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Suddenly we looked up, and there were the four elements of Weezer, surrounding us on raised pedestals. Rivers was about 10 feet in front of me. Maybe he was going through an image adjustment. He was sporting knee-length socks, basketball shorts, a trucker hat, and a moustache the size of Kuwait ... read more |
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Weezer’s increasingly eccentric front man has created a song by posting chunks of it on YouTube, gathering fans’ advice via comments and video responses, and making adjustments along the way. It sounds loose, free, fresh – and more or less like something a label would love to own the rights to ... read more |
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“Pork and Beans,” which resulted from a tiff between Cuomo and his label, is a happy, sing-along song, but with cynical, insider lyrics designed for mocking label execs. The gist of the song: Rivers needs to hit the gym, dress better, and start using Rogaine in order to be a better musician. Because isn’t that what rock and roll is about anyway? ... read more |
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Since this column has been hibernating longer than Rip Van Winkle (5), I’ll give ya’ll a brief rundown of how things work. Like Glenn Close (6) after seeing an excited and injured soldier in The World According To Garp, I’ll slide in all the biggest music-related stories of the last week and thrust until happy endings are achieved for all ... read more |
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Like Enrico Fermi (2), I’ll research, dissect, and eventually, split open the most noteworthy musical events of the previous week, causing a chain reaction that may or may not change life as we know it. Along the way, I’ll keep a running count of every famous person mentioned, hopefully hitting 50 by the article’s “it was all a dream” ending. Ready? Than like Alex Trebek’s (3) moustache, I’m off ... read more |
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“Blast Off,” written in 1993 if a YouTube entry is to be trusted, sounds like what could be called “deep-core” Weezer: the band all of the hardcore fans knew was there underneath the fathoms of music-industry murk. It’s a ghost Weezer song, finally released after its weathered and beaten-down corpus played the game for long enough to relax and dork around a little. ... read more |
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Say it ain’t so! That’s right, kids, a little booger broke free from Weezer, the beloved alt-rock band of Buddy Holly look-alikes that brought us hash pipes in Beverly Hills all throughout the 90s. ... read more |
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