I’m not sure exactly what this says about Weezer… The band has unfortunately gone from nerd rock heroes in the mid 90’s, to comeback kings in the early 00’s, to mainstream poop-rock weirdos in the current musical landscape. I can’t for the life of me figure out why they’d brand a retarded infomercial product with their band name, but I keep falling back on the answer that lead singer Rivers Cuomo must have had a mental breakdown in the last few years that has rendered him oblivious to right and wrong, up and down how to make meaningful music anymore… Here’s hoping one day they can return to form, in the meantime watch the Weezer Snuggie Commercial and try and make sense of it all…
Here’s a pretty cool live performance of the song “The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived” off of Weezer’s most recent self-titled album:
I don’t understand what he’s saying, but it sure does look amazing!
The Japanese blogger at Jacket Lunch Box has been recreating the covers of famous albums in food and then posting the results online.
The covers seem to combine rice, seaweed, fishcakes, sour plum and other edible ingredients to make reasonably accurate, artistic copies of the albums they’re mocking up.
Here are some examples:
What nice guys those Weezer guys are. As part of their new tour their inviting fans to come on down and jam with them in a predetermined location before the show. Could potentially sound terrible, but its actually pretty cool. Check out the Band and Fans version of “Pork and Beans”:
This needs no introduction… the title says it all:
Weezer have always had good to awesome videos and this new one is no exception. The idea could have easily flopped, but everything is executed extremely well. What is the idea? Well, lets just say if you hang around on the internet enough you’ll have no problem getting all the references. Nice job Weezer, let’s just hope the album is as good as this:
From Rivers himself:
“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“.
Keep your fingers crossed that its better than Make Believe. Remember the good old days? :
Here’s a solid e-mail exchange interview from Pitchforkmedia.com
Let’s be honest: No matter what Rivers Cuomo releases, we’ll jump at the chance to talk with him, even for a one-pass e-mail interview like this one. He’s just released his first collection of demos, Alone, but Weezer’s upcoming sixth album looms large on the horizon. For those who want Weezer to shake things up a bit, it appears you may get more than you bargained for. But we shouldn’t underestimate Cuomo, when these home recordings unearthed they had more than their share of surprises– a bit of the more introspective bedroom tracks, certainly, but then there’s the Ice Cube cover and a Gregg Alexander cover, not to mention the songs inspired by Romantic-Minimalism, the experiments with counterpoint in vocals, and the forays into MOR pop… it’s no surprise to hear that Cuomo is a restless listener, and just as restless a musician of late, if his reports on Album Six are to be believed. Given the breadth covered on Alone, and all the music he’s got in the vaults, these promises are likely just the tip of the iceberg.
Pitchfork: Your best estimate: How much unreleased material of yours is in “the vault,” so to speak?
Rivers Cuomo: My best estimate: About one hour of music that is close to Alone’s level of commercial viability and about another eight hours of music that is at least semi-decent.
Pitchfork: Will we see more of these releases if Alone is successful?
RC: I’m talking with the record company now to figure out a way for me to release as much of my material as I want, regardless of commercial success.
Pitchfork: Why not sneak these songs out online, as you have in the past? The collection hangs together quite well as a record, I think, but I’m curious when you decide a song becomes “worth” releasing as a physical product.
RC: If enough people out there want a physical product, I’ll be happy to make one. I’d say about 10,000 people is “enough.”
Pitchfork: Do you think the internet has granted you more or less control over your music and how it’s released?
RC: The internet has not granted us more control in relation to the record company because we’re still bound by an agreement with them not to release our music without their consent. But they generally let us do what we want, anyway, so it doesn’t matter who’s officially in control.
Pitchfork: Generally speaking, why do you think fans become so fixated on “lost” records? Lifehouse, The Basement Tapes, Songs From the Black Hole, etc…?
RC: Yeah, it’s funny, huh? I don’t know. I was fixated on Prince’s Black Album for a long time.
Pitchfork: Now that you’re on the other side of that, what’s it feel like? Do these unfinished projects get blown out of proportion by fans?
RC: Yeah, it seemed like people thought the Black Hole was much more substantial than it is.
Pitchfork: You say in the liners to Alone that you’ll play your demo tapes to anyone who will listen. Of all those you’ve played potential Weezer songs to, who do you think your harshest critic has been (aside from yourself, of course)?
RC: Todd Sullivan, who signed Weezer to Geffen Records in 1993 and has been in and out of the Weezer camp over the years, has been my harshest critic.
For the rest of the interview head over to PitchforkMedia
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