Smashing Pumpkins not the only band rolling into town

The Smashing Pumpkin's Billy Corgan gets the gang together for one show at Auckland Town Hall. Photo / Supplied

The Smashing Pumpkins - the reincarnated former giants of the grunge era - are returning for one Auckland show.

Billy Corgan's reformed band, who sold more than 30 million albums in their 1990s heyday before breaking up in 2000, last played here in 2008 with Queens of the Stone Age at Vector Arena.

This time, though, they are downsizing to the Auckland Town Hall for the show on Tuesday October 19.

Corgan reformed the band with original drummer Jimmy Chamberlin in 2006. But then fired the sticksman last year and the line-up now consists of Corgan with drummer Mike Byrne, bassist Nicole Fiorentino and guitarist Jeff Shroeder.

Tickets to the show go on sale on Monday.

Meanwhile, Modern-day soul sister Sharon Jones is returning to New Zealand for two scorching shows in December.

Jones, who played at New Plymouth's Womad festival in 2008, and her eight-piece band the Dap-Kings are renowned for reviving funk and soul music from its 60s or 70s heyday and making it modern.

Jones is now in her 50s, but the ex-prison guard who was born in James Brown's hometown of Augusta, Georgia, has always sung - from growing up singing gospel songs in church to being a backing vocalist in the 1970s. But it wasn't until she hooked up with an early incarnation of Brooklyn's Dap-Kings - who also backed Amy Winehouse on her 2006 hit album Back To Black - that Jones serenaded her way into the spotlight.

Since then they have released four albums, including this year's I Learned the Hard Way.

They play the Wellington Opera House on December 17 and the Powerstation in Auckland on December 18.

New Year's Eve festival Rhythm and Vines has announced its final line-up of international acts. British duo Chase & Status bring their DJ set to the electro-pop line-up, and are joined by fellow Brits Erol Alkan and Carl Cox and Belgian artist Netsky. A Facebook petition with more than 2000 members pushed organisers to book Chase & Status. The creators of the page were 18-year-old Otago University students who described the duo as "the" drum and bass act of their generation.

Bulletproof, Mt Eden Dubstep and Dick Johnson have been added to the local line-up.

These artists join the previously announced artists N*E*R*D, Justice (DJ set), Shihad, Chromeo, Boys Noize, Mystery Jets, High Contrast, Tinie Temper, Miami Horror, Hollie Smith, BARB, P Money, Electric Wire Hustle, Optimus Gryme and Our:House Presents.

Also heading out into the country this summer is Crowded House and Supergroove who will be playing the joint three-date A Day On the Green winery tour in February taking in Napier's Church Road (Feb 26), Martinborough's Alana Estate (Feb 19) and South Auckland's Villa Maria (Feb 27).

-TimeOut