Smashing Pumpkins hire 19-year-old drummer

Billy Corgan's new sticksman wasn't even born when the mope metal band formed in 1988Smashing Pumpkins' new drummer is a kid from Oregon who isn't old enough to buy beers at US clubs. Nineteen-year-old Mike Byrne is "working with Billy [Corgan] ... on demos", the official Pumpkins website has confirmed, replacing the departed Jimmy Chamberlin.Rumours mill were circulating last Friday, when Corgan blogged about an unnamed new collaborator. "I think I have my drummer of the future," he wrote. "I'v...

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