New York, NY (Top40 Charts) In advance of its performance at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Monday, December 10, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS and Barclays Center have joined forces with the Brooklyn Recovery Fund to contribute to Hurricane
Sandy relief efforts by offering the charity a portion of a specially priced $25 ticket available now at: Ticketmaster under Charity Ticket within the 'Search for Tickets' box.
The Brooklyn Recovery Fund is a joint effort between the Brooklyn Community Foundation, the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President and the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce to create a pooled fund to provide support to Brooklyn's nonprofit organizations working with the communities and individuals most affected by Hurricane Sandy. The Fund has raised more than $1.5 million andawarded more than $600,000 so far to 40+ nonprofit organizations, with support from a broad spectrum of donors, including founding contributions from Barclays Center, the Brooklyn Nets, and Forest City Ratner Companies. For more information and to donate, visit: www.brooklynrecoveryfund.org.
At the Barclays Center show, the iconic PUMPKINS-singer/guitarist BILLY CORGAN, guitarist JEFF SCHROEDER, drummer MIKE BYRNE andbassist NICOLE FIORENTINO-are performing their acclaimed new OCEANIA CD in full and for the second half of the show they'll play classics and deep cuts from their multi-platinum body of work. The PUMPKINS are backed by visuals prepared by Sean Evans, whose most recent project was assisting
Roger Waters on the newest staging of "The Wall."The PUMPKINS are using new technology in video-mapping to create something new and previously unseen. Joining the PUMPKINS is English group Morning Parade.
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 albums, and won multiple Grammy Awards in the process. Formed in
Chicago in 1988, they released Gish, 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 Siamese Dream, 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 modern rock 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. In June 2012, the band released the album Oceania, via Martha's Music/EMI Label Services/Caroline Distribution. Marking THE SMASHING PUMPKINS' 7th studio record, it is "an album within an album," part of their 44-song work-in-progress Teargarden By Kaleidyscope.
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