Do you know the 2018 "Saturday Night Live" sketch in which Matt Damon and Leslie Jones argue over the eras of Weezer's music? If not, take a moment to watch it now. Damon is, in one of the sketch's ...

Like Nirvana, Weezer influenced a generation of bands who combined emo and indie rock as popular music moved into its post-grunge phase. But following the cultural and commercial impact of a massive ...

Classic rock star Rivers Cuomo is best known as the lead singer of Weezer. He has written some of the band’s most popular songs, like “Buddy Holly,” “Say It Ain’t So,” and “Island in the Sun.” His ...

The Los Angeles-born rock band Weezer came seemingly out of nowhere in the 1990s. When the group released its self-titled LP in 1994, that record—also known as the Blue Album—put them on alternative ...

Rivers Cuomo cooks up his own “American Pie,” and music dies all over again. There was a point during this decade when Weezer became little more than a meme-vehicle, wrangling YouTube stars to appear ...