Weezer - Hurley (Epitah)
Every time a new Weezer album comes out the number of people bearing residual good will towards them slowly shrinks (especially when they don’t send out any review copies until the album’s actually bloody out). It’s a pleasure to report,...
Album review: Weezer - 'Raditude'
Rivers Cuomo is a deeply weird individual. After the spectacular success of Weezer ’s 1994 debut album – which pretty much invented emo’s melodic wing – instead of embracing rock-star excess, the singer enrolled at Harvard, painted all...
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The last time your correspondent saw Weezer back in 2002, they were a let-down of heartbreaking proportions. Rivers Cuomo looked like Grizzly Adams with a guitar, the rest of the band seemed scared/unwilling to do anything they weren’t told to...
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Despite Weezer having been an active concern for almost 20 years now, the bizarre behaviour of mainman Rivers Cuomo has long served to distract from the LA band’s perceived worth. From putting the group on hold in 1995 while he underwent surgery...
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As a productivity-obsessed internet-geek loner, is it any wonder Rivers Cuomo is approaching mid-life gazing at his outwards-bound navel? “Rogaine to put in my hair” he requests, before finally throwing the pilates ball back at his personal...
Weezer : Carling Brixton Academy, Wednesday...
After tonight’s not-quite-sold-out show at Brixton Academy, a young fan asks Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo for an autograph. Cuomo – at best a curious combination of Graham Coxon and Asperger’s syndrome – squints at the kid and says,...
Weezer : Make Believe
Rivers Cuomo, the bespectacled genius behind Weezer’s finest moments, is a man so enigmatic he makes Roman Abramovich look like Donny Osmond. Over the years he has flirted with commercial suicide, become a recluse, a visitor of massage parlours,...
Weezer : Keep Fishin'
From white-bread American geek idol to creepy-bearded internet chatroom weirdo, the peculiar metamorphosis of Rivers Cuomo has been a pretty unsettling affair. Seeing this, the nice folk at Geffen have put Damage Limitation Exercise Mk.1 in...
Weezer : Maladroit
Ah, Mr Cuomo, come in, hop up on the couch, we're just checking your file. Interesting beard, by the way. Now let's see: chronic mysanthropy, rampant persecution complex, dropped out of rock band to run away to college , currently devoted to...
Weezer : Manchester Apollo
Scratch the surface of any alternative guitar band and you’ll find a Weezer fan. From Fred Durst to Tim Wheeler, Rivers Cuomo’s godfathers of emo are routinely one of the most cited influences around. It’s not difficult to see why. In...
