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RollingStone.com article - July 22, 2003

Weezer, Rubin Get to Work
L.A. rockers plot fifth album with new producer
After a false start last year, Weezer are back on track to record their fifth album and have tapped producer Rick Rubin (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys) to oversee matters. "Right now we're just playing acoustically," guitarist Brian Bell says. "There might be more textures to this record."
Last spring, just as promotional efforts for their fourth album Maladroit were getting underway, the band posted nearly twenty new songs on its official Web site, including Rivers Cuomo originals like "Private Message," "Prodigy Lover" and "The Victor," as well as the Bell-penned "Yellow Camaro." But after last summer's Enlightenment Tour, Weezer decided to scrap plans to properly record the new songs in favor of some time off.
According to Bell, the 2002 demo-ed songs are no longer strong contenders for the upcoming album. "It's all new stuff," he says. "We're still open to suggestions -- especially if Rick says, 'I want you to have a second look at this song you did last year.' It's not likely, but nothing's out of bounds at this point."
Weezer and Rubin are in the pre-production stage, but Bell expects them to hit the studio in the coming weeks. "We have so many songs to choose from," he says, "and it shouldn't be too much longer before we actually start making the new album."
The band is also putting the finishing touches on its first DVD for a fall release.
JOHN D. LUERSSEN
(July 22, 2003)
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RollingStone.com article - June 3, 2005

Weezer Make Nice on Tour
With a Top Twenty disc and a hot summer tour, Cuomo and Co. are getting along fine
By Austin Scaggs
Posted June 3, 2005
"We've had our shitty history," says Weezer drummer Pat Wilson. "But I don't think we've ever gone through three weeks of touring and had so much fun."
In May, Weezer's new album, Make Believe, debuted at Number Two, their highest chart position ever, and the band headlined Coachella and wrapped a twelve-date club tour. Even better, their notoriously eccentric frontman, Rivers Cuomo, has yet to go mental. "I'm not suspicious anymore of how well we're getting along," says Wilson. "So that should tell you something."
With the album at Number Seventeen in its third week (selling 325,000 copies so far, according to Nielsen SoundScan), Weezer just left for Europe to play festivals. The band will be back in the States playing amphitheaters in July. (There's also a rumored fall tour with Foo Fighters.)
For fans wondering why recent gigs have leaned so heavily on early tracks from the Blue Album and Pinkerton, Wilson says, "Before we started this run, we all voted. We put our songs into a spreadsheet, and the songs that got the most votes are the ones we put in the set. Every show was almost exactly the same." Wilson promises that the group will re-vote and add about six songs to the repertoire for the summer tour.
Cuomo, who studies Buddhism and has been celibate for two years, spends most of his downtime on the tour bus, watching European soccer on the Fox Soccer Channel. "Rivers knows about all that stuff," Wilson says. "He was schooling me."
There are rumors that Cuomo may return to Harvard, where he's majoring in English, to finish his final semester. Cuomo hasn't addressed the issue, but Wilson says, "I can't imagine, if the record is blowing up and we're all having a good time, why he'd just bail." He adds, "I want to do everything I can to keep this vibe going. If it starts feeling unnatural, then I think the band will stop. But right now it feels great."
RollingStone.com article - June 9, 2006

6/9/06, 8:08 am EST
Rivers Cuomo, Bachelor of Arts
It took him eleven years – enough time for Weezer’s Pinkerton to go from fiasco to cult classic – but Rivers Cuomo has done it. Yesterday he received his B.A. in English from Harvard University on a rainy day in Cambridge, MA. Jim Lehrer gave the commencement address. Cuomo will also be getting married in ten days, which presumably means he will be ending his recent vow of celibacy and moving out of the dorms.
-- Elizabeth Goodman
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RollingStone.com article - March 19, 2007

3/19/07, 1:05 pm EST
When Rock Stars eBay!
We’re in the age now when artists indulging in eBay is no longer a surprise, thus our initial reaction to Weezer’s Patrick Wilson selling his Subaru Forester on the site. Upon further review, however, we’re kinda shocked how much activity is actually on Wilson’s account. He’s not only a regular eBay buyer, he’s also a heavy seller too.
Recently, he sold a “fantastic guitar” to buyer pepi3019, as well as a $1099 Budda Superdrive amp to reformed1.
It makes us a little frightened though: with Wilson’s eBay fire sale of musical equipment should we conclude he’s leaving the music industry? Or is Wilson just doing a little spring cleaning? Either way, it’s good to know Weezer has a 100 percent Customer Rating on eBay to go with their undying fan support.
-- Daniel Kreps
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RollingStone.com article - March 23, 2005

Weezer Plot Comeback
New disc harks back to their classic Nineties sound
By Brian Hiatt
March 23, 2005
After two years of scattered recording sessions -- and two weeks of Metallica-style group therapy -- Weezer have finally finished their fifth album. "It took a long-ass time," drummer Pat Wilson says of Make Believe, which hits stores May 10th.
Blame the delay on Rivers Cuomo's periodic semesters at Harvard -- where the thirty-four-year-old frontman continues to pursue an undergraduate degree -- and on his frequent dissatisfaction with his own songs. "I think Rivers was pretty emotionally divorced from our last two records," says Wilson of 2001's Green Album and 2002's Maladroit. "You can totally hear it. It sounds like we're just kind of stoned out, like a Seventies rock band who tours all the time."
But with the guidance of Audioslave producer Rick Rubin, Cuomo started writing tunes he liked -- and many of them recaptured the naked honesty of 1996's Pinkerton and the band's 1994 debut, the Blue Album.
The first single, "Beverly Hills," is one of Weezer's best-ever pop songs, combining heavy guitar crunch with a melody Wilson says has a "Steve Miller vibe." Its video, shot at the Playboy Mansion, is in the quirky tradition of the Happy Days-themed "Buddy Holly" clip. The probable second single, "We Are All on Drugs," has a pop-metal vibe that evokes Def Leppard.
But other album tracks, such as the power ballad "Peace," sound like autobiographical dispatches from a troubled soul: "All these problems in my mind/Make it hard for me to think," Cuomo sings in a quavering voice over acoustic-guitar strumming. The song climaxes in a choir's worth of overdubbed Cuomo vocal tracks that harmonize on some prototypically Weezer-ish whoa-oh-oh's. The breakup lament "This Is Such a Pity" -- which boasts Cars-like chugging rhythm guitars, a prominent synthesizer part from a cheap Casio and a lengthy guitar solo -- is similarly heartfelt.
"We didn't ever set out and say, 'Let's do a mixture of Pinkerton and the Blue Album with some Maladroit guitar solos,' " says guitarist Brian Bell. "But I think it sounds like that, because that's what we are."
Weezer will support the release of Make Believe with a North American tour beginning April 26th in Vancouver.
Weezer North American tour dates:
4/26: Vancouver, Commodore Ballroom
4/27: Seattle, Paramount Theater
4/29: San Francisco, Warfield
4/30: Indio, CA, Coachella Festival
5/03: Minneapolis, MN, First Avenue
5/04: Chicago, Aragon Ballroom
5/05: Detroit, State Theater
5/06: Toronto, Kool Haus/The Dock
5/08: Boston, Orpheum Theater
5/10: Philadelphia, Electric Factory
5/11: New York, Roseland Ballroom
5/12: New York, Roseland Ballroom
5/14: Atlanta, Tabernacle
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RollingStone.com article - May 15, 2007

5/15/07, 5:47 pm EST
Weezer: Album Six In The Works?
We were curious/suspicious when we got a tip that the url albumsix.com rerouted to the official Weezer web site, Weezer.com. As many of you know, the band famously went on hiatus following the release of their fifth album, Make Believe. When he graduated from Harvard and got married, we figured we’d heard the last of Rivers Cuomo for at least a little while. But then a solo demo for Cuomo’s song “Pig” leaked. And now, with this cryptic rerouting link, we ask the question: Is a new Weezer album on the horizon? We did some research.
According to a domain search, the AlbumSix web site was registered to Interscope Records and not some overzealous Pinkerton fan. The conspiracy theorists will argue “Weezer is on Geffen, not Interscope, duh.” Well, they’re sort of right. Both Geffen and Interscope are bundled under the giant Universal Media Group umbrella, so the plot remains thick.
A query to Weezer publicist Jim Merlis resulted in his insistence that “the band didn’t do this [albumsix.com].” Conclusive…but vaguely hopeful. OK, fine, the band didn’t create the page. (Cuomo went to Harvard but we doubt he knows HTML.) But the question remains: Are there signs that Weezer is prepping a new record? They are under contract for two more albums. Either way, we’ll keep you updated as to whether this recent revelation is truth or hoax.
-- Daniel Kreps
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RollingStone.com article - October 21, 2008

Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo To Release “Alone II” On November 25th
10/21/08, 2:35 pm EST
Weezer frontman confirmed for Rolling Stone. No other details were provided as yet for Alone II. The first volume featured demo versions of Weezer hits like “Buddy Holly,” a cover of Ice Cube’s “The Bomb” and other unreleased tracks, many culled from the band’s unreleased space opera Songs From the Black Hole.
Daniel Kreps
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RollingStone.com interview with Matt Sharp - September 26, 2014

Matt Sharp on the Rentals’ 2014 Makeover, Hearing Weezer in Panera Bread
“Whether I like [Weezer] or not, I’m like, ‘You go, girl'”
By SIMON VOZICK-LEVINSON 
Earlier this year, the Rentals released Lost in Alphaville, their first new full-length since 1999’s Seven More Minutes. “I was thinking about telling everyone it was like that movie Boyhood,” says frontman Matt Sharp. “Every year, we went back and recorded two minutes of material, then we just took a year off. I kind of like that idea. That would be cool, right?” 
In fact, Sharp recorded Lost in Alphaville much more straightforwardly than that, bringing in collaborators including Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney and Lucius singers Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig to help him craft his latest alt-rock opus. “I’m feeling as good about it as any record I’ve ever been a part of,” he says. This is the most proud I’ve ever been of anything I’ve worked on. It’s really exciting.”
Sharp called to talk about what’s changed in his approach to recording over the past 15 years, how Carney saved the new album, and his thoughts on the 20th anniversary of Weezer (the band he left in 1998 to pursue the Rentals).
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RollingStone.com interview with Rivers Cuomo - October 17, 2007

Rivers Cuomo Talks Solo Work, New Weezer Album, Ice Cube
10/17/07, 10:47 am EST
As we told you yesterday, Rivers Cuomo will soon release a compilation of demos without his Weezer counterparts. Alone: The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo 1992-2007 will hit aisles and digital shelves on December 12th. Following Cuomo’s surprise announcement via his , Rolling Stone’s Brian Hiatt spoke to Rivers regarding the demos and the latest news in Weezerland. According to Cuomo, the comp will have roughly “eighteen tracks, and it’s spanning my demo-making career from 1992 to 2007, and there is one Weezer classic, ‘Buddy Holly,’ my original demo for that song, and there’s a few covers.” One of the covers, we’re proud to reveal, will be of Ice Cube’s “The Bomb.” That was not a typo. Cuomo is apparently an AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted fan, but then again, who isn’t?
“In terms of the remaining tracks, “several of them are from my unfinished rock musical, Songs From the Black Hole,” Cuomo tells us. Black Hole, a space rock concept album, was initially supposed to be Weezer’s follow-up to their debut Blue record, but when the project came unglued, some of the tracks wound up in another form on Pinkerton, while the rest have been floating around for a while until Cuomo gathered them for this collection. But enough about yourself, Rivers, tell us about Weezer’s new album. “We’re done recording, and we’re just waiting to find a mixer. It’s very fresh and experimental,” Cuomo said. No word on what exact date the Rick Rubin-produced album will come out, but we stand by our initial Spring 2008 prediction.
RS: Daniel Kreps
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Rolling Stone article - August 23, 1997

There are some people who are special and then there are others who really make a mark in someone else’s life.
At The Palace in Hollywood on Aug. 15, Weezer, That Dog and Black Market Flowers, jammed to a packed house of fans — including Claire Danes, Jared Leto, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Ben Lee, Spike Jonze, Sophia Coppola and members of No Doubt — to pay homage to three sisters – Mykel, Carli and Trysta Allan — who all died in a car crash following a Weezer concert on July 8 in Denver.
Why such a show? Mykel and Carli were co-presidents of the Weezer Fan Club, and also ran the clubs for That Dog and Black Market Flowers. The Allans were not only fond of the bands, but were also friends with the members. News of their deaths sparked widespread sadness among the Weezer community and it came as no surprise when the benefit show was announced.
During the show, the girls’ father, Wayne Allan, joined Weezer on stage to thank everyone for showing their support and to say “they died doing what they loved.” A benefit CD titled Hear You Me, which will include songs by Weezer, That Dog, Shufflepuck and others will be released this October.
--Ari Bendersky, August 23, 1997
==See also==
*Weezer concert: 08/15/1997
*Rolling Stone
==External links==
*Read on Rolling Stone website
*Archived link to Rolling Stone website
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Rolling Stone article - February 4, 2000

Weezer Brace for Return
Weezer's Rivers Cuomo sets the record straight on the band's going-ons
by JENNIFER VINEYARD
Disputing a rumor posted on a Smashing Pumpkins Web site earlier this week, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo says that D'Arcy (who vacated her SP post last September) has not joined up with his band. In fact, former Julianna Hatfield bass-player Mikey Welsh, who joined the band after Matt Sharp's departure in 1998, remains the band's bassist at large. 
"I have no idea how they got that idea [about D'Arcy]," Cuomo said. "But I like to hear crazy rumors. Didn't I die in a car accident? My mom called me about that one -- she was really concerned. And then there was the time I raped someone. My mom also called me about that: 'I'm so disappointed in you!' But she doesn't call me about them anymore. I banned her from the Internet." 
Perhaps some of the speculation stemmed from Weezer's relative absence from the music scene. The band's other members have been busy with side projects (guitarist Brian Bell in the Space Twins, Welsh and drummer Pat Wilson in Special Goodness). And other than contributing a cover of "Velouria" to the Pixies tribute album Where Is My Mind? on indie label Glue Factory last spring, Weezer has been rather quiet. The band's anticipated third album, the follow-up to 1996's Pinkerton, had been expected to come out on Geffen last year. Industry shakeups may have delayed things, as the band's longtime Geffen A&R rep lost his position in the Universal Music Group merger. 
Meanwhile, Cuomo is still working on songs for the album. Having relocated from Boston, he recently bought a house in Los Angeles, where he hopes to convert the garage into a studio. However, Cuomo doesn't plan to start recording until his braces come off -- which won't be for at least another six months. 
"I've got the accelerated program with high-tension wires," he says. "It hurts twice as much, but it's worth it. But it makes it tough to sing. I can't get out certain words clearly, like 'free.' And who wants to be on MTV with braces?" 
Cuomo is vague about the new material. A hint of things to come, albeit an ironic one, was found on the band's Web site (www.weezer.net). It cited a comment supposedly posted Dec. 19 by someone claiming to be Cuomo on amazon.com (though it's no longer there): "Our new album will be out soon, and if you want a preview, let's just say 'Weezer meets hip-hop and funk." Cuomo himself will only say that it sounds like "Weezer." 
Which Weezer, though? The undeniably catchy, irony-rich Weezer from the band's debut (which yielded four hits and sold two million copies)? Or the Weezer from Pinkerton, which is much more serious and bitter? 
"A bit of both," he says. "It's pretty much the same old thing. It's good." 
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Rolling Stone interview with Rivers Cuomo - May 30, 2001

Q&A: Not So Serious Rivers Cuomo
Weezer frontman talks drugs, sumo wrestlers and Dungeons and Dragons
By HARRY THOMAS
Posted May 30, 2001 12:00 AM
Is Rivers Cuomo actually a geek, or does he just play one on record? Consider this: At age thirty, he still indulges with his band mates in the occasional game of Dungeons and Dragons on tour. Their Web master, Karl Koch, is also their Dungeon Master. After their 1994 debut sold more than 2 million copies and their 1996 followup, Pinkerton, tanked ("I think Rolling Stone voted it the second-worst record of the year," deadpans Cuomo), a long period of artistic hibernation set in. Side projects and breakup rumors proliferated. But following a rejuvenating stint on last year's Vans Warped Tour, Weezer are back with a release they refer to as the Green Album, ten Ric Ocasek-produced tracks clocking in at just under thirty minutes and jampacked with hooks, high harmonies and hand claps. The first single is called "Hashpipe" - as you will see, Rivers Cuomo is a man who takes his drugs seriously.
[From Issue 870 — June 7, 2001]
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Rosanna

"Rosanna" is a non-album single released by Weezer. It also appeared as a b-side on 7"-vinyl releases of "Africa". It's a cover of Toto's song from 1982.
==Overview==
In December 2017, Twitter user "@WeezerAfrica," run by 14-year-old Cleveland, Ohio resident Mary Klym, tweeted, "@RiversCuomo it's about time you bless the rains down in Africa." After much back-and-forth between Mary and Pat Wilson, the band released a cover of Toto's "Rosanna" instead, as a digital download, on May 24th, 2018. The band would, in fact, release a cover of "Africa" days later, on May 29th. "Rosanna" appeared as a b-side on 7"-vinyl releases of "Africa".
==Audio==
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== Lyrics == 
All I want to do when I wake up in the morning is see your eyes
Rosanna, Rosanna
Never thought that a girl like you could ever care for me, Rosanna
All I want to do in the middle of the evening is hold you tight
Rosanna, Rosanna
I didn't know you were looking for more than I could ever be
Not quite a year since she went away, Rosanna 
Now she's gone and I have to say
Meet you all the way, meet you all the way
Meet you all the way, meet you all the way, Rosanna, yeah 
Meet you all the way, meet you all the way
Meet you all the way, meet you all the way, Rosanna, yeah
I can see your face still shining through the window on the other side
Rosanna, Rosanna
I didn't know that a girl like you could make me feel so sad, Rosanna
All I want to tell you is now you'll never ever have to compromise
Rosanna, Rosanna
I never thought that losing you could ever hurt so bad
==See also==
*List of Weezer cover songs
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Category:Weezer singles
Category:Cover songs
Category:Weezer songs produced by Patrick Wilson
Category:B-sides
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Rosemary

Rosemary is a song written by Rivers Cuomo in 1997.
===Appearances===
*Performed live
*Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years (2020)
==Overview==
"Rosemary" is first known to have been demoed by Rivers Cuomo on his DA-88 machine in September of 1997.Weezer Recording History - Page 10 "Rosemary" was later performed at a number of Weezer “tryout” shows in 1997 and 1998, in which Cuomo was joined by various musicians with the hopes of finding a member to replace former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp (eventually the band would settle on Boston musician Mikey Welsh). The song was among dozens of demos in consideration for Weezer's eventual third album,Karl's Corner - 11/26/2000 but did not make the cut.
Cuomo's demo from 1997 leaked online in November of 2020, and would be officially released later the same month as part of the digital compilation Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years. In 2020, Cuomo confirmed that the song had been written for his tentative "drone rock" side project, "Lovely".https://books-r-fun.herokuapp.com/wiki/Lovely Weezerpedia mirror
==Live performances==
*Rivers Cuomo concert: 09/26/1997
*Rivers Cuomo concert: 10/08/1997
*Rivers Cuomo concert: 01/14/1998
==Lyrics==
The sun is up and trembling
And all around the robins sing
The spring is on and everything is fine
And in the light, I see you there
With flowers all around your hair
Sleepyhead, it’s time you share your dreams
But you don’t listen
You don’t be listenin'
You and the rosemary are kissin’
Echoing, I hear the shouts
Of children playing in the park
I wonder what they laugh and cry about
And now I want to be with you
As close as I can get to you
Sleepyhead, it’s time to share your love
But you don’t listen
You don’t be listenin'
You and the rosemary are kissin'
You don’t listen
You don’t be listenin'
You and the rosemary are kissin'
Bitter days will come again
But I won't be leaving in the end
Bitter days will pass us by
But I only love you more each time
And if I lose you in the end
I hope you still can be my friend
You don’t listen
You don’t be listenin'
You and the rosemary are kissin'
You don’t listen
You don’t be listenin'
You and the rosemary are kissin'
==Known recordings==
==See also==
* List of Rivers Cuomo songs
* HOMiE - Volume 1
==References==
Category:Rivers Cuomo songs
Category:Lovely songs
Category:Songs on Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton YearsCategory:Songs on HOMiE - Volume 1
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Ruckus Volume One

Ruckus Volume One is a promotional CD released in Australia by Geffen in 1995. The Weezer song "Say It Ain't So" appears on the compilation, as well as the That Dog song "He's Kissing Christian".
==Track listing==
==Gallery==
Image:Ruckusvol1 cover.jpg|Cover
Image:Ruckusvol1 back cover.jpg|Back cover
==See also==
*"Say It Ain't So"
*"He's Kissing Christian"
*Huck 'Em - Music for Real Sporters
==External links==
*Ruckus Volume One on Discogs
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Category:That Dog compilation/soundtrack appearances
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