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Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo Creates New Streaming Platform, Weezify
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has crafted a new streaming platform as a home for thousands of the iconic alternative rock band’s demos, cleverly named “Weezify.” The demos range from Cuomo’s early solo work from decades ago to Weezer demos as recent as 2017’s Pacific Daydream. In all the recent controversy surrounding Spotify, maybe it’s time for a new platform to take over. Cuomo certainly seems to think so. Yesterday morning he tweeted, “Tired of Spotify? Come on over to Weezify” along with the link to the platform. The app store description describes the platform as “a Spotify-like player for all of Rivers Cuomo’s demos (1975 – 2017).” It details that the platform holds close to 3,500 demos. Within it, users can create, share and follow playlists. “I made this app myself,” Cuomo sa...
Listen to Rivers Cuomo and Kelsey Grammer on The Space Between Soundtrack
Rivers Cuomo scored the newly released coming of age film, The Space Between, starring Frasier actor and Golden Globe winner Kelsey Grammer. The album soundtrack, which features both Cuomo’s and Grammer’s vocals, is out now. Set in the mid-’90s, The Space Between follows Grammer playing a washed-up former rock star struggling to reconnect with his record label as he loses his grip on reality. The 11-track album begins with a Cuomo tune featuring AWOLNATION, followed by six performances by Grammer, a piano instrumental from Volker Bertelmann, then ending with three demos from the Weezer frontman. Listen to The Space Between soundtrack below. This film score has been one of many large projects for Cuomo this year. Since the beginning of 2021, his band Weezer has released two full LPs, V...
Listen to San Holo’s Long-Awaited Sophomore Album, “bb u ok?”
It’s been a bit of a windy road to San Holo‘s long-awaited sophomore album, but it’s finally here—and it delivers. Spanning 20 tracks, the expansive album is a tour de force of San Holo’s career and finds him exploring a markedly more indie style. The Chet Porter-assisted “you’ve changed, i’ve changed” is a standout example with its angsty chorus and punk-inspired drum programming, as is “one more day,” an aching indietronica cut with Mija and Mr. Carmack that ties a bow on the LP. Holo largely eschews the soaring future bass sound that propelled him to international acclaim, instead opting for resounding 808s that rumble under light, feathery electroacoustic elements. This approach is executed with finesse in the spacey R...
San Holo’s Sophomore Album Will Feature Mr. Carmack, Mija, and Rivers Cuomo of Weezer
Ahead of the release of his bb u ok? (album2), San Holo has shared the star-studded tracklist for his hotly anticipated sophomore album. Fans will be glad to hear that the record will feature a whopping 20 songs. San Holo collaborated with a number of electronic heavy-hitters this time around, such as Mr. Carmack and Mija, who are featured on the the closing track “One More Day.” The album will also feature frequent creative collaborator Bipolar Sunshine on two tracks, “New One” and the previously released single “Find Your Way.” The most high-profile feature on bb u ok? (album2) is Rivers Cuomo, the frontman of iconic rock band Weezer, who appears on “Wheels Up.” Cuomo is no stranger to electronic music, having ...
Weezer Bring the Metal With ‘I Need Some Of That’
Weezer wasn’t kidding when they said that their upcoming album, Van Weezer, would be heavier. Rivers Cuomo and company take things to headbanging heights with “I Need Some Of That,” the latest song to emerge from that album that’s out on May 7. “I Need Some Of That” follows the release of last year’s “Hero” and “Beginning Of The End,” as well as 2019’s “End Of The Game,” all of which appear on Van Weezer. The LP was initially announced in 2019, with a May 2020 release date which obviously didn’t pan out. OK Human, the group’s first-ever orchestral album, ended up dropping first. Van Weezer, the band’s fifteenth studio album, is produced by Suzy Shinn. The band also gave fans a sneak peek of Van Weezer song “Blue Dream”&n...
Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo Is Selling 2,655 Previously Unreleased Demos for a Class Project
If you want to make that special Weezer fan you know happy this holiday season, Rivers Cuomo has a gift for you. The Weezer singer/guitarist just posted 2,655 demos on his website that are now for sale. Priced at $9 per era, it goes wayyyyy back to when he was a 6-year-old in 1976 through 2015. Why did he decide to release these now? Because it’s finals time! In a tweet, Cuomo explained that building the site was part of a project for the class “CS50’s Web Programming with Python and JavaScript.” The market page was added to his existing Mr. Rivers’ Neighborhood site, which launched last month. If you’re a completist and want the whole collection, you’ll get nearly two days of music for $81. The EWBAITE Years (2011-2014) alone is a whopping 38 hours worth of material and contains...
Todd Rundgren and Rivers Cuomo Join Forces on Ska Song ‘Down With The Ship’
Todd Rundgren has teamed up with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo for a new single, “Down With The Ship.” The duo shared writing and vocal roles on the track, which draws inspiration from reggae and African rhythms. Rundgren, in a statement, describes the song as “just a little parable about what happens when you align yourself with a treacherous leader.” Check out the collab below. [embedded content] The tune is the second installment from Rundgren’s forthcoming album Space Force, which is being released to digital platforms as individual singles, each with its own unique artwork, every three or four weeks. The entire album is slated for an early 2021 release. Last year, Rundgren performed a cover of the Weezer hit “Hash Pipe,” which you can hear here. You Deserve to Make Money Even When...
Rivers Cuomo Covers ‘I Don’t Know How to Love Him’ From Jesus Christ Superstar
Rivers Cuomo has covered Green Day and Nirvana in his recent Island in the Zoom streaming sessions. In the clip he shared ahead of this week’s sessions, Cuomo left the ’90s and went way back in pop music history. The featured cover was “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” which was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice in 1970 for Jesus Christ Superstar that originally featured Yvonne Elliman’s Mary Magdalene singing the song. Like the other covers, this one was a tender piano ballad. Cuomo and his bandmates were supposed to hit the road this summer with Green Day and Fall Out Boy for the Hella Mega Tour, but, like almost everything else, it was pushed to 2o21. “Here’s my cover of “I Don’t Know How To Love Him” from last week’s Island In The Zoom Tune in toni...
Rivers Cuomo Covers Green Day in Latest Zoom Session
Last week, Rivers Cuomo covered Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box” in what he’s calling his Islands in the Zoom sessions. This week, he went back to the ’90s for another cover. Cuomo and his bandmates were supposed to hit the road this summer with Green Day and Fall Out Boy for the Hella Mega Tour, but, like almost everything else, it was pushed to 2o21. Tipping his cap to (one of) his tourmates, Cuomo covered Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).” He was joined by his wife on piano. “Hey guys, so sorry about the postponement of HELLA MEGA. Here’s an acoustic cover of Green Day’s Time of your Life. (My wife joined me!) Next summer we shall rock,” Cuomo said in a tweet. Hey guys, so sorry about the postponement of HELLA MEGA. Here’s an acoustic cover of Green Day’s...
Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo Covers Nirvana’s ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ on Piano
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo is a self-proclaimed Nirvana super-fan, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that he covered one of that band’s signature tracks, “Heart-Shaped Box,” during quarantine. The performance, which originated from a Zoom session hosted for fans, finds the songwriter stripping back the heavy In Utero rocker to a quiet solo piano ballad. Decked out in a tank top and seated next to a massive plant, he plucks out the chords and nails the track’s verse-to-chorus dynamic shift — even replicating the guitar solo melody. Cuomo has gushed about his Nirvana obsession in the past, telling Rolling Stone in 2014, “In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana’s biggest fan in the Nineties. I’m sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but I was just so passionately in lo...
