At a time when bands like the Beastie Boys and Hole take four years to make new records, the Smashing Pumpkins arent wasting a day; theyre sat to enter the studio before the end of the year to record the follow-up to June's Adore. Instead of embarking on a lengthy tour - they spent fourteen months on the road to support 1995's double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - the Pumpkins played only sixteen U.S. charity dates this summer (they raised $2.5 million for various youth organizations) and will open for Kiss on Halloween in Los Angeles. The band's management says there is no timeable fot the new album's release. Back in January, a ver prolific Billy Corgan told Rolling Stone that he had already written another double album and "a lot more acoustic songs." No word on what the new material sounds like, but expect the unexpected. "Anybody who's followed the band knows that we constantly fuck with our arrangements and songs," Corgan said. "It's something I'd like to do more of." -Matt Hendrickson