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Karl's Corner - 06/03/2002

UPDATE - via =rwa= news drones
the fine folks over at spin magazine gave us a quickie preview of the forthcoming issue, which will be out june 11th, 2002. 
from the article:
"DON'T FEAR THE WEEZER" -Rivers Cuomo and his band Weezer returned in 2001 with a giant radio hit, "Hash Pipe" and a giant Van Halen-esque "W" flashing. Somehow, a new generation of kids embraced Weezer as if they'd never left. Now, after firing their staff (Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo personally placed calls to Spin in the weeks leading up to, and after, his interview), and refusing to shave, Weezer unleash an album of "Sheer rock power." While the compulsive desire to eliminate the middleman is nothing new to rock. What about a decade-old, multiplatinum, major-label band that wants to operate like an in-the-van Dischord Records punk act? These days, Cuomo is Weezer's unrivaled dungeon master. Though he may develop an ulcer one day, for now Cuomo handles each Weezer trauma with the steady voice and inner calm of Leonard Cohen after a stay at the monastery. And so far his plan is an unqualified success. Weezer's self produced latest-Maladroit-may be their biggest hit. In April, Weezer went on tour before the record was even released, and fans already knew the songs, some already owned them. Realizing the net community is the ultimate focus group, Weezer posted songs from the album via MP3s on their website, asking for fan feedback. But the band's label, Interscope, was aghast and had the songs removed. Confound your label, fire your reps, change your sound, give that sound away for free. The words "career suicide" would come to mind if it wasn't for several factors: First, the record industry these gentleman are politely raging against is at its most clueless in modern history (see stripping Weezer's MP3's). Secondly, Cuomo is writing actual rock anthems, and the joy he gets from riff-tastic, AC/DC-style nastiness is infectious. While almost every other member of alt-rock's class of '94-Beck, Bush, Hole, Veruca Salt-has severely lost relevance, Weezer are more powerful in every way.
"We're gradually cutting people out of our lives who are annoying. It's really tough to maintain any kind of creative output if you're constantly forcing yourself into some kind of act that doesn't come naturally. Right now, we pretty much do whatever we feel like. And we're ten times more creative than ever."
--Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo on firing the band's staff
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2002
Karl's Corner - 06/03/2005

...July Tour update: confirmed so far including NEW DATES:
07/02/05 Las Vegas, NV - Las Vegas Convention Center - w/RHCP
JUST CONFIRMED: 07/05/05 Kansas City - Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre - 96.5 Buzz Beach Ball
07/07/05 Milwaukee, WI - Marcus Amphitheater - Summerfest - w/ The Pixies
07/09/05 Toronto, ONT - Molson Ampitheatre - w/ The Pixies
JUST CONFIRMED: 07/10/05 - Montreal, QC - The Stade Uniprix
JUST CONFIRMED: 07/12/05 - Lewiston, ME - Central Maine Civic Center
JUST CONFIRMED: 07/14/05 - Atlantic City, NJ - The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa Event Center
07/16/05 Atlanta, GA - Underground Atlanta - WNNX 99X event - free
07/23/05 Chicago, IL - Hutchinson Field at Grant Park - Lollapalooza
...MB '05 Tour: Day 24: Nurburgring, Germany - Rock Am Ring Festival
Today we got on the bus (heretofore known as the Shantymobile, for various reasons including its broken air conditioning and very unfortunate top speed of 50 mph) and headed off to Nurburgring, which is the home of a very large and well known 'Ring', i.e. an automobile racetrack. It is in fact this very track where the festival takes place over 3 days. This is the 20th Anniversary of the Rock Am Ring / Rock Im Park festivals, but the first time Weezer has been a part of it. Todays show was quite well run, and things went pretty smoothly for weezer despite no possibility of soundcheck and a very small window of time for the weez crew to get things set up after the previous band left the stage. The only tech issue came up during "Photograph" when a guitar mix up led to some odd sounding chords till the band re-adjusted by ear mid-song. Despite that, the band was positively glowing on stage, clearly quite stoked to get back out after the break and happy to play for such a huge audience, who definitely recieved weezer well, especially the Euro-hit "Island In the Sun", as well as "Drugs" and "Hash Pipe".
Setlist:
Say It Ain't So
Photograph
Undone - The Sweater Song
Peace
Pardon Me
In The Garage
Island In The Sun
We Are All On Drugs
Beverly Hills
Hash Pipe
Buddy Holly
This show was taped for television, but I am awaiting any details i can get about what channel(s) will be carrying it and what songs will be shown. I believe it was for Mtv.
UPDATE: The show was taped for the regional program Rockpalast, which airs on WDR. They are planning to air 2 specials called "Rocknacht" (rock night) in June. #1: Saturday June 11, from midnight till 6:30 am, and #2: Sunday June 12th from 12:15 AM til 6.30 am. It is not clear if weezer will appear on both specials. (hat tip: Sylvia)
also, see the Rockpalast site here for more pix from the festival.
Post show the band split into teams like on Scooby-Doo and took care of a bunch of interviews for various German TV and radio. Then the storm clouds rolled in and dumped lightning and heavy bouts of rain all over the festival, but the show goes on! Thank goodness we missed the rain during our own showtime. Tomorrow we may not be so lucky.
...speaking of interviews, Pat spoke with Rolling Stone recently and was quoted in this new article.
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2005
Karl's Corner - 06/03/2008

*UPDATE* Check out The Making Of The 'Pork And Beans' Video, now debuting exclusively on Myspace Music!
The day is finally here - Weezer's 6th Album "Weezer" (AKA The Red Album") is OUT NOW! Available in both standard and deluxe editions (deluxe with 4 more songs and thick informative booklet!), both on CD and digitally. (Also on vinyl shortly!) 
Heres the iTunes link to the Red album! 
...Weezer is Mtv's Buzzworthy Artist of the week! There are many many HOURS of NEW and classic weezer material on Mtv all this week! And online, do NOT miss the THIRTEEN exclusive new clips, from the bands (mailing list invite only) acoustic Hootenanny performance plus funny stuff as the band and Johnny Knoxville cruise around L.A. stirring up trouble!
And in case you missed it, you must read this Mtv interview with "Pork And Beans" video director Matthew Cullen!
...Meanwhile on the Weezer Youtube channel, check out the brand new video of Brian and Tay Zonday jamming out on "Pork And Beans" together! 
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2008
Karl's Corner - 06/03/2023

weezer Happy 15th birthday to The Red Album! After sessions in 2007-8, starting at Ric Rubin’s Shangri-La studio and continuing at the MPAC multipurpose facility in Malibu, ‘weezer’ (red) was released this day in 2008.
Following that came the ‘Hootenannies’ where large groups of fans joined the band to play an acoustic set! This continued as the encore portion of the Troublemaker arena tour. Meanwhile the “Pork And Beans” video was shot, with the help of virtually all the original “pre iphone/Tiktok” class of YouTube viral stars joining in.
It was the launch of a new era for weezer, and brought classics including “The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived” into their arsenal. And lets not forget the Deluxe Edition bonus tracks, and the seemingly never ending Webisode series! #karlscorner
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2023
Karl's Corner - 06/04/2001

Today's stop on the "Hooptie Tour" was at an oooold school boxing arena, the Blue Horizon, which is in a beautiful old building that is apparently currently in a fight to save itself from re-development. I sure hope they can keep it going there, its just so cool! Anyway the guys did their set in a real boxing ring! The show was recorded by Y-100 for later "Sonic Sessions" re-broadcast, and the show was hyped as a "Weezer Vs. Y-100" boxing match. But no one was getting in any fights today! Everything went smoothly, and so did the autograph session too. A special "big ups" to our crew today, they had some serious stairs to contend with while getting all the gear in and out of the place, and they did a fantastic job with everything.
After the show, we all piled in a bus and headed up to NYC, where there are 3 days of weez events coming up... 
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2001
Karl's Corner - 06/04/2002

...today some LA area fans reported hearing the new "remix" of "Keep Fishin'" on 106.7 KROQ. I think weezer may have set a new speed record for a song going from in the studio to on the radio! Meanwhile 1st single "Dope Nose" continues to see respectable rotation on lots of radio stations across the USA and Canada, and has gotten some impressive play in The UK and several Euopean countries. The Dope Nose video is doing well on Much Misic Canada, and continues to get some spins on the big US stations. Now... if anyone hears this new Keep Fishin' out there on the airwaves, let us know! 
...some raw dvd material...
UPDATE
8/3 - Dallas, TX - Smirnoff Amphitheatre is CONFIRMED - see the tour page for presale details.
EARLIER TODAY
7/9 - St. Paul, MN - public on-sale starts on Saturday June 8 at 9am(so the presale will now end on Friday, June 7 at 8pm CT)
7/29 - Atlanta, GA - public on-sale starts on Saturday June 8 at 12pm ET
7/30 - Nashville, TN - public on-sale starts on Saturday June 8 at 10am CT
8/7 - Phoenix, AZ - public on-sale starts on Friday June 7 at 10am PT
the most current show info, regardless of where else you see it on the 'net, is posted in our tour page. we are aware some shows still don't have presale/on-sale information. when we have it, we will post it to the tour page. thanks!
...today's entertainment tip: viewing "Bullit" followed by some G.T.A.3 = better 'driving'. Then cool down with the new DJ Shadow CD.
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2002
Karl's Corner - 06/04/2010

...SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT -onsale SATURDAY JUNE 5th at 10AM: Weezer with Gaslight Anthem at the Allentown Fair, September 1st! *Ticket link*
...AND: Weezer is playing Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival on Sunday Sept 5 with Hole and Rise Against!
...howdy folks - another Weezer micro tour is underway! Everyone made their way into Kansas City last night, gearing up for the shows this weekend. Today is the Kansas City concert, taking place at the City Market with a bunch of other bands including Coheed And Cambria. Then on Saturday we play Milwaukee at the Verge Music Festival. Coming up next weekend is the Horseshoe Casino in Southern Indiana and big bad Bonnaroo in Tennessee!
Well, one things for sure, there was a ton of ENERGY in the air tonight. Energy in the loud and raucous crowd, bursting at the seams, pushing the the City Market to its limits. Energy in the air, as strange winds whipped thru eveything threatening violent weather, but mercifully holding off. And energy on stage of course, as Rivers and the gang gave the crowd a unique blend of the what for and what they were looking for. There were some occasional technical oddities, like the entire lighting system getting unplugged for a while and some odd unintended sound effects creeping out of the synthesizers here and there, but for the most part things held together (like the Milennium Falcon) and we made the jump to lightspeed.
Tonight we had a quartet of fans join in on "If You're Wondering...". These enthusastic folks won a contest with the radio station, and they did it via auditioning. Brian ran thru the song with them prior to the show and proclaimed "they're ready".
Another dude came up on stage later, but that was by Rivers' request - he needed someone to crash into him to pop the balloon he had stuffed under his shirt. Yes. OK, it made sense at the time!
Big ups to out pal Timothy "Speed" Levitch (who you may recall from the '97 Y100 "Undone" session Sweater existential rap on "Video Capture Device"), who attended the show tonight. And if you dont know about Speed, well, get familiar! Kansas City, you are lucky to have him!
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...add your show stories here!
...did anyone catch Scott and his author wife Jillian on The Insider last night? I was in a plane at the time so I missed it.
...REMINDER: if you missed them, you can watch Weezer's "If Youre Wondering" performance on the Ellen Show here, and their performance of "Can't Stop Partying" on the George Lopez Show here.
...REMINDER: A casual and sass-riddled video interview with Brian on Robert Schwartzman (Rooney)'s Ustream page - Brian and Robert took live questions from fans on Twitter. Video stream here, part 1, part 2.
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2010
Karl's Corner - 06/04/2013

New Show: 8/17 - Del Mar Racetrack
Click Here For Tickets and More Info
To the Empire of Southern California - Weezer brings good news to you! Those of you who have witnessed our previous rock shows at the Del Mar Racetrack surely remember the epic insanity that went down in '10 and '11, as the nearly 20,000 people streamed over to the stage after the horseracing was done for the day and experienced some amazing good times with us. Well, its been 2 years since we were there, and frankly, we miss it! They say the 3rd times is the charm, so lets do this! We'll be playing the Racetrack on August 17th 2013, and we hope to see you there! 
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2013
Karl's Corner - 06/05/2001

Today we headed up to the NBC Studios in Rockefeller Center, one floor below where we did SNL a few weeks ago, and spent the afternoon there. There was a rehearsal period, where the guys ran through "Island In the Sun" numerous times, while the sound guys and camera men sorted out the tech stuff. After this we got in a funny conversation with Conan for awhile, and learned that he grew up in the same place Mikey did, in Brookline, MA. Then is was back to the dressing room for pizza, vocal warm up exercizes and various nonsense. Before we knew it, the show was in progress, and at about 5:30 weezer were introduced and played. Atom (Drum God) got his props TV on maracas, and everything sounded great!
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2001
Karl's Corner - 06/05/2008

***UPDATE***
We now have updated (final) release dates for the UK:
Red Album: all physical and digital (standard and deluxe versions) will come out on June 16th.
The commercial single “Pork & Beans” release date remains June 23rd.
***AND! In the USA...
There will be a 180 Gram Red Album deluxe edition vinyl LP! We dont have a release date yet but it will be fairly soon. Dont have the details yet, but it will probably be a 2 disc set with high quality packaging etc.
Check out Weezer Webisode #3, up now on Imeem.com!
I trust everyone is by now enjoying their regular or deluxe edition of the Red Album. If not, well what are you waiting for? The rock waits for no one!
After the shooting of the Pork And Beans video was completed, Tay Zonday sat down with weezer for an interview - as the interviewer! Excerpts and some video from this historic event are now on Mtv.com here. 
...as seen on the Weezer Myspace page, here is a zip file download of a new weezer desktop image (in 4 sizes depending on your screen's resolution).
...now there is a weezer slideshow feature at slide.com - create a weezer themed slideshow!
...Weezer's "Say It Ain't So" got voted into the Rolling Stone's "Top 100 Guitar Songs Ever" at #72! (Also in the print edition).
...Deluxe Edition booklet typos: Okay there are a couple of intentional typos (they should be fairly obvious), several accidental ones and unfortunately a few key things were omitted from the booklet and will be included in future printings: #1 is the Miss Sweeney writing credit - Rivers did not write the song alone: our own Sarah C. Kim supplied some very key lyrics! And for "Automatic", Joe Baressi is supposed to be credited as an engineer. Sorry guys, we'll fix it in pressing #2, alsong with several typo errors in the interview parts.
...todays "seafood =w=" photo courtesy Paul L. Of New Brunswick Canada!
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2008
Karl's Corner - 06/05/2010

...SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT -onsale TODAY JUNE 5th at 10AM: Weezer with Gaslight Anthem at the Allentown Fair, September 1st! *Ticket link*
...Well, we're in Milwaukee and the music of the Verge Fest is echoing thru the canyons of the city. By a twist of touring fate, we are back in Milwaukee not too terribly long after last December's show at Eagles Ballroom. It's nice to be back here, this time sans winter coats. Later this evening we will find the stage and rock it appropriately...
(...later...)
Last night on the bus ride up from KC, we ran through one of the more violent thunderstorms I've witnessed in years, with blinding sheets of rain pummeling the bus and endless lightning bolts everywhere. By the time we got to Milwaukee in the morning, things seemed calm again. However, by afternoon heavy rain had found us again and the Verge Fest got wetter and wetter and wetter. By the time AFI was playing, things were positively brutal out there!
Then, as the crews moved the AFI gear off the stage and got the Weezer stuff ready to go, a cold breeze blew through and the rain tapered off, for the most part. Weezer fans rewarded for their patience, once again! 
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...add your show stories here!
...weezer tribute band alert!
* Tweezer (back again!), will be playing the Crossroads in Garwood, NJ June 11th.
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2010
Karl's Corner - 06/05/2011 (a)

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weezer covering "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead in the studio, last week.
...Team Weez has re-assembled, finding themselves in a land of intense heat and bright hazy sunshine. Houston! Its been a few since we've played down here, but we all remember the need to slow down a little bit so as to not have a heat meltdown. Hopefully by this evening in Eleanor Tinsley Park it will have cooled down a bit so the rock will flow unimpeded. The festival started quite early today so the bands seem to be managing so far... Well, no matter what the conditions, the Team tends to ger 'er done, so all should be good.
Did you go? Comment here and/or in our message boards, tell your tale! Post your show pix on our photo page!
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2011
Karl's Corner - 06/05/2011 (b)

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weezer covering "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead in the studio, last week.
Folks, we've received many many submissions of weezer covers over the last few weeks, and the team has gone thru them and selected the first batch of tracks to be added to the rotation on Radio Weezer. In the coming days and weeks, listen for...
Marcel Messy - I Can Love
Jude Wright - Keep Fishin'
Jonas Hansson - Börjar Bli Kär (falling for you)
Simon Miles - Only In Dreams
Neccos For Breakfast - My Brain
Shiobara Tomohiro, the Superfriends - Superfriend
Vonnegutt featuring Tony Williams & Naledge of Kidz in the Hall - Put Me Back Together
Ed Zackery - The World Has Turned And Left Me Here 
RNA (Rick & Adrien) - Hash Pipe
Genesis Mendoza - The Christmas Song
Discoblaque - Say It Ain't So (Holy Post Mix)
William Danze - I Dont Want Your Lovin'
Note that that list is on top of the initial set of covers that were added last month, covers both familiar and unusual from the years past:
Ash - Only In Dreams
Bide Ou Balde - Buddy Holly
Classical Tribute to Weezer - Photograph
Daniel Brummel + The Contraband - Devotion
Dashboard Confessional - Jamie
Donny - Across The Sea
Doudin - Wheres My Sex (Jambon Mix)
Hermann H + The Pacemakers - In The Garage
Lifetaker + Runnersdialzero - Prettiest Girl In The Whole Wide World
Moog Cookbook - Buddy Holly
Mu - Dont Let Go
String Tribute to Weezer - Knock Down Drag Out
Tugboat - El Scorcho
...keep the submissions coming in, this is an ongoing thang! Send your mp3s to: radioweezer (at) gmail.com 
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2011
Karl's Corner - 06/05/2011 (c)

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weezer covering "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead in the studio, last week.
...Peoples, you may have had the fun of watching the Rivers Ustream broadcast he often does before going on stage. We are happy to report that we've figured out how to integrate the Ustream thing into weezer.com, and that this will be starting on Tuesday 6/7 (the second Austin show). In honor of this technical triumph, were gonna do a Ustream Q+A session with Scott and Brian (and myself) at 7PM CST, which will then be followed by Rivers' usual "Ustream of conciousness" broadcast.
For the Q+A session, we will be reading your comments and answering questions we see in the Ustream chat, as well as answering questions you post in this thread on our boards. 
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2011
Karl's Corner - 06/06/2005

***MORE UPDATES BELOW INCLUDING PRESALE INFO*** July Tour update: confirmed so far:
07/02/05 Las Vegas, NV - Las Vegas Convention Center - w/RHCP
07/05/05 Kansas City - Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre - 96.5 Buzz Beach Ball - PRESALE ON NOW: HERE!
07/07/05 Milwaukee, WI - Marcus Amphitheater - Summerfest - w/ The Pixies - ON SALE NOW
07/09/05 Toronto, ONT - Molson Ampitheatre - w/ The Pixies - ON SALE NOW
07/10/05 - Montreal, QC - The Stade Uniprix - ON SALE 6/10
07/12/05 - Lewiston, ME - Central Maine Civic Center - ON SALE 6/11
NEW: 07/13/05 - Uniondale, NY - Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum - w/ Taking Back Sunday - ON SALE 6/11 at 9AM, 92 Free.Loader PRESALE 6/10 at 10AM! Log in here for presale link + password.
07/14/05 - Atlantic City, NJ - The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa Event Center
07/16/05 Atlanta, GA - Underground Atlanta - WNNX 99X event
JUST ADDED: 07/21/05 - Nashville, TN - Nashville Municipal Auditorium
07/23/05 Chicago, IL - Hutchinson Field at Grant Park - Lollapalooza
Please check back to weezer's Ticketmaster page for further ticket info, as I have not been given any other onsale nor presale info yet, and I dont want you to miss out. If I hear of any new presale info it will go up right away.
...MB '05 Tour: Day 26: travel to Dublin, Ireland
Today we flew from Hamburg, Germany to Ireland, where weezer set foot for the first time ever! The flight was mellow and cheerful and the moment we landed we knew it was gonna be cool, with what the locals were calling an unusually bright and sunny day goin' on, as well as a bank holiday so the mood on the streets was extra festive. Lots of walking around Dublin and sampling the food (such as the unbelievable fish n' chips at Leo Burdock's) and drink (such as: walk in any direction for 3 seconds and theres a pub), though shopping was light as most places were closing up early for the holiday. Dublin is as cool and beautiful as the hundreds of Irish fans over the years have insisted via letters and email, and everyone is breathing a collective sigh of relief that we finally made it here. Dinner (birthday dinner for Stuart the tour manager!) discussion turned to what other places have been too long neglected, and I was more than happy to rattle off "the list" to the guys! Brazil...Iceland...Central Canada...Australia...Indonesia...Mexico...Hong Kong...Malaysia...Czech Republic...Poland...New Zealand...Italy...etc!!
...insane "crackhead" parody version of "Beverly Hills" can be found on the Gorillaz website here. heh heh! (click the 'audio' tab once you are there and scroll down a bit to select it.)
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2005
Karl's Corner - 06/06/2011 (a)

We rolled up to Austin from Houston late last night, and have now proceeded to occupy the venerable Stubb's BBQ for a 2 night stand. The hot Texas sun is relentless, but as it starts to drop below the skyscrapers of downtown Austin, we dine upon the fried green tomatoes from the Stubb's kitchen and prepare for the rock! Opening the show tonight is The Knux.
Did you go? Comment here and/or in our message boards, tell your tale! Post your show pix on our photo page! 
Category:Karl's Corner - June 2011