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The Bonnaroo '09 Fan Photo Contest Is Closed
Come on, people -- show your amateur photographer pride!
Enter your best Bonnaroo concert or scene picture (one photo per person, please) for a chance to win $200 and see your shot in SPIN magazine. Deadline: midnight on June 22, 2009.
SPIN's editors will select their two favorite photos -- and the lucky winners will receive:
Grand Prize:
Publication of your photo in SPIN magazine -- plus, a $200 cash prize!
Runner-Up:
Publication of your photo in SPIN magazine.
Enter Your Bonnaroo '09 Photo Now!
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Behind the Scenes of 'The Runaways'
"Kristen, you are so hot!"
In the appropriately rank alley behind a small Los Angeles club called the Smell, Cherie Currie, former lead singer of the '70s all-girl band the Runaways, yells out to ingénue-of-the-moment Kristen Stewart, standing a few feet away.
Currie could easily be referring to the actress' body temperature: The midday July weather is sweltering, and Stewart, dressed head-to-toe in black leather for the role of Currie's onetime bandmate Joan Jett in The Runaways, is wiping sweat from her forehead. Stewart is on a smoke break; beside her, Dakota Fanning, who plays Currie in the movie, munches on a veggie doodle. While two Twilight fans linger near a Dumpster down the block, hoping to glimpse the franchise's stars, the paparazzi -- who have hounded the production all month, much to writer-director Floria Sigismondi's frustration -- are absent on this, the second-to-last day of the shoot.
Currie is actually talking about how good Stewart looks as Jett, and indeed she does. Minutes before, Jett, also an executive producer, chatted privately with Stewart, their heads bowed, each with a raised hand grasping a chainlink fence, looking almost identical in all but age. (Also, the 51-year-old Jett's 'do is shorter than her 19-year-old doppelgänger's era-accurate shag.) As Stewart gets ready to go back inside, she smiles awkwardly and says simply, "So was Joan."
Millions of people probably know that Stewart cut and dyed her hair black last year, which is far more than can name a single Runaways song. (Neither Stewart nor Fanning had even heard of the band before being cast.) The Runaways were five teenage girls writing and performing aggressive, sexually defiant rock music during a time when all of their peers were older and few were female.
Yet the band's importance remains canonical rather than commercial. Though the self-proclaimed "queens of noise" could "actually play," as reviews at the time noted with surprise and more than a trace of skepticism, the Runaways never sold the records here (their biggest album, their self-titled debut, moved 25,000 copies) that they did in Japan. They recorded four albums in four years and yielded only one enduring single, the teasing, debutante-debasing "Cherry Bomb," on which a 15-year-old Currie promises, "I'll give ya something to live for / Have ya, grab ya, till you're sore."
Figuring the Runaways were ripe for rediscovery, seven years ago Jett's manager, Kenny Laguna, began shopping around an idea for a script based on a revised, more explicit edition of Currie's 1989 autobiography, Neon Angel (out this month to coincide with the film), at one point tapping an as-yet-unmasked JT LeRoy to write it. "I thought it was important to define history," says Laguna. "If they did a movie about the Go-Go's or the Bangles, then they would be remembered as the band that broke down the barriers."
<!--pagebreak-->Yet, despite the title, everyone involved in The Runaways takes umbrage with the term "biopic." "I'm dancing between reality and poetic license," says Sigismondi, who previously helmed music videos for Marilyn Manson and the White Stripes. "I wanted to make a coming-of-age story about girls whose rock'n'roll world was extremely free compared to the ones who lived on the suburban street." Which explains why the story dwells on the friendship, and occasional intimacy, between Jett and Currie. At the request of the actresses, the two musicians came to the set almost every day.
"I'm comfortable with it," Jett admits cautiously, in her tough, vaguely East Coast accent, shortly after the film's debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January. "It's accurate enough about what went down. But if it was a Runaways movie, then it would focus on the rest of the band." Guitarist Lita Ford, whom Currie claims "wasn't an easy person to get along with," and the unanimously adored but troubled Sandy West, the late drummer who co-founded the band with Jett in 1975, get less screen time; bassist turned lawyer Jackie Fox is depicted as a composite character for fear that she might otherwise sue. "I wouldn't want either of them to hate it, but obviously I have no control over that," Jett adds. (Ford declined to be interviewed for this story.)
Initially, both Jett and Currie were apprehensive about the prospect of the Runaways getting the Hollywood treatment. Neither of them cared for onetime bassist Vicki Blue's 2004 documentary Edgeplay, which revealed the girls' intense squabbling (apparently, Ford and Currie still disagree about which one of them was two hours late to the 1977 photo shoot that led to Currie quitting the band).
But Stewart's casting brought Jett, in her words, "solace." "I didn't know enough about Twilight for it to color my opinion," she says. The two met for the first time on New Year's Eve in 2008, when Jett spent an hour regaling the then-18-yearold actress with Runaways stories while sitting on the bathroom floor of Jett's hotel suite. "I could feel that she really wanted to embody me."
Says Stewart, "I was terrified. I was going, 'Oh my God, why the fuck am I here?' Not like I shouldn't be, but just, 'How is this happening?' This was the coolest job I'd had -- it was something different during a long stint of something very much the same. I knew I needed to cut off [Twilight character] Bella's long hair. I needed to be able to throw my head around and feel the sweat dripping."
<!--pagebreak-->Back inside the dark and dilapidated Smell, doubling for DJ Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, the famous glam nightclub frequented by a 17-year-old Jett, Sigismondi prepares for what seems like the 20th take of a scene in which record producer Kim Fowley (played with charismatic sleaziness by Michael Shannon) introduces Currie to Jett. Extras in patriotically colored hot pants and painfully high platform shoes limp around looking for Band-Aids.
"Dakota watched my [1980] movie Foxes. She sounds just like me," Currie proudly tells her identical twin sister, Marie, who has dropped by for a visit. Jett paces back and forth, wearing headphones and holding a portable monitor. "I don't want to be in Kristen's eyeline and freak her out," she says.
WATCH: Joan meets Cherie, from The Runaways
Two weeks earlier, gossip blogs reported that Jett made Stewart cry on set, but Stewart insists, "That is totally bogus." Jett elaborates: "Whatever pressure Kristen felt, she put on herself. She knew that she had a lot to live up to, and she wanted to please me."
Finally, cameras roll on another take. The Stooges' "Gimme Danger" blares from the sound system, and the extras start swaying like blissed-out clubgoers, their arms in the air. After the music stops, they continue dancing in silence as Shannon sizes up Fanning, referring to her Bowie-loving character as "jail-fucking-bait" and offering her a chance to sing in a band. Stewart saunters over on cue.
When Sigismondi yells "Cut!" Currie flashes Fanning a thumbs-up. Fanning's mom, who has watched from the sidelines while Shannon's Fowley called her 15-year-old daughter a "bitch" and ordered her to sing "like [she] wants an orgasm," sweetly tells the actor he did a good job.
It's a fun scene -- and one that's fairly faithful to what actually happened, except the setting was a teen disco called the Sugar Shack. But later moments, like the band's successful perseverance after Currie's departure, are ignored in favor of a more dramatic depiction of the fallout between the two girls.
"The things that were wrong drove me crazy, and I annoyed the shit out of Floria," Stewart confesses. "She was always telling me, 'Kristen, we're not doing that movie.' Even Joan was like, 'Yeah, it's fine, dude. Relax.' "
<!--pagebreak-->But Stewart's objection is valid. There has been a demand for vintage-punk biopics of late -- 2007's What We Do Is Secret was based on the Germs, a band that Jett produced, and long-gestating Ramones and Iggy Pop flicks could be next. Sigismondi speculates that the '70s acts are popular because "there were so many iconic figures coming out of that time. There's only one Iggy. There's only one Joan. It's harder to be an original these days." So why make a movie about real individuals and fictionalize their lives?
Often, as is the case with the Runaways, there is just too much story to pack into 90 minutes. "Most of the crazy shit Cherie told us, we couldn't include -- it would be a completely different movie," says Stewart. "I don't wanna, like, out them, but they were pretty nuts." Likewise, there's no universally agreed-upon narrative. Jett calls Fowley, who cowrote many of their original songs, "a close friend," while Currie maintains he was "verbally abusive" and stole from the band. According to Shannon, Fowley told him over dinner, "It wasn't just me screaming at them. Don't make me look like a bad guy. When I'm dead, this is how people are going to remember me." Fowley's concern hints at the broader significance of films like these: They are simply more likely to be seen than a documentary. Add the hottest starlet on the planet, and the number of eyeballs increases exponentially.
Regardless, there's a vicarious pleasure in watching teen girls establish their own identity in such a profound way (see review on page 94), especially when they can do so without having to treat things like menstruation, masturbation, and sexual experimentation as totally taboo. Inhabiting such liberated -- if Quaalude-abusing -- characters clearly had an effect on its stars. As the filming winds down, Stewart retreats to her trailer to read lines with Jett and practice the guitar ("Put your pussy to the wood" was Jett's advice). In two days, the cast will travel to the outskirts of L.A. to reenact a 1977 Japanese gig, during which Currie rocked a white corset for "Cherry Bomb."
Even the straitlaced Fanning, whose casting seemed fated when she returned home after getting a fake cherry tattoo at school and found the script waiting for her, was thrilled by the metamorphosis. "Man, when I walked on that stage, I was a completely different person," she says a few months after donning the corset. "I could have done that scene all day, every day."
It was this chance for the Runaways to be appreciated by another generation -- Twilight diehards surely among them -- that ultimately convinced Jett the film was a good idea. "The best result for me would be to see the music get back out there," she says, adding with a laugh, "You watch -- by summertime all the girls are going to have shaggy haircuts and play in bands."
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Strokes Confirm New Album Release, Lollapalooza
Fans anxiously awaiting new music from the Strokes have two special dates to mark on their calendars.
According to singer Julian Casablancas, who recently spoke to The Chicago Tribune, the quintet will release their first new album since 2006's First Impressions of Earth this September. And there's more good news: the band will bring their new tunes to Lollapalooza's main stage in August for their first U.S. show in over three years!
As previously reported, rumors claimed that the Strokes, Lady Gaga, Green Day, Soundgarden, and more would appear at the Chicago fest.
The Strokes' festival appearances -- which also include a few European gigs -- have Mr. Casablancas excited for his band's return. "We're getting the biggest offers of our career," he said. "It feels great, because I remember people writing things like, 'We'll see if they're still around in 10 years,' when we first came out."
Casablancas added that the Strokes are nearly done recording their yet-to-be-titled fourth album in a Manhattan studio. Last month, the guys checked in via their YouTube page with a nine-minute clip of the sessions. Watch here.
"I've written a lot of melodies for it, but the other guys have also contributed a lot more: melodies, choruses, parts," he explained. "It's way more collaborative. So it'll have a different feel than our other albums."
If you can't wait for the new record -- or if a trip to Lollapalooza isn't in the budget -- get your Casablancas fix later this month, when the singer will kick off a nationwide solo tour behind his SPIN-approved debut, Phrazes for the Young, which includes a stop at Coachella in April. Click here for full tour dates.
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First 'Twilight: Eclipse' Trailer Released!
The first full trailer for Eclipse, the upcoming third film in the Twilight series, has hit the web and members of both Team Edward and Team Jacob have reason to rejoice: Edward professes his undying love for Bella, while Taylor Lautner's Jacob does indeed show up shirtless -- and yes, he's still ripped. Watch the clip below.
The trailer packs a whole bunch of excitement into 90 seconds, including a look at the unfolding love triangle between blood-sucker Edward (Robert Pattinson), frail human Bella (Kristin Stewart), and werewolf Jacob (Lautner). If that's not juicy enough, it looks like Bella's life is on the line yet again, and it's up to her hunky boyfriends to help save her neck.
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Eclipse doesn't hit theaters until June 30, but film's stars aren't keeping idle in the meantime. Kristen Stewart's Runaways movie opens March 19. And Pattinson has paired up with Lost star Emilie de Ravin for the romantic indie drama Remember Me, which is out in theaters now. Plus, he's recently revealed his desire to segue into a music career.
"I kind of want to do [an album] at the end of the year," Pattinson told Parade.com this week. "But I can't do two things at once. I don't know how people like Jennifer Lopez can act and also sing."
It wouldn't be the first time Pattinson, who plays the guitar and piano, has showcased his music. In 2008, his songs appeared on the soundtracks for Twilight and the indie flick How to Be.
Kristen Stewart is also trying out the role of rock star. Stewart and New Moon/Eclipse co-star Dakota Fanning star in the upcoming biopic The Runaways, which tells the story of Joan Jett's iconic 1970s all-girl rock band. Jett herself has praised the authenticity of the Stewart's performance, and SPIN visited the set the movie to get all the gossip, straight from the film's stars.
Check out photos of KStew and Dakota hanging with Jett at the film's January premiere at Sundance.
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In the Studio: The Thermals
On four albums over eight years, Portland, OR's the Thermals have mastered the bratty, fun, and catchy three-chord punk song. But with the September 7 release of their next record, Personal Life, they're returning with a new formula.
This time, rather than record songs written only by singer, guitarist Hutch Harris, bassist Kathy Foster penned roughly half the album. Harris says this move has pushed the band to a more dynamic sound, which is further fleshed out by the addition of drummer Westin Glass.
"Every time I sit down with a guitar I have the tendency to write the same song over and over," Harris tells SPIN.com. "Kathy's songs [have] given us more space."
Below, Harris talks about the band's new sound, working with Death Cab's Chris Walla, who produced Personal Life, and a few of the Thermals' biggest fans: former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr's children.
Hey, Hutch. How's the new album coming?
We're almost done! We tracked with Chris Walla for a week in December and just spent another week mixing with him. He has a nice studio at his house in Portland, OR, and he's really taking his time to make sure everything sounds fucking rad!How do the new tunes sound?
The songs I write tend to have big, loud chords and not a lot of dynamics. But Kathy's songs have a lot of drums and bass, and melodic guitar lines not chords. It's a big change. I'm already thinking Kathy will write the entire next record.This is the first record the Thermals have recorded with new drummer Westin Glass. How was that experience?
It's actually the first time we've done a record with a third person. It's also the first record in a long time where everyone just went into the studio and played their part. We looked at the last two records as projects. There was a lot of tracking and we definitely did a ton of overdubs. With this album a lot of the songs are live and I did zero overdubs on guitar, so anytime it sounds like there are a multiple guitars it's only because Chris had set up five amps with all these different pedals.The Thermals' last two records have explored themes of death, god, and sinister governments. What should fans expect lyrically?
The lyrics are a lot more simple. There's an immature vibe to the record because there are a lot of love songs and songs about relationships. I was tapping into the way I wrote lyrics in high school, when I thought about lyrics less. On the last two records I wrote and re-wrote the songs over and over again. The new album's title is supposed to signify that this record is about basic human problems. The album's first song is called "I'm Gonna Change Your Life" and it has a Bowie vibe. It's a cocky love song about changing someone's life and doing all these wonderful things for them to get them to love you. "I Don't Believe You," the first single, is about lies in relationships and the difficulty of being honest.The Thermals worked with Fugazi's Brendan Canty and John Congleton (Modest Mouse, St. Vincent) on the last few albums. Why return to Walla, who produced your 2004 album Fuckin' A?
I'm always trying to get Chris. I love Brendan and John -- they're totally rad made amazing records for us. But there's something about working with Chris. There's a real clarity to his sound, but at the same time he keeps grit to all the tracks. In the studio he'll do crazy stuff like put a cymbal on the floor and aim a mic at it to catch reflections of other sounds in the room. Or he'll stick a mic in a plastic cup and put it next to drums. He keeps it really creative and can make us sound low-fi and hi-fi at the same time, which we love.Do the Thermals have any pastimes in the studio?
We smoke a lot of weed. But coffee is the number one thing. Chris is just making pot after pot. Recording is like a little vacation for us. We get up at noon, make some coffee and get some bagels, and then just stuff our faces for the rest of the day. We recently realized that we're now spending more on food than we spent on recording our entire first record.The Thermals have toured with and are releasing a new "7 with the Cribs. Any particularly funny stories from the road with those guys?
They're really sweet, fun guys. It's crazy to be with three brothers, especially when two of them are twins, and they have those thick Yorkshire accents. When I first met them, I couldn't understand a fucking word they said. The last time we toured with them, Johnny Marr had joined the band. We played two nights in Manchester and his son and daughter came to the shows. We had finished Now We Can See, but it wasn't out for a couple months and he said his kids were big Thermals fans. He said, "You should really give me a copy of your record." I was like, "Oh, fuck yeah, of course." Damn, it's Johnny Marr! He kept bugging me and I kept forgetting. Then one day he comes to me with a CD-R and said, "Hey! Put your new record on this for me!" I couldn't believe it came to the point where Johnny Marr had to actually bring me a CD-R and demand our record. How stupid am I for not just giving it to him? -
Conan O'Brien Sets U.S. Tour, Bonnaroo Gig
The battle between late night TV hosts Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno is over and done -- and now O'Brien is ready for his next move: a return to stand-up comedy. The orange-haired jokester has just announced a North American comedy tour, including a performance at Manchester, TN's Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, set for June 10-13.
See the full itinerary below.
The 30-date tour, kicking off April 12 in Eugene, OR, is O'Brien's big comeback following his final episode of The Tonight Show on Jan. 22.
At Bonnaroo, O'Brien will perform at the Comedy Theater alongside gut-busters like Margaret Cho, Aziz Ansari, and Doug Benson. He'll also MC the What Stage -- the fest's main stage -- for two nights.
To check out the full Bonnaroo lineup click here, then let us know what you think of O'Brien's return in the comment section below.
Conan O'Brien tour dates:
4/12, Eugene, OR (Hult Center for the Performing Arts )
4/13, Vancouver, BC (Orpheum Theatre )
4/16, Spokane, WA (INB Performing Arts Center)
4/17, Edmonton, AB (River Cree Resort & Casino )
4/18, Seattle, WA (Marion Oliver McCaw Hall )
4/22, San Francisco, CA (Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium )
4/24, Universal City, CA (Gibson Amphitheater)
4/29, San Diego, CA (San Diego Civic Theatre)
4/30, Phoenix, AZ (Dodge Theatre )
5/1, Las Vegas, NV (Pearl Concert Theater)
5/4, Reno, NV (Grand Sierra Resort and Casino)
5/5, San Jose, CA (San Jose State Event Center )
5/6, Sacramneto, CA (Sacramento Memorial Auditorium)
5/9, Boulder, CO (Mackey Auditorium )
5/10, Denver, CO (Ellie Caulkins Opera House)
5/13, Dallas, TX (McFarlin Auditorium)
5/14, Austin, TX (Austin Music Hall )
5/15, Tulsa, OK (Brady Theater )
5/16, Kansas City, MO (The Midland)
5/18, Minneapolis, MN (Orpheum Theater )
5/19, Chicago, IL (Chicago Theatre)
5/22, Toronto, ON (Massey Hall)
6/1, New York, NY (Radio City Music Hall )
6/4, Boston, MA (Wang Theater)
6/6, Uncasville, CT (Mohegan Sun Arena)
6/7, Upper Derby, PA (Tower Theatre)
6/8, Washington, DC (Dar Constitution Hall)
6/11, Manchester, TN (Bonnaroo Music Festival )
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Sunny Day Real Estate to Record New Album
After a triumphant 21-date reunion tour in 2009, Seattle rockers Sunny Day Real Estate are heading back into the studio to record a new album with their original lineup, their first together since 1995's LP2.
The news was tweeted by Seattle radio station KEXP DJ Marco Collins (although his tweet seems to have disappeared) and confirmed by Billboard, but no further details are presently available.
Sunny Day -- whose lineup includes Jeremy Enigk (vocals/guitar), Nate Mendel (bass), Dan Hoerner (guitar), and William Goldsmith (drums) -- will play April's Coachella festival in Indio, California, and two European dates later that month.
While touring last year, the band was performing one new song, billed appropriately on set lists as "New Song." Its "guitars suggested someone has a minor thing for the beginning of the Who's 'Baba O'Riley,'" SPIN.com's Mike Usinger wrote after hearing it performed on the tour's opening night in Vancouver. "Enigk announced the number as a work in progress, but that didn't stop Hoerner from grinning like he'd just won the Powerball lottery."
Not surprisingly, questions about recording new SDRE material have dogged the band since their somewhat unexpected reunion was announced. "There is certainly interest but it's hard to tell right now," Enigk told SPIN.com in September 2009. "We've made it a goal to leave expectation at the door and take things as they come. We all have established commitments that would involve good balance between them."
One of those commitments -- probably the biggest one -- is Mendel's primary gig: playing bass for Foo Fighters. Dave Grohl said this week that his chart-topping rock band should resume activity this fall, starting work on a seventh album.
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Insane Clowns on Fan Murderers: "Grown Retards"
Detroit "horrorcore" rap duo Insane Clown Posse drop gruesome rhymes about murder, homicide, and rape -- but when their fans, called Juggalos, commit crimes are ICP to blame?
ABC talking head Martin Bashir asked that question during Tuesday night's episode of Nightline, as he interviewed ICP rappers Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope about their artistic freedom, multi-million dollar careers -- and the recent spree of bloody crimes committed by Juggalos. Watch the video segment below.
Bashir, who calls ICP's music "prepubescent" and "illiterate," points to at least four recent Juggalo-related arrests for homicide or murder, including the case of 21-year-old Pennsylvania resident Michael Goucher, who was killed last February after having been stabbed with a knife and a meat cleaver more than 20 times. The two arrested for the murder identified themselves as Juggalos -- one was even wearing an ICP shirt when he was arrested… and had written a rap about the murder itself.
According to the segment, Juggalos are now classified as a "gang" in Utah, Arizona, Monroe County, PA, and Modesto, CA. But are ICP really to blame? The rappers certainly don't think so.
Shaggy 2 Dope thinks fans who take their lyrics literally are "grown retards," while Violent J takes a more eloquent approach: "We don't encourage anybody," he says. "We have face paint on. We are entertainers. If any of our fans kill somebody, please don't buy any more of our records. Get out of our lives -- you're a sicko."
Are ICP to blame for Juggalo violence? Watch the complete Nightline segment below, then tell us what you think in the comment section.
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Lady Gaga Headed to 'Rock Band'!
Strap on your pouffy wigs, grab your glowing scepters, and apply your glittery makeup, gamers -- Lady Gaga is coming to Rock Band!
Rock Band creator Harmonix has just announced that a handful of Lady Gaga tunes will be released next week, GameSpy reports. "Bad Romance," "Just Dance," "Monster," and "Poker Face" will all be available for download, as well as a version of "Poker Face" sung by South Park's Eric Cartman. The new songs will be available March 16 for the XBox 360 and Wii; March 18 for the PS3.
Meanwhile, anticipation continues to build for Gaga's "Telephone" video, which debuts Thursday night on E! News. Photos from the video show Gaga wrapped in crime scene tape (among other outfits) and Beyonce staring at a bright red telephone. Gaga performed the song at the BRIT awards last month, where she took away multiple awards, including Best International Breakthrough Act.
And that's not all from the Gaga camp. MTV is reporting that the avant-garde star is in the early stages of planning an ambitious 3-D concert tour and DVD. Gaga is currently amidst her massive, worldwide Monster Ball tour, which hit Boston this past December. Read SPIN's review of the show right here.
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Audition to Join the Smashing Pumpkins!
Another day, another lineup change with the Smashing Pumpkins -- but this time YOU could end up joining the ranks of the alt-rock band!
Billy Corgan announced today that bassist Ginger Pooley -- who replaced Melissa Auf der Maur when the Pumpkins "reunited" in 2007 -- has left the band to "to raise her new baby with her husband." So, The Bald One is launching a search for a new bassist the same way he found 20-year-old drummer Mike Byrne, who replaced founding drummer Jimmy Chamberlin when he left last year: by holding open auditions.
And the low-end isn't the only open spot in the Pumpkins' lineup. Corgan is also searching for a keyboardist who "can play in the prog-rock style of [Deep Purple's] Jon Lord and [Yes'] Rick Wakeman," an approach used by Corgan on the three new songs -- "A Song for a Son," "Widow Wake My Mind," and "A Stitch in Time" -- from SP's 44-track album, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope.
"We were lucky enough to find drummer Mike Byrne through an open audition process," Corgan said in a statement. "So why not open the doors again to anyone who might be interested for the bass or keyboard position. As you can see from our past and present, age, race, or a person's background is not an issue. Everyone is truly welcome to audition."
Until a new bassist is found, Mark Tulin of the Electric Prunes -- who joined Corgan and Dave Navarro's nine-piece ensemble Spirits In the Sky -- will fill in on a soon-to-be-announced world tour.
To audition, bassists and keyboardists should send their background info (including age, a resume of any bands/recorded work), photos, and performance web links via email to pumpkinsbass@gmail.com or pumpkinskeys@gmail.com. Only musicians with video clips can be considered. Final date for submission is March 31.



