Smashing Pumpkins Tribute Album Announced Featuring Tame Impala, Nita Strauss, Alice Glass & More

The album features 15 covers of Smashing Pumpkins songs by modern artists.

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The Smashing Pumpkins are the latest band to get the tribute treatment, with Sumerian Records announcing Sending Hearts To All My Dearies - A Tribute To The Smashing Pumpkins, out Friday 14 August for the digital release and Friday 16 October for the deluxe 2LP vinyl release featuring multiple exclusive multi-colour variants.

Approved by Billy Corgan himself, Sending Hearts To All My Dearies takes its name from a beloved lyric in the Siamese Dream classic ‘Mayonaise’. The 15-track album contains an eclectic lineup of artists spanning multiple genres, reinterpreting Smashing Pumpkins classic.

The first taste of the album is Tame Impala’s take on ‘Hummer’, taken from the Pumpkins’ landmark 1993 album Siamese Dream. Kevin Parker transforms the track into a hypnotic psych-rock dreamscape that honours the original.

“Siamese Dream was the soundtrack to my high school years and ‘Hummer’ is the song that takes me back there in the most potent way,” says Parker about his contribution.

The album also includes new versions of Pumpkins favourites ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’, ‘Jellybelly’, ‘Cherub Rock’, ‘Tonight Tonight’ and more.

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More than three decades on since redefining ‘90s alternative music, The Smashing Pumpkins remain one of the great alt-rock acts on the planet.

Across 13 studio albums, the Pumpkins and co have continued to evolve, releasing compelling music that might not always chart well, but offers fans a glimpse into the mind of Corgan and his thoughts on modern music and the world around us.

Having sold over 30 million albums worldwide, garnered two Grammy Awards, seven MTV VMAs and an American Music Award and achieved two ARIA Album #1s, The Smashing Pumpkins have well and truly etched their place in music history.

‘Hummer’ by Tame Impala is out now. Listen here. Sending Hearts To All My Dearies - A Tribute To The Smashing Pumpkins is out Friday 14 August, digitally and Friday 16 October, on vinyl. Pre-order/pre-save here.

Sending Hearts To All My Dearies - A Tribute To The Smashing Pumpkins

1. Tame Impala - Hummer

2. Yonaka - Today

3. The Midnight - Tonight, Tonight

4. Carpenter Brut - Cherub Rock

5. Barns Courtney - 1979

6. Meg Myers - Eye

7. Palaye Royale - Bullet With Butterfly Wings

8. Between The Buried and Me - Jellybelly

9. Alice Glass - Drown

10. Starbenders - Tonight, Tonight

11. Nita Strauss - 1979

12. Bones UK - Cherub Rock

13. Moon Taxi - Thirty Three

14. Des Rocs - Bullet With Butterfly Wings

15. Urban Heat - Ava Adore

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