Behold: Sheezer

Cheeky and informed blog-about-town Torontoist announced yesterday the formation of yet another Weezer cover band in a world full of Weezer cover bands. Here’s why you should care:

- This band contains CMG fav and kalimba enthusiast Laura Barrett, who is photoshopped in the Rivers position. For someone perhaps best known for playing keyboards in the Hidden Cameras and the thumb piano in her solo outfit, Barrett is not the most likely candidate for the bespectacled power-pop fire starter, and yet it’s an incredible idea.

- Dana Snell—sometime drummer for Henri Faberge and the Adorables, the Bicycles, and Gentleman Reg—is renowned for her performances at the Last Schmaltz I and II, Bicycles CD Release parties where the band would perform their own material and back up special guests (from Sloan, the Constantines, the Super Friendz, etc) on their own songs. These punishing nights would see Snell pound out 30 tracks (plus or minus a few), sing harmonies, and even sing lead on a couple of things. Add an afternoon all-ages matinee on the same day and you have proof of the kind of kit-busting chops necessary to ape peak-era Pat Wilson.

- The new group haven’t even performed yet, but on their Facebook page they promise only to play songs from “The Blue Album” (1994) and Pinkerton (1996). This shows good judgment.

- It’s an all-girl cover band named “Sheezer.” I can’t decide whether their gender politics or their wittiness is more exciting. Even the members themselves understand how powerful their name is: Snell is quoted in Torontoist saying, “Once I thought of the name Sheezer, we knew it had to happen.”

- Rivers has already Tweeted about it.