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One of the great successful grassroots campaigns in recent music history involved a teenage girl from Ohio lobbying to get Weezer to cover Toto's 1983 mega-hit "Africa," a song that's been experiencing a renaissance among younger generations in recent years. Not only did Rivers Cuomo and company oblige that request -- earning themselves their biggest…
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Space: Stream Rivers Cuomo And Kelsey Grammer’s The Space Between Soundtrack
submitted by Nick Jun 18th 2021 02:00 pm (stereogum.com)
In the new movie The Space Between, Kelsey Grammer plays an aging rock star who is losing his record deal as well as his grip on reality. Rivers Cuomo, whose band Weezer released their iconic debut album around the time Grammer’s also-iconic sitcom Frasier was wrapping up its first season, wrote the songs for Grammer’s charac...
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Weezer: Watch Weezer Debut The Pitchfork-Dissing “Tell Me What You Want” At Summer Game Fest
submitted by Nick Jun 10th 2021 09:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Weezer already released two full-length albums this year — the piano-powered OK Human and the hair-metal-inspired Van Weezer — and it seems like they’re going to keep cranking out new music as they prepare to finally launch the Hella Mega Tour with Green Day and Fall Out Boy. To wit: The band just debuted a new song...
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Weezer: Rivers Cuomo Says Weezer Offered “Hash Pipe” To Ozzy Osbourne
submitted by Nick May 28th 2021 05:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Just over 20 years ago, Weezer made their big return from self-imposed exile when they released their Green Album. A couple of decades later, Weezer continue to endure as an actual literal stadium-rock band. The group released their new LP Van Weezer earlier this month, and they’re now getting ready to hit the road with Green Day and F...
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Daft Punk: Kacey Musgraves Talks New Album Influenced By Bill Withers, Daft Punk, Sade, The Eagles, And Weezer
submitted by Nick May 20th 2021 04:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Three months ago Kacey Musgraves teased her fourth album — the follow-up to 2018’s world-conquering Golden Hour — in a Rolling Stone cover story. Today she’s sharing more about the LP via another cover story, this time in Elle.
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Green Day: Fall Out Boy, & Weezer Announce Rescheduled 2021 Hella Mega Tour
submitted by Nick May 17th 2021 05:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Way the hell back in September of 2019, the triple-headed rock monster of Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and Weezer announced that they would join forces for what they called the Hella Mega Tour. The giants of tuneful, crunchy ’90s and ’00s punk-adjacent alt-pop planned to spent the summer of 2020 playing stadiums, and they all rel...
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