Has an alt.rock band ever sounded more timeless than Weezer? Born in Los Angeles at the height of the grunge movement, their initial output felt like a direct riposte to the sounds emanating further up the United States’ west coast; it had similar levels of angst, but the long-haired wild-man aesthetic was swapped out for that of a quartet of clean-cut, cuddly, heavy metal loving nerds. While so many of their contemporaries have flamed out over the years since, the core trio of frontman Rivers Cuomo, drummer Patrick Wilson and guitarist Brian Bell are still casually hanging around, like the preppy kids done good at the tail-end of a high school reunion, happy to bend ears with the same stories of brotherhood and broken hearts they did back in the day. That said, there a...
