THE SMASHING PUMPKINS to Launch World Tour, 3/23

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS will launch a world tour March 23 through August 11 with concerts in the U.S., Europe, U.K., Japan and Mexico. The band--singer/guitarist BILLY CORGAN, guitarist JEFF SCHROEDER, drummer MIKE BYRNE and bassist NICOLE FIORENTINO--will perform songs encompassing their iconic body of work including songs from their acclaimed 2012 album OCEANIA, which entered the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart at #4 and earned the #1 spot on the Independent Albums Chart. As they were on the 2012 tour, the PUMPKINS will be backed by visuals prepared by Sean Evans, whose most recent project was assisting Roger Waters on the newest staging of "The Wall." The band is using new technology in video-mapping to create something new and previously unseen.

2013 Tour Dates:

DATE VENUE CITY

*+March 23, 2013 Cumbre Tajin Festival Mexico

April 29, 2013 King Center for the Performing Arts Melbourne, FL

May 2, 2013 St Augustine Amphitheater St Augustine, FL

*May 3, 2013 Funshine Music Festival Tampa, FL

*May 5, 2013 Beale Street Music Festival Memphis, TN

May 7, 2013 Red Hat Amphitheater w/AWOLNATION Raleigh, NC

May 8, 2013 Time Warner Amphitheater w/AWOLNATION Charlotte, NC

May 10, 2013 Chastain Amphitheater Atlanta, GA

*May 11, 2013 Gulfport Music Festival Gulfport, MS

May 14, 2013 Palladium Dallas, TX

*May 18, 2013 Rock on the Range Columbus, OH

Confirmed International Dates - more to be added soon:

DATE VENUE CITY

June 20, 2013 Live Music Hall Cologne, Germany

*June 21-23, 2013 Southside Festival Germany

*June 21-23, 2013 Hurricane Festival Germany

June 24, 2013 Zenith Paris, France

June 25, 2013 Zenith Nantes, France

June 27, 2013 Razzmatazz Barcelona, Spain

*June 28, 2013 Azkena Music Festival

July 1, 2013 Academy Manchester, UK

July 2, 2013 Academy Glasgow, UK

July 4, 2013 Zenith Lille, France

*July 5, 2013 Eurockennes Festival France

*July 6, 2013 Beauregard Festival France

July 9, 2013 Rockhal Luxembourg

July 10, 2013 Open Air Arena Vienna, Austria

*July 12, 2013 Pohoda Festival Slovakia

*July 14, 2013 Rock in Roma Festival Italy

July 16, 2013 Theatre Antique Vienne, France

*July 17, 2013 Carcasonne Festival France

*July 18, 2013 Mares Vivas Festival Portugal

*July 20, 2013 Gurten Festival Switzerland

*July 21, 2013 Dour Music Festival Belgium

July 22, 2013 Wembley Arena London, UK

*August 10, 2013 Summer Sonic Osaka, Japan

*August 11, 2013 Summer Sonic Tokyo, Japan

*+ designates show will not feature visuals by Sean Evans.
* designates festival

About THE SMASHING PUMPKINS:

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS have created one of the most acclaimed bodies of work in musical history having sold more than 30 million albums, and won multiple Grammy Awards in the process. Formed in Chicago in 1988, they released Gish, their influential and platinum debut in 1991, which was followed by albums including the nine-time platinum Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness and the four-time platinum Siamese Dream, as well as the platinum certified 1998 album Adore. The pivotal group's many hits defined the alternative music era and continue to resonate on modern rock radio, influencing a whole new generation. The PUMPKINS returned in 2007 with their acclaimed sixth album Zeitgeist. They have since remained on the cutting edge of music and technology with various online releases. In June 2012, the band released the album Oceania, via Martha's Music/EMI Label Services/Caroline Distribution. Marking THE SMASHING PUMPKINS' 7th studio record, it is "an album within an album," part of their 44-song work-in-progress Teargarden By Kaleidyscope.