After seeing Weezer perform a few weeks back it was immediately apparent to me that this was a completely different band from the one that I had seen many years ago.  Having been one of my favorite bands for a long stretch of my teen and early 20’s years, Weezer and I have sort of lost touch over the last 3-4 albums…. Say what you will about the evolution of the music(a lot of it is total garbage), but it was the change in their performance that caught me completely off guard.  Rivers was all over the stage and barely played his guitar for half the songs…  Rivers went into the crowd and stole hats from people… Rivers was jumping on a miniature trampoline… ?? What?!   This 1995 clip of the band performing “The World Has Turned And Left Me Here” is the band that I have such fond memories of.  Rivers is awkward and extremely nervous,  the drummer is playing drums and not backup guitar, Brian the 2nd guitarist looks like he actually gives a shit and Matt Sharpe was still in the band.  I miss those guys… unfortunately the audio is a bit low, but this video is gem.  Enjoy: continue reading...

I’m not sure exactly what this says about Weezer… The band has unfortunately gone from nerd rock heroes in the mid 90’s, to comeback kings in the early 00’s, to mainstream poop-rock weirdos in the current musical landscape.  I can’t for the life of me figure out why they’d brand a retarded infomercial product with their band name, but I keep falling back on the answer that lead singer Rivers Cuomo must have had a mental breakdown in the last few years that has rendered him oblivious to right and wrong, up and down how to make meaningful music anymore…   Here’s hoping one day they can return to form, in the meantime watch the Weezer Snuggie Commercial and try and make sense of it all… continue reading...

Here’s a pretty cool live performance of the song “The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived” off of Weezer’s most recent self-titled album: continue reading...

Weezer have always had good to awesome videos and this new one is no exception. The idea could have easily flopped, but everything is executed extremely well. What is the idea? Well, lets just say if you hang around on the internet enough you’ll have no problem getting all the references. Nice job Weezer, let’s just hope the album is as good as this: continue reading...

From Rivers himself:

“Hey Weezer punks, continue reading...

Here’s a solid e-mail exchange interview from Pitchforkmedia.com

Let’s be honest: No matter what Rivers Cuomo releases, we’ll jump at the chance to talk with him, even for a one-pass e-mail interview like this one. He’s just released his first collection of demos, Alone, but Weezer’s upcoming sixth album looms large on the horizon. For those who want Weezer to shake things up a bit, it appears you may get more than you bargained for. But we shouldn’t underestimate Cuomo, when these home recordings unearthed they had more than their share of surprises– a bit of the more introspective bedroom tracks, certainly, but then there’s the Ice Cube cover and a Gregg Alexander cover, not to mention the songs inspired by Romantic-Minimalism, the experiments with counterpoint in vocals, and the forays into MOR pop… it’s no surprise to hear that Cuomo is a restless listener, and just as restless a musician of late, if his reports on Album Six are to be believed. Given the breadth covered on Alone, and all the music he’s got in the vaults, these promises are likely just the tip of the iceberg. continue reading...