Twitter情報によるとNicole Fiorentinoさんがスマッシング・パンプキンズの新ベーシストに決定したとの事。彼女のMySpaceによると、既にパンプキンズのメンバー達とスタジオに入って練習の日々だそう。現在31歳で、（ニーナ・ゴードンのいた）Veruca Saltのベーシスト及びヴォーカルとして活躍していた女性。ルックスはダーシー＋メリッサな感じ？お披露目が待ち遠しい！！
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5/11 追記：オフィシャルサイトでも正式に発表となりました。今後行われるThe Smashing Pumpkinsのワールドツアーに参加。もちろんSummer Sonic 2010でも東京・大阪、両日舞台に立ちます！
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
ANNOUNCE NEW MEMBER,
BASSIST NICOLE FIORENTINO
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS welcome a new member to the band: bassist Nicole Fiorentino.
The Los Angeles musician has been in such bands as Veruca Salt, Spinerette, Radio Vago, Twilight Sleep and Light FM. The latter group appeared at a Los Angeles benefit concert last November headlined by the Billy Corgan – led band Backwards Clock Society (proceeds from that show went to Laura Masura, the former head of the Smashing Pumpkins fan club who was injured in a motorcycle crash).
Fiorentino will perform with the Pumpkins on their world tour later this year, a trek that will include headline performances at two Summersonic festivals in Japan: August 7 in Tokyo (Marine Stadium) and August 8 in Osaka (Maishima).
Recently, the Pumpkins released – online, for free – the swirling, psychedelicized “Astral Planes,” the final song to be issued for the EP TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE VOL.1: SONGS FOR A SAILOR; it is the first of an eventual 11 EPs to be sold in record stores. TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE VOL. 1: SONGS FOR A SAILOR is set for official release on May 25th through Martha’s Music/Rocket Science Ventures. This very limited edition collector’s EP will be packaged in a beautiful silk – screened wooden box. Each box will contain a 4 – song CD, a vinyl 7″ and a hand – carved obelisk from the shadows of the Incan ruins in Machu Picchu.
