Weezer’s River Cuomo continues to be fascinating despite not putting out a decent album in a decade. Here he is belting out the West Side Story tune “Tonight.” He nails it. He really does. I think I really want Rivers to just go solo and do his own thing like record showtunes and whatnot.
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What does it say about Rivers Cuomo and company that the best song they’ve recorded in a decade is a cover of the “State Farm is There” song for a commercial? It’s an honest question that I don’t have an answer for. One the one hand, Weezer makes the State Farm theme sound pretty awesome [...]
So much to get to today and it’s snowing, which means. Ugh. More fucking snow. Not like there’s anywhere to put it around Boston. Here are a few things that caught my eye on the overnights. 1. Turns out, the actor who plays “The World’s Most Interesting Man” in those Dos Equis commercials, Jonathan Goldsmith, [...]
Weezer’s sophomore album, Pinkerton, was a failure by all accounts when it was released in 1996. It wasn’t successful commercially, not was it successful critically, but in the time between now and then, the album has become legendary. It basically spawned the entire emo genre and it’s considered one of the best albums of the [...]
It would take a lot for me to ever hate on Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo, an indication how how excellent both The Blue Album and Pinkerton are. But as I was debating with a friend over the weekend, it feels like Rivers Cuomo has never grown up emotionally or been too emotionally invested in song writing [...]
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo brought along an a capella group for this rendition. This song just slays me every time I hear it. If it’s possible The Beach Boys may be the only group in music history that is both underrated and overrated at the same time. Pet Sounds along with a few other albums [...]
Next to “Blast Off” this is the finest song from Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo’s solo album. “Lover in the Snow” is a sweet little ditty, with a nice guitar riff, song tamborines and handclaps. Throw in Rivers lyrics about wondering why some girl loves another man and yeah it woulda made a fine Weezer tune. [...]
Is it time to call Chris Hanson from NBC’s To Catch a Predator and set up an intervention with Weez frontman Rivers Cuomo? It might be too early to tell, but judging from this strange video for the single “Blast Off!” from his uneven solo album Alone: Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo 1992-1997(the highs and [...]
Rivers Cuomo, frontman for Weezer, has been busy lately prepping both a new Weezer album and a batch of solo material.? The solo stuff was all recorded between 1992-1997.? Head over to his myspace page where you can hear the first song, “Blast Off.”? The song sounds like classic Weezer, unlike say their last three [...]
Throw those Weezer signs into the air. The band you love to “hope will put out a good album but invariably will fall short of your expectations because Pinkerton was so damn good” have announced the release date for their sixth studio album.Pitchfork is reporting that “album six” will be released on April 22, 2008 [...]
