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Say "Hi" to Smashing Pumpkins!!!

Hi everyone. Excuse me for being very late, but you all now that we all 've been very busy since there were many exams. Anyway, here I am again, with my new post about the Smashing Pumpkins. Well, you've probably never heard of the Smashing Pumpkins, but I'm sure that you'll like their songs, especially if you are Depeche Mode fan. The Smashing Pumpkins is an American alternative rock band that was formed in Chicago in 1988 by Billy Corgan (vocals/guitar), James Iha (guitar/backing vocals), D'arcy Wretzky (bass guitar/backing vocals), and Jimmy Chamberlin (drums/percussion). Different than the other bands, The Smashing Pumpkins includes gothic rock, heavy metal, dream pop, psychedelic rock, arena rock and electronica in their songs. The Smashing Pumpkins earned recognition with their second album, Siamese Dream (1993). Their marvellous success continued with their double album “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” (1995), which has got the first place in Billboard charts. However, some problems among the group which was mostly caused by drugs, caused the 2000 break-up. In April 2006, the band officially announced that they were recording a new album. Yet, they went on a tour in 2007 with the returning members Jeff Schroeder, Ginger Reyes and Lisa Harriton for supporting their new album, “Zeitgeist”.

The Canadian Style Of Rock: 3 Days Grace

Three Days Grace is a Canadian alternative rock band which I haven't heard before I started Koç. As I learned from my friends in Koç, many of them are fans of Three Days Grace. That is actually the reason I wanted to write about the band. I downloaded some songs of the rock band. They are really good songs, indeed. So now, I'm one of the Three Days Grace Fans too:D. The band was formed under the name of Groundswell in Ontario, Canada in 1992. The band consists of Adam Gontier, Neil Sanderson, Brad Walst, and Barry Stock. After years of success, in 2005 Adam Gontier was sent into rehab because of his addiction to Oxycodone. The song, "Gone Forever" is written about the Gontier's life without the drug. During rehab, Gontier had written several songs and once he returned to the band in 2006, they released the album One-X. It includes "Pain", "Animal I Have Become", "Riot", "Never Too Late", "Over and Over"
In 2007, Gontier recorded a song called "I Don't Care" with the band Apocalyptica. The entire band was recently on tour with Breaking Benjamin, Seether, Skillet, Red and Econoline Crush. Also, live, Gontier has sung with Seether in the song "Broken". He sings it as a duet by singing Amy Lee's part. In addition, Gontier teamed with Breaking Benjamin's Benjamin Burnley to sing "Dance With the Devil" on tour.
WHO'S NEXT?
SMASHING PUMPKINS

James Blunt, The Soft Voice Of The Rock World...

James Blunt, the 34 year old folk rock singer-songwriter is known as one of the most successful young musicians of the world. Young girls know him with his good looking and of course his legendary song, "You're Beautiful" which brought James Blunt in fame in 2005. His style is a mix of rock and folk. Along with vocals, James Blunt performs a variety of instruments, including piano and guitar. As a consequence of his bright success, he was nominated for the Grammy Awards in 2006. Before his music carreer, Blunt was an officer in the British Army, and served under NATO in Kosovo during the conflict in 1999. While working in to Kosovo, Blunt was introduced to the work of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) (Doctors Without Borders), a humanitarian aid group best known for its emergency medical care in problematic regions. Since then, Blunt has supported MSF by holding "meet-and-greet" auctions at many of his concerts. I didn't know this and it is a really interesting fact about him in my opinion. Blunt is living in the Spansih island of Ibiza at the moment where he wrote many of the songs of his second album.

WHO'S NEXT?

3 DAYS GRACE!!