and this year’s self-titled White Album. Both received critical praise for harking back to the band’s “old” sound. Pinkerton has become the gold standard for Weezer records, with each new ...

By releasing two of the most revered rock records of the ’90s — their 1994 debut “Weezer” (aka the “Blue Album”), and 1996’s cult hit “Pinkerton” — the group amassed a fanbase ...

Pinkerton took the Weezer sound to strange and magnificent heights. The album — released on Sept. 24, 1996 — didn't hone in on the practiced precision of the alt-rock band's self-titled 1994 ...

The opening weekend of Weezer’s three-city ... 1994’s hit-laden debut (“The Blue Album”) on Friday, and 1996’s reviled-then-revered Pinkerton on Saturday. Between sets, longtime ...

Weezer's Pinkerton—a raw, dyspeptic therapy session of an album—was disowned by Rivers Cuomo nearly as soon as it was released. "It's a sick album, sick in a diseased sort of way," the Weezer ...

Weezer famously followed their 1994 smash debut Weezer (Blue Album) — home to hits including "Buddy Holly" and "Undone — The Sweater Song" — with 1996's Pinkerton, a knotty album that was ...

But in the fall of 1996, Weezer’s second album for DGC, Pinkerton, did just that. I picked it up on cassette at Media Play in Poughkeepsie about a month after it came out on September 24 ...

It’s an album full of cathartic ... For the better part of two decades, the magic of Pinkerton — and, with it, Weezer’s legacy as more than just by-the-books hitmakers — has been bottled ...

In September 1996, Weezer released their sophomore album, Pinkerton.It was, in many ways, the turning point in Weezer’s story. Following up an acclaimed debut with some already decade-defining ...

When Weezer released their eponymous debut album back in May of 1994 ... making it one of the signature moments on Pinkerton. 22. “My Name Is Jonas” (1994) My Name Is Jonas “My Name Is ...