Weezer Album Kinda Finished, Rivers Opens Up Online

The new Weezer album is finally on the way.

Well, almost. Probably.

According to the latest email update from Karl Koch (webmaster to The Weez, and honourary fifth member of the band) the record is pretty much done, waiting only for frontman Rivers Cuomo to get out of school.

While Harry Potter might spend his Christmas breaks solving mysteries and sneaking around Hogwarts, Cuomo will be leaving Harvard behind and heading to L.A. to put the finishing touches on Weezer's forthcoming fifth album. Over the last few months Rivs and co. have clocked up 60 days in the studio, working slowly in an effort to regain the high quality of their first couple of albums.

Initially called the "summer recording session," the work went later than expected as the band made every effort to perfect their individual parts — even after Rivers — departure for school. Nothing is set in stone, but Koch seems confident that the LP will be ready for a spring 2005 release.

Meanwhile, over on Cuomo's personal web blog, the songwriter has made some recent entries. Back in July, we told you how he posted his college application letter for Harvard. Since then, another application letter — for a non-fiction writing class — has been put online, even name-dropping Chart as a reference. Rivers wrote an article for us way back in our February 1995 issue.

In the piece he discussed the inspirations for his self-proclaimed "stupid pop songs" and tried to decipher Salt-N-Pepa's "Shoop." More recent blog entries detail Rivers' reclusiveness in the school cafeteria, his reasoning for why America is hated worldwide (it has to do with flossing, heavy metal and television) and a couple of writing exercises (presumably he got into that class?) on eating pizza and his sexual misadventures over the years. Those last two were quickly removed from the site, but are well worth the effort of a Google search.