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, MI – The Palace of Auburn Hills
Sep 30 Toronto, ON – Air Canada Center
Oct 2 Chicago, IL – All State Arena
Oct 3 St. Paul, MN – Xcel Arena
Oct 5 Denver, CO – Broomfield
Oct 7 Salt Lake City, UT – E Center
Oct 9 Portland OR – Memorial Coliseum
Oct 10 Vancouver, BC – GM Place
Oct 11 Seattle, WA – Key Arena
Oct 13 San Jose, CA – Events Center
Oct 14 Los Angeles, CA – The Forum
Oct 17 San Diego, CA – Cox Arena
Oct 18 Phoenix, AZ – Arizona State Fair
Oct 20 Austin, TX – Frank Erwin Center
Oct 21 Dallas, TX – Nokia Theater
Oct 23 Houston, TX – Reliant Arena
Oct 25 Atlanta, GA – Gwinnett Arena

Looks like I’ll be seeing them on either September 26 or 27. I can’t wait!

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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 do, which means Weezer will be stopping by sometime soon.

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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 with mixed reviews from fans and critics.

However, this Madame Butterfly inspired album is my favorite in the Weezer catalog. It’s actually even one of my favorite albums from the 90’s.

Pinkerton stands out from the band’s other albums because of the constant themes of finding and losing love, which is probably one of Rivers favorite topics, but the entire is focused on this theme. It also just rocks out. It’s a non-stop, foot tapper sing a long of an album. The only track that slows down is the closer, “Butterfly”.

I actually can’t name any favorites from Pinkerton, because that’s just not right. Trust me, if you don’t own this album then go out right now and pick up a copy.

Here’s the tracklisting with some links and comments.

1. “Tired of Sex” – A great opening track that’s about getting tired of sex. Weird, huh?
2. “Getchoo” – A rather aggressive track, which I think is about the narrator being just a bit too pushy in the pursuit of his love interest.
3. “No Other One” – Not as aggressive as the first two tracks, but still a rocker track about a girlfriend that does some illegal activities.
4. “Why Bother?” – A pretty upbeat number, just kidding. Giving up never sounded so catchy.
5. “Across The Sea” – A sweet song dedicated to a Japanese fan.
6. “The Good Life” - OK, this is actually an upbeat tune that cheers me up whenever I feel down.
7. “El Scorcho” – The first single from Pinkerton that has lots of cultural references.
8. “Pink Triangle” – An interesting song about a guy who falls in love with a lesbian.
9. “Falling For You” – Starts off with peaceful intro and then kicks into a rocker about (surprise, surprise) falling for someone.
10. “Butterfly” – A strictly acoustic, and very depressing, song.

Video for “El Scorcho”

VCD video for “Pink Triangle”

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• 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 bassist in Carnival Art.
• Weezer’s self-titled debut, known as the Blue Album, was released on May 10, 1994.
• The Blue Album has since gone platinum three times.
• The debut single from the Blue Album was “Undone – The Sweater Song”, which was covered by The Offspring in 1994 and 1995. Here’s proof.
• The track “Susanne” was the b-side to “Undone – The Sweater Song”, and appeared in Kevin Smith 1995 flick Mallrats.
• The second single was “Buddy Holly”, which was released on what would have been Buddy Holly’s 58th birthday.
• “Say It Ain’t So” was the third single from the Blue Album and was inspired by Rivers belief that his parents split up because his father was an alcoholic.
• In late 1994 Rivers began work on a new album on his 8 track at his home in Connecticut.
• The result was the unreleased and unfinished album Songs from the Black Hole, which was going to be a space themed rock opera.
• In between getting leg surgery and going to Harvard in the summer of 1995, Rivers found time to record some new music for two weeks with Weezer.
• The band recorded more material during Rivers’ winter and spring breaks from school in 1996.
• The result was Weezer’s sophomore album, Pinkerton, released on September 24, 1996.
• Some of the lines from “El Scorcho”, which was the first single from Pinkerton, were taken from parts of an essay written by a classmate of Rivers’ while at Harvard.
• “The Good Life” and “Pink Triangle”, which is about a guy who falls in love with a lesbian, were also released as singles. But, Pinkerton failed to reach the success of the Blue Album.
• The band went on hiatus once they completed touring obligations in the summer of 1997.
• Bassist Matt Sharp left the band on April 8, 1998 to focus on his other band the Rentals and was replaced by Mikey Welsh.
• Weezer reunited in April of 2000 for the Fuji Festival in Japan, which would take place in August; they just couldn’t turn down the large amount of cash offered.
• The band began rehearsing and demoing songs in the spring of 2000, they also played some shows under the name Goat Punishment.
• On June 23, 2000 Weezer joined the Warped Tour for eight shows, but added some more gigs throughout the summer.
• The setlist for the band during the Warped Tour consisted of 14 new songs, known as the Summer Songs of 2000, only three would appear on future albums.
• Weezer hit the studio again with Ric Ocasek in the fall of 2000.
• The band released their third album, which was another self-titled release known as the Green Album, on May 15, 2001.
• “Hash Pipe” was the first single from the Green Album; it was the only song from the Summer Songs of 2000 to make the album.
• The second single was “Island in the Sun”, which had two videos. The first video was the band playing at a Hispanic couple’s wedding and the second video was the band playing around with some animals.
• Mikey Welsh was kicked out the band before the second video for “Island in the Sun” was shot and was replaced by Scott Shriner.
• The third single was “Photograph”, which during live shows, features Rivers on drums and Patrick Wilson on lead vocals.
• The band wanted their fans feedback for their fourth album by releasing downloads of demos off their website, however, only song “Slob” made the cut.
• Maladroit was released on May 14, 2002 and has reached gold status.
• “Dope Nose” was the first single and was another song from the Summer Songs of 2000.
• “Keep Fishin” was the second single. The video features the band with the Muppets, however, director Kevin Smith was originally set to film a different video for the song.
• On March 23, 2004 the band released the DVD Video Capture Device, which contains the band’s music videos and live performances from 1991 to 2002.
• Through December 2003 until the fall of 2004, Weezer worked on a new album with producer Rick Rubin.
• Make Believe was released on May 10, 2005, which was 11 years to the day since the release of the Blue Album.
• “Beverly Hills” was the first single from Make Believe and would become their most commercially successful single.
• “We Are All on Drugs” was the second single. MTV changed the title to “We Are All in Love”, which understandably ticked off fans. Here’s video 1 and video 2.
• “Perfect Situation” was the third single and stayed on top of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks for four weeks.
• The band toured with the Foo Fighters in the fall of 2005 on the so called “Foozer” tour.
• The band’s sixth album, another self-titled known as the Red Album, was released on June 3, 2008 and was produced by Rick Rubin. Originally the album was to be released on June 24.
• The first single “Pork and Beans” is currently on top of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks.

Here’s the classic video for “Buddy Holly”.

Here’s Weezer covering “Big Me” during the Foozer tour.

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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 iTunes then you’ll receive a password for a Ticketmaster presale. So, check back for Weezer tour dates when they’re released.

For now here’s a couple of vids of some new Weezer tracks.
“Thought I Knew”

“The Greatest Man That Ever Lived”

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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. The Angel and the One

The deluxe version, which will be through iTunes, will feature the additional tracks: “Miss Sweeney”, “Pig”, “The Spider” and “King”.

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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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Get ready, drum rolls please…

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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“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 contains twelve letters. You should be able to figure it out because you’re smart li’l Weezer fans.

The album is meaty, crunchy and melodic like a good Weezer album should be.

Peace out,

Rivera”

Let’s hope that he’s telling the truth about the new album being “meaty, crunchy and melodic”, because I don’t think that the band has made a solid album since Pinkerton. But hey, June is right around the corner, so we don’t have that long of a wait.

For now enjoy “Perfect Situation”, because both the song  and video are awesome.

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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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