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-'''Allthingsweezer''' (formerly known as '''Albumsix''') is the name of a [[Weezer]] fansite started by boardies kingofthecounty and lordofthemanor.  The forums at Allthingsweezer are currently the most active Weezer forum on the internet.
+'''''Christmas with Weezer''''' is an EP of [[Weezer]] [[Christmas]] carol covers and also an application for the iPhone and iPod touch created by Tapulous, the makers of ''Tap Tap Revenge''. The Tapulous application is a game similar to ''Rock Band'' or ''Guitar Hero'', and features Weezer covering six Christmas carols.  The songs are described in the press release as "funky but authentic."  Two bonus tracks are available in the game ("[[Pork and Beans]]" and "[[The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)]]") along with unspecified extra Weezer tracks, likely to be downloaded from an in-game system.
-Albumsix.com, as Allthingsweezer was originally known, started off as a single home page with a mysterious image reading "Album Six, Coming Soon", which linked to the official Weezer website.  Shortly after it began to gain steam, [[Karl Koch]] posted in [[Karl's Corner]] that he "honestly had no idea" what it was about.
+The idea to record songs for the iPhone application ''Tap Tap Revenge'' came from Weezer drummer [[Pat Wilson]], an iPhone owner himself. The recordings are unique for Weezer because all of the guitars and drums are performed by Wilson. It is assumed that Weezer's bassist, [[Scott Shriner]], played bass.  A photo posted in November [[2008]] on [[weezer.com]] of Wilson and Shriner at Starbucks when the recordings would have been made seems to confirm this.  Later, frontman [[Rivers Cuomo]] recorded lead vocals separately.  After the application was released, additional enhancements were made to the songs and they were re-released online as a digital EP.  The new versions were remixed and now contained vocal harmonies from guitarist [[Brian Bell]], altered lead vocals from Cuomo (removing some of the extensive vocal doubling) and added tambourine on "[[Silent Night]]".
-Albumsix went on to post a fictitious teaser for the then confirmed sixth Weezer album.  Albumsix called the album ''[[Tout Ensemble]]''.  Large music media publishers like ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' and ''[[Pitchfork Media]]'' took note of the fake album and began running news stories on it, confirming it as fact.  Following naming the album, the website posted a false release date for ''Tout Ensemble'' of [[April 22]], [[2008]].
+To date, only one song from this EP has been released in physical, lossless form.  "[[O Come All Ye Faithful]]" appears on the 2009 Christmas Compilation ''[[JDRF's Hope For The Holidays]]''.
-After ''Tout Ensemble'' proved to be a hoax, Albumsix.com was revamped into a forum.  Soon, the original creators kingofthecounty and lordofthemanor teamed up with Weerez.com's Greg to make albumsix the Official [[Weerez.com]] forums.  The forums grew very rapidly and are now read by all members of Weezer (Rivers Cuomo has not been confirmed), and several bits of Weezer information are released there by Koch, who posts under the name [[Karlophone]].
-During the early Albumsix period, the site temporarily had an online store featuring t-shirts with many designs created by the fans for the fans as well as several slogan t-shirts perpetuating the memes of the forums.  The store was closed after it became too expensive to keep open.
+<span style="float:right; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; padding:0 .5em 0 2em">''[[Christmas with Weezer|full article]] | [http://weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Weezerpedia:Featured_article&action=edit edit]</span>
-<span style="float:right; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; padding:0 .5em 0 2em">''[[Allthingsweezer|full article]] | [http://weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Weezerpedia:Featured_article&action=edit edit]</span>
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