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The Smashing Pumpkins are scheduled to play in Costa Rica

Inside sources from the 2008 Imperial Festival organizers told Costa Rica Pages that it has been ”99% confirmed” that the Smashing Pumpkins will be joining the line up for the music festival that will take place on April 19 and 20th in Alajuela, Costa Rica. The official announcement will be made this weekend as part of the “festival route”, in which other guests are expected to be revealed as well.

The Smashing Pumpkins, a popular 90s alternative rock band with a distinct meloncholy sound, are known for hits “Tonight, Tonight” and “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”. The band broke up in 2000 due to a number of internal problems, but regrouped in 2006 with lead-singer Billy Corgan, drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and various new faces to record the 2007 album Zeitgeist.

They will be joining the 80s group Duran Duran who also made a recent comeback, and popular rock group Incubus in the international music festival that is sponsored by Costa Rica’s principal beer brewer, The Cervezería.

The “Festival Route” is a series of concerts that will take place in the three months leading up to the main event. This Friday night, Costa Rican music groups The Movement in Codes and Le Pop are scheduled to play in a concert that starts at 8pm in Retrovisor (a club behind the San Pedro Mall). On Saturday at 7pm, Kurt Dyer and Porpartes will perform at La Vereda in Terramall in eastern San Jose.