Alt-rock icons The Smashing Pumpkins have gone back to the future with their thirteenth studio album, Aghori Mhori Mei. They band dropped the new album Aug. 2 in the middle of their North American tour.
With Aghori Mhori Mei, The Smashing Pumpkins consciously returned to the writing and playing style of their early work, tapping into elements from their 1991 debut Gish, 1993’s commercially acclaimed Siamese Dream, and the 1995 mainstream breakthrough Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
“In the writing of this new album I became intrigued with the well-worn axiom, ‘you can’t go home again,'” says frontman Billy Corgan. “[Personally,] I have found [that] to be true in form. But [I] thought, ‘Well, what if we tried anyway?'”
For Corgan, revisiting past glories wasn’t an effort to be nostalgic, it was more to create a springboard to the band’s next artistic venture. “[I was] not so much [interested] in looking backwards with sentimentality, but rather as a means to move forward to see if in the balance of success and failure that our ways of making music circa 1990-1996 would still inspire something revelatory.”
The 10-track album is the follow up to the ambitious concept trilogy, ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts, which came out in three parts between November 15, 2022 and May 25, 2023.
The Smashing Pumpkins will continue their North American tour with dates throughout the summer and fall, including stops at major venues and music festivals. The band will also launch a Latin American tour in November.
2024 North American Tour Dates (most US dates include Green Day, Rancid, and The Linda Lindas:
August 3 – Montreal, Quebec – Osheaga Festival
August 4 – Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Bank Amphitheatre
August 5 – New York, NY – Citi Field
August 7 – Boston, MA – Fenway Park
August 9 – Philadelphia, PA – Citizens Bank Park
August 10 – Hershey, PA – HersheyPark Stadium
August 13 – Chicago, IL – Wrigley Field
August 14 – Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre
August 16 – Springfield, IL – Illinois State Fair
August 17 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Field
August 18 – Sioux City, IA – Battery Park
August 20 – Des Moines, IA – Vibrant Music Hall
August 21 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
August 22 – Cincinnati, OH – Great American Ballpark
August 24 – Milwaukee, WI – American Family Field
August 27 – Simpsonville, SC – CCNB Amphitheatre at Heritage Par
kAugust 28 – Atlanta, GA – Truist Park
August 30 – Nashville, TN – Geodis Park
September 1 – Pittsburgh, PA – PNC Park
September 4 – Detroit, MI – Comerica Park
September 7 – Denver, CO – Coors Field
September 10 – Southaven, MS – BankPlus Amphitheatre at Snowden Grove
September 11 – Arlington, TX – Globe Life Field
September 14 – Los Angeles, CA – SoFi Stadium
September 18 – Phoenix, AZ – Chase Field
September 20 – San Francisco, CA – Oracle Park
September 21 – Reno, NV – Grand Sierra Resort
September 23 – Seattle, WA – T-Mobile Park
September 24 – Airway Heights, WA – BECU Live at Northern Quest
September 25 – Portland, OR – Providence Park
September 27 – Las Vegas, NV – BleauLive Theater inside Fontainebleau Las Vegas at Fontainebleau
September 28 – San Diego, CA – Petco Park
2024 Latin American Tour Dates:
November 1 – Brasilia, Brazil – Arena BRB
November 3 – São Paulo, Brazil – Espaço Unimed
November 5 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Movistar Arena
November 10 – Lima, Peru – Estadio Nacional
November 12 – Quito, Ecuador – Coliseo General Rumiñahu
iNovember 14 – Bogota, Colombia – Movistar Arena
November 16 – San Jose, Costa Rica – Parque Viva
