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Weezer

Label: Geffen Records
Website: http://www.weezer.com/
Audio: http://www.myspace.com/weezer

Weezer's sixth studio album will be released on June 3, 2008, just over three years after their latest release, Make Believe. Rick Rubin produced the album[30] and Rich Costey provided the mixing for what Weezer fans are calling "Album Six". 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.

Lead singer Rivers Cuomo released a demo-compilation album entitled Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo on December 18, 2007. The album contains demos of Cuomo's that span from 1992 to 2007, including songs from Weezer's abandoned second album, Songs from the Black Hole. Also included in Alone is a song intended for Weezer's upcoming 6th studio album, entitled "This is the Way". The booklet of Alone tells of the band wanting the song for the album, but ultimately choosing "an epic, 6-minute, symphonic type of art song" entitled "Daydreamer" instead, which was later retitled as "Dreamin'".

On March 7, 2008, in the magazine Performing Songwriter, Rivers announced two song titles: "Ms. Sweeney" and "I'm the Greatest Man That Ever Lived".
On March 11, 2008, Cuomo stated on the band's official website that the entire new album had been mixed, save one song. He indicated that the album (still untitled) should be released by June 2008. Cuomo also revealed that the name of the song he suspected would be the first single was "one word, starts with a T, ends with an R and contains twelve letters." The song he referenced is "Troublemaker", the first track on the album, but was not the first single. "Pork and Beans" was chosen instead.

A remix of "Automatic," a song to appear on the sixth album and written and sung by Pat Wilson, is featured on the soundtrack of the video game Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. A portion of the song can be heard in a trailer for the game at GameTrailers.com. Additionally, the song "Everybody Get Dangerous" can be heard in the movie 21. However, it does not appear on the official movie soundtrack.

On March 25, 2008, Pat Wilson appeared on the Macintosh-centric podcast MacBreak Weekly and stated the album cost around a million dollars to make, contrasting it with the $150,000 budget of the Blue Album.

On April 1, 2008, various news outlets reported that the album would once again be self-titled, referring to it as "the Red Album". Additionally, it was revealed that a number of sessions for the album were produced by Jacknife Lee and that the song "Pork and Beans" would be the first single.
On April 15, 2008 KROQ 106.7 (Los Angeles Radio Station) premiered the single "Pork and Beans." It is now streaming from Weezer's official website, and is available to download on the iTunes Music Store.
For the chart week of May 24, 2008, "Pork and Beans" is currently sitting at the top of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks charts for the 2nd week in a row and has become the group's 3rd Number One single on this chart and also represents their fastest rising single ever having reached #1 in only 3 weeks.

The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn) was released as the 2nd single digitally on May 13,2008 and Troublemaker followed on May 20,2008 as the third single.

• Make Believe May 10, 2005