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Friday, September 27, 2024
EMILY BARKER - NEW SINGLE - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS - Tonight, Tonight
Love this and we love Emily round our way! She has released a Smashing Pumpkins cover!
Emily Barker’s newsletter today included this cover . . . . . . she says
"Hello
I'm taking a break from two-stepping at clubs in Austin, Texas to write to you and say that I've got a new song out today! It's not one of my own - it's a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' record Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness calledTonight Tonight- I'm sure you will have heard it.
My version was recorded at The Wool Hall—where I made Fragile as Humans—with Luke Potashnick producing and the very same musicians performing on it. I love its mood - we leaned heavily into some Beck Sea Change vibes. I hope you enjoy it!
Also, I had a dream a couple of years ago and wrote this poem when I woke up...
#drummerdream
In a city of metal, glitter & stretched skin behind a leathered band & thick black curtains my heart beats double kick because I’m the drummer of The Smashing Pumpkins and we’re seconds away from walloping into a sold-out stadium set. The crowd are amped, keen to be teens again: Tonight, Tonight smells of unrequited crushes, Lynx Africa & the burn of firsts remembered. Every song cradles place, past, peers, DNA. Curtains rise & the roar is biblical. Billy turns to me through the smoke, his scream starts the roll of the Cherub Rock intro on snare. I raise sticks above my head, count ONE! TWO! THR –
As with my album ‘Fragile as Humans’, this was recorded at The Wool Hall with Luke Potashnick. When Luke suggested we record a couple of covers, ‘Tonight, Tonight’ felt like an obvious choice. I hope you like what we did with it.
Tori Styles has made a great video using archival material. Watch that here.
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