Smashing Pumpkins to play Slowdown

Billy Corgan performs with the Smashing Pumpkins in 2007, at the Orange Peel in Asheville, N.C.

Alt rock fans should get our their calendars and cash. Another band is coming to town and the show looks to be quite a special performance.

Smashing Pumpkins will perform Oct. 11 at Slowdown. Yes, Slowdown, the 470-capacity rock club in north downtown, not a theater or arena.

The last time the band played in Omaha was in 1997. To more than 7,800 people.

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Photo by The Associated Press