end of 2001, (Rotten Apples) The Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits bookended the opening chapter of the band’s career. It eventually reached RIAA gold status and earned widespread critical acclaim. The BBC professed, “A rare pleasure these days, a collection of tracks that span a band’s career than can actually justify the Greatest Hits title. If you love the sound of a guitar being put through its paces, then this is a must.” NME rated it “4 stars” and attested, “It proves they constantly strove to break the boundaries of the stolid rock band.”

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Gearing up to hit the road, The Smashing Pumpkins just welcomed highly-skilled veteran instrumentalist Kiki Wong as their additional touring guitarist. Kiki joins the band’s tour lineup along with mainstays Jack Bates (bass) and Katie Cole (guitar, keys, vocals). In addition to a combination of arena and headliner festival dates in Europe and North American stadium performances with Green Day, as part of The Saviors Tour, the band recently added additional solo arena bookings that span July through September. This new run of dates kicks off on July 31 in Muskoka, Ontario, at Kee to Bala, rolls through markets such as Kansas City, Cedar Rapids, and St. Louis, and concludes on September 27 in Las Vegas, NV, at Fountainbleu. Plus, they will close out the Osheaga Festival as one of the headlining acts in Montreal, QC, on August 3. Tickets are on sale at https://smashingpumpkins.com/tour/.

 

Check out the band’s full confirmed tour itinerary below. 

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Stay tuned for more from The Smashing Pumpkins soon!

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Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. siva

2. rhinocerous

3. drown  

4. cherub rock

Side 2

1. today  

2. disarm  

3. landslide 

4. bullet with butterfly wings  

5. 1979

Side 3

1. zero  

2. tonight, tonight  

3. eye  

4. ava adore  

5. Perfect

Side 4

1. the everlasting gaze  

2. stand inside your love  

3. real love  

4. untitled

 

2024 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES:

^ w/ Weezer

^^ w/ Interpol

*TBA

** w/ Tom Morello

 

6/7 – Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena^

6/8 – London, UK – The O2^

6/10 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena^

6/12 – Glasgow, Scotland – Hydro^

6/13 – Manchester, UK – Co-Op Live^

6/14 – Cardiff, UK – Cardiff Castle^

6/16 – Paris, France – Accor Arena**

6/19 – Moenschenglabach, Germany – Sparkassenpark (outdoor)^^

6/21 – Hannover, Germany – ZAG Arena^^

6/22 – Berlin, Germany – Wuhlheide^^

6/24 – Vienna, Austria – Stadthalle^^

6/26 – Zagreb, Croatia – Inmusic Festival

6/28 – Luxembourg – Luxexpo^^

6/29 – Rotterdam, Netherlands – Ahoy^^

6/30 – Antwerp, Belgium – Live is Live

7/2 – Gilwice, Poland – PreZero Arena Gilwice^^

7/4 – Prague, Czech Republic – 02 Universum*

7/6 – Lucca, Italy – Lucca Festival**

7/10 – Madrid, Spain – Mad Cool

7/11 – Lisbon, Portugal – Nos Alive

7/13 – Barcelona, Spain – Cruilla Festival 

7/16 – Athens, Greece – OAKA Indoor Arena**

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About The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins are one of the most iconic, iconoclastic, and influential bands of all time, shaping alternative music and culture. Since forming in Chicago in 1988, the group has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and garnered two GRAMMY® Awards, two MTV VMAs, and an American Music Award. Their catalog includes seminal offerings such as the platinum Gish [1991], the quadruple-platinum Siamese Dream [1993], the diamond-certified Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [1995], the platinum Adore [1998], and the gold Machina/The Machines of God [2000]. Rolling Stone cited both Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness among its “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.” It would also be impossible to envision alternative music and culture without their signature iconography, such as the idyllic album artwork for Siamese Dream, the black Zero shirt, the laissez-faire bliss of the “1979” music video, the gothic metamorphosis of “Ava Adore,” or the multi-dimensional live shows that sell out worldwide to this day. 2018 saw The Smashing Pumpkins unveil the SHINY AND OH SO BRIGHT, VOL. 1 / LP: NO PAST. NO FUTURE. NO SUN. and launch the immensely successful Shiny and Oh So Bright Tour, which packed arenas. Maintaining this momentum, the band released their eleventh full-length double album CYR [2020], representing yet another evolution, and more recently, ATUM [2023], the sequel to 1995’s Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and 2000’s Machina/Machine of God. As prolific as ever, The Smashing Pumpkins are currently working on new music. More details to come.