Smashing Pumpkins Announce Special 30th Anniversary Shows

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Following their Shiny and Oh So Bright reunion tour, Smashing Pumpkins have announced a string of 30th anniversary live shows that will kick off November 28 in Madison, Wisconsin. Tickets for the shows will be available at SmashingPumpkins.com beginning 10:00am local time on Friday, October 5.

As previously reported, Smashing Pumpkins have officially announced a new album, Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun, due out November 18. The record is the band's first in 18 years to feature Billy Corgan alongside original members James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin. Also part of the lineup is longtime Pumpkins guitarist Jeff Schroeder.

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Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.

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