Rivers Cuomo

Rivers Cuomo is the frontman of the band Weezer. For the past few years he has been releasing his solo unreleased demoes through a series he calls Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo. So far there have been 3 volumes and a live dvd released, all of which I have included below. I'm also throwing in Deluxe Editions of Weezer's self-titled debut (widely known as The Blue Album), as well as their sophomore effort Pinkerton (my favorite record ever), as both of these releases include Rivers Demoes. Enjoy.

Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo

Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo

Alone III: The Pinkerton Years

Weezer (Blue)

Pinkerton

Videos

Tired of Sex

Brain Stew (Green Day)

Favorite Tracks: Lemonade, Negativland, You Gave Your Love to Me Softly, Susanne, Jamie, Let Me Wash at Your Sink, Waiting on You, Longtime Sunshine, Money Makes Me Happy, Getting Up and Leaving, Tragic Girl, Devotion, Mykel and Carli

The Unicorns and Side Projects

The Unicorns were a band formed in Canada in the early 2000s by Alden Penner and Nick Thorburn. They broke up and it sucks. 

Three Inches of Blood

Unicorns are People Too

Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

2014 EP

Unreleased

Videos

Jellybones

I Was Born (A Unicorn)

Favorite Tracks: I Die, Les Os, Peach Moon, Ebb Tide Azure Sky, Thunder and Lightning, 2014 (Demo), Child Star, Ready to Die, Let's Get Known

After The Unicorns Split, Nick and drummer Jamie Thompson were briefly a part of a hip-hop collective known as Th'Corn Gangg. As far as I can tell, it was an experimental dumping ground for post-Unicorns remixes and pre-Islands demoes.

Th'Corn Gang

Live @ The Echo 3/12/05

Nick went on to form the bands Islands, Human Highway, Mister Heavenly and Reefer, as well as put out solo material.

Islands

Return to the Sea

Arm's Way

Vapours

A Sleep and a Forgetting

Videos

Rough Gem

Mister Heavenly

Out of Love

Nick Diamonds

I Am an Attic

Alden has been a lot more low-profile than his subsequent bandmate. He fronted the short-lived (but still incredible) band Clues from 2007-2010, releasing only one album. Other than that, he has put out two solo EPs as well as soundtracks for the films The Hamster Cage and Paper Heart. Currently he fronts the band The Hidden Words, but they have yet to put out an official release.

Let's Get Strong (played for his grandmother)

Last Shelter

Clues

Clues

Alden Penner

The Ghost of Creaky Crater

Odes to the House

Paper Heart OST

Live

04/07/05

01/04/06

09/19/2007

(I am currently missing Alden's Soundtrack to the film The Hamster Cage, as well as anything from his pre-Unicorns band Poor Alexander. If you have either of these and you're willing to share you can shoot me an email! I will be eternally grateful).