News: Second Song From New Smashing Pumpkins Record Released

By Marc Blanc, Contributor

On Wednesday, The Huffington Post published The Smashing Pumpkins’ latest, a three and a half minute piece of evidence of mastermind Billy Corgan’s desire for “the original roots of The Smashing Pumpkins."

“One and All” is the second release from The Pumpkins’ upcoming LP Monuments to an Elegy, out December 9 and part of an album trilogy Corgan calls Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, which will be comprised of 44 free songs.

The new song fits neatly into the 90s nostalgia flooding alternative culture today, as Corgan sounds like he could be talking to disenchanted Gen Xers of yore when he repeats, “One and all, we are, we are so young.”

Corgan is the last original Pumpkin on the porch, but Monuments on Elegy will feature drumming by Tommy Lee of Motley Crue. The first single, “Being Beige,” was streamed on music blogs in October and contrasts the distortion of “One and Only” with light electronics reminiscent of classics like “1979” and “Perfect.”

Teargarden, the encompassing project, began in 2012 with the release of the album Oceania and is scheduled to conclude next year when Day For Night hits the Internet. The “album cycle” isn’t the first marketing experiment for Corgan and his merry band of temps. In fact, The Pumpkins gave away their record Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music in 2000, several years before Radiohead and U2 reimagined the music business.