Release Calendar

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
6LP: Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD)

Smashing Pumpkins are revisiting the seven-time-Grammy-nominated Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness for its 30th anniversary, pairing the original, sprawling album with a new double album of unreleased live performances on the band’s ensuing tour in support of the record. It’ll be available as a 4CD or 6LP set.  So prolific were the Pumpkins in this period that a box of singles and B-sides, The Aeroplane Flies High, was released not long after Mellon Collie – and both albums were given lavish box set editions in 2012 and 2013, packed with unreleased studio and live material. (Similar treatment was recently afforded 2000’s Machina/The Machines of God, the band’s last album before a brief hiatus.) For this reissue, that extra material will be swapped out for 14 different live cuts recorded during the band’s Infinite Sadness Tour in 1996 – more than 80 minutes of material getting its debut release. The album’s classic cover has been redesigned for this new edition, with the vinyl version featuring luxe packaging that includes a hardbound book of liner notes, a tarot deck and lithographs, all in a velvet slipcase with cloth bag. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.