Posts Tagged ‘weezer’

Music criticism is difficult. It can be hard to have a solid, journalistic opinion on every piece of new music and feel out a rating based on that opinion. Then, they have to convince people that their feeling is more than just a relative, subjective opinion, but that it contains factual authority about the album’s [...]

According to data gathered from Facebook, there are two peak times for break ups: Just after Valentine’s day, and right about now. The anti-cupid has already struck Zooey Deschanel & Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and, even worse, the iconic relationship of Thurstoon Moore & Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth. Just in case you’re [...]

Weezer was recently asked by State Farm Insurance to record a version of the company’s jingle. However, the band decided to cover the entire song which the jingle was derived from. As Rivers Cuomo and his band mates posted on their site:

“When we were setting up The Memories Tour, the good people at State Farm [...]

Right on the heels of Vitamin String Quartet’s latest release, “VSQ Performs Weezer’s Pinkerton,” frontman Rivers Cuomo has made a public video in which he covers a classic Beach Boys song. From what looks to be his own private studio, the famed singer is seen playing piano and singing the classic tune “God Only Knows.”
While [...]

Weezer recently announced yet another album, entitled Hurley after revealing its album cover, which depicts the actor who played Hurley on Lost. While some older fans may not be jumping to pre-order this album yet (did you hear the single? My God…), they may be interested to hear that the band may be trekking [...]

We created this unofficial series to help you uncover the precious gems that are buried in the depths of our impressive and seemingly endless catalog. While creating our lists we’ve found tributes we didn’t even know existed and we’ll be sharing this valuable information with you in weekly installments of playlists from the experts themselves, The VSQ Staff. So get your headphones ready because we’re about to take you on a tour through the best, the classic and the weirdest Vitamin String Quartet tributes to be found.