Smashing Pumpkins have announced the title of their much reported new album. And a release date. According to a brief post on the band's MySpace the new album will be called 'Zeitgeist', and will be released on 7 Jul, seemingly because that's 070707, which is a bit pretty. It's also a Saturday, which is an odd day for a music release, but when there's the potential for dateric symmetry I suppose that doesn't matter. I heard somewhere Warner's Reprise were releasing the new long player, but it's possibly I made that up (mainly because they released Billy Corgan's Zwan material). We're still not sure if any of the other original Pumpkins are joining Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain on the new material, or at any of the following live dates. When we do know we'll tell you.
2 Jun: Nuremburg Nürburgring
3 Jun: Nuremburg Zeppelinfeld
15 Jun: Austria Nova Rock Festival
17 Jun: Switzerland Greenfield Festival