Weezer have announced their first few dates in support of their upcoming seventh studio album, Raditude.
According to chartattack.com, the dates will see the band playing smaller venues in the United States and include a stop in Toronto for the Edge’s Jingle Bell Rock at the Air Canada Centre on Dec. 5. That show will feature IllScarlett and other performers.
Tickets go on sale Oct. 24 at 11 a.m. through Ticketmaster, but members of the Edge’s Inside Edge can get tickets in a presale which is on now. Tickets run $19.50, $39.50 and $59.50.
Weezer just released the video for “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To,” Raditude’s first single. Raditude is out Nov. 3.
Weezer fans are getting the ultimate Christmas present this year: a collection of home recordings by Rivers Cuomo.
The record, entitled “Alone – The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo,” should not be seen as a solo album, but rather a kind of musical scrapbook. According to Cuomo, who posted on his Myspace page, “This is a CD of my favorite home demos from ‘92 to ‘07 featuring a lot of never heard before songs, a few covers, a few songs from my unfinished rock musical ‘Songs From The Black Hole’ and my original demo for ‘Buddy Holly.’”
Geffen records will release the album on December 11. Cuomo said he may put out more demo collections in the future.
To hear a sample of the song “Blast Off,” the Windows Media file is here, and the Real Player file is here.
Rivers Cuomo strongly suggested in a recent interview that his band Weezer may be a thing of the past.
According to the Harvard-educated singer, there hasn’t been much communication between him and the other band members recently, though there’s no bad blood.
“[T]he band is all back in Los Angeles, and I sometimes speak with Patrick, and I occasionally email with Brian and Scott, but we’ve never mentioned getting together,” the recently-married Cuomo told MTV News from his in-laws’ house in Japan. “And I’m not certain we’ll ever make a record again, unless it becomes really obvious to me that we need to do one.”
However, that doesn’t mean that Cuomo has given up on songwriter — apparently he’s been busily massing material without any particular release in mind.
“All this year I’ve been feeling pretty creative and excited, so I’ve been writing a lot,” Cuomo said. “I certainly don’t see them becoming Weezer songs, and I don’t really see the point of a solo career. So we’ll just have to see.”
Students studying at Harvard University this winter may have an unlikely classmate in one of their courses: Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo. Cuomo revealed recently in a chat session on AOL Music that he plans to return to Harvard in February to complete a degree in English. He hopes to graduate in June.
Cuomo originally enrolled in the Ivy League institution in 1995 but dropped out two semesters short of graduation. He announced plans to return to Harvard in the summer of 2004, but Cuomo ended up spending most of 2005 recording and touring in support of the Weezer?s latest album, “Make Believe.”
In an appearance on Howard Stern’s radio show earlier this week, Cuomo said he plans on living in an on-campus dorm at the university and that he’s currently three classes away from earning his undergraduate degree.
Weezer singer Rivers Cuomo and bassist Scott Shriner are promoting a warm surprise available for purchase with a copy of their new album.
Weezer have announced their first few dates in support of their upcoming seventh studio album, Raditude.
