Enter to a win Weezer Prize Pack in honor of their brand new album being in stores now!!! The prize include a “The Red Album” CD, a vinyl “Pork and Beans” single, an album posters and a REALLY cool stop-sign poster!!! All you have to do is E-Mail me the answer at [email protected] to “What is the nickname for Weezer’s 6th (third self-titled) CD?” by June 18th with your name and address! A winner will be selected at random. Weezer’s highly anticipated album is out, 3 weeks earlier than its original release date because the buzz behind it has been so huge!!!
The Red Album offers some of Rivers Cuomo’s most personal work on tracks such as “Heart Songs,†where he reminisces about the music wafting out of the radio growing up, name-checking everyone from Gordon Lightfoot and Eddie Rabbit to ABBA, Devo, Pat Benatar and Quiet Riot, and the playful childhood romp, “Everybody Get Dangerous†(“I didn’t really tip cows for fun, but my friends did,†he says).
“We’ve grown as a team,†Rivers says about the recording process, which started out with producer Rick Rubin at a pair of Malibu studios, then continued with the band on their own before they teamed up with Garret “Jacknife†Lee (R.E.M., Bloc Party, Snow Patrol, U2) for the first single, “Pork and Beans,†and “Troublemaker.â€Â
“We tried to branch out instrumentally and with the arrangements,†says Pat, who played guitar and synthesizer on “Automatic,†a song he wrote and sang. “Just get a little more open with the sounds, not quite so close and dense.â€Â
Influences were plentiful in the making of the new album. “I was listening to a lot of ‘90s hair metal when I came up with ‘Cold Dark World’,†says bassist Scott Shriner who wrote the music and traded vocals with Rivers on the song.
The Red Album shows those dreams coming true, not just for Rivers, but the rest of the band.
The first single Pork and Beans is already climbing the charts and I am sure this is just the first of many singles off “The Red Album“! Just like all their other albums! I mean this the hip hip band that gave us Buddy Holly, Island in the Sun, Beverly Hiils, Hash Pipe and so many other memorable songs!
Enter to a win a In Plain Sight Prize Pack!!! The In Plain Sight Prize Pack includes a -In Plain Sight t-shirt, In Plain Sight tank top, TSA Approved Travel Kit (with 4 plastic toiletry bottles) and In Plain Sight Luggage Tag. All you have to do is E-Mail me the answer at [email protected] to "What network is In Plain Sight On?" by June 18th with your name and address! A winner will be selected at random.
Watch In Plain Sight on Sundays on USA NETWORK, 10pm/9c. USA Network's newest original series stars Mary McCormack (Private Parts and The West Wing) as Mary Shannon. Her friends and family think she's just a glorified courier, but she's actually a U.S. Marshal, working for the highly secretive Witness Protection Program. Her job is to help relocate federal witnesses. Whether they're career criminals, or just people who had he misfortune to witness a crime, they all share one thing in common – somebody wants them dead. Co-starring Frederick Weller, Cristian de la Fuente and Lesley Ann Warren.
