OK Humans — the time has come to unleash Weezer’s long-awaited homage to metal upon the world: Van Weezer will be released on May 7 via Crush Music/Atlantic Records. A new song from the album, “I Need Some Of That,” has been released today. “I Need Some Of That” follows the release of last year’s “Hero” and “Beginning Of The End,” as well as 2019’s “End Of The Game,” all …
Weezer has released a new video for the song “Grapes Of Wrath,” one of the standout tracks on the band’s most recent and much-loved album, OK Human. The video, which sees the band listening to audiobooks — among other things — while avoiding a group video meeting, was co-directed by frequent Weezer collaborator Brendan Walter …
Weezer will release their fourteenth studio album, entitled OK Human, on Friday, January 29th on Crush Music/Atlantic. The album’s first single, “All My Favorite Songs,” can be heard and seen now. 2020 was going to be the year of Van Weezer — the big riffs rock album Weezer made as an homage to the metal bands they loved growing up — until, thanks to …
This is an incredibly good ’87-’96 tribute: Pixies, Posies, Replacements, Nirvana, Weezer, Matthew Sweet, the theme to “That 70s Show,” and (my favorite Seattle band of the era) Flake, all in a single song. What’s more, the official music video, below, is packed with dozens of smile-inducing visual homages to ’90s slacker film and TV. …
Weezer is awesome! Rivers Cuomo is awesome! Therefore: Steady Holiday, the indie-pop project of LA’s Dre Babinski, is sharing a cover of Weezer’s “Holiday.” “The Blue Album was formative for me, right time and place,” says Babinski. “And looking back on the song ‘Holiday’ (no relation), I now see a through line between it and the …
Weezer has released their first new song since 2010, which they describe as “an ebullient slice of alterna-rock awesomeness.” Gotta love, “…kick in the door, more hardcore, rockin’ out like it’s ’94…” This time out Weezer reunited with the man who helped them record their strongest album-length work, Cars frontman Ric Ocasek. The resulting album, …
Like all great art, this is both painful and beautiful.
“The Weight” off The Band‘s 1968 album, Music From Big Pink has become the favored cover tune for every flavor and sector of Americana rock. Something in the loping, star-spangled bounce of the tune gives voice, meter and harmony to subtle, reassuring myths of rural America and has found appeal, not just in the land …