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
June 2022
Three things
Three things with Felicity Ward: ‘We dressed up, learnt a lip-sync, and performed it for our parents’
Hella Mega tour review – pop-punk’s middle-aged legends still have spunk
November 2020
10 of the best ...
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
September 2019
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
January 2019
2019 arts preview
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
August 2018
This week's new tracks
Tracks of the week reviewed: Cher, Toto doing Weezer and Aphex Twin
Shortcuts
Weezer and Toto: the inside story of music’s unlikely love-in
October 2017
Weezer: Pacific Daydream review – the shiny and the anodyne
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March 2017
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?
September 2016
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
February 2015
Alexis Petridis's album of the week
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
October 2014
Weezer: Everything Will Be Alright in the End – a partial return to form
Flashes of power-pop skill – but some real stinkers, too, writes Lanre Bakare
September 2014
Skye Sherwin: a good look
Skye Sherwin's A Good Look
This week's new tracks
Lost Midas’s Off The Course, this week’s best new track
June 2014
Weezer name ninth album Everything Will Be Alright in the End
Produced by Cars' Ric Ocasek, the band's new LP will be their first since 2010's Hurley
September 2012
Six songs of me
Six Songs of Me: Tom Baker
The music blogger picks the songs that mean the most to him as part of our Six Songs of Me project
February 2012
Music blog
All aboard the Weezer cruise: an extensive report
Wendy Fonarow: Our indie professor is so indie she signed up for a holiday on a boat with Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh and Weezer. And she's such a professor, she wrote an end-of-term report about it ...
