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Say It Ain’t So: Weezer Is Planning A Blue Album & Pinkerton Tour

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Pitchfork — along with seemingly every other music blog of note — is reporting that the distinguished alt. rock all-stars, Weezer, will reprise the band’s first two albums on an upcoming tour.

Rivers Cuomo, the outfit’s primary songwriter and notoriously inscrutable figurehead, told MTV that the band would alternate between their self-titled debut (a.k.a. 1994’s The Blue Album) and the equally beloved follow-up, Pinkerton, which famously tanked at the box office, only to garner an incredible cult cachet in the years following its 1996 release:

We have this really exciting idea to do a tour where we spend two nights in each city, and the first night, we play the entire Blue Album, and the second night, we play the entirety of Pinkerton. We’re just running it by promoters right now to see if there’s sufficient interest in the markets to do something like that, and if they’re on board, it’s gonna happen.

Personal reservations aside — why now? is this an empty ca$h grab? has such a format, that is, the iconic album played in sequence and its entirety, trended itself out? — this is a unique opportunity, especially for younger fans who did not have had the opportunity to catch the quartet during its nostalgia-inducing, early-to-mid 90’s creative peak. Green Album salad days, indeed.

The requisite video clip, snaked from Youtube:

Likewise, this is THE Weezer tee of choice:

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Scaredy Cat

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Whoa! Our Bayside Tigers tee was spotted onstage at Lollapalooza over the weekend…

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Video, purloined from Youtube:

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Blown Away: No Snow, No Show

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

The ’70s were, by most measures, a decade of complete and utter excess. Need proof? Peep out this stunning slogan tee that Eric Clapton used to wear on stage. The message is clear, but also kinda desperate, don’t ya think? I mean, hey, you’re a rock star of the highest order (pun intended). Just put it on your rider, yo!

At one time, a repro of this tee was available at Worn Free, but strangely it seems to have disappeared from the site (in which case, try Zazzle).

Topical, in its own way:

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Summer Soundtrack: Neon Indian’s “6669″

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Synth heavy eye-candy via Neon Indian:

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Rock Block: OK Lego’s “Here We Go Again”

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Parody, as they say, is the sincerest form of flattery imitation… in which case, watch this fantastic clip that bastardizes OK Go’s video classic, “Here We Go Again.” True to its moniker, the source material has been recycled to new ends, and quite successfully, I might add.

A more complete variant can be found here.

Compare with the original:

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