Weezer have become the latest band to perform for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series, delivering a quartet of immersive tunes in the process.
For over a decade now, NPR Music have been inviting artists to visit their offices in Washington, D.C. and getting them to play a brief, intimate show.
While we’ve seen up-and-comers perform at the small location, we’ve also seen bigger names as well, including Anderson .Paak, T-Pain, and even the Wu-Tang Clan.
Now, alt-rockers Weezer have descended upon the tiny desk, delivering a four-song set full of intriguing choices.
Appearing just a month after the release of The Black Album, Weezer kicked things off with a performance of ‘Longtime Sunshine’, plucked from the abandoned Songs From The Black Hole project of the mid-’90s.
As the set continued though, listeners were brought back to 2019 for versions of ‘Living In L.A.’ and ‘High As A Kite’, with a rendition of 1996’s ‘Across The Sea’ thrown into the mix as well.
As noted by NPR, this performance is likely “the loosest you’ll ever see Weezer”, with the group appearing without the use of “the in-ear monitors, click track or vocal separation” that they usually use.
Check out Weezer’s Tiny Desk Concert:
In related news, Weezer were recently announced as one of the acts on the upcoming Foo Fighters tour, appearing alongside Tenacious D in the support slot.
However, by the time this tour kicks off in September, the band might have a whole new record in their arsenal, with Rivers Cuomo revealing they were working on two new albums.
“What I’ve been working on the last two weeks is back to big guitars,” Cuomo explained to Entertainment Weekly in February. “Blue Album-ish, but a little more riffy.”
“The working title is Van Weezer. The inspiration came from our live shows, where, in the middle of ‘Beverly Hills,’ unlike on the album, everything stops and I just break out with this crazy guitar solo.”
“We noticed that, recently, the crowd just goes crazy when I do that. So it feels like maybe the audience is ready for some shredding again.”
“Van Weezer is in mortal combat with Okay Human, a record that’s mostly done,” he continued. “That one’s totally different.”
“It’s inspired by an album from 1970 called Nilsson Sings Newman. It’s all piano-based, but it has a ton of orchestration. We just did the strings at Abbey Road. It’s just gorgeous melodies and extremely eccentric lyrics.”
Check out Weezer’s ‘Living In L.A.’:
