Drum roll, please. The Smashing Pumpkins have a new member of the band. The band posted on its Web site that 19-year-old Mike Byrne of Portland was chosen from the more than 1,000 drummers who responded to the group's open call to ...

Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has left the Smashing Pumpkins. Chamberlin's departure is posted on the Smashing Pumpkins' Web site. The announcement didn't say why the 44-year-old Chamberlin left the group. Chamberlin joined the Grammy-winning alternative rock band in 1988 and played on all of their albums except 1998's "Adore." The band ...

Dissolving Smashing Pumpkins in 2000 was "a total mistake", Billy Corgan has admitted. And as much as he is fired up about the "reformed" Smashing Pumpkins' forthcoming tour with (mostly) new material ... the fans just want to hear the old hits. And they're wondering where founding members James Iha and D'arcy Wretzky have gone. "You're standing onstage ...