Smashing Pumpkins returning to Valley for outdoor December show

PHOENIX — Just five months after their last appearance in the Valley, the Smashing Pumpkins are coming back.

Billy Corgan and company will perform under the stars at Mesa Amphitheatre on Dec. 7 as part of their 30th anniversary tour.

30th Anniversary Series. Tickets on sale Friday. 🖤 pic.twitter.com/YsYPCD9rWN

— Smashing Pumpkins (@SmashingPumpkin) October 1, 2018

Doors open for the general admission show at 4:30 p.m., and the music is scheduled to start at 6 p.m., rain or shine.

Tickets, priced at $59 plus fees, go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

The Pumpkins — who conquered the alternative rock world in the 1990s with albums such as “Siamese Dream” and “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” — kicked off their last tour at Glendale’s Gila River Arena on July 12.

That was billed as a reunion tour with original drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and guitarist James Iha joining Corgan, although original bassist D’arcy Wretzky wasn’t on board.

The upcoming seven-date U.S. tour starts Nov. 28 in Madison, Wisconsin. The Mesa show is the last one scheduled.

If you can’t make that performance or want a double-helping of Pumpkin spice, the band will also play at Tucson’s Rialto Theatre on Dec. 6.

Before the tour, the rockers will release a long-titled new album — “Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1/LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.” — Nov. 16, their first in 18 years to feature Iha and Chamberlin.

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