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Weezer

14 tracks across 11 playlists

L.A. Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, Brian Bell, Scott Shriner (and earlier Matt Sharp, Mikey Welsh). The Blue Album (1994) and 'Pinkerton' (1996) are foundational alt-rock texts — the Spike Jonze 'Buddy Holly' video and the entire Pinkerton emotional-vulnerability blueprint shaped everything from the Get Up Kids to Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers. The run since has been a 30-year argument about what counts as a Weezer record (the Green Album, the Black Album, the Teal Album of all-covers, the Africa-by-Toto cover that became its own Twitter moment). Still touring, still divisive, still essential.