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Featured article: weezer.com
weezer.com is the official website for Weezer. The website currently features major announcements, a list of upcoming tour dates, links to their discography on most major streaming services, Weezer's social media pages, Weezerpedia, riverscuomo.com, and a webstore.
During the '90s, weezer.com either did not exist or was a fan-owned domain, most information on this iteration of the website is scarce. The site that would eventually become weezer.com started as weezer.net, founded in late 1994 by Anuj Behal, Dan Gdowski, and Steve Carman, and assisted by a few others at times. Anuj Behal ran a server out of his dorm room at college in Chicago, which enabled weezer.net to host the earliest video clips of weezer on the web, such as the band's 1994 and 1995 TV appearances. At this time weezer.net was known as "the Rebel Weezer Alliance (RWA)"
'Karl's Corner' joined weezer.net in spring 2000, doing near continuous updates for the remainder of 2000, documenting the daily efforts to prepare material (and overcome corporate resistance) for the band's planned 3rd album. At this time, the weezer.net crew looked into the status of weezer.com, and learned that a random fan had acquired it several years prior, the stage was set for Weezer to formally acquire the domain in January of 2001. By 2015 When Crush Music became Weezer's primary label, weezer.com evolved into a more "standard" band website with typical content, including tour dates and major announcements. Historical content has since migrated to Weezerpedia.
full article | edit | previous featured articlesFeatured song: "Susanne"
"Susanne" (sometimes rendered as "Suzanne") is a song by Weezer. Originally released as a B-side to "Undone - The Sweater Song," a remixed version later appeared on the soundtrack to the 1995 film Mallrats.
"Susanne" was written by Rivers Cuomo and recorded to 8-track in January of 1994, as a tribute to Susanne Filkins, an A&R production manager at Geffen Records. According to Karl Koch, during the period between the recording of The Blue Album in October 1993 and its release the following May, Filkins "became a big Weezer supporter, doing her best to keep the guys optimistic about their future with Geffen." As reflected in the song's lyrics, Filkins reportedly did give Cuomo a spare winter coat and bake him brownies to cheer him up. Before Filkins was made aware of the song's existence, the members of Weezer surprised her with a performance in her office (a capella, with Patrick Wilson on acoustic guitar). Filkins was reportedly moved to tears.
full article | edit | previous featured songsOn this day... February 3
- 1995 - Weezer performs at Effenaar in Eindhoven, Netherlands on the World Domination Tour.
- 2002 - Weezer begins demoing songs for their planned fifth album at Westlake Recording Studios.
- 2010 - "The Rat Race" is released on the charity compilation album The Right Track: Tunes To Target Cancer.
- 2018 - Weezer performs at Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand on the Foo Fighters' Concrete and Gold Tour.
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Featured quote: Mikey Welsh on playing with Weezer; September 13, 2011.
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The back of the KiT reissue of The Teal Album.
Photography by Sean Murphy
2019
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Ozma performing "Battlescars" at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, CA on December 1, 2024 as part of their trio of shows marking the 25th anniversary of Rock and Roll Part Three.
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