Weezer Names New Album After Hurley from 'Lost'

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All is 'Lost' for Weezer. For rock stars, the folks in Weezer sure don't take themselves too seriously. The band announced this week that its highly-anticipated new album will be called Hurley, after the character played by Jorge Garcia in the show Lost. "We just went with some random word that doesn't really have anything to do with anything,"...

For rock stars, the folks in Weezer sure don't take themselves too seriously. The band announced this week that its highly-anticipated new album will be called Hurley, after the character played by Jorge Garcia in the show Lost. "We just went with some random word that doesn't really have anything to do with anything," said singer Rivers Cuomo.

The new Weezer album is set for release on September 14, and fans of the band are anxiously biding their time. But the music is not what everyone's talking about -- it's the album's cover.

Smiling back at listeners will be the face of Garcia, who played Hurley on Lost. Cuomo said he just liked the image and decided to put it on the cover of their new album.

"I just loved this photo of Jorge Garcia -- it just had this amazing vibe," Cuomo told Spinner.com. And, well, since they already had the photo on the cover, why not call it "Hurley" too?

"We didn't want to do a fourth self-titled record and we knew people would refer to it as 'the Hurley record' even if we left it without that title, so we just called it 'Hurley.' No words are on the cover because all we wanted was his amazing face."

As for the music itself, Cuomo says the new album will sound like traditional pop from the '60s. He compared one song to The Beatles tune "Back in the U.S.S.R," and said the album "sounds like Frankie Valli but mixed with Metallica guitars."

And even though one of the show's most popular characters is on the cover, the album won't have any Lost-inspired songs. In fact, Cuomo just started watching the series. This made him weary when he met Jorge Garcia.

"I only made it through season two, so I was really nervous hanging out with Hurley/Jorge recently, because I didn't want to hear something about how it all resolves, or overhear anyone else talking about it," he says. "I really like the show though."

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