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[email protected] Weezer to join Third Eye Blind on Quadmania stage Becky Hunter and our lyrics.” Paul-William deSilva Their latest album, Raditude, got EDITORIAL STAFF rave reviews and experienced sky- high album sales. Adminstrators from Alright, so it looks like this years UMD stated that this album title was Quadmania is about to get a little the main reason why Weezer was more 1999. Weezer and their sweaters originally hired. “Our student body (or their Wuggies) were added to likes words like ‘rad’ and ‘bro,’ some the bill just this past weekend. figured that they wuold like a band Originally slated to play College Park, that speaks gutteral language,” said representatives for Weezer confirmed Dan Mote, president of UMCP. that they were not pleased with being This latest album marked a associated with such a party-centric transition from their previous sound, and lackadaisical institution, and which was slightly on the poppier, wish to play somewhere with a more more mainstream side. As a band, they intellectual student body. have evolved over the past few years, Weezer front man Rivers Cuomo, and it shows on their latest efforts. when contacted by the Retriever They have moved on from songs about Weekly about the reasoning behind hash pipes and bottles of Stevens to the switch in events and venue Cuomo more serious content, such as the said “From our experience with lives of the rich and famous in Beverly Maryland, we felt that the reputation Hills, and the trials and tribulations of of the students at College Park would girls who werent hot before, but are not give us the audience we think hot now.