Freak (The Smashing Pumpkins song)

"Freak"
Promotional CD-R of "Freak"
Single by The Smashing Pumpkins
from the album Teargarden by Kaleidyscope
Released2010
Recorded2009–2010
GenreAlternative rock
Length3:51
LabelMartha's Music / Rocket Science
Songwriter(s)Billy Corgan
The Smashing Pumpkins singles chronology
"G.L.O.W."
(2008)
"Freak"
(2010)
"Owata"
(2011)

"Freak" (also titled as "Freak U.S.A.") is the second single from The Smashing Pumpkins's 34-track music project, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, and the first song released for the second accompanying EP The Solstice Bare. Like all other songs on the EP, "Freak" was released as a free download on their official website.[1] The song was first played live on July 24, 2009, at the first Spirits in the Sky show in memoriam of Sky Saxon.[2] It was performed live by the Pumpkins throughout their 2010 tours.[3]

  1. ^ "Smashing Pumpkins". Smashing Pumpkins. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  2. ^ "tour history - dates : 2009/07/24". spfc.org. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  3. ^ spfc.org : tour info - "Freak".