Toast to Brent Bonet for the Beer Fund Donation Cheap Trick Youtube channel - Listening with butler - Douchebag Clip of the week - Billy Powell R.I.P. - Darkness Interview feedback - Cooking With Butler - Mott The Hoople Reunion Music by Cheap Trick - iTunes Dolphin City - iTunes Rivers Cuomo - iTun...

Nerd princes Weezer--whose recent video for their new single “Pork and Beans� features lip-syncs from YouTube luminaries such as Britney Spears champion Chris Crocker, synth-and-shoe-loving Liam Kyle Sullivan and incoherent teen beauty queen Lauren Caitlin Upton, among others—will continue the...

Six studio albums into their career, one of our all-time favorite bands, geek rock pioneers Weezer, have released what is probably their finest CD yet. A nerd rock masterpiece, the so-called “Red Album” — a companion of sorts to their self-titled Blue and Green albums — finds...

This Week in Lumps #36 [29/01 - 04/02] · Last week, whilst with a friend slouching in a dark, quiet yet comfortable pub, I made a passing comment I would later regret 2 hours later. After chatting about Cloverfield (which we managed to see a secret pre-release viewing of) and also talking about the...

NEW YORK (AP) - Weezer lead singer Rivers Cuomo is continuing his celibacy past his self-declared deadline.   The 35-year-old frontman earlier vowed to remain celibate for two years. Although that deadline expired six months ago, Cuomo still doesn't expect to jump back in the sack anytime soon....

A small but pretty sturdy release week. Can you call a week “sturdy?” Whatever. Black Friday is this week, so artists who don’t mind deep-discounting are all jumping on board. The new Becoming the Archetype album is pretty legit, as is Kanye’s, even though I don’t remem...