The band began teasing the track exclusively on Q101 Chicago on Thursday
After teasing new music exclusively through Q101 in Chicago on Thursday [September 11], The Smashing Pumpkins have released a heavy new song “Chrome Jets.” The single arrives just over a year after the release of their thirteenth studio album Aghori Mhori Mei. Stream the official audio below.
In celebration of the release, fans can also purchase a limited edition exclusive 12-inch vinyl featuring “Chrome Jets” and “Zoo Station (Live in Berlin – June 22, 2024)” through Corgan’s Madame Zuzu’s tea shop in Highland Park, Illinois. This special pressing is limited to just 1,500 units and is available exclusively through the tea shop with a select number of autographed copies by Corgan also on offer. Check out the cover art below, plus a link to order.
The Smashing Pumpkins’ last album Aghori Mhori Mei came out on August 2, 2024 through Martha’s Music/Thirty Tigers. Featuring the singles “Sighommi” and “Who Goes There,” the record charted on the Billboard 200 and peaked at No. 26 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart. Back in 2023, The Smashing Pumpkins completed the three-act trilogy ATUM, releasing the 33-track project in its entirety. Among many highlights, it boasted “Beguiled,” which catapulted to No. 6 at Active Rock and No. 12 at Alternative Radio Charts. “Spellbinding”emerged as the #1 most-added at Alternative Rock.
In 2023, The Smashing Pumpkins completed the three-act trilogy ATUM, releasing the 33-track project in its entirety. Among many highlights, it boasted “Beguiled,” which catapulted to No. 6 at Active Rock and No. 12 at Alternative Radio Charts. “Spellbinding”emerged as the No. 1 most-added at Alternative Rock.
That same year, they curated and headlined their very own The World Is A Vampire Tour joined by Stone Temple Pilots and Rival Sons, while 2022 saw them canvas North America on the Spirits On Fire Tour alongside Jane’s Addiction. Revisit our review and live photos from the band’s 2023 trek HERE.
The Smashing Pumpkins are one of the most iconic, iconoclastic, and influential bands of all time, shaping alternative music and culture. Since forming in Chicago in 1988, the group has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and garnered two GRAMMY® Awards, seven MTV VMAs, and an American Music Award. Their catalog includes seminal offerings such as the platinum Gish [1991], the quadruple-platinum Siamese Dream [1993], the diamond-certified Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [1995], the platinum Adore [1998], and the gold Machina/The Machines of God [2000]. Rolling Stone cited both Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness among its “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.”
It would also be impossible to envision alternative music and culture without their signature iconography such as the idyllic album artwork for Siamese Dream, the black Zero shirt, the laissez faire bliss of the “1979” music video, the gothic metamorphosis of “Ava Adore,” or the multi-dimensional live shows that sell out worldwide to this day. 2018 saw The Smashing Pumpkins unveil SHINY AND OH SO BRIGHT, VOL. 1 / LP: NO PAST. NO FUTURE. NO SUN. and launched the immensely successful Shiny and Oh So Bright Tour, which packed arenas.
Maintaining this momentum, the band released their eleventh full-length double album , CYR [2020], representing yet another evolution, and more recently, ATUM[2023], the sequel to 1995’s Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and 2000’s Machina/Machine of God. The band’s 2024 album, Aghori Mhori Mei, written in the immediate aftermath of ATUM, sees a return to form for original members Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, and James Iha, and harkens back to the band’s early 90’s canon; where guitars, bass, drums, and spiking vocals ruled.
SIDE A:
Chrome Jets
SIDE B:
Zoo Station (Live in Berlin – June 22, 2024)
Fans can pre-order now HERE