The Smashing Pumpkins To Play PNC Bank Arts Center with Interpol and Rival Sons

(HOLMDEL, NJ) — The Smashing Pumpkins, have announced their 26-date North American The World Is A Vampire Tour. Produced by Live Nation, the tour is set to start on Friday, July 28 at The Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. Locally, the tour comes to the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel on Thursday, August 24. They will be supported in Holmdel by Interpol and Rival Sons.

The tour will feature special guests Interpol, Stone Temple Pilots and Rival Sons as support on various dates, as well as some of the world’s biggest champions from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), who will be competing in most cities. The World Is A Vampire Tour has already sold-out 30k plus capacity shows in Mexico City this year, as well in cities across Australia this spring, and is set to expand to more countries in the future.

“I grew up in a world where I needed to know bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure existed, it meant there was a place for people like me to hang out and belong. That’s what The World Is A Vampire is about. Bringing back that sense of community. If you don’t fit in, you belong here. It’s about having a shared experience and respecting others, but ultimately having fun. A true alternative festival, where all the self-proclaimed weirdos and outsiders of the world can get together and have a party” – Billy Corgan 

Along with news of their upcoming tour, the band released their brand-new single “Spellbinding” which received its radio debut this morning during a very special live appearance on The Howard Stern Show, revealing details of their upcoming tour and the release date for their highly anticipated third and final act of ATUM, which is set for release on May 5. Act 3 will come with a special edition boxset featuring all 33 album tracks plus 10 additional unreleased songs, and is available for pre-order HERE.

Artist pre-sale for the tourbegins Tuesday, March 28 at 12:00pm local until Thursday, March 30 at 10:00pm local. General on-sale starts Friday, March 31 at 10:00am local. For more details, click here.

When The Smashing Pumpkins first emerged out of Chicago in 1988, the world had never heard a band quite like them. They spun together rock, pop, shoe-gaze, metal, goth, psychedelia, and electronic into a kaleidoscope of saccharine melodies, fuzzy distortion, bombastic orchestration, incendiary fretwork, eloquent songcraft, and unshakable hooks. Upon their formation, their sound was different, iconoclastic, and wholly new—and it still is today. As a result, they’ve sold over 30 million albums worldwide and collected two GRAMMY® Awards, two MTV VMAs, and an American Music Award. Their catalog is highlighted by the platinum Gish [1991], the quadruple-platinum Siamese Dream [1993], diamond-certified Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [1995], platinum Adore [1998], and gold Machina/The Machines of God [2000]. In 2018, they embarked on one of their most successful tours ever, the Shiny and Oh So Bright Tour, followed by Shiny And Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LPA: No Past. No Future. No Sun.  Meanwhile, 2020 saw the release of the band’s eleventh full-length and latest double album, CYR.

ATUM features 33-tracks in 3 acts and is the sequel to 1995’s Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and 2000’s Machina/Machine of God. ATUM was written and produced by Corgan over the past 4 years. 22 tracks have been released to date, with Beguiled continuing to climb at both Active Rock (peaked at #6) and Alternative Radio Charts (#12).

In other news, Corgan’s popular podcast series Thirty-Three with William Patrick Corgan continues to quench the thirst of dedicated Pumpkins fans all over the world, offering listeners the chance to hear never-before-released ATUM tracks, as-well as diving into various aspects of the band’s illustrious history. Thirty-Three with William Patrick Corgan is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and available on iHeartRadio and everywhere podcasts are heard. To learn more, click HERE.

Interpol began in New York in 1997, when guitarist Daniel Kessler recruited bassist Carlos Dengler and singer/guitarist Paul Banks to form a band. In 2002, with Sam Fogarino on drums, the band signed to Matador records and released Turn On The Bright Lights, which made it to 10th position on NME’s list of 2002’s top releases and Pitchfork named it the year’s #1 album. Over the next two decades would go on to wide critical and commercial acclaim, with six subsequent high charting records on the Billboard 200; earning rave reviews across the map from Rolling Stone to TIME; performing on late night television shows including the Late Late show with David Letterman and Conan and playing major festivals like Coachella and Glastonbury and headlining Mexico’s Corona Capital. The band (Banks, Kessler and Fogarino) released their 7th album, “The Other Side Of Make-Believe”, in July 2022 to critical acclaim. MOJO called the album “quietly masterful”, Clash hailed it as “some of the boldest, most uncompromising work of their career”, and NME described it as “a confident, rewarding and subtly adventurous new chapter”.

Rival Sons play rock ‘n’ roll in its purest form without apology or pretense. Instead, they simply plug in, turn up, and rip on a path of their own. Along the way, they’ve architected a critically acclaimed catalog, including Pressure & Time [2011], Head Down [2012], Great Western Valkyrie [2014], Hollow Bones [2016], and Feral Roots [2019]. The latter represented a creative and critical high watermark, scoring a pair of GRAMMY® Award nominations in the categories of “Best Rock Album” and “Best Rock Performance” for the single “Too Bad.” Elevating the band to another level, “Do Your Worst” vaulted to #1 at Rock Radio as their biggest hit to date, tallying north of 60 million streams and counting. During 2021, they launched their own label Sacred Tongue Recordings distributed by Thirty Tigers and celebrated the tenth anniversary of Pressure & Time by performing the album in its entirety on tour. Ultimately, Rival Sons aren’t here to tell you exactly what to think or what to feel, but they’ll give you one hell of a ride if you let them. That ride twists and turns like never before on their 2023 seventh full-length LP, Darkfighter [Low Country Sound / Atlantic Records] kickstarted by the single “Nobody Wants to Die.”

THE WORLD IS A VAMPIRE – NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES 

07/28 – The Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan – Las Vegas, NV 

07/30 – The Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan – Las Vegas, NV 

08/01 – USANA Amphitheatre – Salt Lake City, UT* 

08/03 – Shoreline Amphitheatre – Mountain View, CA*  

08/05 – White River Amphitheatre – Auburn, WA*  

08/06 – Hayden Homes Amphitheater – Bend, OR*  

08/07 – Toyota Amphitheatre – Wheatland, CA*  

08/09 – FivePoint Amphitheatre – Irvine, CA*  

08/10 – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre – Chula Vista, CA*  

08/11 – Yaamava’ Resort & Casino - Highland, CA** 

08/13 – Isleta Amphitheater – Albuquerque, NM^  

08/15 – Dos Equis Pavillion – Dallas, TX^  

08/16 – Walmart AMP – Rogers, AR^  

08/17 – The Orion Amphitheater – Huntsville, AL^  

08/19 – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre – West Palm Beach, FL^  

08/20 – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre – Tampa, FL^  

08/22 – PNC Music Pavilion – Charlotte, NC^  

08/24 – PNC Bank Arts Center – Holmdel, NJ^  

08/25 – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion – Gilford, NH^  

08/30 – Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater – Wantagh, NY^  

08/31 – Jiffy Lube Live – Bristow, VA^  

09/02 – Budweiser Stage – Toronto, ON^  

09/03 – Canadian Tire Centre – Ottawa, ON^ 

09/06 – Pine Knob Music Theatre – Clarkston, MI^^ 

09/08 – FirstBank Amphitheater – Franklin, TN^  

09/09 – Ruoff Music Center – Noblesville, IN^  

^ w/ Interpol & Rival Sons 

* w/ Stone Temple Pilots & Rival Sons 

**w/ Stone Temple Pilots 

^^ w/ Interpol