That review of the band's latest album -- sarcastically headlined, "Is Hurley Weezer's Best Album Since Make Believe?" -- is thoroughly and enjoyably steeped in the same staunchly "it's no Pinkerton" (those exact words are more or less used, actually) attitude I've adopted since, oh, 2002 or so, when I bought tickets to see The Strokes open for Rivers Cuomo's band at two shows and decided to stick around for the headliner. Even Sublime's new singer, Rome, made a comment about the phenomenon before his band made way for Weezer on the second night of Arizona Fall Frenzy at Tempe Beach Park...
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PHOTOS BY LUKE HOLWERDA