Citizens of the world without iPhones (I hear there are a few of you), weep not: Weezer feel your pain, and agree that just because you don’t have some trendy gadget doesn’t mean you should be denied the joy that is Christmas With Weezer.
As you’ll recall, your fave fan-friendly foursome recently cut six holiday jingles for a Tap Tap Revenge-derived iPhone/iPod touch gaming app called Christmas With Weezer. At the moment, said jingles are available only to those who grab the game, but come December 16, anyone who can use iTunes or Amazon.com’s MP3 service can score the Christmas With Weezer digital EP from DGC/Interscope, featuring all six songs “with full vocal harmonies.” Who knew “The Greatest Man That Ever Lived” was Santa Claus?
And it wouldn’t be a Weezer update without something else slightly wacky going down. It appears Rivers Cuomo is continuing his dual love affairs with YouTube (through which he conducted a fan-driven songwriting project earlier this year) and being kinda weird, having launched a search for musically-inclined web-users to help him perform a few songs off his recent Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo. Rivers has already secured an a cappella group to back him through his cover of the Beach Boys’ “Don’t Worry Baby”, and is now “looking for real top-notch, kick-butt pianists” to pound out the repeated chords of “I Was Scared”:
The resulting (jam session-esque?) performance will apparently appear on Stereogum, and here’s the weird part: Rivers seems to be slowing down his voice with each successive YouTube video. Okay then, dude.
Christmas With Weezer:
01 We Wish You a Merry Christmas
02 O Come All Ye Faithful
03 O Holy Night
04 The First Noel
05 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
06 Silent Night
Video: Weezer: The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn) [from the Weezer (Red Album) LP]
Video: Rivers Cuomo: My Brain Is Working Overtime [from the Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo LP]
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