THE DROP
Rivers Cuomo dumped 15 solo acoustic covers to YouTube Sunday under the title "randum cuverz" — raw Voice Memo-quality recordings spanning two decades, some only seconds long *. The collection includes everything from Nirvana and Metallica to Sam Hunt and Post Malone, with file dates showing most tracks from 2018-2019 though some go back over 20 years *.
WHAT TO KNOW
- Covers range across Michael Jackson, Radiohead, Outkast, Eagles, Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton, Guns N' Roses, Green Day, and Harry Nilsson — many previously played live by Weezer, but some like the Sam Hunt and Whitney Houston tracks appear new to the Weezerverse *
- Reddit users think Cuomo accidentally made private Dropbox demos public; one version of "Without You" supposedly appeared on MySpace in 2003 *
- Cuomo hasn't pulled the recordings despite the accidental upload theory *
- Sound quality is deliberately lo-fi — these are personal archive recordings, not studio takes *
THE TAKE
Stripped-down Cuomo with just an acoustic guitar reminds you the guy can actually sing when he's not buried under whatever concept Weezer's chasing this album cycle. Whether this was intentional or a Dropbox mishap, leaving them up suggests he doesn't mind fans hearing him work through other people's songs in his bedroom.