Weezer News

Amidst the scathing reviews pouring out recently for Weezer's perplexing new album Ratitude, August Brown of the LA Times might have nailed it best.

The video was posted Friday, but Cobra Starship 's Gabe Saporta didn't see it until Monday.

Kenny G is back and collaborating with the oddest of compatriots - Weezer. Kenny, born Kenneth Bruce Gorelick to a Seattle-based nice Jewish family, has been performing live love songs for the past 30 years, but this will be his first foray into the big, bad world of super poppy indie rock .

Here were the other new arrivals.... Hardly a new band, but new to our FS radio show, THE RENTALS have been around since Matt Sharp put it together in the mid-90's. You will remember Sharp from his days as bassist for WEEZER, and their track " Friends Of P" back in the day.

Carrie Underwood, "Play On" ** If there's a slam-dunk aspect to Carrie Underwood's third album, it's that she's handed her "American Idol" benefactors a theme song for the next episode of "Idol Gives Back." That song is "Change," an exercise in social responsibility that challenges the listener to stay open to the possibility that a small gesture ...

If titling an album "Raditude" wasn't enough to cement Weezer 's place in the annals of rock 'n' roll douchebaggery, this Snuggie endorsement certainly will.

Weezer singer Rivers Cuomo and bassist Scott Shriner are promoting a warm surprise available for purchase with a copy of their new album.

Given the role animals play in all those disposable viral videos, this doesn't pack the punch it would have before the Interweb screens had its stranglehold on our free time.

It was a Gossip Girl Halloween miracle when Leighton Meester took to the stage to help Weezer sing their new single, " I Want You To." Watch the video by clicking the continue reading link below.

Perhaps proving you can't judge a record by its overly Photoshopped cover , the first morsels of Adam Lambert's album For Your Entertainment have surfaced, as the UK Amazon site is now streaming 30-second preview clips of the record's 18 tracks.

Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET November 8, 2009 - Weezer is known for its quirky nods to pop culture.

The "blanket with sleeves," which will feature the trademark "Weezer" logo, is just one example of the band's "brand-new" collaborative approach to its art, according to a press release.

Weezer issues its seventh studio album on Tuesday , called Raditude. The disc is the band's most collaborative effort yet, with several producers on board, songwriting team-ups with Jermaine Dupri and the All-American Rejects, and even a guest appearance from Lil Wayne.

Rivers Cuomo - vocals, guitar Brian Bell - guitar, keyboard Scott Shriner - bass Patrick Wilson - drums Track listing: 1. I Want You To 2. I'm Your Daddy 3. The Girl Got Hot 4. Can't Stop Partying [feat. Lil Wayne] 5. Put Me Back Together 6. Trippin' Down the Freeway 7. Love Is the Answer 8. Let It All Hang Out 9. In the Mall 10.

Rock band Weezer and the makers of the Snuggie sleeved blanket have retooled the infamous infomercial - in which people feel "trapped" under ordinary blankets - to sell a Weezer-branded Snuggie .

Rivers Cuomo has always been the geek supreme, but he may have outdone even himself.

Always good for an exploding chorus, Rivers Cuomo and Weezer are more out of their shell than ever for Raditude.

Everything about Weezer's "Raditude" suggests that Rivers Cuomo has gone simple, but Cuomo is never simple.

Weezer's seventh studio album, Raditude, is a return to form for a band, which in many circles was deemed to be struggling creatively.

Weezer - Play All Biography As one of the most popular groups to emerge in the post-grunge alternative rock aftermath, Weezer received equal amounts of criticism and praise for their hook-heavy guitar pop.