Weezer’s 20th Album Is Good as Gold
With its looser feel and top-shelf songs, it’s hard to imagine a better record from this band this far down the line than the Gold Album
Weezer has always had a thing for concept records, whether they’re imagining “the Beach Boys gone bad” (2017’s Pacific Daydream), doing a set of beloved old radio hits (2019’s The Teal Album), getting in touch with their quasi-sensitive side (2021’s OK Human) or paying tribute to the Eighties metal greats (that same year’s Van Weezer). For their 20th LP, technically self-titled but also known as The Gold Album, the concept is at once highly ironic and gloriously straightforward: a Weezer record that sounds like a classic Weezer record. “There’s something special about your early shit,” Rivers Cuomo intones — simultaneously tongue-in-cheek and heart-on-sleeve — at the opening of “C.E.O.,” a highlight anthem that sounds unmistakably indebted to their own 1994 classic “Undone (The Sweater Song).” The sentiment set the table for a record that often suggests what might’ve happened if the band had released a transitional album in 1995, between their debut 1994 alt-rock smash The Blue Album and their 1996 emo-adjacent masterpiece Pinkerton. Weezer’s Gold is, in fact, Weezer gold.
This LEGO Technic Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Set Has Raced to a New All-Time Low Price
LEGO's Technic line is full of some incredibly fun builds. Particularly if you're a fan of cars, the company has numerous cool sets to piece together that fall under this theme. Among the many vehicle models available is the 732-piece LEGO Technic Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, and if its striking yellow design has you reaching for your wallet, you can actually grab it at a new low price right now from Amazon and Best Buy.
Volvo Used Compressed Air To Spin A Turbo For Lag-Free Boost, But It Didn't Catch On - Jalopnik
Turbo lag has annoyed drivers for pretty much as long as turbocharged cars have been around. Step on the accelerator pedal, wait for a moment to let the boost build up, and only then do you get the speed and power you requested. It used to be a hassle, but modern boosted engines have largely tamed the issue with variable-geometry turbos, sequential turbocharging, and even electrical assistance (48-volt mild hybrid systems).
'I would love that but we're cheap and poor': Jeff Kaplan speeds through everything players should know about his upcoming cowboy survival game, The Legend of California
In case you were wondering what Kintsugiyama's upcoming open world survival multiplayer game was all about, Jeff Kaplan has sat down and gone through 213 rapid-fire questions via an interview with MinnMax and boy, do I know a lot about cowboys in California now.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles composer Kumi Tanioka says that she didn't make the new, very likely AI-generated album on her Spotify page
What a boring thing to do, mysterious uploaded
Well, here's something that's a bit of a bummer. You'll probably best know Kumi Tanioka as the composer behind Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, though her work can also be found across the likes of Final Fantasy 11, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, and more recently, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book. But lately, it seems like someone's been trying to pass off an entirely AI generated album as her work, much to Tanioka's own confusion.
DIRECTV’s Latest Streaming Promo Makes It Easier to Get Ready for Football Season
The promo drops the first month of the MySports Genre Pack to $49.99 after a five-day free trial
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BlizzCon 2026 Sets T-Pain, Simu Liu, deadmau5, YOASOBI and More Celeb Guests
T-Pain, Simu Liu, deadmau5, YOASOBI and more celebrities will be making special appearances for the return of Blizzard’s BlizzCon fan event this September in Anaheim, California.
Presented by Blizzard Entertainment, the video game studio behind franchises including “World of Warcraft,” “Diablo IV,” “Overwatch,” “StarCraft” and “Hearthstone,” BlizzCon brings players together from around the world for a weekend of games, announcements, hands-on gaming experiences, esports, developer panels and cosplay.
Patreon launches 30 new creator features, including short-form Clips and revamped discovery
The team at Patreon, the membership platform for creators, has been building like crazy and is now revealing the result. On Thursday, the company debuted dozens of new features to help creators get discovered, build their community, learn from insights, and more.
Before-and-after photos show the decor changes Trump has made to the White House so far
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One geography, two states: Saudi Arabia’s security approach to Sudan
The Red Sea does not recognise political borders as maps draw them. Instead, it binds every country on its shores to a shared fate with its neighbours across the water. When the western shore of this sea is shaken, the eastern shore does not remain untouched. This is a hard geopolitical reality that Saudi Arabia has understood well through decades of dealing with crises in the Horn of Africa and Yemen as a direct extension of its own domestic security.