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Featured article: ExceptYouDie: A Weezer Repertoire
ExceptYouDie: A Weezer Repertoire, most commonly referred to as ExceptYouDie, was a Weezer fan website dedicated to collating information on the development of the albums Everything Will Be Alright in the End, The White Album, Pacific Daydream, and various iterations of The Black Album. The site contained pages for each album, with sub-pages detailing different iterations or concepts created during the development of the albums.
On each page was a brief description of the recording process, a track list for the album, and then a list of several songs considered for the album. Several brief notes were also given on several of the songs, such as lyrics, when they were written, or the subject matter of the songs. Much of the information on the site (particularly the pages dedicated to EWBAITE) were collected from fans invited to "listening parties" (LPs), where-in Karl Koch would play in-progress demos and track lists. Following the release of Rivers Cuomo's series of Alone digital compilations beginning in 2020, some of the information on the site has been found to be a mixture of true and false (or misleading) information.
Weezerpedia hosts an archive of every page on the site.
full article | edit | previous featured articlesFeatured song: "East Coast or West Coast"
"East Coast or West Coast" (also known as "East Coast vs. West Coast") is a song written by Rivers Cuomo in 2006 originally in contention for release on Weezer's 2008 self-titled album. "East Coast or West Coast" was reportedly also in contention for release on their 2014 album Everything Will Be Alright in the End. However, the song failed to make the cut for either.
Though unheard by fans for many years after its existence became known, various low resolution clips of "East Coast or West Coast" were played over the video chat service Tinychat on November 19, 2017. Two days later, a 2007 demo of the song (albeit with an overdub featuring Pat Wilson on drums from 2012, plus an entirely new bridge from the same year) surfaced. Several recordings of this song from the EWBAITE-era were included on the compilation Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years in 2020, though many of the versions were removed shortly thereafter (due to featuring members of the band other than Cuomo).
Cuomo would revisit the song a few years later and, over the process of reworking the song between 2011 and 2014, it gradually morphed into a new song, "Up in the Clouds."
full article | edit | previous featured songsOn this day... June 18
- 1992 - Rivers Cuomo flies to Guatemala City to roadie for the band King Size, which had won a contest. The experience later inspired the song "The Purification of Water."
- 1994 - Weezer opens for Material Issue at the Casbah in San Diego, CA.
- 1997 - Weezer performs at Nissan Pavilion in Manassas, VA on tour in support of Pinkerton, opening for No Doubt on their Tragic Kingdom World Tour.
- 2001 - Weezer performs at the Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo, Norway on the Euro Freak Out Tour.
- 2006 - Rivers Cuomo marries Kyoko Ito in Malibu, California.
- 2021 - The soundtrack to the film The Space Between, featuring songs written by Rivers Cuomo, is released.
Featured quote: Patrick Wilson on Weezer's legacy and the passage of time, March 26, 2019.
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Weezer in the midst of recording for Everything Will Be Alright in the End.
Photo by Karl Koch.
March 19, 2014.
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