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<span style="color:#666668; font-size:120%>'''Weezer's Cuomo Compiles Demos for Release'''</span>

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Only one man dare venture into the vaults of Rivers Cuomo, and that man is, naturally, the Weezer frontman himself. Indeed, as Cuomo announced via what is apparently his [[Media:Screenshot_of_Alone_Announcement.png|personal MySpace]] ("The Real Slim Cuomo"?!) today, he reached deep and has compiled a collection of demos spanning 1992-2007 for CD release. [http://www.geffen.com/ Geffen Records] has confirmed that it will release the compilation, titled Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo, on December 11.

According to the MySpace post, Cuomo originally intended to release said collection in conjunction with a book-- which he insists, contrary to a Rolling Stone report, is not his "memoirs." That book, wrote Cuomo, will now be released separately "at a much later date-- a year? Two years? Three years? I don't know."

"It's going to be very cool, though," added Cuomo, whose tome-in-progress already clocks in at nearly 400 pages.

Thanks to reader [http://supplem.net/ Cameron Murray] for the tip!

Cuomo also alludes to some "Weezer developments" ([[PitchforkMedia.com article - June 26, 2007|they're still together]], don't you know), which he describes as "extremely great." Wait, this guy went to Harvard?

A post on the Weezer website drops a few more hints, declaring that the quartet has been recording a new album set for release next year "in a large room that normally doesn't serve as a place where bands record their albums." We hope it's the [https://web.archive.org/web/20071018031540/http://www.wlra.us:80/wl/wlpineapple.htm World's Largest Pineapple].


<small>Posted by Matthew Solarski in <u>compilation</u>, <u>album</u>, <u>solo</u>, <u>book</u> on Mon: 10-15-07: 05:12 PM CDT
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