Smashing Pumpkins New Song Available As Free Download

The Smashing Pumpkins have debuted a new song, “Widow Wake My Mind,” available as a free download for 24 hours through MySpace Music.

The new song is the second release from the band’s in-progress 44-song project Teargarden By Kaleidyscope. “Widow” can be downloaded at Myspace.com/smashingpumpkins. On Tuesday, the song will be available at the Smashing Pumpkins official site; the site also offers a widget enabling fans to host the song anywhere on the web.

Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan – who just announced he is launching a new record label – is releasing the 44 songs of Teargarden By Kaleidyscope one at a time, completely for free

The first track, “A Song for a Son,” surfaced in December.

Corgan has said Teargarden By Kaleidyscope “is based on ‘The Fool’s Journey,’ as signified in the progress of the Tarot, the intention is to approach the work by breaking down the journey of life into four phases as made by different characters depicted in major arcana cards: the Child, the Fool, the Skeptic and the Mystic.”

The music of Teargarden By Kaleidyscope will not only be issued online, Corgan revealed.

“We will sell highly limited edition EPs (of 4 songs each times 11), and details of how those EPs will be made available are still being worked out. Because the songs themselves will be free, the EPs will be more like collector’s items for the discerning fan who will want the art itself, along with the highest possible audio quality available.

The EPs will be more like mini-box sets rather than your normal CD single. We may also offer other variations for sale–say for example, a digital single with a demo version of a song.”

In other equally exciting news about Billy Corgan, it seems that he and his new girlfriend, (hello!) Jessica Simpson, are taking their relationship into the music studio.