Music

Rivers Cuomo set to release The Pinkerton Diaries

by Nicole Villeneuve

We’re not ready to let go of Weezer just yet, so if they want to keep milking Pinkerton so we can turn a blind eye to albums like the Red Album and Hurley, we’re cool with that.

The commercial-flop-turned-cult-classic-turned-genre-milestone album got the reissue treatment in November, at which time Rivers Cuomo also announced an upcoming book called the Pinkerton Diaries. Initially scheduled for a fall 2010 release, Cuomo showed off the finished proofs in a Youtube video yesterday (posted below), confirming that it would be released in March.

As reported previously by Spinner, Cuomo announced at a press conference that The Pinkerton Diaries is “a collection of all my journals, emails, letters, photos, school papers—everything from those years ’94-’97, so you get an inside look as to exactly what I was thinking.”

Fingers crossed for a book tour on this one.