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Billy sings
Jimmy plays drums
Matt plays guitar
Skullfisher plays bass

November 16
The Glass House
200 W. Second Street
Pomona, CA 91766
949-488-7301
On-sale: Nov. 1

November 18
Galaxy Theatre
3503 S. Harbor Blvd.
Santa Ana, CA 92704
714-957-0600
On-sale: Nov. 2

November 20
Canes
3105 Oceanfront Walk
San Diego, CA 92109
(858) 488-1780
On-sale: Nov. 2

November 21
Roxy
9009 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310-278-9457
On-sale: Nov. 2

PAUL OAKENFOLD has said his new album will feature ICE CUBE and BILLY CORGAN.

Speaking to Radio 1, the dance legend said that the album, which is due for release in 2002, will also feature Nelly Furtado.

He commented: "The album's based around guitars and breaks, it's kind of a step on from dance. There's tracks with Ice Cube, the Neptunes (and) Billy Corgan.

"I'm a big fan of Nelly Furtado and she's on the record. She's got this wonderful way about her, she's extremely talented and a great vocalist. Most of all she's good fun, she doesn't take it as seriously as some people do."

As previously reported, Oakenfold has been working on his solo album in between DJ commitments. He has recently collaborated on a track with Crazy Town vocalist Shifty Shellshock.

Pumpkins Singer reveals all in new documentary

SMASHING PUMPKINS' former leader Billy Corgan speaks out about being abused as a child in a forthcoming Channel 4 documentary.

Corgan says: "When you're an abused child, the confidence to express yourself is so low. You worry that if you actually do express how you feel and what you're thinking, that you're going to get killed."
The singer/guitarist notes that writing the band's 1993 album "Siamese Dream" acted as immense therapy for him.

"Now, it doesn't seems as dramatic, but at the time it was like a life and death issue for me. Choosing to finally speak my mind was my way of saying, 'I want to live'."

Corgan's father, William Corgan, also appears in the program and says: "That's how he was able to start realeasing all that emotion - all those things that had welled up inside all those years that he never got out. There's not that many artists that are able to sincerely put it out there for everybody to see."
Billy also porints to the lyrics on 1995's MCIS double album as containg, "some heavy indictments of my family, myslef and my eventual wife. It was hard to write that stuff and go back into life" Corgan and his band mates also discuss their formative years, their decision to split the band and the allegedely drug-related departur of bassist D'arcy Wretzky in 1999.

Says Corgan: "It was a whole series of things that pushed her to the point that she was at. It's really weird, because I told her if quitting this band is going to save your life, quit this band." Titled "The Smashing Pumpkins" the hour-long documentary is set to broadcast later in the year following the November 19th release of the band's posthumous greatest hits collection "Rotten Apples" through Virgin.

Mancunian Dream

BILLY CORGAN has mysteriously transformed into a stereotypical mancunian, circa 19900. The ex-pumpkins has just completed a US tour as guest guitarist with dour popstars New Order and their fashion sense has clearly rubbed off on him. It has been reported that Corgan sported the same pair of grotty trousers throughout the tour, much to the bemusement of the rest of the band. In a recent interview with 'Q' magazine, New order drummer Stephen Morris was asked how Corgan was fitting in. " 'E's alright," he said. "I haven't heard him play properly yet. I did like MCIS you know." Corgan was not keen to speak to 'Q' due to a previous article that described him as "the rudest man in rock". He was then subjected to taunts from his new band mates such as "Billy's such a f**king rude bastard, isn't he?".

• Judas O songs, Lucky 13 up in 320 kbps mp3 format. Click here to go to the page.
  
• The 3rd part of the Smashing Pumpkins 1988 - 2000. Click here to download.

Pumpkins' Smashes, Unreleased Tracks Gathered On Rotten Apples

Hits, obscurities — they're all Rotten Apples to the Smashing Pumpkins.

The disbanded Chicago rockers will release an 18-track best-of package on November 20, and fans who act fast can get a second disc of rarities along with it.

A limited-edition version will include a second CD titled Judas O, featuring B-sides and rarities from the sessions for Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Adore and MACHINA/The Machines of God. The Pumpkins, who called it quits late last year, released a rarities album in 1994 titled Pisces Iscariot.

Rotten Apples will include two previously unavailable tracks — "Real Love," recorded during the MACHINA II sessions, and "Untitled," the band's final completed track. "Untitled" surfaced on the radio earlier this year and was recorded in late November by frontman Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin.

A DVD will also hit stores in conjunction with Rotten Apples, featuring the Pumpkins' video collection and behind-the-scenes footage.

Meanwhile, Corgan continues to work on his debut solo album,

Track Listing for Rotten Apples:

• Siva
• Rhinoceros
• Drown
• Cherub Rock
• Today
• Disarm
• Landslide
• Bullet With Butterfly Wings
• 1979
• Zero
• Tonight, Tonight
• Eye
• Ava Adore
• Perfect
• The Everlasting Gaze
• Stand Inside Your Love
• Real Love
• Untitled

Track listing for Judas O:

• Lucky 13
• Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)
• Because You Are
• Slow Dawn
• Believe
• My Mistake
• Marquis in Spades
• Here's to the Atom Bomb
• Sparrow
• Waiting
• Saturnine
• Rock On
• Set the Ray to Jerry
• Winterlong
• Soot and Stars
• Blissed and Gone

—Teri vanHorn