Weezer announces world tour with show in Amsterdam and new album

Weezer have announced an ambitious world tour that will take the band through North America, Japan, the United Kingdom and Europe in 2026 and 2027. The tour is called The Gathering and is tied to the release of their twentieth studio album, titled Weezer and nicknamed The Gold Album, which comes out on August 21 via Reprise/Warner Records.

There is good news for Dutch fans: on May 26, 2026, Weezer will perform at AFAS Live in Amsterdam, with Taking Back Sunday as the opening act. The European leg kicks off earlier that month, with shows in Paris and Oslo among other cities, and wraps up in Helsinki on June 1. Before that, the band will play a run of shows across the UK and Ireland, with dates in Dublin, Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Birmingham, London and Cardiff. The London show takes place at Alexandra Palace on May 22.

The North American leg of the tour gets underway earlier, in September and October 2026, with performances at major venues including the Chase Center in San Francisco, United Center in Chicago, Barclays Center in Brooklyn and Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The Shins and Silversun Pickups will serve as the opening acts for those shows. In February 2027, the band heads to Japan for five concerts spread across Tokyo (two nights), Kyoto, Osaka and Nagoya.

The Gold Album is the sixteenth studio album in the band's main catalog and was recorded with all four permanent members: Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, Brian Bell and Scott Shriner. Notably, Cuomo and Wilson co wrote the basic song structures together for the first time since the band's debut album in 1994. Production was handled by Klas Åhlund and Kenneth Blume, previously known as Kenny Beats. Blume stated in a press release that he wanted to make "the most violent Weezer album ever," while Åhlund took a more mathematical approach. The drums were recorded live with all four band members present in the room.

Alongside the tour announcement, the band released a new single called C.E.O., complete with a music video. The song is about the pressure on veteran rock bands to keep recreating their glory days, and musically it nods to Undone (The Sweater Song) from 1994, the track that first put Weezer on the map. The video, directed by Brendan Walter and Jasper Graham, also pays homage to the original clip directed by Spike Jonze at the time. In addition to the band members, the video features Tony Hawk, Curry Barker, Dax Flame, Rob Riggle, Rob Huebel, Michael Peña, Giovanni Ribisi and Christopher Mintz Plasse. Riggle and Huebel play stereotypical corporate executives who want to force Weezer to recreate their classic sound, while Curry Barker, known from the horror film Obsession, takes on the role of the video director.

Cuomo explained the themes behind C.E.O. to Rolling Stone: "I was bemoaning the fact that I'm finding myself in this role that doesn't really work with being an artist. Everyone loved the song, but nobody liked that line. We ended up externalizing it, it's like I've externalized this part of myself that's bringing down the party." On the track he sings: "Cranking out another Nineties jam / Wish I could do something new / But nobody wants to hear that / They just want the classics." The song follows earlier singles Shine Again and We Might as Well be Strangers, the latter a collaboration with Karly Hartzman of Wednesday. Tickets for the European and UK shows go on general sale on August 14.