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the last weeze

Is "Heart Songs" The Worst Weezer Song Yet?

My personal feeling about Weezer is that they made two of the best rock albums of the '90s, two good albums that traded lyrical coherence for good hooks, and Make Believe, a near-abortion that revealed how lucky we were to have Rivers Cuomo babble about hash pipes and dope noses instead of starkly announcing "We Are All On Drugs." "Pork And Beans" has a Blue Album-worthy chorus hook and distortion pedal push, but the lyrics are a pretty embarrassing attempt to seek sympathy for his "uncool" songs. Now "Heart Songs" offers a star's sequel to "In The Garage," name-dropping the artists who helped him throughout the gestative years of his career (before Nirvana changed his life) over a creepily tepid backdrop featuring acoustic guitar, strings and what sounds like a glockenspiel. More »

2:15 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,070 views, 26 comments

Latest by the sieve: I don't care what the song sounds like. I can't take seriously anything produced by a man with that moustache and cowboy hat. Fuck, he looks ridiculous. I can't even come up with a decent joke about it, it's so more »

Weezer's upcoming album has had its release date being pushed up from June 24 to June 3, a rescheduling that their Geffen mouthpiece is attributing to "popular demand" but that anyone who's heard the songs of theirs that have leaked already is probably attributing to "making sure bad buzz doesn't completely take over the record's pre-release cycle." [geffen.com]

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leak of the yesterday

New Weezer Song Showcases Rivers Cuomo's Medley-Writing Ambitions (Or Something Like That)

ARTIST: Weezer
TITLE: "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations On A Shaker Hymn)"
WEB DEBUT: May 7, 2008 More »

1:30 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Maura Johnston
3,911 views, 16 comments

100 and single

Forever Leavin' Pork & Beans: Big Chart Moves By Summer Single Contenders

Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on this week's Billboard charts:

You can't kill Leona Lewis, you can only make her stronger. For the first time in 30 years, a song returns to the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Hot 100 after being evicted twice. Love her or hate her, Ol' Dead Eyes is back.

As unusual as Leona's threepeat is, the more interesting moves this week are made below the No. 1 spot, in part because it looks like the songs we may be hearing during car-radio season are hitting the charts now. That includes big debuts by the unsinkable Chris Brown and heartthrob Jesse McCartney, a first-time appearance by new British "It" girl Duffy, and a huge move on Modern Rock by a certain gang of veteran geek-rockers trying to regain their cred.

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2:00 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Chris Molanphy
1,310 views, 7 comments

art?

Weezer Is Now Just Messing With Everyone


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Weezer's new single, the not particularly aptly titled "Pork And Beans," can now be streamed on the band's Web site. "Timbaland knows the way to rush the top of the charts/ maybe if I work with him I can perfect the art." Maybe a song that opens with a Rogaine ref can tap that Nickelback "Rock Star" market, but I doubt this desperate meta will prove more successful in the long run than those songs about young nerds wishing they could find love. [Weezer]

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art?

Weezer's Art Director Teaches Herself How To Use The 3-D Renderer


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The latest eponymous Weezer album is already being touted as "The Red Album" in keeping with a now color-coded tradition. Guess "The Periwinkle Album" will be easier to remember in 20 years than "Another One Where Rivers Makes Us Feel Awkward And Everyone Complains About Matt Sharp." [Billboard]

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Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has been hinting that he plans to publish his memoirs for some time now, but perhaps the delay is understandable considering the backlog of material: "I'm still working on most every day and I really enjoy it...Right now I have eight volumes sketched out." Will the world ever really be ready for eight volumes of hand-wringing over one guy's creepy thing for Asian teenagers? [Gigwise]

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theories

Weezer: Where Did It All Go Wrong?

MTV writer wants to know why he's no longer moved by the (new) work of one Rivers Q. Cuomo, Esq. Idolator writer occasionally finds himself wondering same thing. "It is because both of you are no longer 20-years-old," you say. Perhaps. But is that it entirely? More »

11:55 AM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By jharv
4,133 views, 48 comments

mp3

Leak Of The Day: Rivers Cuomo Takes A Trip To The Animal Farm

Our thanks to the tipster who sent along this MP3 of "Pig," a track purportedly taken from Rivers Cuomo's latest demo CD. The recording itself is pretty bare—it's just piano and guitar, with a little bit of harmonica and a whole lotta man-as-animal metaphor—but it's a charmingly downbeat number, and an intriguing look at what's next for Weezer: More »

9:47 AM on Mon Apr 9 2007
By Brian Raftery
14,549 views, 3 comments

lawsuits

Weezer Sues Over Being Associated With Crummy Beer, Crummier Bands

Rivers Cuomo and Weezer have filed suit against Miller Brewing Company for the use of the band's name in a 2004 Rolling Stone ad. The ad, which used as its artwork concert tickets from a number of bands, name-checked Weezer, the also-litigious Audioslave, and a few bands with which Weezer "do not wish to be associated with in any advertisement." (Audioslave's lawsuit, which was filed a year ago, registered the same complaint.) Weezer is claiming that the ads have caused millions of dollars worth of damage to its reputation—but we're of the opinion that, after being name-checked among such mispelled lowlights as Trapt and Puddle of Mudd, they might be asking for too little. More »

10:00 AM on Tue Oct 3 2006
By mjohnston
171 views, 4 comments

Latest by eric harvey: ...and now they're forced to share a blog with a racist Genesis video. The ignominy! Circle the lawyers. more »

liner notes

Liner Notes: Weezer Still Wheezing

-Realizing that not being in a band means fewer Japanese groupies, Rivers Cuomo insists that Weezer hasn't broken up. [Weezer.com] More »

2:26 PM on Tue Aug 22 2006
By Brian Raftery
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