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Add another flake to the recent flurry of Smashing Pumpkins news: the once-illustrious, still-nebulously-realigned alt-rock behemoths have scheduled their first non-festival date since trumpeting their reformation (of sorts) late last year.

Yeah, it's in France, but that's not likely to dissuade Pumpkins diehards, who'd sail the vast oceans and crawl over scorched earth to get a glimpse of whatever configuration the band finds itself in. Tickets for this, the first Pumpkins show since December of 2000, can be yours April 11. Think they'll sell out?

Could this mean an all-out headlining tour will soon follow? No way of knowing, but let's keep speculating: Might D'Arcy be preggers with James Iha's lovechild? Is Jimmy Chamberlain only doing it for the doobage? Could a Zwan reunion be far off? Dude, I hope so; that Paz Lenchantin is quite a dish.

As we previously reported, the sure-to-be-era-defining Zeitgeist is still on for July 7, and if a daytrip to the city of lights is beyond your means, you do have a chance to check out the Pumpkins at one of many festivals throughout the summer. All the dates we've got for now after the jump.

Can you fake it for just one more show?:

05-22 Paris, France - Grand Rex
05-28 Landgraaf, Netherlands - Megaland (Pinkpop Festival)
05-31 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
06-02 Nurburgring, Germany - Nürburgring Race Track (Rock am Ring)
06-03 Nuremburg, Germany - Zeppelinfeld (Rock im Park)
06-09 Lisbon, Portugal - Lisbon Festival
06-12 Madrid, Spain - Las Ventas
06-15 Nickelsdorf, Austria - Nova Rock Festival
06-16 Venice, Italy - Heineken Jammin' Festival
06-17 Interlaken, Switzerland - Greenfield Festival
08-05 Baltimore, MD - Pimlico Park (Virgin Festival)
08-24 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
08-26 Reading, England - Reading Festival
09-08 Toronto, Ontario - Virgin Festival