Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In September 1996, Weezer released their sophomore album, Pinkerton. It was, in many ways, the turning point in Weezer's story.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Weezer's Pinkerton—a raw, dyspeptic therapy session of an album—was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Weezer's Rivers Cuomo, seated, with Brian Bell, from left, Pat Wilson and Scott Shriner. (Brendan Walter) The first time Weezer ...

Last night (12/15) was the Christmas episode of Saturday Night Live with Matt Damon as host and Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson as musical guests, and one unexpected skit that music nerds will appreciate ...

For Weezer’s sophomore album, Pinkerton, people expected another nerdy love song like “Buddy Holly.” They got Rivers Cuomo’s nervy rants on love instead. The album turned into a commercial and ...

There is perhaps no bigger cliché in music than proclaiming an album saved your life. But in the fall of 1996, Weezer’s second album for DGC, Pinkerton, did just that. I picked it up on cassette at ...

In August of 1996, Weezer emerged from a 12-month break brought on by Rivers Cuomo‘s decision to enroll as an undergrad at Harvard at the height of the band’s first success. “I was craving mental ...

There’s an old rock and roll cliche that sort of explains the dreaded “sophomore slump” that dooms many second records: “A band has a whole lifetime to write their first record but only three weeks to ...

Weezer has announced a October 5, 2010 release date for the deluxe reissue of 1996's Pinkerton. So far, the band has noted that the album will go the deluxe/expanded route like their previous album, ...

Things had been all quiet on the Weezer front recently, but the band ended their silence this weekend with a monster post on their official Website preparing fans for both Weezer’s seventh album and a ...

There’s no debating Weezer were one of the top rock acts of the the 1990s. On the back of the success from their Ric Ocasek-produced, self-titled album known as The Blue Album, the California rockers ...

The first time Weezer stayed off the road for as long as it has during the COVID-19 pandemic, the triggering catastrophe was the less-than-enthused reaction to 1996’s “Pinkerton.” Today that album is ...