What the fuck? Okay, read this a few times carefully, via Billboard.com:
Former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha has joined A Perfect Circle and will be on board for the band’s upcoming U.S. tour, a spokesperson confirms. Iha replaces Troy Van Leeuwen, who left APC to join Queens Of The Stone Age. He does not contribute to APC’s next Virgin album, “Thirteenth Step,” due Sept. 16.
Okay, Troy from A Perfect Circle left to join Queens of the Stone Age? Okay, got it. Also, Paz from A Perfect Circle joined Billy Corgan’s Zwan.
SO NOW James Iha from Smashing Pumpkins has joined A Perfect Circle, possibly temporarily.
That’s more confusing than a Yankees-Mets-Giants three way trade. My brain hurts.