Subject: Weezer

• Weezer/Dynamite Hack

  September 28, 2000

• Around Hear

  February 8, 2001

• Around Hear

  May 17, 2001

• Best Free Entertainment

  October 18, 2001

• Pavement

  October 31, 2002

• Concert Review: Republic Tigers and Ultimate Fakebook, Jayrock 4 at the Uptown

  Scott Spychalski "I'm so freakin' excited, I can hardly play!" Click here for slide show. Balding, bespectacled Bill McShane did manage to play -- very well, actually -- last night at the Uptown as he rejoined his old mates, bassist Nick Colby and drummer Eric Melin, to reunite their band, Ultimate Fakebook for a set, which, Melin promised before the show, would save the universe. And it seemed like it may have, at least for some super-enthusiastic fans at the show.

  February 6, 2009

• Mark Ronson

  October 23, 2003

• Lost in the Zoo

  June 10, 2004

• OK Go

  March 10, 2005

• Smoking Popes

  July 10, 2008

• Plain White T's

  August 16, 2007

• The Download

  July 5, 2007

• Now Streaming: New Rentals "mini-album"

  Former Weezer bassist and Rentals frontman Matt Sharp decided he wanted to make an embed player containing his on-and-off band's new EP, The Story of a Thousand Seasons Past, and we're like "OK!" The EP is billed as a "mini-album" and is the first installment of the Rentals upcoming, three-CD/EP set, Songs About Time, the band's first proper album in ten years. You can pre-order Songs in various configurations at Rentals.com/store, including a $275 Super Limited Billionair

  April 16, 2009

• The Division Bell

  December 15, 2005

• Stripped Down

  Freedom Festival fans are liberated -- from their clothes.

  June 30, 2005

• Weezer

  Tuesday, July 5, at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater.

  June 30, 2005

• Ludo

  Friday, June 24, at the Granada.

  June 23, 2005

• Stuck in a Moment

  A reborn Lenexa band proves that pop-punk is anything but dead.

  May 26, 2005

• Weezer

  Make Believe (Geffen)

  May 19, 2005

• Rooney

  Wednesday, July 7, at Tbe Granada.

  July 1, 2004

• SpiritFest (National)

  Thursday, July 3 - Saturday, July 5, at Liberty Memorial.

  July 3, 2003

• Cold

  Saturday, June 7, at Verizon Amphitheater.

  June 5, 2003

• Ben Kweller

  Thursday, February 6, at the Bottleneck.

  February 6, 2003

• All-American Rejects

  Tuesday, February 4, at the Bottleneck.

  January 30, 2003

• 100 Albums and Running

  A Change for the better tops the list of 2002's best records.

  December 26, 2002

• Wet Dreaming

  Andrew W.K. oozes enthusiasm and gratitude.

  December 5, 2002

• Filthy Jim

  Whiskey and Porn (Tour Horse)

  May 2, 2002

• Best of Music 2001

  Critic's Picks

  December 27, 2001

• Black Out

  Record label politics prevents Tenacious D's Jack Black from championing vinyl at Recycled Sounds.

  December 6, 2001

• Best Crowd

  Weezer/The Get Up Kids

  October 18, 2001

• Weezer

  Weezer (Interscope)

  June 21, 2001

• Night & Day Events

  Week of March 8, 2001

  March 8, 2001

• Pitch Picks 2000

  Our music writers select the best and worst singles, concerts, and videos.

  December 14, 2000

• Revenge of the Nerds

  More than just another mid-'90s alt-rock act, Weezer spawned a now-popular genre and still commands respect from scenesters.

  September 7, 2000

• NERF HERDER

  HOW TO MEET GIRLS(HONEST DON'S)

  March 2, 2000

• Incoming: Blink 182 to Sandstone?

  It's not exactly news that Blink 182 will be reuniting for a new album and tour later this summer, and that Weezer's hitting the road with 'em. A Canadian blog has posted a complete tour itinerary that has Blink coming to Sandstone on September 4, and you know that Canadian bloggers are never wrong. Not sure whether Cuomo and co. will be with them, however, as the blog reports that on different dates, support will come from "a revolving cast of hit and miss noobs like Fall Out Boy, Panic at the

  May 21, 2009

• Incoming: The Buzz's Beachball, September 4

  96.5 The Buzz presents the return of their Summer Beachball show. For a few years there, it was your way to see a lot of bands for cheap. Well, they didn't have one last summer, but now it's back on September 4--which makes it more of an end-of-summer ball than anything else. The Blink-182 / Weezer pairing at CapFed Sandstone has been out for a while now, but there's a quite a bit more than just those two: KC's own Republic Tigers and Mac Lethal, plus Taking Back Sunday, Matt & Kim, Stellastar*

  June 24, 2009

• Asher Roth

  July 16, 2009

• New releases, Tuesday, July 21

  There are so many things coming out that interest someone, I feel obligated to mention most of them. So, rather than have this post be two pages long, I'll group them by genre, and give them a couple sentences each. If something you think is worthwhile got ignored, drop a message in the comments. Susanna Hoffs (formerly of the Bangles) and Matthew Sweet put out their second collaborative covers album, Under The Covers: Vol. 2. This go around, they cover everything from Tom Petty's "Here Comes M

  July 21, 2009

• Download an 8-Bit Tribute to Weezer

  Internet label Pterodactyl Squad specializes in chiptune, bitcore, 8-bit, and other music that is usually best described by the phrase "it sounds like it came from a Nintendo game." Thus, it should come as no surprise that the label is behind Weezer - The 8 Bit Album, an 8-bit tribute to Weezer. The tracks run the gamut from mediocre covers that sound like someone turned a guitar tab into a MIDI file, to full-bore craziness that mixes traditional rock band instrumentation with chipset effects.

  July 21, 2009

• Green Day

  August 6, 2009

• Wasted Away In Zombaritaville

  Zombies. They're everywhere. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies reimagines Jane Austen's classic with Darcy fighting off the undead. World War Z is optioned for a movie, possibly starring Brad Pitt. Lloyd Kaufman makes Poultrygeist, a musical about zombie chickens from a restaurant built on a Native American burial ground. Nick SpacekHe's adorable, but ravenous.​Now we have Zombaritaville, a blog dedicated to "zombie-themed song lyric parodies." Tom Petty's "Runnin' Down a Dream" is rewritten as

  August 21, 2009

• Blink-182 Cancels St. Louis & Cleveland Dates

  According to Alternative Press and our colleagues over at the Riverfront Times, Blink 182's next two shows, in Cleveland and St. Louis, have been canceled. ​How this affects this Friday's show remains to be seen. There's been no official announcement regarding it, and Weezer still performed at last night's show in Saratoga, New York, so that part of the tour is still on. Keep your peepers glued to this page, and we'll let you know whatever we do when we know it. You might also want to li

  September 1, 2009

• Blink-182 and Weezer

  September 3, 2009

• Concert Review: Blink-182 and Weezer at Sandstone

  BY ELKE MERMIS I don't dig '90s nostalgia. I find it creepy and unnecessary, and frankly, it makes me feel old as hell. But when bands like Blink-182 and Weezer roll around -- on the same billing, no less -- I'm more than willing to shake off my hang-ups, slather on the eyeliner and get a little angsty for the night. Geared up for some serious high school nostalgia, I caught both of these bands -- two of the '90s most legendary pop-punk acts -- at the end of the daylong Buzz Beach Ball, hoste

  September 8, 2009

• Pet Comfort won’t poop all over the Kansas City music scene

  September 17, 2009

• Concert review: Wilco at Crossroads KC at Grinders

  Review by Richard Gintowt Photos by Scott Spychalski It seems like just the other day I was grumbling about great '90s bands that have been on a statistically predictable decline this decade (Weezer, Smashing Pumpkins ... you get the picture). But not Wilco. Not our precious, reinventing, lineup-changing, critic-pleasing, two-encore-playing Wilco. If you love Wilco, you go to every show. And you still eat it up every time Jeff Tweedy screams "Nuthin!" during "Misunderstood" and you still clamor

  October 7, 2009

• Weezer Apologizes to the Get Up Kids

  Okay, so Matt Pryor of the Get Up Kids told a story to Spinner earlier this month about the tour they did opening for Weezer back in 2001 (it played Memorial Hall, and Ozma also played, and it was fucking AWESOME). So, in it, Pryor said of the Weez that they were "the only band I've toured with for a month that I've never spoken to. They're jackasses." Well, Rivers Cuomo is telling his story and making overtures towards healing via Twitter: ​ Aw. How sweet. If anyone is going to be in NYC

  October 19, 2009

• New releases, Tuesday, November 3

  ​Weezer decided to name their new album Raditude. This is quite possibly the least annoying thing about the record. I can't help but wonder if Rivers Cuomo has completely left the realm of serious musicianship and gone straight into the realm of post-modern comedy. A track called "I'm Your Daddy"? A guest spot from Lil Wayne? The whole album sounding like an arena rock tribute act? I just don't know anymore. I thought "Beverly Hills" was the nadir, but it seems that the band is intent on b

  November 3, 2009

• Video: Justin Pierre of Motion City Soundtrack live at Love Garden

  Motion City Soundtrack's new album, My Dinosaur Life doesn't come out until January, but that hasn't stopped frontman Justin Pierre from promoting it. Nick SpacekJustin Pierre of Motion City Soundtrack and Eric Melin of Scene-Stealers.​The full band heads out on tour opening for Weezer on December 1, but Pierre's been traipsing about the country playing shows such as the one he did yesterday at Love Garden in Lawrence. Well, maybe not exactly like the one he did at Love Garden. Before Pi

  November 23, 2009