A major announcement from Billy Corgan this morning via a Facebook video. (I always enjoy scooping the NME!)
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2078451280700

1. Teargarden song #10 is coming out very soon--"about a week."
2. The Teargarden project will then go on hold while the band records "a full album, old-school style" to be called “Oceania”, which will be released "in September". Corgan calls this "the album within the album" and "part of the Teargarden project."

Even bigger news: The Pumpkins have secured the rights to their old material. According to Corgan, he now has the right put out unreleased vault material “any time we want, any way we want.”

He also announced the following reissues:
This fall—“Gish”, “Siamese Dream”, “Pisces Iscariot”
2012—“Mellon Collie”, “The Aeroplane Flies High”, “Adore”
2013—“Machina” and “Machina 2” will be remastered and sequenced “in the correct running order”; “Greatest Hits” will also reappear.
All of these albums will also see vinyl release.

Of the unreleased material, Corgan specifically mentions “the last show,” which is undoubtedly the professionally filmed marathon final concert at the Metro from late 2000.

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"Quasar"
"Panopticon"
"The Celestials"
"Violet Rays"
"My Love Is Winter"
"One Diamond, One Heart"
"Pinwheels"
"Oceania"
"Pale Horse"
"The Chimera"
"Glissandra"
"Inkless"
"Wildflower"

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007P6VLRS/?tag=imwan-20

Don't know if this song will end up on the album, might just be another "Teargarden" release nobody will buy, but this review from Antiquiet.com is hilarious. I tried to watch the video, but the song and video are so God-awful it must be a joke and I couldn't get through it. I hope it's a joke.

From Antiquiet.com:

This is just ridiculous. The Smashing Pumpkins have debuted a new short film for their song Owata, a twelve-minute spectacle that focuses on two underground female wrestlers and a whole lotta numb, empty dialogue & bad acting.

Billy Corgan’s zombie Pumpkins’ latest video is off the ever-changing, ever-uninspiring 44-track effort, Teargarden By Kaleidyscope. Director Robby Starbuck’s 12 minute short film about female underground wrestling was paired with the song.

Nothing about the experience flows properly between the music and what unfolds onscreen, except that the song is interspersed with long stretches of uninteresting film (such as a diner scene with terribly boring dialogue) that don’t exactly inspire fascinated excitement. Perhaps that’s because the song is virtually unlistenable in the few moments we’re able to hear it.

This is the part of the article where we’d normally guide you to the band’s official website for pre-ordering and the like, but I can’t in good conscience recommend that you contribute to the further unraveling of the Smashing Pumpkins’ once-beautiful artistic legacy. This shit is terrible.

Here's the link to this mess...

http://www.antiquiet.com/news/2011/06/s ... ins-owata/

Not sure I understand if the venomous reaction to an album not yet released, in this case based not on a song that has been available for free download for several weeks now, but on a promotional film containing that song. The internet sport of competitive Pumpkins-bashing does seem to have moved past the point of reason; the whole movement strikes me more as the sort of backlash that occurs when a once-trendy artist falls out of fashion, rather than a direct comment on the music itself. It's certainly easier to attract online attention by spitting out a nasty, albeit witty, review of something, than by writing something insightful.

The Teargarden project has had its highs and lows, but I'm certainly not finding it uninteresting. But hey--I certainly don't want to risk my hipster credentials by taking the time to take into consideration music that is obviously not destined to please the masses. Therefore...

Fuck Corgan & fuck the Pumkins *& fuck this gayass RETARD music

Now if you'll excuse me somewhere on the web there's a "Jar jar fucking SUCKS!!1!" thread beckoning LOL

Seriously. I've never seen so many people bitch so incessantly about free downloads from a band they claim has sucked so much for the past 14 years.

It behooves no one for you to even listen/watch if you're committed to the bandwagon opinion that the Pumpkins haven't done anything worthwhile since Mellon Collie.

FWIW, Antiquiet has pretty consistently dumped on Corgan's newer material, so hardly a surprising take for them.

The release of "Oceania" has been pushed back:

http://smashingpumpkins.visibli.com/share/XEoJW3

Billy Corgan says the ambivalent reception to Smashing Pumpkins' large-scale, diffuse "Teargarden By Kaleidyscope" project is what led the band to create an actual album, "Oceania," that's due out in coming months.

"I reached a point where I saw that the one-song-at-a-time idea had maxed itself out," Corgan tells Billboard.com. "I just saw we weren't getting the penetration in to everybody that I would have hoped. I mean, we have 1.3 million followers on our Facebook page, right? So you think you put (a song) up and 1.3 million people are gonna see it -- but only if they're looking at the exact moment it goes up. They're not necessarily searching and they're friends aren't necessarily going to tell them about it. It's very mercurial.

"I just saw that we weren't reaching the sort of casual person who still gets their information from traditional sources. So I thought, 'What do I need to do?' and then I thought, 'OK, I'll go back to making an album.' "

Smashing Pumpkins have so far released a dozen or so tracks that are part of the planned 44 for "Teargarden..." -- including "Owata," whose video is currently streaming on the group's web site -- while "Oceania" will feature another 14. Corgan says the group is "still trying to figure out the business side" for "Oceania," the Pumpkins' first traditional album since 2007's "Zeitgeist," and hopes to "make it available to be heard in November, but we don't know that yet for sure." As for the music, he describes it as "some of the most melodic work I've ever done, but somehow it rocks pretty hard, too. It's probably the most open-sounding album I've ever made. The general description I've heard from people who have heard it is that it reminds them of the Pumpkins in the way they like the Pumpkins, but somehow it sounds new. So there's a familiarity, but everybody says, 'OK, it does sound new. It doesn't sound like they went back to their old sound.' "


Most of "Oceania" is comprised of "new songs that I wrote this year," Corgan reports, but some also date back a while, including some material he worked in with Electric Prunes founder Mark Tulin before his death in February. "He had played on a lot of the demos," Corgan says, "and to sort of grieve and embrace my time with him, I actually went through every demo we had done and I found a couple of ideas that I thought, 'Oh, I overlooked those. So I put those ideas in the pile, but mostly it's new songs."

Corgan and the current Pumpkins -- drummer Mike Byrne, bassist Nicole Fiorentino and guitarist Jeff Schroeder -- are hopeful that "Oceania" will not only sate Pumpkins fans' appetite for a more conventional album but also help to energize the ambitious "Teargarden..." concept. "We feel pretty confident this is going to help make the progression of 'Teargarden' make sense to people," Corgan says. "If we're able to get that sense that something is happening again and get people to rally behind us a bit, I think the next three, four years will be very interesting for the band. I think if ('Oceania') basically hits the same wall a lot of the other stuff has hit, we're going to have to step back and really evaluate where we're going, because it's a tremendous amount of energy to put out to just feel like you're throwing a pebble in the ocean."

The Pumpkins hit the road for a 12-date U.S. tour on Oct. 5 in Los Angeles, followed by a five-week European swing that begins Nov. 2 in Stockholm, Sweden.

The planned track list for "Oceania" includes:

1.Quasar
2.Stella P and the People Mover
3.Panopticon
4.The Celestials
5.Violet Rays
6.My Love is Winter
7.One Diamond, One Heart
8.Pinwheels
9.Oceania
10.Pale Horse
11.The Chimera
12.Glissandra
13.Inkless
14.Wildflower

From FMQB.com:

The Smashing Pumpkins have revealed the track list and album art for the new album Oceania, due out June 19 via EMI. The album is part of the Pumpkins' overarcing Teargarden By Kaleidyscope project of 44 songs, which have been released song-by-song since 2009.

Oceania is the first Pumpkins album featuring Billy Corgan's new lineup of guitarist Jeff Schroeder, bassist Nicole Fiorentino and drummer Mike Byrne.

The Smashing Pumpkins currently only have three live tour dates announced, all overseas, in May and July.

Oceania track list:

"Quasar"
"Panopticon"
"The Celestials"
"Violet Rays"
"My Love Is Winter"
"One Diamond, One Heart"
"Pinwheels"
"Oceania"
"Pale Horse"
"The Chimera"
"Glissandra"
"Inkless"
"Wildflower"

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007P6VLRS/?tag=imwan-20

On the eve of opening a new chapter for the Smashing Pumpkins with the release of ‘Oceania,’ frontman Billy Corgan offers his thoughts on his former bandmates, calling one “just a piece of s—” and claiming that another lied about the circumstances surrounding his departure from the band.

Corgan has never been one to mince words, especially these days. The last original Pumpkin standing will tell you his honest opinion about anything, all you have to do is ask. He recently offered his unfiltered thoughts on a number of bands, saying things like “I’ll Piss on Radiohead,” and taking shots at Collective Soul by calling them a “terrible band.” Now his aim has turned inward, sort of, as he cuts into the Smashing Pumpkins of yesteryear.

In an interview in the latest issue of NME, Corgan offered some harsh words on former drummer Jimmy Chamberlin’s 2009 statement about leaving the band, that implied that he felt they were unjustly cashing in on the Pumpkins’ name. “See now, here is a perfect opportunity for me to bury Jimmy as a f—ing liar. But I won’t. That’s a lie. That statement’s just a flat-out lie,” said Corgan. “I’m OK with Jimmy. We don’t have a relationship at the moment, but I mean, I have no ill will. I want to see him do well.”

Although Corgan did clarify his feelings about Chamberlin, he was not so kind when it came to another ex-bandmate. “James Iha, I think, is just a piece of s—. I think he’s one of the worst human beings I’ve ever met in my life.”

Former bassist D’arcy Wretzky got off the lightest in the interview, “She’s sort of, in her own way, sort of an innocent,” he said. “She’s not a bad person. And I don’t hold any ill will towards her, even though I’ve had to deal with f—ing lawsuits and stuff like that. If there’s any f—ing culprit in this it’s Iha. But you know, he was there at the right time in my life, we did do good things together, I think he is a good musician when he gives a f—, which most of the time he doesn’t. And that’s about it.”

The frontman has commented multiple times how pleased he is with the band’s current lineup and how well they get along, which is good. After that interview the already-highly unlikely reunion of the original members can now be pronounced dead. The band’s latest body of work, ‘Oceania,’ will hit stores on June 19 and can be streamed now via iTunes.