Today In Music News: Smashing Pumpkins Loses Drummer, Tool To Headline Lollapalooza, M.I.A. Is Two Years Older and Trick Daddy Has Lupus

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 24, 2009...Drummer Jimmy Chamberlain has left the Smashing Pumpkins for unspecified reasons. Mr. Corgan I'm looking in your direction.Maynard James Keenan is taking some time off from wine-making to join Tool in headlining Lollapalooza along with the city-flubbers in The...

By Lance Lester

March 24, 2009

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Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 24, 2009...

Drummer Jimmy Chamberlain has left the Smashing Pumpkins for unspecified reasons. Mr. Corgan I'm looking in your direction.
Maynard James Keenan is taking some time off from wine-making to join Tool in headlining Lollapalooza along with the city-flubbers in The Killers. Neko Case, Lou Reed and The Decemberists will also perform at the Chicago festival.
The name of M.I.A.'s child has finally been revealed: Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman. But it also seems that two years have been added to M.I.A.'s age, since her birth date was also on her baby's birth certificate...
Miami rapper Trick Daddy has revealed that he has Lupus.

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