Weezer’s Commander of Feel The waiting must have been brutal on the ferociously industrious Weezer camp. Two albums done, dusted, and ready to go—the orchestral OK Human and the hard-rocking Van Weezer—and an epic Hella Mega Tour looming, and then COVID short-circuited the whole deal. Not exactly a prime situation for a band that always seems to be working on something, conceptualizing something, devising marketing strategies for something, or just doing something. But the delays passed and Weezer—vocalist/guitarist Rivers Cuomo, guitarist/keyboardist Brian Bell, bassist/keyboardist Scott Shiner, and drummer Patrick Wilson—stormed back with one of the coolest stage presentations I’ve ever seen mounted for a stadium show. Given the explosion of pastel-colored speaker cabinets and massive lightning bolts—as well as the often color-coordinated film clips displayed on the video backdrop—you wouldn’t be ridiculed for proposing the band had raided the prop storage for Miami Vice. And we haven’t mentioned Wilson’s drums […]

November 2021 Issue