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After giving fans a hint at what cities they’ll be making stops at, Weezer officially announced their 2008 North American tour.
The band will kick things off on September 23 at the Tsongas Arena in Boston and will wrap up on October 25 at the Gwinnett Arena in Atlanta.
The band will be joined by Angels and Airwaves, as well as, Tokyo Police Club.
Here’s the dates and cities for Weezer’s upcoming tour.
Sep 23 Boston, MA – Tsongas Arena
Sep 24 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Sep 26 Atlantic City, NJ – Borgata Casino
Sep 27 Philadelphia, PA – Susquehanna Center
Sep 29 Detroit, …read more

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Weezer’s recent webisode gives fans some hints for the cities that the band will be hitting on their upcoming tour.
The clip starts off with musically wirh “Pork and Beans” and then segues into “Troublemaker”, which is obviously another tune from their most recent release Red Album. As the music plays on fast shots of parts cities, such as Boston, New York and Philly, flash by. There are also pics of folks like John Denver and J.R. from the show Dallas, which I would assume mean Denver and Dallas.
Here’s the clip. See if you can catch any familiar shots, hopefully you …read more

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I’ve been revisiting this gem of an album lately and I seriously forgot how great it was.
Pinkerton was Weezer’s second album, released on September 24, 1996. It experienced a bit of difficulties from the get go, like scattered recording time since Rivers was at Harvard and had leg surgery. Heck, the album was almost pulled off the shelves because a security firm in California, called Pinkerton’s Inc., sued the band and their label Geffen for trademark infringement. Even with these set backs behind Pinkerton, the album failed to match the success of it’s predecessor, The Blue Album and was met …read more

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It’s a perfect time to do an FYI on Weezer, since they just released their sixth studio album this past Tuesday (June 3).

The band was formed by Rivers Cuomo (vocals, guitar), Matt Sharp (bass), Patrick Wilson (drums) and Jason Cropper (guitars) in 1992, supposedly on Valentine’s Day.
After 16 months together Weezer was signed by DGC (Geffen Records).
The band relocated to New York City to record their debut album at Electric Lady Studios, which was produced by the Cars Ric Ocasek.
During the recording of the album guitarist Jason Cropper left the band and was replaced by Brian Bell, who was the …read more

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Last week eight tracks from Weezer’s upcoming self-titled release, which has been dubbed the Red Album, were leaked.
The tracks include: “Troublemaker”, “The Greatest Man That Ever Lived”, “Pork & Beans”, “Heart Songs”, “Everybody Get Dangerous”, “Dreamin’”, “Thought I Knew” and “Cold Dark World”.
If you’re impatient and really have to listen to them, then click here.
Ok, now for other updates on the Red Album.
I heard earlier today that the album has been pushed up from a June 24 release to June 3. Hmm, maybe the leaking of the eight tracks had something to do with it?
Also, if you pre-order the album from …read more

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Weezer is currently streaming the first single, “Pork and Beans”, from their third self-titled release on their official site.

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“Pork and Beans” was released as a 30 second sample last week and will be released as a single this Thursday, April 24.
The band has also released the tracklisting for their new album, which is supposed to come out in June.
It should go something like this:
1. Troublemaker
2. The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)
3. Pork and Beans
4. Heart Songs
5. Everybody Get Dangerous
6. Dreamin’
7. Thought I Knew
8. Cold Dark World
9. Automatic
10. …read more

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Weezer has released a 30 second clip of their first single, entitled “Pork and Beans”, from their forthcoming self-titled release.
The single will be released in it’s entirety on April 22.
For now you can sample the track right here.
It doesn’t sound that bad, but it’s only 30 seconds long, so it’s kinda hard to judge the track. It sounds like old school Weezer to me. The music is reminiscent of their debut self-titled album, while the lyrics remind me a little bit of Pinkerton.
We’ll just have to wait and hear what the rest of the song is like…

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Weezer have titled their upcoming sixth album.
Get ready, drum rolls please…
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It’s self-titled!
The band’s third self-titled album will hit shelves on June 17 and was co-produced by a guy named Rick Rubin.
Hopefully, this will be better than Weezer’s last couple of albums.

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Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo left a post on the band’s official site this week which read:
“Hey Weezer punks,
We have one song left to mix and then it’s on to mastering. We should be all done very soon. Then we chill for a minute.
The album will be out in June so with any luck you will hear a new Weezer song on the radio soon. I think I know which song is the first single but I’m not sure so I can’t tell you. I’ll give you some hints, though. It’s one word, starts with a T, ends with an R and …read more

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This is a typical Weezer song, despite the title.
It originally appeared on L.A. radio station KROQ’s 1999 Christmas compilation; but it also appeared on imports of the band’s 2001 self titled album, aka The Green Album and I think it was also a single.
Basically, it’s what we’ve come to expect from Rivers Cuomo; him being alone. However, this time poor Rivers is left beside the Christmas tree all by himself.
I know what Rivers needs for Christmas…a hug.
It’s still a cool song.

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