It’s been about a decade since Twenty One Pilots came oozing out of Columbus, Ohio, with their resolutely Midwestern, amicably dystopian 2015 hit “Stressed Out,” an emo-rap-industrial-pop slab of sing-songy melancholy that touched enough of a nerve to catapult the previously unknown duo into Adele/Beyoncé echelons of chart success. Twenty One Pilots’ post-genre sound was well-timed for the full blossoming of the streaming era. Blurryface (the album that contained “Stressed Out”) went from reggae-lite to ukulele twerpiness to pop-punk to piano-pop to Edm. Adding some value amidst all the playlist-brained vertigo,...
- 5/23/2024
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Kelly Clarkson upset some people when she interviewed Rivers Cuomo from the rock band, Weezer on The Kelly Clarkson Show this week. He looked uncomfortable and a bit intimidated by her boisterous behavior, along with Brooke Shields.
Kelly Clarkson Did Well With Her Music Career
The singer was a contestant in Season 1 of the Fox talent show, American Idol in 2002. After she won, she went on to become extremely successful. Notably, not every winner does that. After slaying in the music industry, she joined The Voice for many seasons. Then in 2019, she started The Kelly Clarkson Show.
Kelly Clarkson Was Successful On American Idol and The Voice – YouTube
The Kelly Clarkson Show relocated to New York City, and if you want to be in the audience, there is a waitlist. And, a hefty price to go with it. She’s at the pinnacle of her career right now, but she...
Kelly Clarkson Did Well With Her Music Career
The singer was a contestant in Season 1 of the Fox talent show, American Idol in 2002. After she won, she went on to become extremely successful. Notably, not every winner does that. After slaying in the music industry, she joined The Voice for many seasons. Then in 2019, she started The Kelly Clarkson Show.
Kelly Clarkson Was Successful On American Idol and The Voice – YouTube
The Kelly Clarkson Show relocated to New York City, and if you want to be in the audience, there is a waitlist. And, a hefty price to go with it. She’s at the pinnacle of her career right now, but she...
- 5/17/2024
- by James Michael
- TV Shows Ace
Kelly Clarkson and Weezer joined forces for a special edition of “Kellyoke,” showcasing the band’s 1994 hit “Say It Ain’t So.” On the most recent episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, Clarkson and the rock band teamed up for a lively rendition of the track, with her and frontman Rivers Cuomo sharing vocals.
Band members Rivers Cuomo and Patrick Wilson also sat down with Clarkson to discuss their career and to reflect on the 30th anniversary of their debut self-titled LP, also known as the Blue Album. “I love the album myself,...
Band members Rivers Cuomo and Patrick Wilson also sat down with Clarkson to discuss their career and to reflect on the 30th anniversary of their debut self-titled LP, also known as the Blue Album. “I love the album myself,...
- 5/16/2024
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Euphoria starlet Barbie Ferreira and French musician/actress Soko attend the Bjork photo exhibition by Spike Jonze curated by Humberto Leon at his Los Angeles restaurant and gallery space Arroz & Fun on Thursday (February 15).
WeTransfer presented the opening night of the exhibition of unseen photographs, called The Day I Met Björk, which is free and open to the public now through May. It unveils over 25 previously unseen images taken in summer 1995 at the Chateau Marmont.
Other attendees included Kim Gordon, Gregg Araki, Rivers Cuomo, Soo Joo Park, Edison Chen, Arianne Phillips, Shirley Kurata, Carol Lim, Chella Man and DJ Olive Kimoto who kept the tunes spinning all night.
Guests enjoyed a bespoke menu from Arroz & Fun including the ‘Spike Jonze’ Peruvian wonton; Cool Ranch Doritos with crème fraiche and Oestra caviar; Szechuan mac & cheese; and a Chinese ‘shake-shake’ spiced tater tots.
To bring the images to fans around the world,...
WeTransfer presented the opening night of the exhibition of unseen photographs, called The Day I Met Björk, which is free and open to the public now through May. It unveils over 25 previously unseen images taken in summer 1995 at the Chateau Marmont.
Other attendees included Kim Gordon, Gregg Araki, Rivers Cuomo, Soo Joo Park, Edison Chen, Arianne Phillips, Shirley Kurata, Carol Lim, Chella Man and DJ Olive Kimoto who kept the tunes spinning all night.
Guests enjoyed a bespoke menu from Arroz & Fun including the ‘Spike Jonze’ Peruvian wonton; Cool Ranch Doritos with crème fraiche and Oestra caviar; Szechuan mac & cheese; and a Chinese ‘shake-shake’ spiced tater tots.
To bring the images to fans around the world,...
- 2/16/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Jennifer Garner, Ed Helms, Brady Noon and Emma Myers were a happy family on the red carpet at the premiere for their new Netflix movie Family Switch.
The quartet, who plays a family in the new movie, were joined by director McG and a cute dog while posing for photos outside AMC The Grove 14 on Wednesday (November 29) in Los Angeles.
It looks like they had an excellent time at the premiere, and they were even spotted doing a dance with the rest of the cast!
Keep reading to find out more…
Other costars in attendance included Andrew Bachelor, Hannah Stocking, Sebastian Quinn, Connor Finnerty, Ilia Isorelys Paulino, Vanessa Carrasco, Jordan Leftwich, Bashir Salahuddin, Lauren Ash, Sebastian Quinn, Rivers Cuomo, Brian Bell, Helen Hong, Fortune Feimster, Alanna Fox and Riannah Pouncy.
Marvel star Xochitl Gomez was also there to support Brady. We’ve got pics of all the celeb guests in the gallery!
The quartet, who plays a family in the new movie, were joined by director McG and a cute dog while posing for photos outside AMC The Grove 14 on Wednesday (November 29) in Los Angeles.
It looks like they had an excellent time at the premiere, and they were even spotted doing a dance with the rest of the cast!
Keep reading to find out more…
Other costars in attendance included Andrew Bachelor, Hannah Stocking, Sebastian Quinn, Connor Finnerty, Ilia Isorelys Paulino, Vanessa Carrasco, Jordan Leftwich, Bashir Salahuddin, Lauren Ash, Sebastian Quinn, Rivers Cuomo, Brian Bell, Helen Hong, Fortune Feimster, Alanna Fox and Riannah Pouncy.
Marvel star Xochitl Gomez was also there to support Brady. We’ve got pics of all the celeb guests in the gallery!
- 11/30/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
The Trolls are back! Long-lost siblings reunite and troll magic faces a new obstacle in “Trolls Band Together.” Dynamic duo Poppy (Anna Kendrick) and Branch (Justin Timberlake) embark on a new adventure to get Branch’s brothers’ boy band — Brozone — back together to save Floyd (Troye Sivan) from two wannabe superstar singers who secretly leech off of Floyd’s talent.
John Dory (Eric André) catalyzes the reunion of Brozone, who broke up over creative differences when Branch was a baby. The other two brothers — Clay and Spruce — must be tracked down to save Floyd from losing all of his talent to Velvet (Amy Schumer) and Veneer (Andrew Rannells).
An epic soundtrack, complete with a new *Nsync song as well as renditions of old classics and the addition of Camilla Cabello’s voice awaits adventurers ready for “Trolls 3.”
Here are all the songs in “Trolls Band Together”:
*Nsync Trolls-style...
John Dory (Eric André) catalyzes the reunion of Brozone, who broke up over creative differences when Branch was a baby. The other two brothers — Clay and Spruce — must be tracked down to save Floyd from losing all of his talent to Velvet (Amy Schumer) and Veneer (Andrew Rannells).
An epic soundtrack, complete with a new *Nsync song as well as renditions of old classics and the addition of Camilla Cabello’s voice awaits adventurers ready for “Trolls 3.”
Here are all the songs in “Trolls Band Together”:
*Nsync Trolls-style...
- 11/17/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Dominic Fike has released a music video for his song “Think Fast,” which features Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo. The moody clip was directed by Floridaman, and sees Fike singing from atop a wrecked boat and while fighting the wind in a desolate field.
“Think Fast” appears on Fike’s recent sophomore LP, Sunburn, which dropped in July. The singer has previously shared music videos for album cuts “Ant Pile” and “Dancing In The Courthouse.”
Sunburn marked the musician’s follow-up to his major label debut, What Could Possibly Go Wrong,...
“Think Fast” appears on Fike’s recent sophomore LP, Sunburn, which dropped in July. The singer has previously shared music videos for album cuts “Ant Pile” and “Dancing In The Courthouse.”
Sunburn marked the musician’s follow-up to his major label debut, What Could Possibly Go Wrong,...
- 8/24/2023
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
It was only last month when Rivers Cuomo admitted that, yeah, Weezer have maybe put out a little “too much” music in recent years. But the man isn’t regretting all of his band’s later discography, telling Vulture that he thinks their best album is — not The Blue Album, not Pinkerton — but their four collective Sznz EPs.
“Like many artists, I’m usually most excited about the thing I just made,” Cuomo said in a new feature with Vulture, while also noting that he “doesn’t do favorites.” But he did try to pick a favorite Weezer album: “I love Summer, Autumn, and Winter all for different reasons. They all came out last year. It would be very hard to choose, so I’ll just say Sznz.”
Proving his case even more, Cuomo cited a Sznz cut when asked about what Weezer song he wishes more people liked: “We...
“Like many artists, I’m usually most excited about the thing I just made,” Cuomo said in a new feature with Vulture, while also noting that he “doesn’t do favorites.” But he did try to pick a favorite Weezer album: “I love Summer, Autumn, and Winter all for different reasons. They all came out last year. It would be very hard to choose, so I’ll just say Sznz.”
Proving his case even more, Cuomo cited a Sznz cut when asked about what Weezer song he wishes more people liked: “We...
- 6/26/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Weezer joined the WGA picket line Wednesday afternoon outside of Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. Members Rivers Cuomo, Brian Bell, and Scott Shriner performed acoustic renditions of “Beverly Hills” and “Buddy Holly” in support of striking Hollywood writers.
The band is set to hit the road this summer for Indie Rock Roadtrip, their headlining 30-date tour with Modest Mouse, Future Islands, Spoon, Momma, Joyce Manor, and White Reaper. The trek kicks off on June 4 in Huntsville, Alabama and wraps on Sept. 3 in San Diego, California.
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The band is set to hit the road this summer for Indie Rock Roadtrip, their headlining 30-date tour with Modest Mouse, Future Islands, Spoon, Momma, Joyce Manor, and White Reaper. The trek kicks off on June 4 in Huntsville, Alabama and wraps on Sept. 3 in San Diego, California.
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- 5/18/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
With just the CW left tomorrow, the near-talent-free upfronts are winding down, and shows are still being shuttered in New York City, while on the picket lines in LA there was Mariachism, tacos, tunes and some Mandalorians to galvanize the troops.
On the 16th day of the Writers Guild strike, picket signs were up near Madison Square Garden this morning as Warner Bros Discovery kicked off its muted pitch to advertisers a week before the company’ streamer officially becomes Max. As HBO chief Casey Bloys offered support on-stage at the Msg Theatre for a “fair resolution” for the WGA, outside picketers were moved almost out of view of entering attendees due to nearly construction.
Slated to be between 32nd and 31st streets on 8th avenue, the picket line this morning was moved to 31st and 7th in front of building Penn 11.
Chanting “Warner Bros/You’re not good/Pay the...
On the 16th day of the Writers Guild strike, picket signs were up near Madison Square Garden this morning as Warner Bros Discovery kicked off its muted pitch to advertisers a week before the company’ streamer officially becomes Max. As HBO chief Casey Bloys offered support on-stage at the Msg Theatre for a “fair resolution” for the WGA, outside picketers were moved almost out of view of entering attendees due to nearly construction.
Slated to be between 32nd and 31st streets on 8th avenue, the picket line this morning was moved to 31st and 7th in front of building Penn 11.
Chanting “Warner Bros/You’re not good/Pay the...
- 5/18/2023
- by Valerie Complex, Rosy Cordero and Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
After their intended Broadway residency last fall didn’t quite go as planned, Weezer are going back to the drawing board. Not only is Rivers Cuomo drumming up a new musical, but he’s crowdsourcing some pre-production help from fans, according to a tweet he posted Thursday morning.
“Does anybody want to help me write the story for a musical (which would be the next Weezer album),” Cuomo wrote. “We could make a follow-up to [Songs from the Black Hole] or start afresh.”
Per Weezerpedia, Songs from the Black Hole is an unfinished, space-themed rock opera Cuomo first began demoing in 1994. It was originally meant to follow-up The Blue Album, but somewhere along the way, the band decided it was “a lame idea” and scrapped the concept. Some of its songs did evolve into tracks on their sophomore album Pinkerton, however, including an early iteration of “Tired of Sex.”
As for this upcoming project, Cuomo...
“Does anybody want to help me write the story for a musical (which would be the next Weezer album),” Cuomo wrote. “We could make a follow-up to [Songs from the Black Hole] or start afresh.”
Per Weezerpedia, Songs from the Black Hole is an unfinished, space-themed rock opera Cuomo first began demoing in 1994. It was originally meant to follow-up The Blue Album, but somewhere along the way, the band decided it was “a lame idea” and scrapped the concept. Some of its songs did evolve into tracks on their sophomore album Pinkerton, however, including an early iteration of “Tired of Sex.”
As for this upcoming project, Cuomo...
- 4/27/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
With the winter solstice officially upon us today, Dec. 21, Weezer are wrapping up their ambitious seasonal EP project with the final installment: Sznz: Winter.
In the lead-up to the EP’s release, Weezer shared one new song, “I Want a Dog,” a solemn acoustic number that first seems like it’s just about canine companionship, before turning into a broader meditation on human connection in the digital age. “I Want a Dog” is one of seven tracks on the Winter EP, which also includes tracks like “Iambic Pentameter,” “Sheraton Commander,...
In the lead-up to the EP’s release, Weezer shared one new song, “I Want a Dog,” a solemn acoustic number that first seems like it’s just about canine companionship, before turning into a broader meditation on human connection in the digital age. “I Want a Dog” is one of seven tracks on the Winter EP, which also includes tracks like “Iambic Pentameter,” “Sheraton Commander,...
- 12/21/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Rivers Cuomo went incognito for most of the first year he attended Harvard University, where his fellow classmates had no idea he was in Weezer, the musician says in the next episode of Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast. The episode hits podcast platforms on Sunday night Oct. 9 beginning at midnight Pt.
In an exclusive clip, O’Brien asks the Weezer frontman about the reactions around campus when he went to school there following the success of their 1994 self-titled album, known as the Blue Album. “’Oh shit, that guy over there,...
In an exclusive clip, O’Brien asks the Weezer frontman about the reactions around campus when he went to school there following the success of their 1994 self-titled album, known as the Blue Album. “’Oh shit, that guy over there,...
- 10/9/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer will not be moving forward with their Broadway residency according to the band’s frontman, Rivers Cuomo.
The singer-songwriter, 52, broke the news on Weezer’s official discord server on Thursday. The post was viewed and shared by Pitchfork.
Read More: Green Day Prank Weezer By Crashing The Stage Wearing Weird Costumes In The Middle Of Concert
“I just learned that our Broadway shows have been cancelled (due to low ticket sales and unbelievably high expenses.)” Cuomo wrote. “I’m very sorry to be telling you this now after we’ve already invested so much time, thought, and emotion. Extra apologies to those of you who cleared schedules and made travel plans to be with us. Thanks to @Broadway Producer for all your hard work and great ideas. I loved where we were going and I hope we can find a way to resurrect our vision.”
Cuomo went on to post the announcement on Reddit.
The singer-songwriter, 52, broke the news on Weezer’s official discord server on Thursday. The post was viewed and shared by Pitchfork.
Read More: Green Day Prank Weezer By Crashing The Stage Wearing Weird Costumes In The Middle Of Concert
“I just learned that our Broadway shows have been cancelled (due to low ticket sales and unbelievably high expenses.)” Cuomo wrote. “I’m very sorry to be telling you this now after we’ve already invested so much time, thought, and emotion. Extra apologies to those of you who cleared schedules and made travel plans to be with us. Thanks to @Broadway Producer for all your hard work and great ideas. I loved where we were going and I hope we can find a way to resurrect our vision.”
Cuomo went on to post the announcement on Reddit.
- 8/12/2022
- by etcanadadigital
- ET Canada
The September Broadway residency of rock band Weezer has been canceled due to “low ticket sales and unbelievably high expenses,” frontman Rivers Cuomo announced online last night.
“I just learned that our Broadway shows have been cancelled (due to low ticket sales and unbelievably high expenses),” Cuomo wrote on the band’s Discord server. “I’m very sorry to be telling you this now after we’ve already invested so much time, thought, and emotion. Extra apologies to those of you who cleared schedules and made travel plans to be with us. Thanks to @Broadway Producer for all your hard work and great ideas. I loved where we were going and I hope we can find a way to resurrect our vision.”
Although the band’s official Twitter and Instagram accounts had not yet confirmed Cuomo’s statement – and by Thursday afternoon still had posts promoting the shows – a message...
“I just learned that our Broadway shows have been cancelled (due to low ticket sales and unbelievably high expenses),” Cuomo wrote on the band’s Discord server. “I’m very sorry to be telling you this now after we’ve already invested so much time, thought, and emotion. Extra apologies to those of you who cleared schedules and made travel plans to be with us. Thanks to @Broadway Producer for all your hard work and great ideas. I loved where we were going and I hope we can find a way to resurrect our vision.”
Although the band’s official Twitter and Instagram accounts had not yet confirmed Cuomo’s statement – and by Thursday afternoon still had posts promoting the shows – a message...
- 8/11/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Rock band Weezer, fronted by singer-guitarist Rivers Cuomo, will stage a week-long residency on Broadway this fall, the band has announced.
The band’s five-show Sznz: In Residence on Broadway will kick off at the Broadway Theatre on Sept. 13, with Weezer expected to perform different tracks from its Sznz EP album cycle throughout the engagement: Sznz Spring (Sept. 13); Sznz Summer (Sept. 14); Sznz Autumn (Sept. 16), Sznz Winter (Sept. 17) and and Encore show mixing selections from all Sznz EPs and fan favorites on Sept. 19. In addition to selections from the Sznz cycle, the band will incorporate songs from its catalog each night.
Tickets for the residency go on sale on Friday.
The latest EP of seven tracks – Sznz: Summer – is out this week. The EP project began in March with Spring, with Autumn set for a Sept. 23 release and Winter on Dec. 21. The Broadway residency will preview the latter two releases.
Prior to the Broadway residency,...
The band’s five-show Sznz: In Residence on Broadway will kick off at the Broadway Theatre on Sept. 13, with Weezer expected to perform different tracks from its Sznz EP album cycle throughout the engagement: Sznz Spring (Sept. 13); Sznz Summer (Sept. 14); Sznz Autumn (Sept. 16), Sznz Winter (Sept. 17) and and Encore show mixing selections from all Sznz EPs and fan favorites on Sept. 19. In addition to selections from the Sznz cycle, the band will incorporate songs from its catalog each night.
Tickets for the residency go on sale on Friday.
The latest EP of seven tracks – Sznz: Summer – is out this week. The EP project began in March with Spring, with Autumn set for a Sept. 23 release and Winter on Dec. 21. The Broadway residency will preview the latter two releases.
Prior to the Broadway residency,...
- 6/22/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Tonight marks the summer solstice and, as promised, a new EP as part of Weezer’s year-long Sznz project.
Following Sznz: Spring — which featured the band’s hit “A Little Bit of Love” — Rivers Cuomo and company released Sznz: Summer on the summer equinox. As opposed to the “happy chill” Spring, Summer recalls Weezer’s vintage Nineties sound with songs like “Lawn Chair,” “Thank You and Good Night,” and “What’s The Good Of Being Good.”
Weezer appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday night to perform the EP’s first single “Records.
Following Sznz: Spring — which featured the band’s hit “A Little Bit of Love” — Rivers Cuomo and company released Sznz: Summer on the summer equinox. As opposed to the “happy chill” Spring, Summer recalls Weezer’s vintage Nineties sound with songs like “Lawn Chair,” “Thank You and Good Night,” and “What’s The Good Of Being Good.”
Weezer appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday night to perform the EP’s first single “Records.
- 6/21/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Spring has officially sprung, and Weezer marked the occasion with a whimsical, fantasy-filled rendition of the group’s new single “A Little Bit of Love” on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The band transformed the late-night show’s stage into a fanciful forest, complete with a creepy mandolin-playing rabbit and frontman Rivers Cuomo sporting a pair of pointy elf ears.
Contrary to the sad sack nerd rock that propelled Weezer to fame in the early 90s, “A Little Bit of Love” is a blithe and uplifting ambling rock number, jam-packed with inspirational aphorisms.
Contrary to the sad sack nerd rock that propelled Weezer to fame in the early 90s, “A Little Bit of Love” is a blithe and uplifting ambling rock number, jam-packed with inspirational aphorisms.
- 3/22/2022
- by Kat Bouza
- Rollingstone.com
The spring semester has arrived, and chief faculty advisor for the Weezer Institute of the Arts, Professor Rivers Cuomo (now officially America’s most popular Cuomo), has prepared a lecture connecting the Bard and Vivaldi to domestic conviviality. “Shakespeare makes me happy,” he declares, repeating that thesis a couple of times before concluding, “and I’m happy to be with you.” There’s acoustic guitar, and pan pipes, and a big, lush Brian May–style guitar solo playing themes from Vivaldi’s “La Primavera”, all complementing the Prof’s supporting arguments that Hamlet,...
- 3/18/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
As more musicians pull their music from Spotify amidst the controversy surrounding Joe Rogan, listeners are contemplating making the jump to alternate streaming services. There are a few options available, the more obvious choices including Apple Music and Tidal, but Rivers Cuomo is adding his own self-made app to the mix: Weezify.
“Tired of Spotify” the Weezer frontman wrote on Twitter. “Come on over to Weezify.” The only catch with Cuomo’s venture is that when he created the app last year, he filled it with the more than 3,200 demos...
“Tired of Spotify” the Weezer frontman wrote on Twitter. “Come on over to Weezify.” The only catch with Cuomo’s venture is that when he created the app last year, he filled it with the more than 3,200 demos...
- 1/31/2022
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
This piece was originally published on Aug. 29, 2019.
The new episode of our Amazon Original podcast Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums is an in-depth look at the origins of Weezer and the making of the band’s self-titled debut, a.k.a. The Blue Album. Here are some highlights from the revealing interviews:
Rivers Cuomo was such a metalhead that he hated alt-rock when he first heard it.
Cuomo knew metal, and had a quiet soft spot for pop, such as Madonna and Tiffany. Practically everything else was alien to him.
The new episode of our Amazon Original podcast Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums is an in-depth look at the origins of Weezer and the making of the band’s self-titled debut, a.k.a. The Blue Album. Here are some highlights from the revealing interviews:
Rivers Cuomo was such a metalhead that he hated alt-rock when he first heard it.
Cuomo knew metal, and had a quiet soft spot for pop, such as Madonna and Tiffany. Practically everything else was alien to him.
- 12/14/2021
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer’s self-titled debut, a.k.a. the Blue Album, is one of the most enduring artifacts of the alt-rock age, winning teenage hearts in generation after generation. Released in 1994, it’s the geeky, equally angsty little brother of Pearl Jam’s Ten and Nirvana’s Nevermind, somehow both more sincere and more ironic than its predecessors, and in some ways bolder in its disregard for the old rules of rock.
To some suspicious music fans at the time, it seemed like Weezer emerged out of nowhere, popping up fully formed with a major-label debut.
To some suspicious music fans at the time, it seemed like Weezer emerged out of nowhere, popping up fully formed with a major-label debut.
- 12/14/2021
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
The Hella Mega Tour, headlined by Green Day, Weezer, and Fall Out Boy, is aiming to be the biggest rock & roll spectacle of a summer when big rock & roll spectacles are far from a sure thing.
The tour finally kicked off in Dallas on July 24th, nearly two years after its initial announcement; on Wednesday morning, the pandemic dealt Hella Mega another curveball, forcing Fall Out Boy to miss two dates on the tour following a positive Covid test result.
Just a few hours after that distressing news broke, Weezer...
The tour finally kicked off in Dallas on July 24th, nearly two years after its initial announcement; on Wednesday morning, the pandemic dealt Hella Mega another curveball, forcing Fall Out Boy to miss two dates on the tour following a positive Covid test result.
Just a few hours after that distressing news broke, Weezer...
- 8/5/2021
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
It seemed inevitable that Weezer would contribute a track to The Metallica Blacklist. An anniversary album for a heavy metal band? Check. A compilation featuring covers by 54 different artists? Check. The chance to perform “Enter Sandman,” arguably the most famous Metallica song? Check, check, check.
Indeed, unlike the other covers we’ve heard from the Blacklist so far — including Jason Isbell’s hoedown version of “Sad But True” and J Balvin’s reggaeton rendition of “Wherever I May Roam” — Weezer’s cover of “Enter Sandman” is pretty straightforward. Rivers Cuomo wails,...
Indeed, unlike the other covers we’ve heard from the Blacklist so far — including Jason Isbell’s hoedown version of “Sad But True” and J Balvin’s reggaeton rendition of “Wherever I May Roam” — Weezer’s cover of “Enter Sandman” is pretty straightforward. Rivers Cuomo wails,...
- 8/3/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Just two songs into Green Day’s headlining set at the Hella Mega tour launch at Arlington, Texas’s Globe Life Field, Billie Joe Armstrong asked for the houselights to be turned on so he could see the roughly 35,000 people in the audience. This was quite possibly the largest rock audience that had assembled anywhere in the world since the start of the pandemic, and he wanted to bask in their glow.
“Take a look around you,” he said. “This is human contact. We cannot be locked up anymore. We need to be together.
“Take a look around you,” he said. “This is human contact. We cannot be locked up anymore. We need to be together.
- 7/25/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer performed their Van Weezer track, “I Need Some of That,” on Late Night With Seth Meyers Wednesday night.
“I Need Some of That” opens with some high-flying guitar harmonics and maintains that hair metal-inspired energy while also melding with — in classic Weezer fashion — a bit of pristine power pop. “I need some of that,” Rivers Cuomo belts on the hook, “Even if we blow up/We’re never gonna grow up/This is where it’s at.”
Weezer released Van Weezer in May. The album was supposed to arrive last year,...
“I Need Some of That” opens with some high-flying guitar harmonics and maintains that hair metal-inspired energy while also melding with — in classic Weezer fashion — a bit of pristine power pop. “I need some of that,” Rivers Cuomo belts on the hook, “Even if we blow up/We’re never gonna grow up/This is where it’s at.”
Weezer released Van Weezer in May. The album was supposed to arrive last year,...
- 6/24/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer performed their new song, “All the Good Ones,” on The Tonight Show Monday, May 10th.
The track, which appears on the rock outfit’s latest album, Van Weezer, boasts stomping drums and crunching power chords, while guitarist Brian Bell gets to throw in some dazzling hair metal-style guitar tricks as well. Rivers Cuomo, meanwhile, sings about being gobsmacked by a new crush, belting, “She plays for all the marbles/Her Nietzsche books are conversation starters/And damn, I think I loved her from the first sight.”
Weezer released Van Weezer last Friday,...
The track, which appears on the rock outfit’s latest album, Van Weezer, boasts stomping drums and crunching power chords, while guitarist Brian Bell gets to throw in some dazzling hair metal-style guitar tricks as well. Rivers Cuomo, meanwhile, sings about being gobsmacked by a new crush, belting, “She plays for all the marbles/Her Nietzsche books are conversation starters/And damn, I think I loved her from the first sight.”
Weezer released Van Weezer last Friday,...
- 5/11/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Thirty years ago, shortly after Kurt Cobain sold the Pixies to the masses by marrying them with Led Zeppelin, a kid named Rivers Cuomo showed up to make bank on the equally subversive revelation that alt-rock’s poker-faced affliction could go just fine with the spit-polished pump of the Eighties arena-rock that Cobain and his grousing, punk-liking kin were supposed to have vanquished. Cuomo understood that the hair-metal-to-grunge shift was less a seismic cultural tremor than a great communal shoulder shrug: One day Warrant was on MTV, then the next day Alice in Chains was,...
- 5/7/2021
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Kelsey Grammer becomes a long-haired, washed-up, kind of creepy has-been rock star in The Space Between, a drama that just happens to feature music from Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo. The trailer you’re about to see is interesting, in that it starts off rather silly, with Grammer’s zonked-out musician recording an album that’s nothing more than the […]
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- 4/22/2021
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Weezer have released the metal-inspired single “I Need Some of That,” off their upcoming album Van Weezer.
The track opens with steady drums and a Van Halen-esque guitar riff, as Rivers Cuomo thinks back to a simpler time as a “little punk”: “Listening to Aerosmith/Later on I will call my mom/Now I’m plugging into a Marshall stack/I can be anything I want.”
“I Need Some of That” follows the singles “Hero,” “The End of the Game,” and “Beginning of the End,” the latter of which...
The track opens with steady drums and a Van Halen-esque guitar riff, as Rivers Cuomo thinks back to a simpler time as a “little punk”: “Listening to Aerosmith/Later on I will call my mom/Now I’m plugging into a Marshall stack/I can be anything I want.”
“I Need Some of That” follows the singles “Hero,” “The End of the Game,” and “Beginning of the End,” the latter of which...
- 4/21/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Kelsey Grammar stars as an aging Seventies rock star looking to get his life back on track in The Space Between, a new coming-of-age movie from Paramount. The trailer for the film was released on Monday, and it’s set to arrive in theaters on April 23rd, with a video-on-demand and digital release on June 15th.
Set in Los Angeles during the Nineties, The Space Between follows a young music label staffer named Charlie Porter (Jackson White), whose dreams of breaking out of the mailroom lead him to discover the...
Set in Los Angeles during the Nineties, The Space Between follows a young music label staffer named Charlie Porter (Jackson White), whose dreams of breaking out of the mailroom lead him to discover the...
- 4/19/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer are over video meeting calls in their new visual for “Grapes of Wrath.” The song appears on the group’s 14th studio album, Ok Human, which arrived in January.
The Brendan Walter and Jasper Graham-directed clip opens on Rivers Cuomo, who is lamenting having to do another weekly meeting tied to the computer screen when he has a giant list of books he’d rather tackle. He opts out by adding a photo of himself in front of his computer camera. Soon, each of his bandmates — Patrick Wilson,...
The Brendan Walter and Jasper Graham-directed clip opens on Rivers Cuomo, who is lamenting having to do another weekly meeting tied to the computer screen when he has a giant list of books he’d rather tackle. He opts out by adding a photo of himself in front of his computer camera. Soon, each of his bandmates — Patrick Wilson,...
- 4/15/2021
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
It’s been a year since Green Day played a set; they celebrated the release of their 2020 album Father of All… at the iHeartRadio Theater in Burbank, California. It was supposed to be the beginning of a huge 2020 for the band, with a summer stadium tour planned — but the pandemic intervened.
Now, the band is taking the stage once more for NFL Honors, an annual awards ceremony the night before the Super Bowl celebrating the biggest stars of the NFL season. The event airs this Saturday, February 6 at 9 p.m.
Now, the band is taking the stage once more for NFL Honors, an annual awards ceremony the night before the Super Bowl celebrating the biggest stars of the NFL season. The event airs this Saturday, February 6 at 9 p.m.
- 2/2/2021
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer have shared their new song “All My Favorite Songs,” the first single off the band’s surprise new album Ok Human, out January 29th. In the Colin Read-accompanying video, the band straddle the line between the virtual world and reality.
The video opens on Rivers Cuomo who is distracted from scrolling on his phone, when he should be laying down a track in the studio with the band. Meanwhile, in another scene, a teenager appears dejected as he stares at his computer feed. Things take a turn for...
The video opens on Rivers Cuomo who is distracted from scrolling on his phone, when he should be laying down a track in the studio with the band. Meanwhile, in another scene, a teenager appears dejected as he stares at his computer feed. Things take a turn for...
- 1/21/2021
- by Daniel Kreps and Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
When it comes to lowered expectations in pop, there probably isn’t a better candidate than the Avalanches’ third record. The Australian Edm combo’s debut, Since I Left You, took the art of constructing music out of samples to a heightened level of craft; that patchwork quilt of music was one of 2000’s kickiest albums. Nearly two decades passed before we heard from the Avalanches again, and when we did, time seemed to have passed them by: 2016’s Wildflower was a far less satisfying grab-bag of voices, sound effects...
- 12/10/2020
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo has expanded a new online market where he’s selling thousands of demo recordings made over the past couple of decades.
Cuomo quietly launched the site back in November with a single demo bundle, and today, December 8th, appeared to finalize the market, which now boasts 2,655 recordings. Cuomo created the site, he said, as a final project for a web programming class.
For my Web Programming class final project, I made a web market stocked with 2655 previously unreleased demos. https://t.co/wFNb1drPRs
— Rivers Cuomo...
Cuomo quietly launched the site back in November with a single demo bundle, and today, December 8th, appeared to finalize the market, which now boasts 2,655 recordings. Cuomo created the site, he said, as a final project for a web programming class.
For my Web Programming class final project, I made a web market stocked with 2655 previously unreleased demos. https://t.co/wFNb1drPRs
— Rivers Cuomo...
- 12/8/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Avalanches have unveiled the all-star guest list that features on their upcoming album We Will Always Love You, out December 11th.
The album’s previously released singles have so far included appearances by Blood Orange (“We Will Always Love You“), Jamie xx and Neneh Cherry (“Wherever You Go“), Rivers Cuomo and Pink Siifu (“Running Red Lights“), Leon Bridges (“Interstellar Love“), Vashti Bunyan (“Reflecting Light“), Tricky, Denzel Curry, and Sampa the Great (“Take Care in Your Dreaming“).
We Will Always Love You will also feature Perry Farrell, Mgmt, Johnny Marr,...
The album’s previously released singles have so far included appearances by Blood Orange (“We Will Always Love You“), Jamie xx and Neneh Cherry (“Wherever You Go“), Rivers Cuomo and Pink Siifu (“Running Red Lights“), Leon Bridges (“Interstellar Love“), Vashti Bunyan (“Reflecting Light“), Tricky, Denzel Curry, and Sampa the Great (“Take Care in Your Dreaming“).
We Will Always Love You will also feature Perry Farrell, Mgmt, Johnny Marr,...
- 11/18/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
The Avalanches have shared two new songs, “Take Care in Your Dreaming” and “Music Makes Me High,” from their next record, We Will Always Love You, out December 11th via Astralwerks.
“Take Care in Your Dreaming” is booming track that mixes meditative synths and vocal hooks, with hard-hitting drums and triumphant guest verses from Denzel Curry and Sampa the Great. Storied producer Tricky also contributed to the track.
“Music Makes Me High,” meanwhile, is a slick bit of sample-based disco pop that bolsters its euphoric groove with the voices of...
“Take Care in Your Dreaming” is booming track that mixes meditative synths and vocal hooks, with hard-hitting drums and triumphant guest verses from Denzel Curry and Sampa the Great. Storied producer Tricky also contributed to the track.
“Music Makes Me High,” meanwhile, is a slick bit of sample-based disco pop that bolsters its euphoric groove with the voices of...
- 9/14/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Avalanches and the International Space Orchestra (Iso) conjure space, science, exploration and connection in their new collaborative video for the duo’s “Wherever You Go.” The track — which features Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry and Clypso — was released in tandem with single “Reflecting Light” last month.
Filmed live in quarantine, the Avalanches’ Robbie Chater and Tony Diblasi appear for the first time in one of their videos alongside Iso artists and Clypso in the new clip. Iso musicians comprise researchers, scientists and professors, among others, who hail from NASA Ames Research Center,...
Filmed live in quarantine, the Avalanches’ Robbie Chater and Tony Diblasi appear for the first time in one of their videos alongside Iso artists and Clypso in the new clip. Iso musicians comprise researchers, scientists and professors, among others, who hail from NASA Ames Research Center,...
- 8/20/2020
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
What better way to celebrate the first Bill & Ted movie in 29 years than with a band that took the Nineties by storm?
“My head is spinning, it’s the beginning of the end,” Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo sings in the hook of just-released song “Beginning of the End.” The band whipped up the new tune for the third installment of the franchise — aptly titled Bill & Ted Face the Music — which United Artists Releasing will release on August 28th. Record label 10K Projects will drop the soundtrack on the same day.
“My head is spinning, it’s the beginning of the end,” Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo sings in the hook of just-released song “Beginning of the End.” The band whipped up the new tune for the third installment of the franchise — aptly titled Bill & Ted Face the Music — which United Artists Releasing will release on August 28th. Record label 10K Projects will drop the soundtrack on the same day.
- 8/14/2020
- by Samantha Hissong
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer has unveiled the first song from the next installment of “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.” The song “Beginning Of The End (Wyld Stallyns Edit)” soundtracks “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” which opens on Aug. 28 in select theaters.
Wyld Stallyns, the fictional band of Theodore “Ted” Logan (Keanu Reeves) and Bill Preston Esq. (Alex Winters) returns in this third film from the franchise, only now the stoner buddies are married (not to each other) with children and they have one last mission: to find and record the song that will save music and unite the world. They have 78 minutes to do so.
As they travel throughout history on their quest, they encounter musical notables like Big Black Delta, Mastodon and Lamb of God, all of whom appear on the soundtrack.
Weezer teased a snippet from “Beginning Of The End” on the band’s Twitter earlier this week with lead...
Wyld Stallyns, the fictional band of Theodore “Ted” Logan (Keanu Reeves) and Bill Preston Esq. (Alex Winters) returns in this third film from the franchise, only now the stoner buddies are married (not to each other) with children and they have one last mission: to find and record the song that will save music and unite the world. They have 78 minutes to do so.
As they travel throughout history on their quest, they encounter musical notables like Big Black Delta, Mastodon and Lamb of God, all of whom appear on the soundtrack.
Weezer teased a snippet from “Beginning Of The End” on the band’s Twitter earlier this week with lead...
- 8/14/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
The Avalanches have dropped two new songs, “Wherever You Go” and “Reflecting Light,” from their upcoming as-yet-untitled album. Their third LP will be the follow-up to 2016’s Wildflower, which was their first album in 16 years.
The Jamie xx co-produced “Wherever You Go” features vocals from Neneh Cherry and Clypso and piano from Mick Jones. It also samples The Voyager Golden Record, the 12-inch gold-plated copper disk launched into space in 1977, which houses sounds and images that were chosen “to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth,” per NASA.
The Jamie xx co-produced “Wherever You Go” features vocals from Neneh Cherry and Clypso and piano from Mick Jones. It also samples The Voyager Golden Record, the 12-inch gold-plated copper disk launched into space in 1977, which houses sounds and images that were chosen “to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth,” per NASA.
- 7/22/2020
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer put a new spin on socially distanced late-night performances with their rendition of “Hero” on The Tonight Show Wednesday.
To start, the band transformed the riff-heavy track into a piano power ballad, led by frontman Rivers Cuomo, who appeared at his piano at home and began performing the song alone. Soon though, the TV over his shoulder flashed on and the other members of Weezer — Pat Wilson, Brian Bell and Scott Shriner — appeared on screen to provide accompaniment.
Weezer released “Hero” back in May. Although the song itself is...
To start, the band transformed the riff-heavy track into a piano power ballad, led by frontman Rivers Cuomo, who appeared at his piano at home and began performing the song alone. Soon though, the TV over his shoulder flashed on and the other members of Weezer — Pat Wilson, Brian Bell and Scott Shriner — appeared on screen to provide accompaniment.
Weezer released “Hero” back in May. Although the song itself is...
- 6/18/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
To tide fans over after their co-headlining tour with Fall Out Boy was postponed due to Covid-19, Green Day and Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo shared a pair of new covers: The California trio released a rendition of Blondie’s “Dreaming” and Cuomo cued up Green Day’s own graduation season classic, “Time of Your Life.”
Green Day paired their thundering rendition of “Dreaming” with a fitting video that paid tribute to the simple joys of live music. It opened with a small dog dozing in a bed by the door,...
Green Day paired their thundering rendition of “Dreaming” with a fitting video that paid tribute to the simple joys of live music. It opened with a small dog dozing in a bed by the door,...
- 5/22/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Rivers Cuomo continued the quarantine trend of covering Nirvana Monday with a piano rendition of “Heart-Shaped Box.”
Cuomo performed the In Utero track next to a towering plant and a desk boasting a prominently-placed guitar and bottle of hand-sanitizer. Neither the angle nor the video quality is all that good — “Filming this with a potato added to the vibe, it was the right choice,” one commenter quipped — but the cover itself is appropriately fraught.
The Weezer frontman’s cover follows Post Malone’s Nirvana tribute livestream for Covid-19 relief, Puddle...
Cuomo performed the In Utero track next to a towering plant and a desk boasting a prominently-placed guitar and bottle of hand-sanitizer. Neither the angle nor the video quality is all that good — “Filming this with a potato added to the vibe, it was the right choice,” one commenter quipped — but the cover itself is appropriately fraught.
The Weezer frontman’s cover follows Post Malone’s Nirvana tribute livestream for Covid-19 relief, Puddle...
- 5/12/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer send a hopeful note around the world in the video for their new song, “Hero,” off their upcoming album, Van Weezer.
The track is a classic Weezer anthem packed with plenty of big, meaty guitar riffs and lyrics from Rivers Cuomo that grapple with personal dreams of greatness and feeling like an outcast. “Everybody needs a hero but I’m not everybody else,” he sings, “I walk alone, yeah, I walk alone/You know I tried to be a hero but I was lying to myself/I walk alone.
The track is a classic Weezer anthem packed with plenty of big, meaty guitar riffs and lyrics from Rivers Cuomo that grapple with personal dreams of greatness and feeling like an outcast. “Everybody needs a hero but I’m not everybody else,” he sings, “I walk alone, yeah, I walk alone/You know I tried to be a hero but I was lying to myself/I walk alone.
- 5/6/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Aca-believe it! On Thursday, Skylar Astin shared the ultimate #Tbt on Instagram, throwing it all the way back to his early Pitch Perfect days with a retro rehearsal video. In it, the Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist star and his fellow Barden Treblemakers can be seen running through the choreography of the fictional a capella group's final number, where Skylar wowed the crowd with his rendition of Cee Lo Green's "Bright Lights, Big City." Then, the gang moved on to the second portion of the medley where Ben Platt's character Benji delivers a show-stopping performance of "Magic" by B.o.B featuring Rivers Cuomo. Skylar's nostalgic post was inspired by his Pitch Perfect castmate...
- 4/9/2020
- E! Online
Weezer have shared a new online game fittingly tied to their song “The End of the Game,” a track off of the band’s upcoming LP, Van Weezer, out May 15th.
The 8-bit game was designed by Jason Oda and, per a statement, is an “ode to the boss levels that are notoriously impossible to beat” in Eighties and Nineties games like Street Fighter II, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Punch Out. As such, after picking your player — one of the four members of Weezer — you’re transported through all...
The 8-bit game was designed by Jason Oda and, per a statement, is an “ode to the boss levels that are notoriously impossible to beat” in Eighties and Nineties games like Street Fighter II, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Punch Out. As such, after picking your player — one of the four members of Weezer — you’re transported through all...
- 3/27/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Avalanches have unveiled their video for new song “Running Red Lights,” which features Rivers Cuomo and rapper Pink Siifu. The clip is dedicated to the late David Berman and stars dancer Erik Cavanaugh, a former contestant from America’s Got Talent, and a cameo from Los Angeles billboard icon Angelyne.
“Running Red Lights” addresses love and loss and the Greg Brunkalla-directed visual opens with Cavanaugh being told by a psychic that “You are coming full circle.” Feeling inspired, he leaves the psychic and dances down the street as he heads...
“Running Red Lights” addresses love and loss and the Greg Brunkalla-directed visual opens with Cavanaugh being told by a psychic that “You are coming full circle.” Feeling inspired, he leaves the psychic and dances down the street as he heads...
- 3/19/2020
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
It’s been nearly 20 years since Nada Surf’s wonderful alt-rock one-hit-by-design “Popular,” a song that perfectly embodied/parodied the underdog ambivalence of the post-Nirvana era. They’ve been making excellent music ever since, years and years after so many other alt-rock one-hits don’t even exist as trivia questions. The run of albums they made during the 2000s — 2003’s Let Go, 2005’s The Weight Is a Gift, and 2009’s Lucky — is especially worth returning to, full of sweet songs about grappling with the muted joys and weird perils of...
- 1/10/2020
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
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