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THE SMASHING PUMPKINS ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM ‘AGHORI MHORI MEIOUT’ AUGUST 2

Two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning iconic rock band The Smashing Pumpkins have announced their new album Aghori Mhori Mei, out August 2. The announcement comes amidst the band’s highly-successful international tour, which just wrapped its 20+ date European leg and will begin its North American run of shows later this month. Pre-save the album HEREFans can also purchase a deluxe version which includes limited edition autograph versions of Aghori Mhori Mei from Madame Zuzu’s – signup link HERE.

The Smashing Pumpkins’ thirteenth collection to date, Aghori Mhori Mei continues the prolific hot streak frontman Billy Corgan kicked off a decade ago. Just last year, the band released the third and final Act of their sprawling and adventurous rock opera ATUM, a sequel to 1995’s Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness and 2000’s Machina/The Machines Of God. While some artists might take a breather after an acclaimed and ambitious triple album, Corgan went straight back into the studio to write, produce, and record this new 10-track body of work. As vital and vibrant a songwriter as ever, Corgan had quickly promised a 2024 follow-up on the horizon, which serves as the latest twist in Corgan’s careful commitment to how his art is presented. The band completed the recording of Aghori Mhori Mei amidst an expansive touring schedule across the last few years. 

In the writing of this new album I became intrigued with the well-worn axiom, ‘you can’t go home again’,” Corgan remarks. “Which I have found personally to be true in form but thought well, what if we tried anyway? Not so much in looking backwards with sentimentality but rather as a means to move forward; to see if in the balance of success and failure that our ways of making music circa 1990-1996 would still inspire something revelatory.”

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

Earlier this week, the band announced a multi-city Latin American Fall tour, which will see the band play to their fans across South and Latin America for the first time in nearly a decade. In addition to a combination of recent arena and headline festival dates this summer in Europe and upcoming North American stadium performances with Green Day, as part of The Saviors Tour, the band recently added solo arena bookings across the country spanning July through September. Plus, they will close out Osheaga Festival as one of the headlining acts in Montreal, QC on August 3. 

The band’s 23-date European run of shows concluded with a stellar headlining performance in Greece, with previous stops across the EU with stops across the UKFrance, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and more. With their busiest touring schedule and some of their biggest performances in over a decade, the band’s run of shows across the pond have packed in venues night after night, set the tone for the remainder of their year on the road, and garnered significant praise from ConsequenceRolling Stone Germany, and Louder, who claimed “Corgan’s invitation to go for a ride is still as thrilling as it was 30 years ago,” and sees the band playing a mix of their greatest hits, deep cuts, new tracks, and dynamic covers with hints of new musical style brought in by the band’s new touring guitarist Kiki Wong. 

The Smashing Pumpkins’ jam-packed 2024 follows years where they have balanced their time furiously at work in the studio and crisscrossing the globe. Before hitting Europe this summer, the Pumpkins had spent 2022 on the Spirits On Fire tour with Jane’s Addiction and 2023 on their very own The World Is A Vampire run. Of those earlier tours, NME raved “it’s indisputable that the band are responsible for many of the ’90s’ best rock songs, and this is as good as you’re going to hear them.” “[The] Smashing Pumpkins proved they are still one of America’s most interesting – sometimes befuddling, but never boring – musical groups.” Miami New Times attested, “The band took the audience back in time to when alternative music was the mainstream, and the idea of browsing on your phone during a fantastic concert was bad sci-fi satire.” 

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

^Festival

7/29 – Washington, DC – Nationals Park*

7/31 – Muskoka, ON – Kee to Bala

8/1 – Toronto, ON – Rogers Centre*

8/3 – Montreal, Quebec – Osheaga Festival^

8/4 – Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Bank Amphitheatre

8/5 – New York, NY – Citi Field*

8/7 – Boston, MA – Fenway Park*

8/9 – Philadelphia, PA – Citizens Bank Park*

8/10 – Hershey, PA – HersheyPark Stadium*

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

11/10 – Lima, Peru – TBD

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 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.

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