I think we all saw this coming. Billy Corgan has simply made crazy move after crazy move over the past few months, and apparently drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has had enough of it. Lashing out at fans, defending the Ticketmaster merger, and debuting a song via a commercial? It's good publicity I guess, but how much sense does that make, especially when it focuses on the Hyundai Genesis' "fluid design and track-worthy performance"? (press release)

Anyway, "what will happen to The Smashing Pumpkins?" you're probably asking. Corgan has plans to go into the studio in spring to record singles as The Smashing Pumpkins. But at this point he might as well pull a James Iha and go from bad to disaster: now he's in a band called Tinted Windows with Taylor Hanson. Yawn.

If you didn't know, the Pumpkins haven't seen their original lineup in over 10 years. Read about it at their wiki.