It's WEEZER Day!!!

Oh my god you guys, it's WEEZER day! (It's also election day. Did you vote? I voted!)

Today Death to False Metal and Pinkerton Deluxe both dropped. I pre-ordered both albums a few weeks ago, so they arrived this morning and I have been listening to them ever since.

Pinkerton Deluxe has the original album, every b-side (which used to be scattered across countless soundtracks, compilations and import EPs) a bunch of live versions of the album cuts and then a bunch of unfinished songs, some of which I had heard before, and some which NO ONE has ever heard.

While listening to one such brand new track, "Tragic Girl" this afternoon for the first time, all the hair on the back of my neck raised up and the sound of it was so overwhelming and incredible that it felt like my mind was melting. In short, it felt exactly how it felt listening to Pinkerton on the day it was released back in 1996. I'm not kidding here guys, the whole two-disc set is worth it for "Tragic Girl" alone, plus there is a bunch of other awesome stuff on there too.

Death to False Metal is wall to wall FUN, which was unearthed from the weezer vaults and polished up for the light of day. I am going to be drawing to this album A LOT during the home stretch of Basewood chapter 4 (which only has 11 more pages to be penciled!)

But that's not all! Rivers did a great interview with the Oakland Press in which he lays out some of the other cool weezer stuff that's in the pipeline: The Pinkerton Diaries (A BOOK) which should be out later this month, another "ALONE" disc, and their 10th studio album, which should be out in 2011.

Anyway, I know most of you probably aren't as excited about this stuff as me. But as a weezer super fan, I'm in total heaven over here!