Because Weezer aren't satisfied unless they've made you say WTF to their choice of album title + artwork at least TWICE in a matter of 3 months, they present to us their rarities collection Death to False Metal.
The album title is obviously firmly tongue-in-cheek. Weezer have flirted with the idea of metal before - in their fourth album Maladroit most notably. We know that frontman Rivers Cuomo used to (still does?) worship KISS. Weezer's image and stage show, with the giant flashing W, could be seen as either a parody or straight up homage to metal, depending on how ironic you think Weezer really are. (To hear Rivers tell it, nothing his band has ever done has been ironic).
So the title I get, but I can't even begin to explain that 'fall harvest' artwork above. Anyways, this is a collection of odds + ends spanning Weezer's career, a bunch of b-sides. Here's hoping there are a few lost gems in the mix. I already have a TON of Weezer songs on my iTunes that won't be found on an official album (Suzanne, Living Without You, and Yellow Camaro are some good ones).
Here's the tracklisting:
1. 'Turning Up the Radio'
2. 'I Don't Want Your Loving'
3. 'Blowin' My Stack'
4. 'Losing My Mind'
5. 'Everyone'
6. 'I'm a Robot'
7. 'Trampoline'
8. 'Odd Couple'
9. 'Autopilot'
10. 'Un-Break My Heart'
Kid Cudi's sophomore record Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager, will drop on November 9. The cover art is up there.
Here's the tracklisting:
Act I: The World I Am Ruling
1. “Scott Mescudi vs. The World” (feat. Cee Lo Green)
2. “REVOFEV”
Act II: A Stronger Trip
3. “Don’t Play This Song” (feat. Mary J. Blige)
4. “We Aite (Wake Your Mind Up)”
5. “Marijuana”
6. “Mojo So Dope”
Act III: Party On
7. “Ashin’ Kusher”
8. “Erase Me” (feat. Kanye West
)
9. “Wild’n Cuz I’m Young”
10. “The Mood”
Act IV: The Transformation
11. “MANIAC” (feat. Cage and St. Vincent
)
12. “Mr. Rager”
13. “These Worries” (feat. Mary J. Blige
)
14. “The End” (feat. GLC, Chip Tha Ripper, and Nicole Wray
)
Act V: You Live & You Learn
15. “All Along”
16. “GHOST!”
17. “Trapped in My Mind”
That dude up there with the yellow balloon is Twin Shadow. His record Forget is one of the strongest debuts of the year, hands down. Has some vocal stylings that remind me of TV on the Radio, and has some of those skewed keyboard sounds that remind me a bit of Beach House.
Anyway, Forget is a record you should totally check out. If you're looking for a single song sampler, I recommend "Castles In The Snow".
"You're my favorite daydream. I'm your famous nightmare. Everything I see looks like gold. Everything I touch turns cold. Castles in the snow."
Weezer have announced that on their latest tour, which they're calling the 'Memories' tour, the band will perform two nights at every location. On the first night, they will perform their first album, the self-titled now referred to as The Blue Album (as the band has two other self-titled records, Green and Red) in its entirety. On the second night, they will give the same treatment to their second album Pinkerton. This is especially exciting because the band has largely 'disavowed' the classic Pinkerton for much of their career.
On both nights, the band will play a 'greatest hits' selection in addition to the featured album.
Even though I don't hate new Weezer enough to raise $10 million to get them to stop (like this guy James Burns is trying to do), this is great news for Weezer fans, as these first two albums (Blue + Pinkerton = Blinkerton) are indisputably their greatest work. I've never had the pleasure of seeing Weezer perform live, and now seems like the best time.
I'm not sure which night I would choose if I could only go to one. Ideally, one would hit both dates.
Weezer's Blinkerton tour dates announced thus far:
November 26-27 – Los Angeles, CA – Gibson Amphitheater
November 29-30 – San Francisco, CA – Knob Hill Masonic Auditorium
December 14-15 – Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre
December 17-18 – New York, NY – Roseland Ballroom
January 7-8 – Chicago, IL – Aragon Entertainment Center
One week from today, I will be catching my favorite band Deerhunter perform live at Webster Hall. It's the first time I'll be seeing one of their shows, although I've seen frontman Bradford Cox's other project Atlas Sound before. From all accounts I've heard, they produce an amazing live experience.
I leave you with this hilarious picture of Bradford. He's the fucking man.
Radiohead's Kid A turns 10 today...and yet it still sounds like it comes from the future.
- Deerhunter recorded some awesome instrumental tracks during the Halcyon Digest sessions, all of which ended up on the cutting room floor...
- "Daybeams", "Radio Play" and "Scruffy Scruff" could be downloaded from their site along with the "Revival" single.
- "Rhythm" and "Colorscale" are Japanese bonus tracks for the album. "Daybeams" is especially great and worthy of inclusion on the album
- But I can appreciate why all instrumental tracks were dropped, to keep the record listening experience smooth, nothing but songs.
- A good friend of mine I had been trying to get to listen to Deerhunter kept getting tripped up by the instrumental tracks.
- So I'm definitely in favor of tearing down a wall that's keeping people from enjoying the greatness of Deerhunter. BUT...
- If you like Halcyon Digest, go find "Daybeams" and give it a listen. And hot damn, the instrumental tracks on Weird Era Cont. are amazing.
Wolf Parade's new video for Expo 86 highlight "Yulia" can be viewed at the site Bravely Done here.
