Today In Music News: The Pumpkins Give Away Music, Mary Travers Passes and Marilyn Manson Fans Riot

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, September 16, 2009... The Smashing Pumpkins are set to release a free 44-song album, which will be released as a series of EPs. Now if I could find a time machine to take me back 15 years, to when there was...

By Lance Lester

September 17, 2009

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Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, September 16, 2009...

The Smashing Pumpkins are set to release a free 44-song album, which will be released as a series of EPs. Now if I could find a time machine to take me back 15 years, to when there was more than one original member in the band.
Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary fame has passed away at age 72.
A riot erupted after a Marilyn Manson show in Winnipeg. I'm not sure who to blame here, the media or the devil.

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