Weezer

'''s third single, "Perfect Situation", spent four weeks in a row at number one on the Billboard Modern Rock chart. "This is Such a Pity" was the band's fourth single from the album, but no music video was made for its release. The Make Believe tour also found the band using additional instruments onstage, adding piano, synthesizers, pseudophones, and guitarist [[Bobby Schneck]].
The band has announced the possible release of a live DVD composed of footage from the 2005 Japan tour. It will consist of a two day, seven camera shoot of the shows in Japan, plus material that will be drawn from various behind-the-scenes footage. The DVD was announced in late 2005, but in a recent update on the band's website, Karl Koch noted it was "apparently edited, but has been put on hold for now."

The Red Album (2007–2008)

Weezer's Weezer (also referred to as "The Red Album") was released in June 2008. Rick Rubin produced the album and Rich Costey mixed it. The record is being described as "experimental", and according to Cuomo, includes longer and non-traditional songs, TR-808 drum machines, synthesizers, Southern rap, baroque counterpoint, and band members other than Cuomo writing, singing, and switching instruments. Pat Wilson stated the album cost around a million dollars to make, contrasting it with the $150,000 budget of "The Blue Album". The album's singles were produced by Jacknife Lee, the album's lead single "Pork and Beans" topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks charts for 11 weeks and its music video won a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video, and the album's second single, "Troublemaker", debuted at #39 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and peaked at #2

. In October 2008, the group announced that the third single would be "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)"

On May 30, 2008, the Toledo Free Press revealed in a Scott Shriner interview that Weezer would be unveiling the "Hootenanny Tour", in which fans would be invited to bring their own instruments to play along with the band. Said Shriner: "They can bring whatever they want...Oboes, keyboards, drums, violins, and play the songs with us as opposed to us performing for them."
The band performed 5 dates in Japan at the beginning of September and then embarked on what was dubbed the 'Troublemaker' tour - 21 dates around the US, including one in Canada. Angels and Airwaves and Tokyo Police Club joined them as support at each show and Brian Bell's 'other' band The Relationship also performed at a handful of dates. Shortly before the encore at each show, the band would bring on fans with various instruments and perform Island in the Sun and Beverly Hills with them. At a show in Austin, after Tokyo Police Club had played their set, Rivers was wheeled out in a box and mimed to a recording of rare Weezer demo, 'My Brain', donned in pajamas with puppets on his hands, before being wheeled off again. This bizarre event later surfaced as the climax to a promo video for Rivers' second demo album, Alone 2.

Rivers Cuomo also wrote a song with pop duo Aly & AJ, and was very pleased with the way the girls worked. It is unknown if the song will be made public on an album.

On December 4, iPhone OS developer Tapulous released the game Christmas With Weezer, featuring gameplay similar to Tap Tap Revenge and six Christmas carols performed by the band. A digital EP featuring the songs, entitled "Christmas with Weezer", was also released Dec. 16, 2008.

Raditude (since 2009)

Billboard.com reported that Weezer was heading into the studio in early November 2008 to record a seventh Weezer album with producer Jacknife Lee. Lee recorded two songs on The Red Album, most notably the successful single "Pork and Beans." Drummer Pat Wilson stated the band was wasting no time cutting a new record because each band member was contributing to the songwriting. Since they no longer rely on one person for the songs, they accumulate an album's worth of songs much more quickly. However, in an interview with Spinner, Brian Bell stated that someone "jumped the gun," and that although the band was currently writing new material they did not have any plans to enter the studio any time soon.

A YouTube video titled "Let's Write a Sawng: Step 16," uploaded on November 15, 2008, showed Rivers Cuomo in the studio with Jacknife Lee short-listing three songs from a list of 23, adding speculation to the recording of a seventh album or new B-sides. Scott Shriner stated that the new album had been finished, but has not yet been mixed. Rivers Cuomo confirmed that the new album was scheduled to be released sometime in 2009. Later, the band specified in an interview for the KROQ Weenie Roast Festival that the new album would be released for summer 2009. In the interview, when each band member was asked what their favorite song of '09 was, Patrick Wilson replied, "In the Mall" by Weezer. Wilson wrote the song, but doesn't sing on it.

Weezer toured with Blink-182 in 2009, including an August 30 stop at the Virgin Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. In May, the band's webmaster Karl Koch revealed that the album had no set release date, and that band were going back into the studio to record more material. He also revealed that Rivers Cuomo will be the sole lead vocalist on this album unlike their previous record. Drummer Josh Freese joined Weezer on a temporary basis to play drums on the Blink-182/Weezer tour while Pat Wilson switched to guitar. Wilson stated in an interview for Yahoo! Music that Cuomo wanted "to be active and more free on stage and him having guitar on was an impediment." Freese stated he was a Weezer fan and did not want to pass up the opportunity to play with them.

On July 17, Karl Koch revealed on weezer.com that the band's second album Pinkerton would be reissued in a Deluxe Edition.

On July 24, 2009 Weezer played 3 new songs live in Korea at the Jisan Valley Rock Festival entitled "Can't Stop Partying", "I'm Your Daddy", and "The Girl Got Hot". Cuomo's demo of "Can't Stop Partying" was released on his solo album Alone II in 2008. While performing "The Girl Got Hot" on July 26, 2009 at the Fuji Rock Festival, Rivers Cuomo revealed that Weezer's to-be-titled seventh studio album would be released in October 2009. On August 12, 2009 the band confirmed on their official website that their seventh album would be released on October 27, 2009. The album's first single, entitled, "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To", was set for a August 25, 2009 release.stereokill.net/2009/08/14/weezer-announce-album-release-date/ However, the song leaked on Walmart.com on August 16, causing the single's radio release to be moved up one week.

On August 18, Karl Koch revealed the album's title, Raditude.

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