A new Weezer album this year? Almost.

Since 2005's Make Believe, its been pretty quiet in Weezerland. That'll change soon, sort of. As Weezer's frontman and primary songwriter, Rivers Cuomo has acrued quite a large back catalog of unreleased songs. Most of these exist as demos in his own personal collection, until now. Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo will be released on December 11th. Set to contain 18 tracks from various demos from 1992-2007 including an early demo of Buddy Holly and a couple of covers to boot, it will also contain extensive notes from Rivers on each song and his songwriting process. Coming from a man who has created a book he calls The Encyclopedia of Pop, these insights should be interesting.

As for Weezer, their sixth album is finished and is currently being mixed. It should see the light of day in the first part of next year.