Weezer have announced 'The Gold Album' with their mournful new single 'We Might As Well Be Strangers', featuring Wednesday's Karly Hartzman. The LA rockers will release their sixteenth studio album on August 21 via Reprise/Warner Records. So far, they've shared the Kenneth Blume-produced song 'Shine Again', their first track since 2022.
The album will see the band go back-to-basics, with frontman Rivers Cuomo and and drummer Patrick Wilson focusing on "basics of a song" for the first time since their debut album in 1994. Meanwhile, Blume has co-produced the album alongside Klas Åhlund. In a press release, Blume said he wanted to make "the most violent Weezer album ever", while Åhlund has reportedly taken a more mathematical approach.
Now, they're shared their second preview of the album, 'We Might As Well Be Strangers'. With Wednesday's Karly Hartzman contributing a verse, the song reflects on the aftermath of a breakup. "Is it still hеdonism if you're feeling miserable?
/ Don't want your songs to become the clues to why we lost you", Hartzman sings on the track. 'Say Yes''Shine Again''Don't Make It Weird''We Might As Well Be Strangers' (feat. ''Hoops''Nowhere''The Show Must Go On''Up in the Clouds''The LA Sound' Weezer will soon embark on a North American tour, with The Shins and Silversun Pickups as support across select dates.
'The Gathering' tour kicks off September 8 in Sacramento and spans 32 shows before concluding in Los Angeles on October 24. The tour follows a series of 'Initiation' shows, including a pop-up rooftop gig in Los Angeles, an appearance at a pickleball tournament and an intimate gig at the chain restaurant Barney's Beanery. OCTOBER 02, Washington, DC, Capital One Arena 03, Charlotte, NC, Spectrum Center 04, Raleigh, NC, Lenovo Center 06, Columbus, OH, Nationwide Arena 07, Milwaukee, WI, Fiserv Forum 09, Nashville, TN, Bridgestone Arena 10, Atlanta, GA, State Farm Arena 11, Orlando, FL, Kia Center 13, Sunrise, FL, Amerant Bank Arena 14, Tampa, FL, Benchmark International Arena 16, Houston, TX, Toyota Center 17, Dallas, TX, American Airlines Center 18, Austin, TX, Moody Center ATX 20, Phoenix, AZ, Mortgage Matchup Center 21, San Diego, CA, Viejas Arena 23, Las Vegas, NV, T-Mobile Arena 24, Los Angeles, CA, Crypto.
com Arena Elsewhere, NME last spoke to Weezer in 2024, where Cuomo looked back at the process of making their 1994 debut album, three decades after it was released. "The one thing that struck me was how physically close we all were, not just the four of us, but there was a whole crowd of young men, packed into very small apartments in a very small part of Los Angeles, "he shared. "[We] were just constantly hanging out and talking, debating and discussing music and style, and we didn't even have television sets back then so there was very little to distract us… And obviously we had no wives, children or girlfriends."
He continued: "When we released the 'Blue' album, I definitely felt like it was the greatest album of all time. I figured there was a chance I was wrong, but to me, it was my favourite album of all time and I assumed other people would feel the same way."