It looks as if the rumors are true: Smashing Pumpkins are going electronica.|

A recent press statement announced that the Pumpkins would be working with Bon Harris, a former member of the British dance-industrial group Nitzer Ebb, to give their forthcoming album an "electronic edge."

"This is a very different record for Smashing Pumpkins, with probably 50 percent of it being electronic-oriented," Harris reports from Los Angeles, where he is currently in the studio with the band. "Billy [Corgan] gives me free reign with what I'm doing. He gives me the songs, I go work on them, [and] bring them back."

In related news, Harris, Corgan and noted producer Flood are working on material for Harris's newest project, Maven, which also features former Ethyl Meatplow drummer John Napier. (Seth Hindin)