Smashing Pumpkins reveal Zeitgeist artwork

The Smashing Pumpkins have revealed the cover art for their upcoming new album, Zeitgeist, at both the band's official web site and its MySpace page. The cover, created by artist Shepard Fairey, features the Statue of Liberty drowning in a rising red-colored tide, with the sun either rising or setting behind her. Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan said in a statement, "Like a great artist can do, Shepard had summed up very simply a lot of complex themes. He also used the type font from our very first single, and I asked him about it and he had no idea. He was just on point."

Fairey has done anti-war posters as well as the poster art for the Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line. The artist said that the image was both a comment on global warming as well as the political situation in the U.S.

Zeitgeist is due out on July 10th. The group will play its first concert in seven years next Tuesday (May 22nd) in Paris, France.

A snippet of the first single, "Tarantula," has surfaced online.

The reactivated group will play two sets of residency shows this summer, in Asheville, North Carolina in late June and early July, and then in San Francisco in late July.