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The motherlode is dropping next week on July 10 – it’s the highly anticipated album of brand new material from Smashing Pumpkins! Get this – MuchMusic.com is streaming the album in its entirety right now! Zeitgeist is the band’s first studio album since 2000′s Machina/The Machines of God. Which, as you’ll recall, wasn’t exactly a great album.

But Corgan and crew have had seven years to rejig their priorities & musical stylings, and get stuff out of their systems. In the last few years there have been many events leading up to this reunion:

2003 – Zwan.

2004 – Corgan writes a book of poetry (Blinking With Fists) and then embarks on a whirlwind book signing tour.

2005 – Corgan releases a solo album, TheFutureEmbrace.

2006 – Corgan places that ad in the Chicago Tribune announcing that he wants a Smashing Pumpkins reunion. People finally start to take notice.

2007 – Smashing Pumpkins officially announce in April that they are reuniting to record a new album. Coinciding with the release of first single Tarantula in May, a poor quality version of Zeitgeist is leaked online.

NOW – Smashing Pumpkins are set to release Zeitgeist for real this time (July 10), play Live Earth (July 7), and VirginFest in Toronto (September 9)!

Do original SP members Billy Corgan & Jimmy Chamberlin still have it? You’ll have to listen to decide for yourself!

Posted on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 6:44 pm by Kat and is filed under Music & Videos.

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