From Rock it Out! Blog:



It hasn’t even been a year since Raditude came out and Weezer has already announced the name of their new album and the release date. Gotta give ‘em credit for being hard workers, at the very least.

The name of the album is Hurley (no word on whether the character from Lost had any influence) and it’ll be in stores September 14th. This is also Weezer’s first album with their new indie label, Epitaph Records. Epitaph’s Brett Gurewitz tweeted the news from his account when he wrote “Rivers, Pat, Brian and Scott, Welcome to Epitaph homies! FT=W=” (via Altpress.com)

A fall tour is scheduled once the album is in stores. No word on a first single or tracklisting as of yet but you know when we find out, we’ll bring it to you. For now, let’s all pray that, with Weezer going indie, the album will actually be good.

its going to be below average Weezer with 2 worthwhile songs.

I don't see this album being better than Weezer is capable of making.

Probably, but I'm holding onto a small sliver of hope that Rivers will put out a good rock record now that they're on Epitaph and that they'll leave that Raditude crap behind them.

hmm... I don't know. the indie thing is a good sign, but I don't see them really putting anything good out.

this has been the story for the last...3 records?

whoaaa Weezer's on Epitaph?!

I like the title.

This is the ONLY thing that brings me hope... Though I am sure this will be just another 2 out of 5 stars record for me.

I'm pretty excited for this.

i love the picture, actually

Last time around, Weezer went all in on the modern pop game, larding tracks on 2009's Raditude with guest spots from Lil Wayne and production and writing help from the All-American Rejects, Dr. Luke and Butch Walker. But for their upcoming (September 14) debut for punk stalwart label Epitaph Records, Hurley (alas, not Heavy Mental), Rivers Cuomo and company are dialing things all the way back to the 1960s.

According to Rolling Stone magazine, the band's eighth studio album is nearly finished and it will have a much different sound than their previous effort.

"At this moment in our career, it feels like we don't need a major label, and the major label culture isn't inline with our values," Cuomo said, explaining the switch from the Universal/Interscope label group, where they'd spent almost their entire career. "We like [Epitaph head] Brett Gurewitz and it feels like a smaller and more appropriate operation for what we like doing at the moment."

What they're doing includes hooking up with notoriously prolific songwriter Ryan Adams and country legend Mac Davis, best known for writing the Elvis hit "In the Ghetto." Davis was recommended by a mutual friend, and singer Cuomo said they worked on a song called "Time Flies," which he described as a "classic '60s pop song with huge crunchy guitars."

As for working with Adams, Cuomo recently told MTV News that the song they collaborated on is inspiring. "It's a very stirring and emotional and powerful Weezer song," he said. "He was really inspiring to work with. ... He has a lot of wild and crazy energy. It's gonna be on the Weezer record. He plays lead guitar on it, but it will be on the Weezer record, for sure."

With the hip-hop and teen pop flavors of Raditude pushed to the side, Cuomo said Hurley will instead focus on 1960s-inspired pop songs such as the first single, "Memories," and the tracks "Ruling Me" and "Hang On," which he described as sounding like "Frankie Valli but mixed with Metallica guitars."

There is, however, one song that has a thoroughly modern inspiration. "Smart Girls" is an homage to all the young ladies who have been hitting up the married frontman on Twitter lately. "I was really getting into Twitter a year ago, and suddenly there were all these really hot girls that were hitting me on Twitter," said Cuomo. "I was like, 'Where'd all these hot girls come from now that I'm totally married?' " He compared the song to the Beatles' "Back in the U.S.S.R." in that it sounds like someone writing a "cheesy Beach Boys type of song."

The band recently started mixing the album, which should be completed within the next two weeks.

color me interested


I'll make the first call that "Smart Girls" will be atroucious though

i dunno weezer had some old instant message song that was pretty good if i remember. unreleased maybe?

First Single - Memories http://www.mediafire.com/?f364dc5ftqe71ql

The worst part is that there is probably a decent song in there somewhere, but the lyrics and vocals are terrible. It sort of reminds me of Lullabye for Wayne. I don't know, maybe it'll grow on me. Still better than anything on Raditude, though.

Man, that's terrible.

This lends credence to the idea that happiness and contentment equal bad art. Weezer has officially fallen off the map into oblivion. Damn shame.

Once the Pinkerton Deluxe Edition comes out later this year, I'm done with this band. I've lost all hope that they can ever regain even a hint of their former brilliance. Hell, at this point, I'd even settle for fucking Make Believe... and that's heartbreaking. It almost defies belief that this is the same band that wrote Across The Sea.

"when Audioslave was still Rage"



Nice.



well done rivers

by the way, I don't hate this. The lyrics are kind of lame, but I think I like it more than the first singles of the last 3 albums.