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Weezer Make People Happy

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) October 1, 2008 1:29 pm
When I first heard about the opening bands for Weezer's current tour, I was excited for Tokyo Police Club and very confused about Angels & Airwaves. (One of these things is not like the other…) A lot of other people were, too. The Air Canada Centre was half-empty when I got to my seat around 8:30 p.m., just before Angels & Airwaves took...
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Rivers Cuomo — Alone: The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo

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By Jared Moreno (CHARTattack) January 8, 2008 1:57 pm
Over the years the size of Rivers Cuomo's catalogue of home recordings has achieved legendary status among uber-fans. Most accounts put the number of unreleased Weezer songs well into the hundreds, which explains why every minute of this career-spanning B-sides collection feels significant. Among a Beastie Boys-inspired and entirely unironic cover...
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MP3 Roundup: Steve Aoki ft. Rivers Cuomo, Phantogram, Tennis cover The Zombies

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 13, 2011 10:49 am
1) Steve Aoki ft. Rivers Cuomo - "Earthquakey People (The Sequel)"Weezer's frontman Rivers Cuomo has been collaborating with all sorts of random people over the past few years, but this might be the oddest pair-up. Here's his head-scratching appearance on Steve Aoki's mindless banger "Earthquakey People (The Sequel)". It's kind of awful,...
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I Read The News Today... For March 31, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 31, 2011 3:50 pm
Miracle Fortress is finally releasing a new album. Sophomore LP Was I The Wave?, which is the follow-up to the 2007 Polaris Music Prize short listed Five Roses, is out April 26. Listen to "Raw Spectacle" here. —Secret City Records Holy shitballs: Muse are building a special stage for their appearances at the Reading and Leeds festivals this year...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 31, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 31, 2011 4:27 pm
Nova Scotia's Juno Award-nominated rapper Classified will release his Hand Shakes And Middle Fingers album on March 22 through Sony. He's also announced a tour for O-O-O Canada that'll take place in March and April. —classifiedofficial.com The Toronto Star takes a look at the decline of the turntable. DJ Kool Herc, who basically founded hip-hop,...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 22, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 22, 2010 1:26 pm
Kings Of Leon have made themselves look like pretentious dickheads in an attempt to make themselves not look like pretentious dickheads by calling Arcade Fire... "pretentious dickheads." Go figure. —Hipster Runoff The Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Blitzen Trapper are some of the artists that will appear on an upcoming Guided By...
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Weezer Set To Resume Tour

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By Valentina D'Aliesio (CHARTattack) January 18, 2010 4:52 pm
Weezer will return to the stage at the end of the month as frontman Rivers Cuomo recovers from injuries he sustained during a tour bus accident in December. Cuomo's tour bus crashed en route to a Boston show Dec. 6 after playing in Toronto on Dec. 5. The accident left Cuomo with three cracked ribs and a punctured lung. The bus crash forced the...
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Weezer Cancel January Dates

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 18, 2009 1:11 pm
Weezer have cancelled their upcoming Raditude dates that were to take place in January because a doctor has ordered frontman Rivers Cuomo to stay off the road to recover from the bus crash he was in earlier this month. Cuomo was injured Dec. 6 when Weezer's tour bus skidded across several lanes of highway in New York state, jumped a guardrail...
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Rivers Cuomo Released From Hospital, Going Home

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By Mark Teo (CHARTattack) December 14, 2009 12:35 pm
Weezer's Rivers Cuomo has been cleared to leave the injured reserve, after suffering a small cut to the spleen and a punctured lung in a bus crash last Sunday (Dec. 6). "After walking with and without a cane and getting some good hematocrit blood test results on Thursday, Rivers was given the go ahead to be released from the hospital!...
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Weezer's Rivers Cuomo Feeling Better After Bus Crash, Still In Hospital

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 8, 2009 11:37 am
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo went from not being able to speak after he was involved in a bus crash on Sunday (Dec. 6) to regaining his speech, partially sitting up and reading on Monday (Dec. 7). Band friend Karl Koch posted on Weezer's website late Monday to give fans an update about Cuomo's condition following the crash, which also injured...
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Weezer Frontman Hospitalized After Bus Crash, Tour Dates Cancelled

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 7, 2009 11:19 am
Weezer have cancelled their remaining dates set for 2009 after frontman Rivers Cuomo was injured when the band's bus crashed this weekend. According to a blog post on Weezer's website by the band's friend, Karl Koch, Weezer were en route to Boston from Toronto early Sunday (Dec. 6) morning when their tour bus skidded on ice. It then "...
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Weezer's Rivers Cuomo To Collaborate with Katy Perry

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By Siobhan Ozege (CHARTattack) October 15, 2009 10:49 am
After years of hiding out in his own kingdom of nerds, Rivers Cuomo seems to be spending a lot of time with Hollywood cool kids lately. On top of working with Lil' Wayne, Jermaine Dupri, and Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler of the All-American Rejects on Weezer's new album, Raditude, Cuomo has confirmed he will soon work with boob flasher-...
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Trent Reznor Disses Prince, Cuomo

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 7, 2009 4:45 pm
Remember Trent Reznor's Radiohead diss last year? Well, it turns out he's not really a fan of Weezer's Rivers Cuomo or Prince's recent output either. Reznor did an interview with the Digg website in April, but his fans were unsatisfied with it so he did a new webcam interview compiled of questions that fans left on the echoingthesound.org...
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I'll Bring Home The Turkey If You Bring Home The Bacon

Submitted by Jen White on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 9:54am
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By Jen White (CHARTattack) April 30, 2009 9:54 am
I don't care what anyone says: Weezer's Pinkerton is still one of the best albums of the '90s. Frontman Rivers Cuomo might be happy now (and insane), but at least us fans can still enjoy the classics — especially when crazy conductor (who knows why) Rivers has a crazy idea to put together a hootenanny in a record shop as an album promotion. ...
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Rivers And Rainn Cover Joan Osbourne

Submitted by Jen White on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 11:51am
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By Jen White (CHARTattack) April 13, 2009 11:51 am
Yes, this actually happened. Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo and The Office star Rainn Wilson covered Joan Osborne's 1995 hit "One Of Us." Check it: (Although anything Cuomo does anymore probably shouldn't surprise anyone. Like Weezer possibly touring with Blink-182 this summer. *heavy sigh*)
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Nerd Alert: Rivers/Rainn Collaboration

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) March 31, 2009 1:12 pm
Here's possibly the nerdiest news you'll hear all day: Weezer's Rivers Cuomo and The Office's Rainn Wilson (a.k.a. Dwight Schrute) have covered Joan Osborne's "One Of Us." Weezer's website states Cuomo will debut "several all new recordings" featuring Wilson ("who's got more than just acting chops in his arsenal"...
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Inside Rivers Cuomo's Brain

Submitted by Jen White on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 5:44pm
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By Jen White (CHARTattack) November 17, 2008 5:44 pm
Check out this fun video from Weezer silly man Rivers Cuomo and his band of puppets for the hook-laden "My Brain Is Working Overtime" from his upcoming second disc of demos, Alone II: The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo. Apparently it was filmed during their recent tour with Tokyo Police Club and Angels & Airwaves. I wonder what...
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Rivers Cuomo's Alone Again

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 28, 2008 1:59 pm
Some of you may have seen Jen White's blog post about the new Rivers Cuomo solo album, Alone II: The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo, which features some pretty gravity-defying cover art. That cover art will accompany Alone II when it hits stores on Nov. 25 through DGC Records. The follow-up to last year's Alone: The Home Recordings Of Rivers...
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Surprise! Weezer's Latest Self-Titled Album Due On June 24

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 21, 2008 4:30 pm
Weezer will release their sixth album, titled — you don't really even need to guess — Weezer, on June 24 via Geffen Records. The disc, which features a red cover, is the band's third self-titled effort and is being dubbed "The Red Album." Weezer's two previous self-titled releases came out in 1994 and 2001 and featured blue and green...
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Rivers Cuomo Goes It Alone With Album Of Home Recordings

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By CHARTattack Staff November 22, 2007 4:30 pm
Alone — The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo, a collection of the Weezer singer's demos from the past 15 years, will be released by Geffen on Dec. 18. The collection features previously unheard songs, an early version of Weezer's breakthrough "Buddy Holly" single from their 1994 self-titled debut and material from the "Black Hole...
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