MTV.com reports: When tickets for the SMASHING PUMPKINS' nine-night residency at Asheville, North Carolina's Orange Peel went on sale Sunday, TicketWeb servers weren't able to handle the load, and the demand for tickets crashed the site, bringing sales to a halt. Tickets will now be sold via Ticketmaster instead, but Orange Peel spokeswoman Liz Whalen told Asheville's Citizen-Times on Monday morning (May 21) that the venue wasn't sure whether tickets would be available Monday or Tuesday — tickets were unavailable via Ticketmaster at press time. The band has also added three more dates to its residency at San Francisco's Fillmore.

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The new SMASHING PUMPKINS single, "Tarantula", has been posted online at Spinner.com. The song will appear on the band's first album since 2000, titled "Zeitgeist", due July 10 via Martha's Music/Reprise.

SMASHING PUMPKINS last week revealed the cover art for "Zeitgeist" at both the band's official web site and its MySpace page. The cover, created by artist Shepard Fairey, features the Statue of Liberty drowning in a rising red-colored tide, with the sun either rising or setting behind her. PUMPKINS frontman Billy Corgan said in a statement, "Like a great artist can do, Shepard had summed up very simply a lot of complex themes. He also used the type font from our very first single, and I asked him about it and he had no idea. He was just on point."

Fairey has done anti-war posters as well as the poster art for the JOHNNY CASH biopic "Walk the Line". The artist said that the image was both a comment on global warming as well as the political situation in the U.S.

SMASHING PUMPKINS will play its first concert in seven years tonight (May 22) in Paris, France.