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Smashing Pumpkins unveil fall tour
By Jim Welte - MP3.com
July 3, 2007 at 12:33:00 PM | more stories by this author

Following lengthy runs in Asheville, N.C. and San Francisco, partially reunited group will play 20 US dates in the fall.

While fans in Asheville, N.C., and the San Francisco Bay Area are getting a heavy dose of the Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan and company are going to share their return with the rest of the country in the fall.

The Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan filming the video for The Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan filming the video for "Tarantula."

The Pumpkins today unveiled a fall tour, adding 20 dates to a trek that includes its current run at the Orange Peel in Asheville and an 11-show run at the Fillmore in San Francisco starting July 15. The band is also set to play on The Late Show with David Letterman on July 9 and July 13, and at the Live Earth concert at the Meadowlands in New Jersey on July 7.

The tour will kick off Sept. 8 at the Osheaga Festival in Montreal and conclude Nov. 5 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. In between, the band will play two shows apiece at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston and the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia, as well as the V Fest in Toronto.

The band said that more shows will be announced for Sept. 15-16, Sept. 21-22, Oct. 6, and Oct. 27-28.

The Smashing Pumpkins, which includes original members Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlain and new members Jeff Schroeder on guitar and Ginger Reyes on bass, have a new album, Zeitgeist, hitting stores July 10, with four versions of the album being released for various retailers.

Fans who preorder Zeitgeist through the iTunes Music Store will get first crack at tickets via a Ticketmaster promotion. General public tickets go on sale July 14.

The new album has been preceded by the single "Tarantula," which is No. 2 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart and No. 7 on the Mainstream Rock tally.


Smashing Pumpkins tour dates:

9/8: Montreal (Osheaga Festival)

9/9: Toronto (V Fest)

9/13: Las Vegas (the Pearl)

9/18: Phoenix (Dodge Theatre)

9/24: Vancouver (NE Forum)

9/28: Salt Lake City (McKay Center)

9/30: Morrison, Colo. (Red Rocks)

10/2: St. Paul, Minn. (Wilkins Auditorium)

10/4: Normal, Ill. (Braden Auditorium)

10/7: Detroit (Fox Theatre)

10/9: Pittsburgh (Palumbo Center)

10/11: Columbus, Ohio (LC Pavilion)

10/15-16: Boston (Orpheum Theatre)

10/21-22: Philadelphia (Tower Theatre)

10/25: Memphis (Mud Island Amphitheatre)

10/26-28: New Orleans (City Park - Voodoo Music Experience)

10/30: Atlanta (Fox Theatre)

11/3: Dallas (Nokia Theatre)

11/5: Nashville (Ryman Auditorium)

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5 Comments

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They're back!! I love it :-D
Posted 07/14/2007 11:13am
Excellente!
Posted 07/05/2007 12:00pm
Pump kin.
Posted 07/03/2007 3:43pm
Zeitgeist... little grandiose a term for them isn't it?
Posted 07/03/2007 3:43pm
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