Billy Corgan Teams With Robert Smith On Solo Debut

Former Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan will release his debut solo album, TheFutureEmbrace, on June 21st.

“It’s guitar-driven and loud, but not aggressive,” Corgan tells Rolling Stone. “The videos, music and tour will be really new and different. No one will accuse me of sitting on my past.”

Recorded in Chicago, Future was co-produced by Corgan and features eleven new songs, including the first single, “Walking Shade,” as well as an unlikely cover of the Bee Gees’ “To Love Somebody,” with the Cure’s Robert Smith on backing vocals.

“The Cure is one of my favorite bands of all time,” Corgan says. “Robert is a good friend of mine, so it’s a dream come true. That song’s sort of a gem that not everyone will know.”

As for Corgan’s aforementioned past, more than 200 Pumpkins’ songs will be made available digitally through online music stores on April 5th, including their six studio albums and dozens of B-sides. “The band was really aggressive about recording B-sides,” Corgan says. “There’s a song called ‘Set the Ray to Jerry’ that Flood, our producer, didn’t think much of, but many Pumpkins fans think it’s one of the best things we ever did.”

Corgan just finished shooting the video for “Walking Shade” in Los Angeles and he plans to launch a world tour in July.

Source rollingstone.com.

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