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Featured article: Alone series

The Alone series is a multiple-release collection of demos by Rivers Cuomo. The first release was Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo in 2007, followed by Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo in 2008. A few days after the release of Alone II, Cuomo organized a hootenanny to celebrate the release. This performance was released to independent record stores the following year as Not Alone: Rivers Cuomo & Friends Live at Fingerprints in both CD and DVD formats. A third installment in the Alone series, Alone III: The Pinkerton Years, appeared as a pack-in CD with the book The Pinkerton Diaries.

In an August 2020 Riverpedia entry, Cuomo confirmed that he had no plans to continue the Alone series, instead preferring to keep recordings to himself in order to appropriate them for future Weezer songs. Cuomo apparently reversed this decision shortly thereafter, however, launching a demo storefront on riverscuomo.com in October of that year, selling hundreds of demos to individual users on November 11, and selling a compilation titled Alone IV: The EWBAITE Years on November 20. Later, many more bundles were available in the store.

As of November 2025, there exist 13 Alone bundles, ranging from before Weezer's formation, to the writing of The Black Album.

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Featured song: "Do You Wanna Get High?"

"Do You Wanna Get High?" is a single released by Weezer on November 3, 2015. It is the fifth track from The White Album, although the album was still unannounced upon the song's release.

It was initially thought by some fans that the song may have originated in 2001. A song or idea is listed in the Catalog of Riffs from October 4 of 2001 as "D'ya Wanna Get High?" with a COR# of 351. Additionally, on Rivers Cuomo's genius.com annotation of the song, he noted that the song was "about me and my darling girlfriend in 2000/2001". Cuomo made the following comment on the song's origins in the Weezer Fan Club Facebook group: "DYWGH verse/chorus is from 2014. Bridge is from 2015. (chords taken from a j-rock song called shangri-la i heard while on a japan tour with Scott & Rivers)." The song is question is "Shangri-La" by Japanese rock band Chatmonchy.

"Do You Wanna Get High?" was released digitally a week after the previous single, "Thank God for Girls." In contrast to the latter song, which was seen as a departure from the style the band is known for, "Do You Wanna Get High?" was noted by fans as having something closer to the "classic Weezer sound." It debuted on November 2, 2015 on Beats 1 Radio during a band interview with Zane Lowe.

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On this day... November 1

1996 - Weezer performs in Ventura, CA at the Ventura Theatre on the Pinkerton Tour.
2005 - Shooting of the AOL Sessions takes place at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, CA.
2009 - Rivers Cuomo holds a signing at Nintendo World Store in New York.
2017 - Weezer plays an acoustic set at Amoeba Music in Los Angeles, CA.
2024 - The 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of The Blue Album is released..

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Featured quote: Rivers Cuomo on KISS guitarist Ace Frehley and his influence; March 1995.

He was just God, because all of his solos were so memorable and singable. They had form to them; they'd start out low and go up high...They were just great, compact little emotional things.

- Rivers Cuomo, Guitar World interview with Rivers Cuomo - March 1995

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