Weezer
Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer review – mismatched 90s rockers bore and charm
Billy Corgan’s band are bloated with self-importance, but Rivers Cuomo and company continue to dole out witty power-pop with elan
Ian Gittins
10, Jun, 2024 @9:39 AM
Three things with Felicity Ward: ‘We dressed up, learnt a lip-sync, and performed it for our parents’
In our weekly interview about objects, the comedian recounts her childhood antics imitating Prince, and her adolescence as a Weezer fan
As told to Katie Cunningham
28, Jun, 2022 @5:30 PM
Hella Mega tour review – pop-punk’s middle-aged legends still have spunk
Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer combine for a pleasingly heavy romp through their hits, though there are spells when they lapse into cliche and gimmickry
Matt Mills
25, Jun, 2022 @10:13 AM
From Weezer to Missy Elliott: 10 of the best difficult second albums
Dismissed at the time for being pretentious, bloated or way too WTF, these are the second albums that deserve return visits
Michael Cragg
06, Nov, 2020 @9:00 AM
Ric Ocasek: Cars frontman who drove new wave into the mainstream
Fired by a passion for everything from the Velvet Underground to the Carpenters, Ocasek forged a hugely influential sound that blended arty experimentation with pure pop
Alexis Petridis
16, Sep, 2019 @1:18 PM
Pop, punk and protest songs: the hottest music on the horizon in 2019
With the uproarious Idles hitting the road, Kamasi Washington play a mind-expanding UK show, and new albums from the Specials, Weezer and AJ Tracey, here are the sounds the new year will be shaking to
Alexis Petridis
01, Jan, 2019 @3:00 PM
Tracks of the week reviewed: Cher, Toto doing Weezer and Aphex Twin
Cher continues the Abba love-in, there’s a goosebump-inducing tale from Ray BLK, and Aphex Twin offers a yummy mummy-free answer to meditation
Hannah J Davies
17, Aug, 2018 @10:00 AM
Weezer and Toto: the inside story of music’s unlikely love-in
The two bands have released reciprocal covers of each other’s hits, Hash Pipe and Africa. Toto’s guitarist, Steve Porcaro, reveals how it happened
Dave Simpson
10, Aug, 2018 @1:33 PM
Weezer: Pacific Daydream review – the shiny and the anodyne
(Crush/Atlantic)
Phil Mongredien
29, Oct, 2017 @8:00 AM
Gimme Gimme Gimmicks: the innovations that changed music videos
Shaking Chains have created an AI-powered video that changes with every play, but how does their attempt rank in the pantheon of music video gimmickry?
Jemayel Khawaja
30, Mar, 2017 @5:44 PM
Weezer's Pinkerton and the invention of the manic pixie dream boys
The LP laid the blueprint for emo and became a curse for a band whose fans never really forgave them for not following up their confessional masterpiece
Alana Levinson
24, Sep, 2016 @12:00 PM
Charli XCX: Sucker review – hype and glory
Charli XCX’s third bite of the cherry might not be the subversive masterpiece the hype would have you believe – but it’s hard to deny that she’s on to something, writes Alexis Petridis
Alexis Petridis
12, Feb, 2015 @3:30 PM
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