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2012-05-30 09:41 CEST

FOR LAUNCH OF NEW ‘, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS REACH OUT TO THEIR FANS VIA ONLINE COMMUNITIES TO CREATE ARTWORK INSPIRED BY THE SONGS OF OCEANIA

IMAGINE OCEANIA. That’s what The Smashing Pumpkins are asking their fans to do for the 13 songs on their new album OCEANIA, out June 19 via Martha’s Music/EMI Label Services/Caroline Distribution.

Longtime fans of the visual arts--including their groundbreaking music videos and memorable album covers/packaging--THE SMASHING PUMPKINS want to inspire creativity and evoke ones personal vision for each song, simply based on the title.

That’s the idea behind their new social media endeavor, whereby fans can create their own imagery for any of the album’s 13 songs, tag them with #SPoceania and share them with each other via Instagram, Pinterest, Deviantart and and .

The Smashing Pumpkins will also share, like and repost and repin on the official Smashing Pumpkins social sites and some images may end up on the official website.

Artists can utilize photos, designs, paintings and words to imagine their own vision of the songs on OCEANIA including “Quasar,” “Panopticon,” “The Celestials,” “Violet Rays,” “My Love is Winter,” “One Diamond, One Heart,” “Pinwheels,” “Oceania,” “Pale Horse,” “The Chimera,” “Glissandra,” “Inkless” and “Wildflower.” (Full track listing below.) For more information on the campaign go to http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/oceania/imagine- oceania/.

The Smashing Pumpkins also teamed up with photo specialty blog JPGMAG.com to create their first ever photography challenge series: http://jpgmag.com/blog/2012/05/smashing-pumpkins-oceania.html. Fans submit photos for each of the 13 song title challenges, one photograph from each challenge will be chosen and compiled into a limited edition print-on- demand canvas poster signed by the group.

Fans can preorder OCEANIA now at the following outlets: iTunes (Digital) – http://bit.ly/KCDWTL

Amazon (CD) – http://amzn.to/LcK4n7

Insound (LP) - http://bit.ly/JKXaKq

And via the Smashing Pumpkins website: http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/store/spoceania/ OCEANIA was recorded at singer/guitarist ’s private studio in with his bandmates: guitarist , drummer andbassist/vocalist . The powerful 13-song collection (see track listing below) was produced by Corgan and Bjorn Thorsrud and mixed by David Bottrill. Marking THE SMASHING PUMPKINS’ 7thstudio record, it is “an album within an album,” part of their 44-song work- in-progress TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE.

Here’s the OCEANIA track listing:

Quasar Panopticon The Celestials Violet Rays My Love is Winter One Diamond, One Heart Pinwheels Oceania Pale Horse The Chimera Glissandra Inkless Wildflower

About The Smashing Pumpkins:

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS have created one of the most acclaimed bodies of work in musical history having sold more than 30 million , and won multiple in the process. Formed in Chicago in 1988, they released , their influential and platinum debut in 1991, which was followed by albums including the nine-time platinum Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness and the four-time platinum , as well as the platinum certified 1998 album Adore. The pivotal group’s many hits defined the alternative music era and continue to resonate on radio, influencing a whole new generation. The PUMPKINS returned in 2007 with their acclaimed sixth album Zeitgeist. They have since remained on the cutting edge of music and technology with various online releases. www.smashingpumpkins.com http://www.facebook.com/smashingpumpkins http://twitter.com/smashingpumpkin http://twitter.com/Billy http://www.youtube.com/smashingpumpkins

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