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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Premieres First New Song Since 2010:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“Back To The Shack”</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">(photo credit: Emily Shur)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“The lead single from Everything Will Be Alright In The End delivers all the guitar crunch, nerdy swagger, and sing-along hooks of
their old classics.” – <b>Rolling Stone</b>, July 18, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Weezer</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> will reveal the first single from their forthcoming, highly anticipated ninth album,
<b><i>Everything Will be Alright In The End</i></b>, this week. The song, entitled
<b>“Back To The Shack,”</b> is an ebullient, slice of alterna-rock awesomeness. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“Back To The Shack” can be heard for the first time worldwide on radio stations throughout the country
<b>TODAY</b> at <b>8 am PDT/11 am EDT</b>, with the song available to hear via </span>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/weezer"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue">Weezer’s YouTube channel</span></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> at
<b>8:30 am PDT/11:30 am EDT</b>. Following that, “Back To The Shack” will be available for purchase on iTunes as of
<b>12 am EDT</b> on <b>Tuesday, July 22<sup>nd</sup></b>. The band will then drop by
<b><i>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon</i></b> on <b>July 23<sup>rd</sup></b> to play the song for the first time on television.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Since forming in 1992,
<b>Weezer</b> has released a myriad of celebrated, chart-topping albums, selling over 13 million records worldwide. Following an intensely prolific couple years at the end of the aughts, the band chose to deliberately dial down the tempo in 2010, a move singer/guitarist
<b>Rivers Cuomo</b> says allowed him to write at a slower pace, giving the songs he wanted to use for an album the time to gradually grow into their final forms. When it came time to record the material,
<b>Weezer</b> reunited with the man who helped them make some of their most iconic album-length work, Cars frontman
<b>Ric Ocasek</b>. The resulting album, <b><i>Everything Will Be Alright In The End</i></b>, released
<b>September 30<sup>th</sup></b> on Republic Records, is a stand-out gem in <b>Weezer’s</b> vast and varied catalogue, a reflection of a much-loved band at their very best.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Weezer tour dates:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">7/24/14 London, ON @ Rock The Park 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">7/25/14 Belleville, ON @ Empire Rockfest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">7/26/14 Rimouski, QC @ Les Grandes Fetes du St-Laurent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">8/1/14 Las Vegas, CA @ The Cosmopolitan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">8/2/14 Del Mar, CA @ Del Mar Thoroughbred Club Summer Concert Series<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">8/9/14 Bethlehem, PA @ Musikfest PNC Plaza<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">8/13/14 Southaven, MS @ Snowden Grove Amphitheater
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">8/14/14 Lake Charles, LA @ L’Auberge Casino Resort<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">8/31/14 Los Angeles, CA @ Made In America<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">9/6/14 Charlotte, NC @ 106.5 The End presents Weenie Roast ‘14<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">9/12/14 Paso Robles, CA @ Vino Robles Amphitheatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">9/13/14 Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock Festival<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">9/14/14 Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">9/19/14 Denver, CO @ Riot Fest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Weezer is: Brian Bell (guitar/vocals) * Rivers Cuomo (vocals/guitar) * Scott Shriner (bass/vocals) * Patrick Wilson (drums)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.weezer.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">http://www.weezer.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.facebook.com/weezer"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">http://www.facebook.com/weezer</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://weezer.tumblr.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">http://weezer.tumblr.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.twitter.com/weezer"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">http://www.twitter.com/weezer</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.instagram.com/weezer"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">http://www.instagram.com/weezer</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.youtube.com/weezer"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">http://www.youtube.com/weezer</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">For more information about Weezer, please contact:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Press Here Republic Records<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Jen Appel Joe Carozza<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">212-246-2460 212-830-0895<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:jen@pressherepublicity.com"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue">jen@pressherepublicity.com</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">
</span><a href="mailto:joseph.carozza@umusic.com"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue">joseph.carozza@umusic.com</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Jen Appel</span><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#C00000">PRESS HERE </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">(New York)</span><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">138 W. 25<sup>th</sup> St., 9<sup>th</sup> Floor, New York, NY 10001</span><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">P: (212) 246-2640</span><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">8105 West Third St.,</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#C00000"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Los
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