{"id":793278,"date":"2026-07-30T12:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/793278\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:08:10","slug":"fans-can-hear-weezer-album-before-release-at-sc-record-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/793278\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans can hear Weezer album before release at SC record store"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can \u201cSay It Ain’t So,\u201d but only one South Carolina record store is hosting an official listening party for Weezer’s new album.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The band posted a list of participating U.S. record stores on Instagram on July 29, along with a promise that those who attend the events will hear the band’s upcoming album, \u201cWeezer,\u201d commonly known as the \u201cGold<\/a> Album,\u201d before its official release date on Aug. 21.<\/p>\n

“The time for gold is approaching.\u00a0Those who gather on August 15th and 16th will hear Weezer first,” the caption on the post states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Monster Music & Movies<\/a> in West Ashley is the only record store in the Palmetto State hosting a listening party, according to the list shared. The indie record store, which has operated at 946 Orleans Road since 2004,\u00a0will play the \u201cGold Album\u201d at 3 p.m. on Aug. 15.<\/p>\n

\"Monster<\/p>\n

Monster Music & Movies will host a listening party for Weezer’s new album on Aug. 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Provided<\/p>\n

In addition to hearing the latest tracks from the legendary alt-rock band behind “Island in the Sun,” “Buddy Holly” and “Beverly Hills,” attendees can look forward to free pizza.\u00a0Fans can contact Monster Music & Movies for more details about the upcoming listening event.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For those who can’t make it to Charleston for the listening party, several stores in North Carolina and Georgia are also participating.<\/p>\n

Weezer<\/a> was formed in Los Angeles in 1992. Since 2001, it\u2019s consisted of Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, Brian Bell and Scott Shriner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The \u201cGold Album” will be the group’s first major studio release since its 2022 “SZNZ” project, a collection of four EPs that were individually released in line with the year’s solstices and equinoxes.<\/p>\n

The singles “We Might as Well Be Strangers\u201d (featuring Wednesday) and “Shine Again” are available for streaming now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Weezer last played in Charleston at Credit One Stadium, then called Volvo Car Stadium, in 2016 on a co-headlining tour with Panic! at the Disco.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can \u201cSay It Ain’t So,\u201d but only one South Carolina record store is hosting an official listening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[860,88,337087,337086,216,164230,96828],"class_list":["post-793278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-charleston","tag-entertainment","tag-listening-party","tag-monster-music-and-movies","tag-music","tag-weezer","tag-west-ashley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}