NME — Work begins on bonus material from band's 2000 album more info

Stereogum — 2000′s Machina/The Machines Of God was the last album the Smashing Pumpkins released before going away for a while, the one where Jimmy Chamberlain came back and Melissa Auf der Maur took over for D’Arcy Wretzky on bass. It doesn’t boast the cr... more info

NME — Mötley Crüe drummer has recorded nine-songs on 'Monuments To An Elegy' more info

NME — The Smashing Pumpkins man's release has already sold out more info

Stereogum — Jane’s Addiction’s debut studio album Nothing’s Shocking just turned 25. To celebrate, the band performed the album in full three nights in a row at Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas last weekend. Billy Corgan was there for one of the shows, and it inspi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Billy & Tommy in the studio (via) Billy Corgan's current version of the Smashing Pumpkins plan to release two new albums in 2015, Monuments to an Elegy and Day for Night. The band has been without original drummer Jimmy Chamberlin... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this week Billy Corgan dropped a shockla-locka-boom on Smashing Pumpkins fans worldwide by announcing that Tommy Lee would be the drummer for all nine tracks on the Pumpkins’ upcoming Monuments To An Elegy. Last night, Corgan posted a lengt... more info

Metalsucks — Can you imagine this happening in 1995? Yeah, me neither. The post Tommy Lee is Going to Play Drums on the New Smashing Pumpkins Album appeared first on MetalSucks. more info

Stereogum — The list of drummers on this planet capable of hitting their instrument as hard and as accurately as Jimmy Chamberlin is a short one. Whatever your feelings about him, Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee is on it. But he is also the sort of person who is wil... more info

ContactMusic — Rockers Smashing Pumpkins have enlisted Motley Crue legend Tommy Lee for the band's upcoming ninth album.Frontman Billy Corgan posted a snap of him... more info