The scoop on a new Blind Mellon project and a smokin’ new soundtrack after the jump, but first…

Billy Corgan’s Smashing Pumpkins have unveiled “A Stitch in Time,” the third track from the mammoth 44-song project Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, on the band’s official Website, where the song — and all the rest of the album’s tracks — is available as a free download. (more…)

The scoop on next month’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony and a new Haiti relief effort, after the jump, but first…

Whether Billy Corgan is dating Jessica Simpson is anyone’s guess, but he will acknowledge he wrote the theme song for her upcoming T-V show.

Corgan tells the Chicago Tribune he wrote a poppy song with an alternative edge for Simpson’s V-H-1 show, “The Price of Beauty.” (more…)

The scoop on Travis Barker’s lawsuits, and an alternative rocker who is NOT joining Aerosmith, after the jump.  But first!

Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan is reportedly dating ditzy pop airhead Jessica Simpson.

Simpson has been a friend of the 42-year-old rock star for some months now and tweeted in September “My friend, Billy Corgan, has a pure and enlightening outlook on faith.”

Now, a ‘source’ tells E! News that Simpson has “fallen hard and is smitten” with Corgan and they are “officially dating”. (more…)

The scoop on some Cure reissues, and Pete Wentz’s hair after the jump…but first:

The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan and Talking Heads’ David Byrne will feature in an upcoming conversation series about legendary psychologist Carl Jung.

Talking about Jung’s recently unearthed ‘Red Book’, both musicians will be paired with a psychoanalyst and will take to the stage as part of series being run at Rubin Museum of Arts in New York City. (more…)