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Words and Photographs by Timothy Norris Weezer on stage at the Forum. Click photo for entire slideshow. Weezer pulled into Los Angeles last night at the Forum with its big arena rock show that had the all the boys and girls screaming. Â The band hit the stage in white jump suits that quickly dis ... More >>
Words and Photographs by Timothy Norris Weezer on stage at the Forum. Click photo for entire slideshow. Weezer pulled into Los Angeles last night at the Forum with its big arena rock show that had the all the boys and girls screaming. Â The band hit the stage in white jump suits that quickly dis ... More >>
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Almost 25 years have elapsed since the Rick Rubin-helmed, Licensed to Ill found the Beasties staking their claim as the first major rap group to incorporate guitar-hero rawk ("Rock Box" aside). Such juxtaposition seems prosaic today, but it's almost impossible to grasp how revolutionary sampling L ... More >>
Tegan and Sara make the world a more kick-ass place
Natural History music; art vandals; bashes worth crashing
For the week of July 5 - 11
Move over, mashups! Now there’s somethin’ meatier: DJ Girl Talk’s Night Ripper
Move over, mashups! Now there’s somethin’ meatier: DJ Girl Talk’s Night Ripper
Move over, mashups! Now there’s somethin’ meatier: DJ Girl Talk’s Night Ripper
Move over, mashups! Now there’s somethin’ meatier: DJ Girl Talk’s Night Ripper
Rivers Cuomo and the search for the perfect hook
A highly opinionated user’s guide
Rockboy Ben Kweller phones home
Headbanging for credit at the Musicians Institute
Weezer reminds us of all the internet fads we tried so hard to forget. ALSO, my exit, screen left.
Race to the bottom: Lil Wayne vs. Weezer. Worstest record cover wins.
Race to the bottom: Lil Wayne vs. Weezer. Worstest record cover wins.
Weezer's "Blue Album" is the soundtrack for the beach, beers, and BBQ.
If you're a Weezer fan, or an 8-Bit fan, here's something that will give you a chuckle and/or a conniption: the classic self-titled first Weezer album, as heard harnessed through 8-Bit technology. From the Pterodactyl Squad net label: The songs on this compilation have mostly been created ... More >>
Also, Yacht, the Woolly Bandits, Linda Ronstadt and others
Jillian Lauren is this week's LA Weekly cover girl. She worked (worked?) in the Sultan of Brunei's harem when she was younger. Now she's married to Weezer bassist Scott Shriner and lives in Eagle Rock. From our own Gendy Alimurung's interview with the former harem girl/current rock wife: Six years ... More >>
Consequence of Sound reports that Weezer has joined R. Kelly in providing a theme song for the soccer World Cup. Unlike Kells, Rivers Cuomo and his crew have not been officially assigned the task by FIFA: they're doing it on spec and they're giving it away FOR FREE. Go to the iTunes Store a ... More >>
SoulwaxThe two most pressing questions about Saturday's HARD Summer in downtown Los Angeles have nothing to do with quality. With Soulwax, Crystal Castles and Major Lazer topping a bill that includes the likes of Flying Lotus and Diplo, promoter Gary Richards has assembled the kind of dance ... More >>
Happy Hurley: Weezer's cover boy This is the cover of Weezer's new album, Hurley, apparently named after a Lost character. (We don't know--we missed Lost. Looked kind of pointless.) What do you think? Does this make you pick up the CD? Or click on the iTunes thingie? Does it confuse you? Wou ... More >>
Happy Hurley: Weezer's cover boy This is the cover of Weezer's new album, Hurley, apparently named after a Lost character. (We don't know--we missed Lost. Looked kind of pointless.) What do you think? Does this make you pick up the CD? Or click on the iTunes thingie? Does it confuse you? Wou ... More >>
Across the Universe: Lil Wayne Plays Uno, Weezer to Play 'Blue Album,' 'Pinkerton,' Faith Evans Arrested
Across the Universe: WTF is 'Rape Gaze?,' Ben Harper/Dino Lady Split, Gaga Needs Some Air and Waters Changes 'Wall' Vid
Across the Universe: New Flying Lotus Video, Weezer Best Coast, RHCP Lawsuit, R.I.P Eyedea
Sean TeagardenBest Coast's Bethany Cosentino meets her own teen idol, Weezer's Rivers CuomoWell, we've been keeping the details of our next big LA Weekly interview under wraps for a while, but we can now tell you that this Thursday, when you pick up your customary copy of LA's best alt-weekly ... More >>
A few songs about her crazy, lazy, hazy L.A. world turned Bethany Cosentino into a global icon of cool. Yeah, she's as surprised as you are
Sean TeegardenLA Weekly cover girl: Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino Alright--we gave you the sneak peek a couple of days ago, and now here it is. The LA Weekly Interview: Best Coast (read the whole thing here). It is a profile of rising star Bethany Cosentino that we're sure is gonna challeng ... More >>
A Little Grouplove Feels So Good [MP3]
fyf's sean carlson and keith morris FYF Fest promoter Sean Carlson's L.A. Scavenger Hunt turns a bizarre list of items--like life-size cut-outs of Freddie Mercury--into charity goodness for downtown's Union Rescue Mission and the L.A. Food Bank almost every year. So if you're the guy wonderi ... More >>
Best Coast"I went from being a college dropout to being NME's top-four cool list," Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino tells the Weekly's own Gustavo Turner in last week's cover story. "It's just bizarre the way life kind of turns and changes sometimes." Yeah, we'd say so. The L.A. trio's modest ... More >>
Also, Hellride, Bonobo, New Kingdom and others
Day 19OK GoAlmost anything goes in the Theater of OK Go. The art-pop quartet's headlining tour, which concludes Saturday in Los Angeles, has included (according to various online reports): Enough confetti to drown an arena full of Flaming Lips fans; the guys decked out in primary colors; a 3 ... More >>
Lina LecaroWeezer bring back a vintage design on the drum kit.Obviously, Weezer really took the "Memories" theme of their current tour to heart. The band's two nights at the Gibson Amphitheatre this weekend not only featured giddy "greatest hits" sets followed by full track-by-track rendition ... More >>
Rick Moranis Joins Weezer and Best Coast On Stage?
Rick Moranis Joins Weezer and Best Coast On Stage?
Lina LecaroThe biggest show -and wildest crowd- Nokia Theatre may have ever seen. Kiddie faux-hawks, fashionably mismatched tutu ensembles and tattoos (fake on tykes, real on moms and dads) swarmed upon L.A. Live in downtown this past weekend, when the trendster tyke sensation Yo Gabba Gabb ... More >>
10 Bands Who Should Break Up
Everybody has a price. Josh Freese, studio drummer to the stars (Weezer, Devo, Nine Inch Nails, Guns N Roses) is up to his old tricks with the upcoming announcement of his plans for his latest solo album, Since 1972. He listed his album for sale in packages ranging from $7 for a straightf ... More >>
A group of angry apocakids from the video for Foster the People's "Helena Beat" (Sony Music)As the debt ceiling languishes unraised, whole regions of the US lie under floodwaters while others dry into baked earth, and the wedding cake topper industry finds itself facing major overhauls, peopl ... More >>
Also, Yes, Styx, the Naked and Famous and others
Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever. As a music journalist, I think there's an expectation for me to list something like The Clash's London Calling or the Pixies' Surfe ... More >>
Also, Guns N' Roses, Weingart, Stevie Wonder's House Full of Toys, and others
Asking people what kind of music they like can be a loaded question. People want to seem open-minded, yet cool, which for some reason tends to inspire this insipid response: "I like pretty much everything. Except country." (The hipster variation on this, of course, is to claim that you actua ... More >>
The hot tub on the Weezer cruise. I called it "secretion soup"By Wendy Fonarow My best friend and I recently found ourselves boarding the Weezer Cruise. The red eye from L.A. took us to Miami, where we departed for a five-days-at-sea music carnival, featuring Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, the Antler ... More >>
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