The studio iteration of the Smashing Pumpkins evidently includes: Billy Corgan on vocals, guitar, and whatever else; Mark Tulin on bass; Mike Byrne on drums; and Kerry Brown producing/engineering/etc.
In this embedded video, Brown (incidentally, ex-Pumpkin D’arcy Wretzky’s ex-husband) answers questions from fans, with bassist Tulin co-hosting and drummer Byrne manning the camera:
Head Pumpkin Corgan is [...]
Under the old Music Industry 1.0 scheme, large corporations sign contracts with recording artists. More often than not, since lots of money is at stake, the corporations tell the “artist” what to do. In turn, these musicians usually sacrifice any ideal of art (if they were previously motivated this way, but many are not) for [...]
Unlike the Ten Club version of 2006’s self-titled Pearl Jam album, which arrived in the mail a few days before its official release, I am still waiting for my Ten Club-edition CD and LP to arrive. The mail has already come and gone for Saturday, so I’ll have to wait until Monday for our physical [...]
Breaking News: Nine years after the Smashing Pumpkins released Machina II for free*, bandleader Billy Corgan announced that they will release their next album Teargarden by Kaleidyscope for free, via gradual, one-song-at-a-time, mp3 releases. This multi-release concept album will have a total of 44 songs.
The band will also release physical, limited-edition EPs gradually, for [...]
Seven Minute Silence have been gigging around the Greater Los Angeles Metro Region (specifically: LA County, the OC, and the IE) consistently since early April. Here are the details for one of their upcoming shows:
Saturday, October 24, 2009
8:00pm – 9:00pm
Doll Hut
Anaheim, CA
7MS bass player Miggy Caraballo has uploaded several of their recent shows [...]
A funny thing happened the past few days. Our sister division, DeRamos Music, started to use the auto-tweet function with Tune Up, an auxiliary app for iTunes. Basically, if you allow the app to do so, Tune Up can access your Twitter account to tweet the current artist or artist+album title or artist+song title playing [...]
It is awesome to witness a great band skyrocket exponentially in a few short months. Seven Minute Silence is that band. Admittedly, scheduling conflicts have prevented us from going to their recent shows, but this band has been gigging consistently.
Music Industry 2.0 “collective bargaining” distribution services like TuneCore, SongCast, and CD Baby have made it [...]
As much as we at Auderamos idealize about vinyl, the reality of today is downloadable, digital music. The product synonymous with music as digital downloads is usually iTunes. Now we usually go to AmazonMP3 to purchase mp3 albums at usually a good discount (the newest Black Crowes Album, Before The Frost…Until The Freeze is today’s [...]
