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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ACT IV AND THEPUMPKINS.NET PRESENT ‘SP: THE EARLY YEARS’ COVER SONG CONTEST

Four years ago, Act IV and ThePumpkins.net collaborated on the successful Zeitgest Cover Song Contest, where fans were asked to submit covers of their favorite Zeitgeist era tracks to win some cool Smashing Pumpkins-related prizes. Now, with the recent re-issues of the first two classic Smashing Pumpkins albums, Gish and Siamese Dream, Act IV and ThePumpkins.net are collaborating to once again bring the fans another special contest.

The SP: THE EARLY YEARS COVER SONG CONTEST will be along similar lines to the Zeitgeist cover song contest. But this time around, fans are asked to submit covers of their favorite Pumpkins originals spanning the early part of The Smashing Pumpkins’ career (1988-1994), from the earliest pre-Gish demos to Pisces Iscariot and Vieuphoria. In addition to winning some great Pumpkins-related merch, the winners of the contest will earn a spot on an extended version of Ghost Children/Machines of God, a digital EP being given away as a free incentive with the Ghost Children 2/Friends and Enemies charity compilation. Two spots are up for grabs, with the ‘Best Cover Song’ being awarded by selection committee, and the ‘Fan Favorite Cover’ being selected by you, the fans!

The winners of both the ‘Best Cover Song’ and ‘Fan Favorite Cover’ selections will receive:

1) A copy of the Deluxe CD/DVD re-issues of both Gish and Siamese Dream
2) A spot on the extended version of the Ghost Children/Machines of God digital EP.
3) A copy of the Ghost Children 2/Friends and Enemies charity CD, the Ghost Children/Machines of God digital EP, and a recently unearthed original CD copy of the Ghost Children compilation, not available to the public for nearly 10 years!

For the contest, organizers have reached to out all corners of The Smashing Pumpkins Fan Community for help. We are pleased to announce exciting partnerships with our Pumpkins fan site sponsors, Blamo.org/Siva, Crestfallen.com, Ozphoria, SPFreaks, and Starla.org, who will be celebrating their 15th anniversary in 2012. Act IV also would like to welcome back, Neil Main, the creator of the popular, original Ghost Children charity compilation, to the fold. Neil was also an integral participant and collaborator with the Act IV organizers during the two Act IV charity concerts at the legendary Metro in Chicago in 2001 and 2002. The organizers also welcome, Ashley Fahey, former webmaster of the Smashing Pumpkins UK fan group.

In addition, we have developed a special partnership with Nameless Entity Media (formerly Tranquilizer Records), an online radio station and fan community. All contest entrants are invited to join their fan community and contact Nameless Entity Media to explore the possibility of having your cover and your original music featured on the radio (where applicable), being interviewed on air, and much more!


Depending on the success of the contest, organizers will consider the possibility of future contests and digital releases. So keep CD quality versions of your covers available, just in case! Please note that covers of songs the Pumpkins covered themselves will not be accepted. Before uploading your cover, please carefully review the Contest Rules.

Submissions will be accepted starting on December 21, 2011 and the contest will run until February 21, 2012.

After the submission deadline passes, voting will commence. The winners are tentatively set to be announced on March 17, 2012.

For more information about the contest, please visit ThePumpkins.net. If you wish to know more about the Ghost Children 2 charity compilation and all things Act IV, please visit the Act IV website. Act IV is currently celebrating its 10th anniversary.

too bad i don't have the gear for this Vanilla is the first song that comes to mind. good luck to everyone who enters tho!

This looks really cool! Has anyone from here entered the contest before, like when they had the Zeitgest one? I wonder what the quality of the recordings has been like in previous contest? Anyone know?

*Edit: Never mind, I've found the page thepumpkins.net/contests/57-zeitgeist-contest

Dammit, the day after I pick up a guitar this happens. Wanna wait another year? Oh well, if anyone wants a good (but poorly recorded) drum track I got them

^We should do a collaborative cover song. Are collaborations allowed?

plasmate74 wrote: Yes, collaborations are allowed. The winner of the random draw ("Ma Belle submitted by Somaziro) for the Zeitgeist contest was a collaboration between a few people. Their cover ended up appearing on the original version of the Machines of God digital EP last year (they appear as Julio and Jessica on there). This year, we are expanding that EP to include more tracks, including two from this contest .

If anyone decides to collaborate, try to decide what you guys will want to be called if you appear on the compilation. Also, you will have to decide how to split up the prizes if you win .

plasmate74 wrote: Some of the tracks were good recordings for the Zeitgeist contest. Some of them were not as audible as perhaps they could have been. But I guess no one expected to get on an EP or album in that case.

kewl! I'll prep my kazoo set

venison wrote: Haha, Billy Corgan would be proud .

FYI, we have our first submission already. It's a cover of "She", which is appropriate since it's a Pre-Gish song. So check it out .

Anyone planning to submit?

I forgot She existed, one of my favorite pre-Gish era songs.

I would submit something if I had a band or could play guitar well.

Sheepful wrote: Yeah it is one of my favorite as well.

Too bad. If you know anyone that would be interested, feel free to let them know about it .

We just got our second submission today, "Pulseczar"!

Remember, the 'song preference' rule is actually just a general guideline to inspire creativity. So if you guys still want to do a cover of say "Geek USA" or "Siva", feel free .

Dorovo wrote:
If you enter Dorovo, I'm rooting for ya!

Eye wrote:
I'd love to, but I can't record anything for a little while. Might not get in with something before the cut-off date.

plasmate74 wrote: It's okay. Just try your best . I know that things happen that are out of their control. It's too early to talk about extensions to deadlines of course.

SOMEBODY COVER DAT VAMPIRE SONG!!

kjrain12 wrote: lol "Rat in a Cage" is not allowed for this contest . Neither is "If there is A God", which according to limewire is Smashing Pumpkins featuring Radiohead lol.

New Year - New contest entry! Check it out

Haha

Just joining the forum I guess...

Recorded about a minute of Cherub Rock and Rhinoceros off the top of my head this morning. The drums aren't tuned and this is unmixed, but I didn't think it sounded too bad. If anyone wants a drum track PM me, they're not as bad as I thought

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