PRE-ORDER HERE
THE MULTI-PLATINUM ALBUM THAT HAS INFLUENCED GENERATIONS OF MUSICIANS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN A MYRIAD OF COLLECTORS’ SETS, RANGING FROM A SWEATER-ENCLOSED BOX SET TO NEW COLOR VINYL VARIANTS AND MORE
BAND SHARES EARLIEST KNOWN RECORDING OF “UNDONE – THE SWEATER SONG (THIRD PRACTICE)” TODAY
LISTEN HERE
‘VOYAGE TO THE BLUE PLANET’ NORTH AMERICAN TOUR BEGINS TODAY
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
Los Angeles – September 4, 2024 – GRAMMY® Award-winning multi platinum alt rock icons Weezer will celebrate three decades of their seminal full-length debut LP, Weezer a.k.a. the Blue Album, with the release of the Blue Album 30th Anniversary Edition on November 1, via Geffen/UMe. This must-have for any Weezer fan will be available in multiple configurations, including a massive Super Deluxe Edition 4LP + 10-inch + 7-inch box set as well as a Deluxe 3CD set, and digitally. Pre-order any of these amazing options HERE.
To herald the arrival of Blue Album 30th Anniversary Edition, Weezer just shared the earliest known recording of “Undone – The Sweater Song (Third Practice).”
Listen HERE.
The Super Deluxe Edition box set presents the most comprehensive vision of the Blue Album ever created. It includes the classic album newly remastered from the original analog tapes. Across four 12-inch 180-gram LPs, a 10-inch EP, and 7-inch, it consists of 50 songs in total—with thirty-six previously unreleased tracks (encompassing 8 “Kitchen Tape Demos”), twenty-two early practices and live recordings, six BBC radio recordings – two of which have never been heard before – and four tracks from their LMU sessions. Longtime friend, collaborator, and de facto band historian Karl Koch penned new liner notes in issue #18 of the Weezine and assembled the artwork layout with a bevy of previously unreleased photos.
Plus, the box set boasts “sweater” embossed graphics complete with a pullable and retractable thread (as a nod to “Undone – The Sweater Song”), four lithographs, a poster perfect for the garage, song-themed sticker sheet, a twelve-sided die, and an enamel Bokkus pin. Meanwhile, the Deluxe 3CD Set also houses four lithographs, the poster, song-themed sticker sheet, twelve-sided die, enamel Bokkus pin, and 28-page issue #18 of the Weezine.
There is also an Ultra Limited Edition box set, with all of the features of the Super Deluxe Edition, but that comes wrapped in an actual knit sweater and a certificate signed by each of the band members. Only 100 of these exist and will be available for purchase on Weezer’s webstore.
The Blue Album will also be available in a variety of vinyl offerings including:
- 2LP 45 rpm half-speed mastering vinyl – 180-gram black vinyl, housed in a premium gatefold jacket wrapped in silver foil paper with bonus photos and an exclusive poster on silver foil paper.
Exclusively via Interscope.com
- 1LP Zoetrope Picture Disc
- Exclusively via com, uDiscover Music and Sound of Vinyl
- 1LP Ghostly Blue & Clear Color Vinyl
- Exclusively at indie record stores
Weezer’s celebratory ‘Voyage to the Blue Planet’ North American tour also kicks off today with The Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr. as support. Tickets are still available for select shows and may be purchased HERE.
Often revered as one of the most important debut records of all-time, Weezer’sBlue Album arrived on May 10, 1994. Rolling Stone touted it on both “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time” and “The 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time.” Pitchfork named it one of the “The Top 100 Albums of the 1990s,” while a retrospective review rated it a rare perfect “10” score, saying, “Weezer’s 1994 debut, filled with geeky humor, dense cultural references, and positively gargantuan hooks, took alt-rock in a striking new direction.” The record has generated billions of streams worldwide, and has left an indelible mark on music as a whole, cementing Weezer as one of the most beloved artists of the last three decades whose influence continues to reverberate through culture.