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  Watch Mac DeMarco Unravel Weezer's 'Sweater Song'

  April 23, 2013 – Mac DeMarco isn't shy about his love of Weezer, so when presented with the opportunity to cover "Undone — the Sweater Song" for A.V. Club's weekly "Undercover" series, the Canadian singer-songwriter accepted. DeMarco tightens his trademark ramshackle guitar work but mumbles through the track's spoken-word interludes for a slapdash rendition. …
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  Weezer, Being Better Than Sugar Ray, Launch Another Caribbean Cruise

  March 11, 2013 – In January 2012, the inaugural Weezer Cruise set sail, with performances by Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr., Wavves, and more. The tour's eponymous alt-poppers were there, too, playing Pinkerton and recently re-reissued The Blue Album from top to bottom. Cruise-goers sailed from Miami to Cozumel. …
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  In Their Right Place: Ranking 10 Radiohead 'Creep' Covers (Plus One Bonus Clip!)

  February 22, 2013 – Twenty years ago today (February 22), Radiohead released Pablo Honey, their mostly unremarkable debut album that nonetheless features the song that put the band on the map in a big, big way. Oddly enough, it was an incredibly sullen (yet tersely gorgeous) single about having a gnarled body and a broken soul in a shiny happy society that couldn't ever in a million years find such features attractive. …
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  In Their Right Place: Ranking 10 Radiohead 'Creep' Covers

  September 22, 2012 – Twenty years ago yesterday, Radiohead released the song that put them on the map in a big, big way. Oddly enough, it was an incredibly sullen (yet tersely gorgeous) single about having a gnarled body and a broken soul in a shiny happy society that couldn't ever in a million years find such features attractive. …
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  Weezer's 'Blue Album' Gets Vinyl Reissue, Again

  August 2, 2012 – The Blue Album will soon be back in black. Weezer's self-titled 1994 debut, known for its blue background by contrast with 2001's similarly self-titled Green Album, is to be reissued on vinyl August 13 via Universal's Back to Black push, including a free download of the album with vinyl purchase, as Fact points out. …
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  Weezer Announce 'Blue Album' and 'Pinkerton' Nostalgia Shows

  June 28, 2012 – Love early Weezer albums and hate the high seas? You're in luck: fans who were skint (or sea-squirmish) around the time Weezer cruise tickets went on sale last year may now enjoy the emo-Caribbean jaunt's musical accoutrements, which revived the band's 2010 Blue Album-and-Pinkerton tour in a double performance of the albums, beyond these YouTube fan videos. …
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  Pretend You Took Weezer Cruise 2012: See 5 Videos

  January 25, 2012 – Weezer superfans are currently recovering from their weekend in Heaven, otherwise known as the 2012 Weezer Cruise. …
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  Rivers Cuomo Empties His Vaults for 'Pinkerton Diaries'

  November 11, 2011 – Rivers Cuomo was going through a lot when he wrote Pinkerton, the album he later sort of disowned, then re-owned on tour. …
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  Hear Cee Lo and Rivers Cuomo Team Up for 'Anyway'

  November 10, 2011 – Mr. Gnarls Barkley meets Mr. Snarls Starkly in "Anyway," the new Cee Lo song co-written by Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo. The track (which also features an assist from blown-out hipstatronica crew Wallpaper) also has a spiffy lyric video, which has already worked magic in making "Fuck You" a viral smash... although it can't be understated that it also benefited from having the word "fuck" in it 16 times. …
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  Mikey Welsh's Great Escape

  October 11, 2011 – For his story "Second Acts," in the March 2010 issue of SPIN, contributing writer David Peisner spoke with 44 musicians who chose to leave pop music behind for other pursuits. His subjects included the late Mikey Welsh, who played bass with Weezer from 1998 to 2001. …
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