Weezer

Watch: Oakland Indie-Poppers Legs Keep a Steady, Smoky Focus in "Two Colours"

Legs is a newish indie-pop band from Oakland whose two original members, Jeffrey Harland and Matt Bullimore, met in a parking lot while trading Weezer bootlegs. They eventually started the band that became Legs -- a melodic low-key five-piece that will release its debut album on Loglady Records Apri ... More >>

Happy New Year! Here Are Five Songs to Cure Your Hangover

Happy New Year's Day, everyone! If you're anything like us, you're probably reading this via your phone or tablet, from your bed, still under the covers, still wearing last night's clothes and/or make-up. You've probably been awake for a while now, but can't find the strength to haul that ass out of ... More >>

JEFF the Brotherhood Churns Out Dumb Fun at Bottom of the Hill, 10/11/12

By NATE WAGGONER JEFF the Brotherhood Diarrhea Planet Colleen Green Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 Bottom of the Hill Better than: Wayne's World 2... and maybe the original Wayne's World as well. A JEFF the Brotherhood show at Bottom of the Hill offers the kind of transcendent, joyfully dumb and bizarre ... More >>

The Top 5 Best Music Videos That Feature Puppets

Fact: puppets are awesome. Second fact: puppets become even more awesome when you stick them in music videos. Which is what all these smart people did. Here are our top five favorite puppet-related music videos.

Green Day's Perfunctorily Catchy "Oh Love": Is This Band Pulling a Weezer?

Remember how, after he thought it'd been long enough for everyone to forget about Pinkerton, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo put out the green album, went back on MTV, and sang a bunch of frothy pop songs that never even pretended to mean anything? Catchy, featherweight singles like "Hash Pipe" and "Island in ... More >>

Top 10 Songs No One Cares That You Know the Lyrics To

​You know who you are. You're that guy who starts bellowing in the middle of the bar while your friends pretend not to be with you. You're that girl who gets over-excited in the middle of Urban Outfitters and starts singing along to the song playing just loudly enough that everyone has to hear you ... More >>

Weekend Party Preview: Benoit & Sergio at Public Works, Danny Krivit at BeatBox, Cosmin TRG at the Endup, and More

Hope you enjoyed the Thanksgiving break, because this weekend, things are dropping right back into gear. The guiding principle seems to be a strong showing from the new school of house music, with major headliners playing over the course of the entire weekend. But if four-on-the-floor isn't your thi ... More >>

Emperor Norton's Jazz Band Looks, Sounds Nothing Like Buddy Holly

Emperor Norton's Jazz Band: Apparently they have a thing for Weezer​Denatured cover of the week--nay, the year so far: when the hepcats of Frisco sextet Emperor Norton's Jazz Band played on Sunday at Amnesia, as they do the first Sunday of each month, they unveiled a sterling NoLa-jazz cover of a ... More >>

South-Bay Electro-Poppers the Limousines Sign to Dangerbird Records

The Limousines​Build-up an electro-pop duo with as much radio appeal as San Jose's the Limousines -- whose single "Very Busy People" got lotsa love from Live 105's airwaves -- and you're bound to get somewhere. This year's single "Internet Killed the Video Star" took the band to even larger audien ... More >>

Weezer Arouses Mass Catharsis With Pinkerton at Nob Hill Masonic Center

Christopher VictorioWeezer's Rivers Cuomo sure loved to walk up the aisles last night at the Nob Hill Masonic Center.​WeezerLimousinesNovember 30, 2010@ The Nob Hill Masonic CenterBetter than: Singing along to every song on Pinkerton with a car full of your friends on a long road trip -- but only ... More >>

Weezer Plays the Blue Album (With A Few Surprises) at Nob Hill Masonic Center

Christopher VictorioWeezer at the Nob Hill Masonic Center last night. Way more pics after the jump.​Weezer November 29, 2010 @ The Nob Hill Masonic Center Better than: Almost everything. Seriously. Weezer is calling it the Memories Tour; some fans have dubbed it Blinkerton. The band has just hit ... More >>

Weezer’s legacy doesn’t end with "Pinkerton"

In Print: A Defense of Weezer, and the Books' Archivist Instincts

From SF Weekly's latest print music section:In Defense of Weezer: Weezer reissued 1996's Pinkerton this month, and the glowing reviews -- including a Pitchfork 10.0 -- explain why. The accepted critical narrative on the band goes like this: Weezer made two classic albums in the '90s, one i ... More >>

Top 5 Bands That, Unlike Weezer, Should Never Break Up -- No Matter How Bad They Get

By now you've probably heard of Seattle resident James Burns' bid to raise $10 million to make Weezer break up. You may have also heard that, disturbingly, Burns has been the target of death threats for his brilliant idea prank. Frankly, we can see both sides here:  Weezer (apart from its new t ... More >>

See Weezer's Blue Album and Pinkerton Performed on the 'Blinkerton Tour,' Which Hits S.F. in November

Weezer's Rivers Cuomo tries to hug fans into believing he never hated Pinkerton​Well, this is pretty much the best piece of Weezer news since the '90s. Finally heeding the calls of legions of (correct) fans who have long held up sophomore effort Pinkerton as the group's masterpiece, Weezer will co ... More >>

Album That Time Time Sort Of Forgot: Desaparecidos' 'Read Music/Speak Spanish'

Bill Sitzmann​Today sees the stateside release of the Arcade Fire's third full-length album, The Suburbs, which supposedly kicks ass. Not having heard it, I will instead ruminate on another album about suburbs: Read Music/Speak Spanish, the first and only record by Omaha's Desaparecidos. The ye ... More >>

50 Cent is the last of the millionaire rappers

Over the Weekend: Surfer Blood, Turbo Fruits, Ganglians at Bottom of the Hill

Surfer Blood​Surfer Blood, Turbo Fruits, GangliansApril 2, 2010Bottom of the HillBetter than: Most bands that have been together for only 11 months.Being in a brand-new, mega-buzz-band like Surfer Blood seems like a tough blessing. Sure, the group's shows, like Friday's at Bottom of the Hill, ... More >>

SXSW Friday PM: Village Voice Day Party w/ Surfer Blood, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Superchunk, The xx

At an hour when most folks were still sleeping off last night's music benders, indie rock fans started lining up around the block at La Zona Rosa, where the whole Village Voice operation was hunkered down for our afternoon of acts both on the rise (Surfer Blood, The xx, Pains of Being Pure at Heart) ... More >>

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

Aran TharpeGunslingers​This weekend, we offer you the sounds of beachy disco DJs, a BS cover band, krautrock in a cathedral, and plenty of other cheap distractions from your 9 to 5 life. This week's 10 Things to Do For Under $10 brings all the best the cheap thrills into focus, starting now...feel ... More >>

Ten years of music videos: A treadmill, a stanky romance, and a YouTube dream

The 10 Worst Fashion Trends of the Decade

People made so many mistakes this decade. So many. In fact, the entire "retro" movement that defined the past ten years in fashion has been a willful refusal to learn from the fashion errors of the past, and instead recycle and exacerbate them (hippie head bands, we're talking about you). The a ... More >>

Last Night: Weezer's 'Secret Show' at the Regency

Joseph Schell ​WeezerWednesday, Oct. 21, 2009The RegencyBetter than: Seeing an arena rock band in an arena.Just to be clear, there was a lot of screaming going on at the Regency last night for Weezer's free "secret" show. Fans screamed when the line they were standing in outside the venue--a line ... More >>

Last Night: Blind Pilot at Great American Music Hall

Joseph Schell​Blind Pilot Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009Great American Music HallBetter Than: warm milk and cookies on a cold, blustery night.There could have been a tornado outside, or even a secret Weezer show just down the road, but anyone who was watching last night's sold out Blind Pilot show at Th ... More >>

Last Minute Show: Weezer to Play S.F. on Wednesday

​Weezer is playing a MySpace "secret show" in San Francisco on Wednesday night. The band will hit town to play the Regency with opening (and unfortunately named) act Natalie Portman's Shaved Head. They go on at 8:45, and Weezer will be up at 10 p.m. We'd recommend checking out Weezer's MySpace pag ... More >>

With The 8-bit Album, the Weezer tribute goes vintage.

Asher Roth

Asleep in the Bread Aisle (SchoolBoy/SRC/Universal Motown)

Last Night: Live 105's Battle of the Opening Bands

(Dizzy Balloon gets crafty with the merch setup)Live 105's Not So Silent Night Local Band Competition Finals with: Picture Atlantic, Please Do Not Fight, Go Kart Mozart, Music For Animals, and Dizzy BalloonMonday, Dec. 7, 2008Cafe du NordWords and images by Jennifer MaerzLast night, Live 105-suppor ... More >>

Lost albums that should remain lost

Annuals in Bloom

All-American Rejects at Slim's in Dec.

DJs dig into '90s nostalgia

Friday Night: Weezer's Hootenanny at the Alameda Naval Air Station

Weezer

Weezer (DGC/Interscope)

Weezer Invites SF to a "Hootenanny" of a Jam Session

On Comics: Page Diving

MP3 of the Day: Weezer

LastNight: The Mountain Goats Record for Daytrotter and a Tour of the Wolfgang Vault

Guitar Hero III Easily the Best Entry in the Franchise

The Best Art Prints on the Web: Creep Machine's Josh Curates His Top 5 of the Week

Ill-Cuomo

Weezer's frontman is certifiably nuts. So why doesn't he write better songs?

Don't be a Hallo-weenie -- consult our guide to this weekend's scariest rock!

Ric Ocasek

Nexterday

The Tao of Poo

Nerd rock progenitor Three Day Stubble is back. Are you ready to experience the human pee fountain?

OK Then, Listen Up!

Heavenly

Heavenly Versus Satan (K)

House Of Tudor

Silke Tudor sings the praises of punk rock karaoke, swoons over the Faint, and revels in girlhood

Review

The Promise Ring's Very Emergency!

Signed, Sealed and Misdelivered

The Rise and Fall of Bay Area Bands

Recordings