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Only the second track released from it thus far, but is this already the best album of 2014?!



Smashing Pumpkins debuted a new lineup this week. Along with Billy Corgan, there was Jeff Schroeder (Lassie Foundation, Violet Burning) who has now played lead guitar for 7 years, and then for the first time Brad Wilk on the drums (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave), and Mark Stroermer on bass (The Killers). Here is "Stand Inside Your Love" with the new lineup:


Not necessarily music related (but with with a great accompanying song), this is an incredible video of Chernobyl shot by a drone. I visited Ukraine twice a few years ago, and visited the Chernobyl museum in Kiev, and have been fascinated by the nuclear disaster ever since. I have a burning desire to visit--but obviously never will--so this is as close as I will get:


Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl from Danny Cooke on Vimeo.

Finally, I have watched this a dozen times in the last 24 hours: