Weezer Taps Best Coast, Free Energy as 'Memories Tour' Openers

Weezer have recruited Best Coast and Free Energy, two bands that probably enjoyed The Blue Album and Pinkerton as adolescents, to serve as the opening acts for their upcoming Memories Tour.

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"I love these bands," Rivers Cuomo said on Weezer's. Best Coast will open Weezer's two gigs in Los Angeles, and Free Energy, one of Rolling Stone's Best New Bands of 2010, will open the New York and Boston dates. The opening acts for Weezer's Chicago and San Francisco stands have not yet been announced.

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Cuomo recently revealed that he collaborated with Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino on a song earmarked for Weezer's follow-up to Hurley. Cuomo has made it a habit to team up with artists that were likely inspired at a young age by Weezer's early albums, working with Male Bonding and members of the All-American Rejects.

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Song Stories

“Tonight's the Night”

The Shirelles | 1960

The lead cut and title track from this girl group's debut album, "Tonight's the Night" was written by 19-year-old bandmember Shirley Owens, who sings lead, and producer Luther Dixon. The band from Passaic, New Jersey met in high school, first calling themselves the Pequellos. The song's frank thoughts about sexual and emotional surrender was racy for the time, but that didn't stop the Chiffons from cutting a similar version immediately after the original came out. "We were the first female group to write some of our own material," band member Beverly Lee recalls. "We did have some say-so in our writing."

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