The reunited SMASHING PUMPKINS will play their first show on May 22 at the Grand Rex in Paris, France. Tickets go on sale April 11.

The SMASHING PUMPKINS have added a new and slightly odd wrinkle to the release plans for the band's comeback album, "Zeitgeist", which is due to arrive on July 7. The group has announced that the record will be released at exactly 7:07 a.m., which means the CD will come out at the seventh minute of the seventh hour of the seventh day of the seventh month, in the seventh year of the 21st century. Sounds like someone's trying to attach some sort of significance to that. Other details, such as song titles and the exact composition of the band, have yet to be revealed.

Although the music industry issues nearly all new product on Tuesdays, the PUMPKINS disc will arrive on a Saturday.

"Zeitgeist" is the first PUMPKINS album in — you guessed it — seven years. Founder Billy Corgan dissolved the group after the release of 2000's "MACHINA/The Machines of God".

It's unlikely that original guitarist James Iha and bassist D'Arcy Wretzky will join Corgan and founding drummer Jimmy Chamberlin in the new lineup.

SMASHING PUMPKINS have been announced as one of the headliners of the U.S. Virgin Festival, scheduled for August 4-5 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Also slated to appear are THE POLICE and the BEASTIE BOYS. More lineup announcements and information about ticket sales are expected over the coming weeks. The festival appearance marks the PUMPKINS' first U.S. gig in more than six years.