The Rivers Cuomo hyped band from California, AM Radio will be releasing their album, Radioactive this Tuesday, July 1st. In addition to the 13 tracks (listed below), two bonus video tracks are also included.

Tracklisting:
Track List:
01. If This is the End of the World
02. Taken For a Ride
03. I Just Wanna Be Loved
04. Hush
05. Media Life
06. Cold Blue
07. Oh Oh Oh
08. Take Time
09. Becoming You
10. Neverwill
11. Stole the Show
12. Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone
13. Distant Shining Star

In celebration of their release, the band will be trucking into a couple of record stores in CA to do the in-store thing.

July 1: Aron’s Records in Los Angeles
July 5: Rhino Records in Claremont

If you don’t happen to be in the area and want to see the band live, I don’t know what to tell you, there aren’t any tour dates as of yet.

Austin, TX band Cruiserweight will begin their tour of the midwest with Chicago band Amazing Transparent Man tonight. Tour dates are:

June 26th - Springfield, MO
Outland Ballroom

June 27th - St. Louis, MO
Creepy Crawl

June 28th - Auburn, NE
JC’s

June 29th - St. Paul, MN
Taco Torros

June 30th - Fond du Lac, WI
TBA

July 1st - Kiel, WI
Kiel Community Center

July 2nd - Muskegon, MI
Rock Harbor Cafe

July 5th - Chicago, IL
Metro

Attention Canadians! The White Stripes just announced one more tour date and it’s in Canada…ooh la la.

August 5th - Mississauga, Ontario
Hershey Center

Exactly one week from today, Creeper Lagoon will begin “The Glutton for Punishment” tour in Reno, Nevada. The dates were posted on the bands incredibly lo-fi “hey i just discovered the web”-esque webpage. Anyway, here are the tourdates:

June 26th: Reno, NV - Blue Lamp w/ Oranger
June 27th: Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
June 28th: Denver, CO - Larimer w/ Apples in Stereo
June 30th: Dallas, TX - Gypsy
July 1st: Austin, TX - Emo’s
July 2nd: Houston, TX - Rudyards
July 3rd: Baton Rouge, LA - Red Star Bar
July 5th: Athens, GA - Tasty World
July 6th: Carrboro, NC - Go
July 7th: Washington DC - Black Cat w/ Earlimart
July 8th: Philadelphia, PA - Khyber w/ Earlimart
July 9th: Cambridge, MA - TT’s w/ Calla
July 10th: New York, NY - Mercury w/ The Lilys
July 11th: New York, NY - Mercury w/ The Lilys (yes, twice in a row)
July 14th: Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop w/ Earlimart
July 15th: Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle w/ Earlimart
July 16th: Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar w/ Earlimart
July 18th: Missoula, MT - Jays w/ Earlimart
July 19th: Seattle, WA - Graceland w/ Earlimart
July 20th: Portland, OR - Berbatis Pan w/ Earlimart
July 21st: Sacramento, CA - Old Ironsides w/ Earlimart

Weezer recently announced that they will be contributing a song to the Green Day tribute album A Different Shade of Green. The song is a cover of the Nimrod track “Worry Rock” recorded last winter in semi-acoustic format. The album is to be released on Skunk Ape Records on July 22nd.

In addition to the contribution mentioned above, a live version of the song “Why Bother?” will make its way onto a double 7″ featuring bands including Phantom Planet, Ben Kweller, and AM Radio. The collection, to be released July 1, was created in order to raise money to help Petra Haden, an original member of the band That Dog.

Strangely enough, Weezer was sure to include in the announcement of the above titles that they will be available at Hot Topic and then most other retail/indie retailers. It is still speculation whether Weezer’s next tour is to be sponsored by Hot Topic, but I really don’t believe such a sponsorship would be able to increase the number of annoying kids that would already be present at a Weezer show.