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In case you forgot, The Smashing Pumpkins are releasing their new album for free. Teargarden By Kaleidyscope will have 44 songs, which will be freely available for download from their website. These are the songs released so far:

Vol. 1: Songs For a Sailor

1. A Song For A Son
2. Astral Planes
3. Widow Wake My Mind
4. A Stitch In Time

Vol. 2: The Solstice Bare

1. The Fellowship
2. Freak
3. Tom Tom
4. Spangled

Vol. 3

1. Lightning Strikes
2. Owata

The first EP, “Teargarden By Kaleidyscope Volume 1: Songs For A Sailor”, was released on May 25 2010, and “Volume 2: The Solstice Bare” was released on November 23 2010.

I’ll be updating this post when a new song comes out, so be sure to check back every once in a while.

I’ve clearly been distracted, because Billy Corgan has announced more than one month ago that the next Smashing Pumpkins album will released for free, on the Internet, one track at a time. And I only heard about it this weekend. It was big news when Radiohead first did something similar with In Rainbows in 2007, but now it seems news like these just go a bit unnoticed.

The new new record, entitled Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, will feature 44 songs, each of which will be made available online by the band, completely free of charge.

Each song will be made available absolutely for free, to anyone anywhere. There will be no strings attached. Free will mean free, which means you won’t have to sign up for anything, give an email address, or jump through a hoop. You will be able to go and take the song or songs as you wish, as many times as you wish.

11 “highly limited edition” EPs with 4 songs each will be available for the more devoted fans, and when the album is complete it will be compiled in a deluxe box set.

In the meanwhile, and to help create anticipation for the songs, Kerry Brown (the producer) has been releasing some studio videos in his TwitVid.

The first song was scheduled for “around Halloween”, so it shouldn’t take long now.