Music Management International (MMI) is bringing iconic Grammy award-winning alternative band The Smashing Pumpkins for a concert at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum on Aug. 7.

This was confirmed to Funfare by Charlemagne Lim whose Little Asia chain of fusion restaurants is presenting the show.

A little background: The Smashing Pumpkins was formed in Chicago in 1988, with original members Billy Corgan (lead vocals, lead guitar), James Iha (rhythm guitar), D’arcy Wretzky (bass guitar) and Jimmy Chamberlin (drums). Since then, the band has had many membership variations with Corgan being the main constant. The current band members are: 22-year-old Mike Byrne on drums; Nicole Fiorentino on bass who also plays for Veruca Salt; and Korean-American Jeff Schroeder on rhythm guitar. They are the same members behind the soon-to-be-released album titled Oceania, which has a different vibe from previous albums where Corgan played most of the instruments himself.

Oceania has the familiar Pumpkins feel that ’90s music fans have come to love. It’s still as epic and emotional, as a Pumpkins record should be, but with a modern twist. Corgan states that Oceania is the strongest band offering since 1995’s Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, the double album dubbed by Time as “the group’s most ambitious and accomplished work yet” which includes Grammy award-winning song Bullet with Butterfly Wings, as well as Tonight, Tonight; 1979; and others. Oceania is unlike any album Corgan has made, largely in part to the significant contributions of his new band members.

According to Charlemagne, The Pumpkins plans to perform songs from Oceania at their shows worldwide, utilizing video mapping to create stunning visuals that go well with the music as well as the classics that they are most known for.

“The Smashing Pumpkins Live will be a musical experience unlike any other,” guaranteed Charlemagne, adding that Allmusic.com said that the band has been “responsible for some of the ’90s’ most striking and memorable video clips.” They are one of the few bands that truly treated music videos as an art form. In 1996, the band took home seven MTV Video Music Awards for Tonight, Tonight and 1979.

Added Charlemagne, “The Smashing Pumpkins is a band that any real music fan must see live — to hear the progressive music, to behold the visuals they’ve come to be known for, to be transported into a different world and to immerse all your senses into Pumpkin land. Rock fans, ready for the sound in Planet Pumpkin?”