{"id":714986,"date":"2026-06-04T15:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714986\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:03:11","slug":"weezer-announce-the-gold-album-with-mournful-single-we-might-as-well-be-strangers-featuring-wednesdays-karly-hartzman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714986\/","title":{"rendered":"Weezer announce ‘The Gold Album’ with mournful single ‘We Might As Well Be Strangers’ featuring Wednesday\u2019s Karly Hartzman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weezer<\/a> have announced \u2018The Gold Album\u2019 with their mournful new single \u2018We Might As Well Be Strangers\u2019, featuring Wednesday<\/a>\u2018s Karly Hartzman.<\/p>\n

The LA rockers will release their sixteenth studio album on August 21 via Reprise\/Warner Records. So far, they\u2019ve shared the Kenneth Blume<\/a>-produced song \u2018Shine Again<\/a>\u2018 \u2013 their first track since 2022.<\/p>\n

The album will see the band go back-to-basics, with frontman Rivers Cuomo<\/a> and and drummer Patrick Wilson focusing on \u201cbasics of a song\u201d for the first time since their debut album in 1994.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Blume has co-produced the album alongside Klas \u00c5hlund. In a press release, Blume said he wanted to make \u201cthe most violent Weezer album ever\u201d, while \u00c5hlund has reportedly taken a more mathematical approach.<\/p>\n

Now, they\u2019re shared their second preview of the album, \u2018We Might As Well Be Strangers\u2019. With Wednesday\u2019s Karly Hartzman contributing a verse, the song reflects on the aftermath of a breakup. \u201cIs it still h\u0435donism if you\u2019re feeling miserable? \/ Don\u2019t want your songs to become the clues to why we lost you\u201d, Hartzman sings on the track.<\/p>\n

Take a listen to \u2018We Might As Well Be Strangers\u2019 and see the full tracklist to \u2018The Gold Album\u2019 below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Weezer\u2019s \u2018Gold Album\u2019 tracklisting is:<\/p>\n

\u2018Say Yes\u2019
\u2018Shine Again\u2019
\u2018Don\u2019t Make It Weird\u2019
\u2018We Might As Well Be Strangers\u2019 (feat. Wednesday)
\u2018C.E.O.\u2019
\u2018Hoops\u2019
\u2018Nowhere\u2019
\u2018The Show Must Go On\u2019
\u2018Up in the Clouds\u2019
\u2018The LA Sound\u2019<\/p>\n

Weezer will soon embark on a North American tour, with The Shins<\/a> and Silversun Pickups<\/a> as support across select dates. \u2018The Gathering\u2019 tour kicks off September 8 in Sacramento and spans 32 shows before concluding in Los Angeles on October 24.<\/p>\n

The tour follows a series of \u2018Initiation\u2019 shows, including a pop-up rooftop gig in Los Angeles, <\/a>an appearance at a pickleball tournament and an intimate gig at the chain restaurant Barney\u2019s Beanery.<\/p>\n

Get your tickets here<\/a> and see below for all dates:<\/p>\n

Weezer\u2019s 2026 US tour dates are:<\/p>\n

SEPTEMBER
08 \u2013 Sacramento, CA \u2013 Golden 1 Center *
09 \u2013 San Francisco, CA \u2013 Chase Center *
11 \u2013 Portland, OR \u2013 Moda Center *
12 \u2013 Vancouver, BC \u2013 Rogers Arena *
13 \u2013 Seattle, WA \u2013 Climate Pledge Arena *
15 \u2013 West Valley City, UT \u2013 Maverik Center *
16 \u2013 Denver, CO \u2013 Ball Arena *
20 \u2013 Saint Paul, MN \u2013 Xcel Energy Center *
22 \u2013 Chicago, IL \u2013 United Center *
23 \u2013 Detroit, MI \u2013 Little Caesars Arena *
25 \u2013 Toronto, ON \u2013 Scotiabank Arena *
26 \u2013 Laval, QC \u2013 Place Bell *
27 \u2013 Boston, MA \u2013 TD Garden
29 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA \u2013 Xfinity Mobile Arena
30 \u2013 Brooklyn, NY \u2013 Barclays Center<\/p>\n

OCTOBER
02 \u2013 Washington, DC \u2013 Capital One Arena
03 \u2013 Charlotte, NC \u2013 Spectrum Center
04 \u2013 Raleigh, NC \u2013 Lenovo Center
06 \u2013 Columbus, OH \u2013 Nationwide Arena
07 \u2013 Milwaukee, WI \u2013 Fiserv Forum
09 \u2013 Nashville, TN \u2013 Bridgestone Arena
10 \u2013 Atlanta, GA \u2013 State Farm Arena
11 \u2013 Orlando, FL \u2013 Kia Center
13 \u2013 Sunrise, FL \u2013 Amerant Bank Arena
14 \u2013 Tampa, FL \u2013 Benchmark International Arena
16 \u2013 Houston, TX \u2013 Toyota Center
17 \u2013 Dallas, TX \u2013 American Airlines Center
18 \u2013 Austin, TX \u2013 Moody Center ATX
20 \u2013 Phoenix, AZ \u2013 Mortgage Matchup Center
21 \u2013 San Diego, CA \u2013 Viejas Arena
23 \u2013 Las Vegas, NV \u2013 T-Mobile Arena
24 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA \u2013 Crypto.com Arena<\/p>\n

*w\/ The Shins and Silversun Pickups<\/p>\n

Elsewhere,\u00a0NME\u00a0last spoke to Weezer in 2024<\/a>, where Cuomo looked back at the process of making their 1994 debut album \u2013 three decades after it was released.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one thing that struck me was how physically close we all were, not just the four of us, but there was a whole crowd of young men, packed into very small apartments in a very small part of Los Angeles,\u201d he shared. \u201c[We] were just constantly hanging out and talking, debating and discussing music and style, and we didn\u2019t even have television sets back then so there was very little to distract us\u2026 And obviously we had no wives, children or girlfriends.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cWhen we released the \u2018Blue\u2019 album, I definitely felt like it was the greatest album of all time. I figured there was a chance I was wrong, but to me, it was my favourite album of all time and I assumed other people would feel the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weezer have announced \u2018The Gold Album\u2019 with their mournful new single \u2018We Might As Well Be Strangers\u2019, featuring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136,1771],"class_list":["post-714986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}