Smashing Pumpkins To Stop Traffic

Smashing Pumpkins will stop traffic in Hollywood later this summer when they headline the 2010 Sunset Strip Music Festival.

Billy Corgan and his bandmates will wrap up a full day of live music at venues scattered along Sunset Boulevard with a street gig on 28 August.

The three-day event will launch with a tribute to Slash at the House of Blues on 26 August.

Last year’s festival, which lured over 10,000 music fans to the closed-down Strip, was opened and closed by Ozzy Osbourne and featured performances by former Kiss star Ace Frehley, Korn and The Donnas.