Weezer Announces 'The Gold Album,' Drops Single with Karly Hartzman

Weezer have announced ‘The Gold Album’ with their mournful new single ‘We Might As Well Be Strangers’, featuring Wednesday ‘s Karly Hartzman.

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The LA rockers will release their sixteenth studio album on August 21 via Reprise/Warner Records. So far, they’ve shared the Kenneth Blume -produced song ‘ Shine Again ‘ – their first track since 2022.

The album will see the band go back-to-basics, with frontman Rivers Cuomo and and drummer Patrick Wilson focusing on “basics of a song” for the first time since their debut album in 1994.

Meanwhile, Blume has co-produced the album alongside Klas Åhlund. In a press release, Blume said he wanted to make “the most violent Weezer album ever”, while Åhlund has reportedly taken a more mathematical approach.

Now, they’re shared their second preview of the album, ‘We Might As Well Be Strangers’. With Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman contributing a verse, the song reflects on the aftermath of a breakup. “ Is it still hеdonism if you’re feeling miserable? / Don’t want your songs to become the clues to why we lost you”, Hartzman sings on the track.

Take a listen to ‘We Might As Well Be Strangers’ and see the full tracklist to ‘The Gold Album’ below:

Weezer’s ‘Gold Album’ tracklisting is:

‘Say Yes’ ‘Shine Again’ ‘Don’t Make It Weird’ ‘We Might As Well Be Strangers’ (feat. Wednesday) ‘C.E.O.’ ‘Hoops’ ‘Nowhere’ ‘The Show Must Go On’ ‘Up in the Clouds’ ‘The LA Sound’

Weezer will soon embark on a North American tour, with The Shins and Silversun Pickups as support across select dates. ‘The Gathering’ tour kicks off September 8 in Sacramento and spans 32 shows before concluding in Los Angeles on October 24.

The tour follows a series of ‘Initiation’ shows, including a pop-up rooftop gig in Los Angeles, an appearance at a pickleball tournament and an intimate gig at the chain restaurant Barney’s Beanery.

Get your tickets here and see below for all dates:

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Weezer’s 2026 US tour dates are:

SEPTEMBER

08 – Sacramento, CA – Golden 1 Center *

09 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center *

11 – Portland, OR – Moda Center *

12 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena *

13 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena *

15 – West Valley City, UT – Maverik Center *

16 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena *

20 – Saint Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center *

22 – Chicago, IL – United Center *

23 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena *

25 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena *

26 – Laval, QC – Place Bell *

27 – Boston, MA – TD Garden

29 – Philadelphia, PA – Xfinity Mobile Arena

30 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center

OCTOBER

02 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena

03 – Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center

04 – Raleigh, NC – Lenovo Center

06 – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena

07 – Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum

09 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena

10 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena

11 – Orlando, FL – Kia Center

13 – Sunrise, FL – Amerant Bank Arena

14 – Tampa, FL – Benchmark International Arena

16 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center

17 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center

18 – Austin, TX – Moody Center ATX

20 – Phoenix, AZ – Mortgage Matchup Center

21 – San Diego, CA – Viejas Arena

23 – Las Vegas, NV – T-Mobile Arena

24 – Los Angeles, CA – Crypto.com Arena

*w/ The Shins and Silversun Pickups

Elsewhere,  NME  last spoke to Weezer in 2024 , where Cuomo looked back at the process of making their 1994 debut album – three decades after it was released.

“The 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,” he shared. “[We] were just constantly hanging out and talking, debating and discussing music and style, and we didn’t even have television sets back then so there was very little to distract us… And obviously we had no wives, children or girlfriends.”

He continued: “When we released the ‘Blue’ 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.”

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