Weezer Launching 'Blinkerton' Tour in November

Weezer have officially announced plans, promised earlier, to embark on a tour that focusing on the band's two most beloved albums. Here’s the a statement "This winter (November/December), Weezer will launch a multi-city U.S. tour, dubbed by fans as the 'Blinkerton Tour.' The band will play two shows in each market — on the first night Weezer will play the Blue Album in its entirety, and the second night they will play Pinkerton in its entirety." No specific dates have been set. The band will wrap their current Hurley tour September 30th in Atlanta.

Weezer have also penciled in November 2nd as the date for their Pinkerton reissue, which will be stocked with outtakes. One song, "Tragic Girl," is "better than a lot of the album. People will be overjoyed to hear it," Cuomo tells Rolling Stone in our Fall Music Preview, on stands now.

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Song Stories

“The A Team”

Ed Sheeran | 2011

This debut track from the then-20-year-old British singer-songwriter has a dark story behind it. Sheeran says he culls songwriting inspiration from "viewing other people's situations," which, for the heroine in "The A Team," involves drug addiction and prostitution that began as a teen. Sheeran paints the woman's trials with haunting imagery such as "But lately her face seems/Slowly sinking, wasting/Crumbling like pastries." "I did a gig at a homeless shelter, [and the song] is about one of the women there. It's her story," he said.

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