SMASHING PUMPKINS RETURN

(VIDEO) Smashing Pumpkins have returned, and are in the mist of writing songs and heading into a studio this summer!!

Smashing Pumpkins is reportedly reunited, but longtime members D’Arcy Wretsky and James Iha won’t be with the band. The comeback by the band features vocalist and mastermind Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. Other musicians for the re-formed band were not clear at press time.

Chamberlin and Corgan had remained friends throughout the years, and he was in Corgan’s failed Zwan project. In an interview last year surrounding his Jimmy Chamberlin Complex solo effort, the drummer said that his relationship with Corgan has always been about music rather than a big marketable name.

“I think things have changed for the better as far as him and I are concerned. I think it’s important for people to realize we’re best friends. Just because we’re not in a high powered rock band doesn’t mean that we stop being music people. And we continue to write, and music is our life. I think when people realize that they’ll have a differnt kind of respect for us. I think we can maintain our integrity that way.”

Chamberlin added that Smashing Pumpkins has always been about making great music.

“The music doesn’t stop just because the money stops rolling in with us. I mean, this is what we do. People used to say, ‘The (Smashing) Pumpkins are an overnight success, and my answer to that was, ‘You know what? We would have been doing that whether you were there or not.’ You know? Because that’s what we do, and that’s the reason I play music.”

Smashing Pumpkins are currently writing songs and will hit the studio in the summer to begin work on their first album since 2000’s Machina/The Machines Of God.