“By all logic, Weezer’s musical pileups should end up in a drawer somewhere. Rivers Cuomo — the maladjusted, misanthropic mind behind the band — scribbles muddled diatribes about life and love’s utter futility, and splatters the lyrics against a wall of classic-rock quotations. He then adds more disorder via vocal parts that suggest a crazed […]”
“Allow me to start by making a rather dorky connect-the-dots between two landmark cultural institutions of our key demographic: Weezer and *Star Wars*. Check it out: Weezer's self-titled return from hibernation (colloquially known as *The Green Album*) was *The Phantom Menace* of indie rock. Both sci-fi epic and alt-rock record were long-awaited events that had even the most jaded hipster hopping a”