The Hella Mega Tour, headlined by Green Day, Weezer, and Fall Out Boy, is aiming to be the biggest rock & roll spectacle of a summer when big rock & roll spectacles are far from a sure thing. The tour finally kicked off in Dallas on July 24th, nearly two …
Read More »Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Weezer Announce New Hella Mega Tour Dates
Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and Weezer have announced their rescheduled Hella Mega Tour dates for 2021, after the tour had to be canceled for 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The U.S. headlining stadium tour will now kick off July 24th in Dallas, Texas, and will stop at 21 …
Read More »Weezer Deliver a Love Letter to Eighties Metal on 'Van Weezer'
Thirty years ago, shortly after Kurt Cobain sold the Pixies to the masses by marrying them with Led Zeppelin, a kid named Rivers Cuomo showed up to make bank on the equally subversive revelation that alt-rock’s poker-faced affliction could go just fine with the spit-polished pump of the Eighties arena-rock …
Read More »Suzy Shinn Is Helping Shape Rock's Future
Suzy Shinn grew up listening to bands like Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin, so she was thrilled when Andrew McMahon, the vocalist in both bands, called in December with the beginnings of a solo song. The only problem: They had about three days to finish the track. So she set …
Read More »Weezer's Rivers Cuomo Expands Web Store With Unreleased Demos
Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo has expanded a new online market where he’s selling thousands of demo recordings made over the past couple of decades. Cuomo quietly launched the site back in November with a single demo bundle, and today, December 8th, appeared to finalize the market, which now boasts 2,655 recordings. …
Read More »Flashback: Fall Out Boy Cover Green Day's 'Basket Case' in 2007
The 2019 summer concert season hasn’t quite wrapped up yet, but one of the biggest tours of 2020 was announced this afternoon when Green Day, Weezer, and Fall Out Boy revealed they’ll be teaming for an assault on U.S. baseball stadiums in the summer. There hasn’t been a rock tour …
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