(Chicago, IL) August 12, 2024: Today, Billy Corgan, the frontman of the two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning iconic rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, has utilized cutting-edge AI tools to share a message with his fans. Originally recorded in English and translated via AI into seven different languages (Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, and Japanese), he expresses the band’s excitement for their fans around the world to hear their brand new album Aghori Mhori Mei. Powered by Curious Refuge, the heartfelt message comes amidst a run of highly successful international tour dates throughout 2024. Listen to Corgan’s messages HERE and listen to Aghori Mhori Mei HERE.
“Aghori Mhori Mei is a return to our roots,” Corgan shares. “Billy, Jimmy, and James getting back to the old-school guitar style that we’re known for. We had a lot of fun making this record and we really want to share it with you.” The Smashing Pumpkins’ thirteenth collection to date, Aghori Mhori Mei is a bruising and shadowy return to form from original Smashing Pumpkins members Jimmy Chamberlin, James Iha, and Billy Corgan. The new album harkens back to the band’s early 90’s canon; where guitars, bass, drums, and spiking vocals ruled, and continues the prolific hot streak frontman Billy Corgan kicked off a decade ago. The band completed the recording of Aghori Mhori Mei amidst an expansive international touring schedule across the last few years. The album has garnered significant praise worldwide, reaching Top 10 on Spotify’s US and Global Album Debut Charts, while the album’s single “Sighommi” was the #1 most-added track across the US at both Alternative and Rock Radio.
Aghori Mhori Mei Tracklist:
1.) Edin
2.) Pentagrams
3.) Sighommi
4.) Pentecost
5.) War Dreams Of Itself
6.) Who Goes There
7.) 999
8.) Goeth The Fall
9.) Sicarus
10.) Murnau
The band is currently trekking across North America with an expansive run of stadium performances with Green Day as part of The Saviors Tour while also performing solo arena dates nationwide through September. Earlier this summer, the band trotted across Europe with a combination of arena and headline festival dates and later this fall, the band’s upcoming multi-city Latin American Fall tour will see the band play to their fans across South and Latin America for the first time in nearly a decade.
Now, the band will bring Aghori Mhori Mei to the stage across the entirety of 2024.
2024 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES:
*The Saviors Tour with Green Day
8/13 – Chicago, IL – Wrigley Field*
8/14 – Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre
8/16 – Springfield, IL – Illinois State Fair
8/17 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Field*
8/18 – Sioux City, IA – Battery Park
8/20 – Des Moines, IA – Vibrant Music Hall
8/21 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
8/22 – Cincinnati, OH – Great American Ballpark*
8/24 – Milwaukee, WI – American Family Field*
8/27 – Simpsonville, SC – CCNB Amphitheatre at Heritage Park
8/28 – Atlanta, GA – Truist Park*
8/30 – Nashville, TN – Geodis Park*
9/1 – Pittsburgh, PA – PNC Park*
9/4 – Detroit, MI – Comerica Park*
9/7 – Denver, CO – Coors Field*
9/10 – Southaven, MS – BankPlus Amphitheatre at Snowden Grove
9/11 – Arlington, TX – Globe Life Field*
9/14 – Los Angeles, CA – SoFi Stadium*
9/18 – Phoenix, AZ – Chase Field*
9/20 – San Francisco, CA – Oracle Park*
9/21 – Reno, NV – Grand Sierra Resort
9/23 – Seattle, WA – T-Mobile Park*
9/24 – Airway Heights, WA – BECU Live at Northern Quest
9/25 – Portland, OR – Providence Park*
9/27 – Las Vegas, NV – BleauLive Theater inside Fontainebleau Las Vegas at Fontainebleau
9/28 – San Diego, CA – Petco Park*
2024 LATIN AMERICAN TOUR DATES:
11/1 – Brasilia, Brazil – Arena BRB
11/3 – São Paulo, Brazil – Espaço Unimed
11/5 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Movistar Arena (pre-sale begins 7/17)
11/10 – Lima, Peru – Arena 1
11/12 – Quito, Ecuador – Coliseo General ruinahui (pre-sale begins 7/22, on-sale 7/26)
11/14 – Bogota, Colombia – Movistar Arena
11/16 – San Jose, Costa Rica – Parque Viva
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 during 1988, the group have 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.
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