Karl's Corner - 08/05/2010

2010/08/05 New Album Announcement! HURLEY 9/14! | & call out for help on Sat

...Folks, you may have seen the Twitter chatter by now, but yes its official: Weezer has completed a new album, entitled "Hurley", and it will be out on September 14th on Epitaph Records! This is the 3rd new Weezer album in 3 years, an unprecidented feat for the weez thats reminicent of the olden days in the '60s when bands released new stuff on a tight schedule. In our case its more a matter of striking when the creative iron is hot - and people, its pretty hot!

More info will be revealed soon, but for now here's a new Rolling Stone article with comments on "Hurley" from Rivers. And here's another new interview, this time with Brian.

...As everyone from Tijuana to Sacramento to Vegas to Phoenix knows, this coming Saturday is the FREE weezer show in Huntington Beach, CA at the (Hurley!) US Open Of Surfing, and like the Pasa Robles show last week, I (karl) sadly cannot be there. So once again, Im putting out the call to you the fans to help document this epic show! When the show post goes up here on Saturday, please by all means add your story to it and/or start up a thread on our message boards and let the world know how the day went! And If you got some good pix, please send your best 1-3 to me - karl (at) weezer (dot) com, and ill put the best of the best up and give you a shout out in the news story. You guys really came through with some great stuff at Pasa Robles, let's do it once more for the team! Thank you!

...REMINDER: Our brohiems at HP and Reuters have posted some videos from the epic Times Square performance a few weeks back in NYC, when the band played the Reuters Studios and was up on the NASDAQ and Reuters screens overlooking the Square: "Beverly Hills" | Behind "Trippin" with mixer Rich Costey.