Nicole Fiorentino is the new Pumpkins bass player

[sunky]

Buddyhead updated with the news.

This is from Hipsters United.

Fiorentino is (or recently has been) part of the Los Angeles-based groups Twilight Sleep and Light FM, the latter of which was on the bill with Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan’s Backwards Clock Society at a benefit concert last November. Previously, Fiorentino recorded and toured with Louise Post’s Veruca Salt on that band’s VSIV album, and she later backed Brody Dalle on tour as part of Spinnerette. Before that, Fiorentino played in L.A. rock outfit Radio Vago.

So thoughts? She seems to come from more rock background than Ginger did.

More on Nicole here: www.myspace.com/nicolefbass

[brendo]

And her backing vocals aren't as piercingly... ugly. Back in 2007 I could never work out whose bvox it was I disliked, Ginger's or Lisa's... I eventually worked out it was Ginger's.

[sunky]

D'Arcy had terrible vocals ... so it wasn't like there was a track record to beat.

[brendo]

D'arcy's blended better, even if she was pitchy - Ginger always had the tuning right but the tone was... suboptimal.