Smashing Pumpkins Guitarist Jeff Schroeder Releases Debut
Jeff Schroeder of Smashing Pumpkins has released his first ever solo track ‘Haenim’.
Schroeder has been the guitarist for Smashing Pumpkins since 2007 replacing co-founder James Iha. He is featured on the four albums from ‘Oceania’ (2012) through to ‘Cyr’ (2020).
During lockdown he was forced to do his own thing and looked no futher than his neighbourhood, Koreatown in Los Angeles. “It was kind of like ‘If we don’t embrace it, this stuff will be forgotten, ” he says.
The track ‘Haenim’ connects Schroder, a Korean-American, with his Korean roots. “Much of my life, my existence of who I am, is because my mom was born there, and was from that generation,” he says. “‘Haenim’ really connects me to that culture.”