The much-anticipated Smashing Pumpkins reunion tour will begin next week in Paris. Following the gig on May 22 at Paris’ Grand Rex, the band will tour Europe through June 22. Heretofore the Pumpkins’ only announced U.S. gig was an appearance at Live Earth on July 7. However, the group has now announced two residences for the weeks surrounding that event. From June 23 through July 5, the Smashing Pumpkins will perform nine gigs at the Orange Peel in Asheville, NC. Then between July 22 and August 1, the band will deliver eight shows at the San Francisco’s Fillmore.

In the midst of these gigs, the group will release its sixth album, entitled Zeitgeist. The personnel on this release as well as the identity of the touring band remains unannounced. Founding members Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin are a lock (the two co-produced Zeitgeist with Roy Thomas Baker and Terry Date). However, with the two other members of the original quartet, James Iha and D'arcy Wretzky, long on the outs with Corgan, rumors suggest that guitar and bass duties will fall to Jeff Schroeder (The Lassie Foundation) and Ginger Reyes (Halo Friendlies).

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