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-{{Featured article headline|[[Make Believe Pitchfork Media record review]]}}
+{{Featured article headline|[[Rivers Cuomo concert: 11/25/2008|Alone II Hootenanny]]}}
-[[Image:Weezer Make Believe.jpg|175px|right|link=Make Believe Pitchfork Media record review]]
+[[Image:Rivers Cuomo Not Alone.jpg|175px|right|link=Rivers Cuomo concert: 11/25/2008]]
-'''{{PN|Pitchfork Media}} [[Make Believe Pitchfork Media record review|album review]] for ''[[Make Believe]]''''' was published on [[May 8]], [[2005]]. It was written by [https://pitchfork.com/staff/rob-mitchum/ Rob Mitchum] and awarded the album a somewhat bombastic 0.4 stars out of 10, marking a significant change in the critical discourse around Weezer's output. Below is an excerpt.
+The '''Alone II hootenanny''' (also known as the '''Alone II jam session''' or '''Jam Session with Rivers''') was the album release concert for ''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. In place of a traditional concert, [[Rivers Cuomo]] invited fans to learn any song from his and {{PN|Weezer}} catalogue, then created a setlist from crowd suggestions at the beginning of the night. Fans played instruments of all kinds along with Cuomo. The show took place on [[November 25]], [[2008]] at Fingerprints Records in Long Beach, California, with roughly 150 guests in attendance. Many of them were [[Weezerpedia]] users and [[Albumsix]] boardies.
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-''Sometimes an album is just awful. ''Make Believe'' is one of those albums.
-''[[Weezer]] have been given a lot of breaks in their second era-- both ''[[The Green Album]]'' and ''[[Maladroit]]'' were cut miles of slack despite consisting of little more than slightly above-average power-pop. The obvious reason for this lenience has to do with the mean age of rock critics, and the fact that most of these mid-20s scribes were at their absolute peak for bias-forming melodrama when ''[[The Blue Album]]'' and ''[[Pinkerton]]'' were released. Even for someone like me, who came late to the Weezer appreciation club, it was impossible to hear these "comeback" albums without the echoes of the earlier alt-rock pillars ringing in our ears.
+The [[hootenanny]] was first announced in an [[Pitchfork Media interview with Rivers Cuomo - October 27, 2008|October 2008 interview]] with [[Pitchfork]], with Cuomo explaining how the evening would go:<br>
+<blockquote>"I want to do a really cool event to promote ''Alone II'' on the day of release. It's basically another Hootenanny, but it's a little different. Anyone can come, you don't have to bring an instrument, but if you want to, you can bring an instrument, and you the audience will pick the songs we play, and it can be anything.</blockquote>
-''But now there's an antidote to that nostalgic interference. Right from the start of ''Make Believe'', when Weezer lurches into [[Beverly Hills|a flaccid take]] on Joan Jett's "I Love Rock N' Roll" with an unfathomably horrible speak/sing vocal from [[Rivers Cuomo]] (think "I like girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch"), you can hear hundreds of critics mouthing "no no no" and going into crumpled shock. What's more disconcerting is that the song gets worse over the course of its three minutes (let's just say "Framptonesque voicebox solo" and get back to repressing the memory)-- and it's the album's first single.''
+Notable performances at the show included the freshly released "[[Can't Stop Partying]]," a banjo-led rendition of "[[Butterfly]]," and "[[Getting Up and Leaving]]," which had only been released to fans via [[Getting Up and Leaving#Sheet music|sheet music]] at the time.
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-{{Featured article links|Make Believe Pitchfork Media record review}}
+A [[Not Alone: Rivers Cuomo & Friends Live at Fingerprints|CD and DVD]] of this event was released on [[May 5]], [[2009]].
+{{Featured article links|Rivers Cuomo concert: 11/25/2008}}
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