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Source: Illinois Entertainer
IE: What were you doing up in Northern California over Christmas?
Billy Corgan: Uhhh . . . girlfriend things. My girlfriend’s family lives up there.
IE: Jessica?
BC: Heh heh heh. Let’s just skip all that.
IE: Well, several entertainment sites promise to tell us who you’re dating. It’s sad that you’ve now turned into prey for tabloid predators. Even reality-TV shows all feature cutthroat people competing for some sleazy prize. What’s gone wrong, as you see it?
BC: I think we’re in a sort of exponential, continually accelerating sort of . . . self-examination? And one that’s probably unprecedented in human history. And technology, of course, is facilitating that. And there are interesting upsides. Like, for example, …
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Source: Express Milwaukee
Wisconsin's most famous music studio, Smart Studios in Madison, will shut down this spring, the Shepherd Express has learned. An employee of the recording space confirmed the news. No final date has been set, though March 1 has been discussed. The reason for the closing is "the same reason any business closes," the employee wrote the Shepherd. "Money out > money in."
The studio was a fixture of the Madison rock scene throughout the '80s before becoming a national destination in the '90s after resident producer Butch Vig recorded there with Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins. Vig and fellow Smart co-founder Steve Marker made the studio the home of their own alternative band, Garbage, recording each of the band's albums there. More recently Fa…
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Source: spinner.com
According to spinner.com, Tinted Windows is releasing "Back With You" as their second single...possibly with some previously unreleased B-sides. "Back With You" is one of two tracks written by James for the Tinted Windows album released in April 2009.
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Source: Spin
Smashing Pumpkins head honcho Billy Corgan -- who's already busy with new Pumpkins material, a holistic lifestyle blog, and his romance with pop singer Jessica Simpson -- plans to launch a new record label that will release new material from trailblazing '70s L.A. punk band the Germs, among others.
According to a post picked up by the LA Weekly's Off the Record blog, Corgan will team with frequent collaborator Kerry "Studio Dog" Brown to helm a new, as-yet-unnamed imprint that will release fresh cuts from the Germs and a bevy of older, relatively obscure acts like '60s flashes-in-the-pan Strawberry Alarm Clock and the Electric Prunes.
"In the very near future we plan on recording two [Germs] songs that [the late] Darby Crash wrote wi…
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Source: Wall Street Journal
"It's all about the Internet. Musically, I think it really affects the idea of creating a body of work. It's sort of made everything about having a moment.
Just having a great song doesn't seem to be enough anymore -- there has to be a great story, a controversy, because people just don't have enough time. I grew up in the shadow of the '50s and '60s where the singles market, where it being about one song, had passed, and it was more about albums and a body of work. Now, careers are made and broken one song at a time. It has a reductionist aspect to it.
But if you look at who really winds up surviving on the artistic battlefield, it's those who somehow maintain a level of inner integrity. Things of quality will be more successful ove…
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Source: United Bamboo
James is entering the realm of fashion yet again. He's worked with United Bamboo to release a set of sweaters inspired by stained glass; the sweaters will be part of a box set that also includes a record by James and Britta Phillips (of Jem fame).
James has previously worked on soundtracks for United Bamboo's runway shows.
See the sweaters here and another blurb here.
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