“That’s amazing, dude! You just whipped that out!” Rivers Cuomo shreds Yngwie Malmsteen’s Far Beyond the Sun and floors Chris Shiflett By Matt Parker published 27 July 23 The Weezer frontman is the second guest on the Foo Fighters guitarist’s new Shred With Shifty podcast
Viral TikTok star who played Weezer’s Buddy Holly lick for 990 days straight finally plays the song with the band live By Matt Owen published 16 June 23 After playing the lick on consecutive days for almost three years, Evan Marsalli finally joined Rivers Cuomo and co to do the honors on stage
Rivers Cuomo duets with TikTok guitarist after he plays Weezer’s Buddy Holly lick 990 days in a row By Matt Parker published 2 March 23 The Weezer frontman has now invited Evan Marsalli to appear on the band’s forthcoming Indie Rock Road Trip tour
Todd Rundgren recruits Steve Vai, Rick Nielsen, Rivers Cuomo and more for star-studded new album, Space Force By Matt Parker published 17 August 22 And you can check out the first single, Puzzle, featuring Adrian Belew, right here
Foo Fighters, Mammoth WVH, AC/DC, Black Pumas, St. Vincent, H.E.R., Dream Theater nominated for Grammys By Jackson Maxwell last updated 3 April 22 Chris Cornell, Deftones, Arlo Parks, Gojira, Mastodon, Weezer, Paul McCartney, Joe Bonamassa, Japanese Breakfast and Cedric Burnside were also among the nominees
Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo dons Ed Sheeran’s Martin Divide acoustic for Kimmel performance of A Little Bit of Love By Matt Owen published 22 March 22 Cuomo, who was dressed as an elf, took Sheeran's six-string for a spin on the track, which is lifted from Weezer's latest EP, SZNZ: Spring
Rivers Cuomo has launched his own streaming service, Weezify By Matt Owen published 1 February 22 The "Spotify-like player" will let listeners hear Cuomo's demos – almost 3,500 in total – recorded between 1975 and 2017
Hear Billy Talent and Rivers Cuomo duke it out on their new “Hendrix + Weezer” track, End of Me By Matt Parker published 10 September 21 The Canadian rock band land a guest star on the first track from new album, Crisis of Faith, which arrives next year
Watch Rivers Cuomo cover Sugar, We’re Goin Down after Fall Out Boy were forced to pull out of Hell Mega Tour gig By Matt Owen published 6 August 21 The Weezer frontman took to the stage solo – with a purple crackle Jackson Rhoads, no less – to give the audience their expected fix of Fall Out Boy after a member of the band tested positive for coronavirus
Weezer dial up the wah in this mostly faithful take on Metallica's Enter Sandman By Sam Roche published 3 August 21 Rivers Cuomo and Brian Bell omit Kirk Hammett's face-melting solo, opting instead for a harmonized take on the lead vocal line… and a lick straight from Buddy Holly
Rivers Cuomo: “We suppressed these impulses for many years... It was a real joy to open up that Pandora’s box of evil guitar tools and go crazy“ By Joe Bosso published 29 June 21 The Weezer frontman and hair-metal enthusiast takes us back to the '80s, when big hair and fast shred was sowing the seed for going off the rails on the crazy Van Weezer train
Weezer fan the flames of rock 'n' roll in Australian Guitar #143, out today By Australian Guitar published 30 May 21 Now this is one fiery new issue!
Weezer’s Hash Pipe was nearly an Ozzy Osbourne song By Matt Owen published 27 May 21 Rivers Cuomo details how he first offered the hard-riffing anthem to Ozzy – and explains how new track Blue Dream developed its uncanny similarity to Crazy Train
Watch Weezer perform ‘80s pop-rocker All the Good Ones on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon By Richard Bienstock published 12 May 21 It’s the latest single from the band’s long-awaited new album, Van Weezer
From spaghetti Western atmospherics to unrelenting, demonic death metal: here are this week's essential guitar tracks By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche, Matt Owen published 22 April 21 Tuck into the latest and greatest six-string sonic offerings from Weezer, Wolf Alice, Illuminati Hotties, Cannibal Corpse, Aziya, and many more
Weezer channel their metal-inspired youth with new single, I Need Some of That By Sam Roche last updated 22 April 21 The track comes ahead of the band's brand-new album Van Weezer, which arrives May 7
Birds Of Tokyo fill us in on their favourite summer jams By Matt Doria published 22 March 21 Spoiler alert: it's a pop-punker's dream playlist come true
Rivers Cuomo is disappointed that Eddie Van Halen won’t get to hear Weezer's 'Van Weezer' album By Richard Bienstock published 5 February 21 "He could have seen his influence bearing fruit decades later,” Cuomo says
Weezer have four – yes, four – new albums in the works By Richard Bienstock published 3 February 21 The records will correspond to the four seasons, with one inspired by Elliott Smith
Rivers Cuomo just released a treasure trove of unheard demos – 2,655 of them, in fact By Jackson Maxwell published 9 December 20 The Weezer frontman opened up his archives for a “web programming class final project”