Billy Corgan gave Smashing Pumpkins fans the news they wanted. Using his MySpace blog, the Smashing Pumpkins singer confirmed that new material is on the way.

“This year for us will see a new album of songs and a world tour of tears, and we truly look forward to playing again for fans young, old, and missed,” he said. “So yes, tunes are being dusted off, while others are being asked to kindly submit to an upstart millennia and all it’s asking.”

He then continued with a bit of poetry, not really more news: “In our daily prayers, we send out the signal that all who should hear us come forward and be seen, and by extension, heard…when we opened the lid on this music box, we were pleasantly surprised (sic) at the music that played: familiar yet unknown, welcoming but not sentimental…and that is all we can ask.”

And it continues like that for a few more lines.

The band hasn’t released an album in seven years.






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