WEEZER: “Hurley” 15th Anniversary LP

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WEEZER: “Hurley” 15th Anniversary LP. Released 24th Oct 2025

Hurley is the eighth studio album by American rock band Weezer, released on September 10, 2010. It is Weezer’s only album released by Epitaph Records. The album was produced by Rivers Cuomo and Shawn Everett. Similar to their previous album Raditude, Hurley features songs co-written with songwriters outside of the band.

Preceded by the single “Memories”, Hurley debuted at number six on the US Billboard 200, with over 45,000 units sold in its first week of sales.

The album’s cover is a picture of American actor Jorge Garcia, who portrayed Hugo “Hurley” Reyes on the television series Lost from 2004 to 2010. The photo itself is a small cropping of an original picture of Cuomo being embraced by Garcia, taken in the green room of Lopez Tonight while Weezer and Garcia were taping segments for separate shows on the same day.[16]

Originally, the band was going to self-title the album for a fourth time, but decided against it, since the band figured most fans would simply refer to the album as the “Hurley” album.[12] Guitarist Brian Bell stated that the record was named after clothing company Hurley International, whose bosses he said funded the recording and provided a studio for recording sessions.[17] Bell later claimed that he was mistaken and that the album was in fact named after the Lost character and not the clothing company.[18] However, the group subsequently worked with the clothing manufacturer to create a Weezer-branded clothing line.[19]