Weezer will release The Gold Album this summer.<\/p>\n
The Buddy Holly rockers have announced the seventh album in their long-running colour coded self titled series of records, which will also mark their 16th studio album since their debut, The Blue Album, dropped in 1994.<\/p>\n
In an Instagram post, the band revealed: “Plated in what surface instruments call gold. It bears the name Weezer.<\/p>\n
“Its surface is marked by four symbols believed to represent its creators.<\/p>\n
“Carry it with you to the Gathering, and witness what follows.”<\/p>\n
The record, following the Blue, Green Red, White, Teal and Black LPs, will drop on August 21, a shortly before The Gathering Tour gets started the following month.<\/p>\n
The 10-track LP is the first LP from the band – made up of Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, Brian Bell and Scott Shriner – since 2021’s Van Weezer.<\/p>\n
Shine Again, which dropped in April, was the lead single for the record, while new Wednesday collaboration We Might As Well Be Strangers.<\/p>\n
The LP has been produced by Produced by Klas \u00c5hlund and Kenneth Blume, formerly known as Kenny Beats.<\/p>\n
According to a press release, the record is set to be the “the most violent Weezer album ever”.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the My Name Is Jonas stars previously made waves in 2018 with their cover of Toto’s hit Africa, but the original band weren’t impressed by the tone.<\/p>\n
Early in 2025, Toto guitarist Steve Lukather told Matt Pinfield’s New and Approved show: “I don’t know about him loving the song, man. I don’t think that’s the case at all.<\/p>\n
“I think he did it to take the p*** out of it and it blew up in his face and now he’s got to play it every night.<\/p>\n
“I tried to reach out to this guy and be friendly and then it just got weird.”<\/p>\n
Steve insisted he wouldn’t “get into” the details, but conceded that the success of the cover – which led to Toto performing Weezer’s 2001 track ‘Hash Pipe’ – was “good” for both bands.<\/p>\n
He added: “I don’t want to get into it, but peace and love. It was good for them, it was good for us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weezer will release The Gold Album this summer. The Buddy Holly rockers have announced the seventh album in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30070,17,17361,30073,30075,30077,30076,30074,30072,30069,30071],"class_list":["post-74480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-buddy-holly","tag-canada","tag-instagram-post","tag-matt-pinfield","tag-patrick-wilson","tag-rivers-cuomo","tag-scott-shriner","tag-studio-album","tag-van-weezer","tag-weezer","tag-weezer-album"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}