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2011/07/27 O2 Academy Drummer Cam!

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Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 27, 2011 at 11:35am — 5 Comments

2011/07/27 Radio Weezer - new cover adds | more stuff

Radio Weezer is looking for your weezer covers - submit them and they could get added to the rotation! Details here.

Next week listen for these new covers from you guys, which have now been added to the Radio Weezer rotation!

Freak Me Out by PigThe

Tired of Sex by Love Coloured Light

Cant Stop Partying by Natalie Illeana

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Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 27, 2011 at 11:30am — No Comments

2011/07/25 Name That Tune Contest Winners

The results are in for the Name That Tune Contest! This contest was intended to be a humdinger, and it turned out to be more than that and a bag of chips. One could even say it was a real doozy. A real head scratcher, see? Well, even though it drove some people to the moon and back, thanks to everyone who gave it the ol' college try. Results were calculated by who got the most right, and if there were any ties, whoever sent their answers in earlier got the higher placement. We… Continue

Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 25, 2011 at 8:30am — 18 Comments

2011/07/24 Weezer Cruise Update - pre-sale sign-up deadline TONIGHT

Weezer Cruise update! Midnight tonight (Sunday 7/24) is the deadline to sign up for a pre-sale booking appointment!

Weezer Cruise update! Midnight tonight (Sunday 7/24) is the deadline to sign up for a pre-sale booking appointment! See the booking info page on WeezerCruise.com for more info! Those who sign up in advance will receive detailed pre-sale booking information via e-mail…

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Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 24, 2011 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

2011/07/16 Yokohama, Japan: Nano-Mugen Festival

After the epic second show at Zepp, everyone took a much needed day of rest and frolic in Tokyo (kudos to the crew who had a half day of work to do yesterday getting the gear in place at the Festival site on the day off). Team Weezer reassembles today at Yokohama Arena to play the opening day of the 2 day Nano-Mugen Festival, with Ash, The Rentals, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, We Are Scientists, and many more, over 3 stages. At some point there will be a Nano-Mugen TV…

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Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 16, 2011 at 12:30am — 4 Comments

2011/07/14 Tokyo, Japan: Club Zepp: Memories: Pinkerton

...After an intense show yesterday, which included the first live performance of "Devotion" since the 90's, the second ever live performance of "Longtime Sunshine", The Blue Album of course and many other killer tracks, we recharged the batteries overnight - the human batteries as well as the camera batteries - and headed back over the big amazing bridge to the giant ferris wheel, which Club Zepp sits in the shadow of.

The guys had a great…

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Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 13, 2011 at 10:30pm — 3 Comments

2011/07/13 Tokyo, Japan: Club Zepp: Memories: Blue Album

Team Weezer made the long journey over Siberia from Edinburgh yesterday, though it took several flights as the team got broken up into bite sized chunks and various plane delays and a missed flight really got things goofed up. But its all good in the hood now, the hood being Tokyo.

Tonight should be pretty amazing, its sold out and the peeps are peepin....

Photos later - are you going? Did you go? Comment here and/or in our message boards, tell…

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Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 13, 2011 at 3:00am — 5 Comments

2011/07/12 The Weezer Cruise - Set Sail with Weezer

The Weezer Cruise www.theweezercruise.com is sailing on the Carnival cruise ship Destiny porting from Miami to the island of Cozumel off of the Gulf Coast of Mexico, on January 19 – 23, 2012.

Coming along with us are special guests Dinosaur Jr, as well as Sebadoh, Gene Ween and Dave Dreiwitz, Wavves, The Antlers, Yuck, Free Energy, Boom Bip, J Mascis, Lou Barlow, Keepaway, Ozma, The Nervous Wreckords, The… Continue

Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 12, 2011 at 9:49pm — 2 Comments

2011/07/12 Weezer and Flaming Lips Side-by-Side at PNC and Jones Beach

The upcoming Weezer/Flaming Lips shows at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel NJ (7/28) and Jones Beach in NYC (7/29) are going to be unique and historic for both bands, as something both bands have never tried before is going down.

The bands are setting up all their gear at once, and then blending and shaping their setlists into one massive gargantuan supersetlist. The bands will trade off setlist segments, switch off songs, share the stage and get loose and crazy… Continue

Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 11, 2011 at 8:30pm — 6 Comments

2011/07/11 Happy Birthday to Scott!

Happy Birthday to Scott Shriner! Today were flying from Scotland to Tokyo so Scott will spend his birthday on a 13 hour flight. No birthday candles allowed on a plane! But maybe he'll get a nice sleepy time as we fly - after these past 3 fun but exhausting days, he deserves it!

Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 10, 2011 at 9:29pm — 19 Comments

2011/07/10 Kinross, Scotland: T In The Park Festival

Today we play T In The Park, near Edinburgh, Scotland, the 3rd in a 3 straight trifecta of giant festival madness! Last night we had a long bus ride up from Sonisphere Festival grounds. More movies were watched, work was done, food was consumed, and finally, one by one, we succumbed to the quiet, dark bus cocoons of sleep, collapsing into recharge mode.

But now we are on site and its sunny and beautiful. With occasional hot and cold flashes and bits of…

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Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 10, 2011 at 6:30am — 9 Comments

2011/07/09 Knebworth, England, UK: Sonisphere Festival

After an overnight drive from Ireland, including a 3.5 hour ferry ride and encore screenings of "Borat" and "Pulp Fiction" right off the bus's hard drive, we made our way to Knebworth in England, there the annual Sonisphere Festival is held on its stately grounds. "The pen is mightier than the sword" said Knebworth's Edward Bulwer Lytton, who probably would have had a hard time concentrating on his…

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Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 9, 2011 at 8:30am — No Comments

2011/07/08 Punchestown, Ireland: Oxegen Festival

...After an eventful planes trains and automobiles type day where team weezer was divided into various units who all tried to get to Ireland in different ways and different times (with highly varying degrees of success), everyone has finally reconvened in Dublin, a city that's hard not to love. Naps were had, delicious food was eaten, work was done, and streets were wandered. From there today we took a ride out to the country, to Punchestown… Continue

Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 8, 2011 at 1:00am — 7 Comments

2011/07/06 London, England: Brixton O2 Academy

Today marks weezer's first 'club' show in England in several years, and the only club show of this block of gigs in the UK and Ireland. Everyone is excited to be back in London and is really looking forward to playing the Brixton Academy once again. We are also stoked that the excellent English band Male Bonding is opening the show. Male Bonding and Rivers got together a while… Continue

Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 6, 2011 at 8:30am — 16 Comments

2011/07/06 Brian in action with Rooney last week

Heres a recent photo at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles - Brian Bell came up on stage to join the band Rooney in a special rendition of John Lennon's song "Woman". Not long afterwards, Brian headed off to the airport and flew to Toronto to start the current weezer tour.

Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 6, 2011 at 8:21am — 2 Comments

2011/07/05 Travel To London, England

After the 6 hour flight from Montreal, we arrived at Heathrow and were happy to find it was sunny, not too warm, with a little breeze. Speaking of breeze, we breezed thru immigration, baggage claim, and customs, with hardly any lines or waiting aside from a random 10 minute pause in middle of the baggage claim process. Then we zoomed into central London in little vans and in 45 min we were at the hotel, only having had to fight a little spot of traffic in a city which is… Continue

Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 5, 2011 at 6:32pm — No Comments

2011/07/03 Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Brian Bell Centre

...Todays show is at the home of the Montreal Canadiens NHL team, in the massive Brian Bell Centre For the Culinary Arts. Brian was honored that they named the Centre after him, and is happy to be rocking out in his second home. Tonight Jack's Mannequin is the opening act, and they are rocking it out as these words are being written in fact...

Photos below - are you going? Did you go? Comment here and/or in…

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Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 3, 2011 at 5:30pm — 13 Comments

2011/07/02 Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce, Quebec, Canada: Woodstock-en-Beauce Festival

Theres a lot of Canada that they wisely designated as "the hinterlands" many years ago - or perhaps there simply arent enough Canadians to fill up all the land they have! Either way, we are deep in the Canadian hinterlands today, marveling at the natural beauty and small town good vibes. The good vibe small town in question is Saint-Georges, which is a few miles from the Woodstock-en-Beauce festival site. The whole area is about 60 miles south of Quebec City, and only about 30… Continue

Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 2, 2011 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

2011/07/01 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Downsview Parc: Canada Day Fest

After several weeks in the woodshed, Team Weezer has assembled north of the border in Toronto to help Canada celebrate Canada Day. Its a sold out show, and the 25,000 attendees have been streaming in since they opened the gates mid afternoon. Actually, these might be the only 25,000 people left in Toronto, as it looked like just about everybody else was driving south on the QEW. But these 25,000 people are here to rock, and Weezer is here to rock them, along with Buck65, Hey… Continue

Added by karl koch [karlophone] on July 1, 2011 at 1:30pm — 5 Comments

2011/06/25 Radio Weezer new cover adds

above, the poster for a recent Anamanaguchi show has art that's based on the classic weezer 'superhero girls' design. pretty cool.

We've got some new 'adds' on Radio Weezer from the cover song contest! The next four cover bands to start airing on Radio Weezer are:

Simon Miles (Nottingham, England): "Only In Dreams"

RNA (Los Diego, CA): "Hash Pipe"

Superfriends (Japan): "Superfriend"

Neccos For Breakfast: "My Brain"

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Added by karl koch [karlophone] on June 26, 2011 at 12:30am — 2 Comments