I think of Weezer as the James Franco of music. They’ll try anything at least once, so there’s no point in getting excited or frustrated or puzzled by their next move. It’s too exhausting. So here’s Weezer doing the State Farm jingle. It’s on the official State Farm YouTube channel, so they proba...

What is stranger? Weezer recording a TV jingle or a Barry Manilow song?

According to the Amherst Bulletin, a guy with backstage credentials for a nearby Bob Dylan concert walked into Antonio’s, pizza place close to the venue, and ordered $3,900 worth of pizza. The place closed at 2 a.m. but he promised them a big tip, so they stayed until 5:30 in the jingle-jangle morning making the [...]

In the wake of that collection of commercials swiping Sigur Rós’s sounds to evoke their emotion without paying the band any residuals, Pitchfork has found some great examples of commercials also ripping off Fleet Foxes’s “White Winter Hymnal” and Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks.” C...

Avey Tare’s got a solo LP out soon, Deakin is heading out on tour with Paw Tracks’ Sanskrit-chanting psych troupe Prince Rama,  all three were on hand for Saturday’s installment of the MoMA WarmUp. The Animal Collective duo and their label signees were DJing and performing, respectively, on a Triangle Records (with...