Blog: The Tripwire

Release Date: 06.03.08 I have been a fan of Weezer since I first heard "Surf Wax America" from their debut when I was in college way back in 1994. I'm sure what drew me to the band was how much they sounded like The Cars (I remember buying The Cars' Heartbeat City on cassette in 1984) but it wasn't until 1996's underrated masterpiece Pinkerton that really got me on the geek rock bandwagon. Pinkerton is a collection of musings about love lost, half-Japanese girls, [...]