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Featured article: The Weezer Cruise
The Weezer Cruise was a voyage that occurred between January 19 and January 23 of 2012. Weezer, along with numerous special guests, sailed on the Carnival Destiny from Miami, Florida to the Mexican island of Cozumel. Weezer would perform three concerts on this cruise, on the 19th, 20th, and 21st. Each of these concerts had a setlist similar to that of the Memories Tour, with the first show featuring The Blue Album in full, and shows 2 and 3 featuring Pinkerton. Each show also featured rarely-performed deep cuts and B-sides in the starting set, including the first (and currently only) two performances of Tragic Girl in the second and third shows. During the rest of the day, many activities were available on the ship. This included concerts performed by the other bands present on the cruise, such as Ozma, Dinosaur Jr. and Wavves. Other interesting events included a vow renewal service officiated by Scott Shriner, a dance DJed by Karl Koch (which included snippets of unreleased material, including The Bottle of Wine Song), and a live reading of The Pinkerton Diaries by Rivers Cuomo.
In 2014, beginning February 13 and ending February 17, a second Weezer Cruise set sail. Weezer's concerts on the second cruise were all closed with Back to the Shack, the first single from the then-unannounced Everything Will Be Alright in the End. A third Weezer Cruise has not been confirmed, but has been discussed by members of the band in the past.
full article | edit | previous featured articlesFeatured song: "Beginning of the End"
"Beginning of the End" is the fifth track from Van Weezer.
The song is a re-working of the demo "Rock and Roll Cockroach". The bridge is a modified version of the chorus for the song "Volunteers". On August 12, Weezer's official Twitter account tweeted "Time to be Excellent, dudes" with an accompanying video of Cuomo performing a heavy metal guitar riff in his home. The song was released alongside its music video on August 14 in the form of "Beginning of the End (Wyld Stallyns Edit)" as part of the soundtrack to the film Bill & Ted Face the Music. This version of the song removes the intro, removes a line in the first verse, removes two lines from the bridge, and has a slightly different ending.
Musician Billy Joel is a credited writer on "Beginning of the End". When asked about it on Riverchat, Cuomo clarified: "Just a clearance thing. Very common in recent years. I don't think Billy Joel's written a song since the 90's." The film credits for Bill & Ted Face the Music note that the song "Contains an interpolation of 'The Longest Time' (B. Joel)"
The music video for "Beginning of the End" was directed by Brendan Walter with cinematography by Eric Bader, and produced by Carling French. It was released alongside the song on August 14, 2020.
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full article | edit | previous featured songsOn this day... March 24
- 1995 - Weezer performs at the Warehouse in Toronto, Ontario on the World Domination Tour.
- 1998 - Mercury Records releases Meet the Deedles: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, featuring "American Girls", the first and only official song by Rivers Cuomo's side-project, Homie.
- 2002 - Weezer performs at Brixton Academy in London, England on the band's Europe Tour.
- 2002 - Matt Sharp performs at Cafe Tropical in Los Angles, CA.
- 2019 - Weezer performs at Enterprise Center in St. Louis, MO on the band's spring tour with the Pixies.
Featured quote: Rivers Cuomo on his shifted perspective on Pinkerton, September 15, 2010.
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Rivers Cuomo and Karl Koch building a drum riser for Cuomo's home studio.
Photographer unknown.
August 14, 2000
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