She knows it sounds corny. But since moving from her native Wolverhampton to Hollywood six years ago, British alt-rocker Carina Round does, indeed, get by with a little help from her friends. On her bluesy new single “The Last Time,” for instance, her longtime chum Sierra Swan chimes in, while newer acquaintances — Maynard James Keenan’s inventive Tool spinoff Puscifer — handle remix honors on the B-side, “Girl and the Ghost.”
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Billy Corgan has been busy lately. With his latest Smashing Pumpkins lineup, he’s on tour promoting “Teargarden By Kaleidyscope,” a 44-track album he’s releasing piecemeal, as each number is completed, via his website.
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Chicago alternative-scene heroes Smashing Pumpkins have endured countless lineup changes, even breakups, since their “Siamese Dream” glory days in the early 1990s. But they’re still guided by the steady, always-inventive hand of Billy Corgan, who decided to confront the imploding music industry head-on with the band’s latest release, “Teargarden By Kaleidyscope.”
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