Weezer staged an acoustic rooftop live performance in Venice Seaside on Friday as a part of per week of fan occasions tied to the announcement of their ‘The Gathering’ enviornment tour and upcoming new single.
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Rivers Cuomo and firm arrange atop the Hinano Cafe for a five-song acoustic set that leaned closely on classics — “Undone – The Sweater Tune,” “Buddy Holly,” “Island within the Solar” and “Say It Ain’t So” — alongside “Go Away,” with Greatest Coast‘s Bethany Cosentino guesting.
The rooftop efficiency was a part of a broader run of Los Angeles-area activations the band dubbed “Weezer: The Gathering – Initiation Week,” which additionally features a Weezer-themed trivia evening at Barney’s Beanery and a pickleball event that includes the band members themselves, scheduled for March 30.
The occasions observe Thursday’s announcement of The Gathering, a 32-date North American enviornment tour launching September 8 in Sacramento and wrapping October 24 in Los Angeles, with The Shins and Silversun Pickups serving as help all through.
The run hits main arenas together with Chase Heart in San Francisco, United Heart in Chicago, TD Backyard in Boston and stops throughout Canada, earlier than closing out on the band’s residence turf. Artist presales start March 31.
The tour comes forward of “Shine Once more,” a brand new single dropping April 1 from Weezer’s yet-untitled sixteenth studio album — their first on Reprise/Warner Data and their first new LP since 2021’s Van Weezer, which was adopted by the four-part SZNZ EP sequence in 2022.
The album arrives at a milestone-heavy second: 2026 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Pinkerton, the twenty fifth anniversary of The Inexperienced Album and the tenth anniversary of the Grammy-nominated White Album.
The rooftop pop-up additionally comes as Weezer are having fun with a renewed wave of streaming consideration, with “Go Away” — the Cosentino-featuring monitor from 2014’s The whole lot Will Be Alright within the Finish — going viral on TikTok and touchdown within the High 40 of the Each day Viral Songs chart, accumulating roughly 1,000,000 streams per day.
Fashioned in Los Angeles in 1994, Weezer have bought greater than 10 million albums within the U.S. and over 35 million worldwide. Their debut Weezer (The Blue Album) stays one of the vital enduring different rock information of the ’90s, producing enduring singles “Buddy Holly” and “Undone – The Sweater Tune.” “Beverly Hills,” from 2005’s Make Imagine, grew to become a high 10 hit on the Billboard Sizzling 100.
The band most lately toured North America in 2023 on their ‘Voyage to the Blue Planet’ run commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the Blue Album, and headlined the Hella Mega Tour with Inexperienced Day and Fall Out Boy, which grossed $92.2 million worldwide.
