The Smashing Pumpkins Release More Rare Material Again

Rolling Stone is reporting that Smashing Pumpkins are planning an elaborate remaster campaign that will, of course, find them releasing additional rarities and “bonus material”. In addition to wondering whether or not the Pumpkins should be described in the plural—as if they are, or ever were, a collective of any kind—we might also wonder why presumably rarities-collecting collections like Pisces Iscariot need to be reissued with more rarities. Also, are these rarities really rare anymore? Regardless, I suppose the best kind of new Smashing Pumpkins material is old Smashing Pumpkins material. We’ll reserve judgement on that new album.