Spinner.com — Filed under: News Today, Oh Boy!Spinner.com: Weezer filmed a video for their new single 'Troublemaker,' breaking various world records along the way: Largest Game of Dodgeball, Most People in a Custard Pie Fight, Largest Air Guitar Ensemble, World's... more info

Wired - Listening Post — Weezer is one clever band determined to stay relevant in a changing pop culture soundscape. Its earlier video for "Pork and Beans" recruited a gang of YouTube stars, thereby increasing its chances at buzz by about a billion. Its latest... more info

Chorus.fm — With their new video for "Troublemaker," *Weezer* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/weezer) have already set a bunch of Guinness World Records. Read the details in the replies. more info

Mercury News, California — In 2001, at age 36, the beefy, tattooed heavy-metal bassist Scott Shriner was surprised to get a call from Rivers Cuomo, leader of the young alt-rock band, inviting him to sit in. Shriner, who now ranks as the longest-serving bassist to have worked w... more info

PopSugar UK — Jude Law will be Dr Watson to Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock Holmes in Guy Ritchie's reworking of the detective. Other stars Guy Ritchie confirmed at the press conference yesterday include Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong and Kelly Reilly. — BBC Adn... more info

All About Jazz — By: Scott Caffrey Weezer is at its best when it goes on hiatus and has time to rebirth itself. After the platinum-but-undeserved success of Make Believe, Rivers Cuomo got rid of Alone: The Home Recordings - a cathartic shedding of some solid extras ... more info

Guardian Music — Turning Japanese: In the first of a new series, Tokyo-dwelling Alex Hoban explains how western bands such as Weezer and Hadouken! are wooing Japan more info

JamBase — By: Scott Caffrey Weezer is at its best when it goes on hiatus and has time to rebirth itself. After the platinum-but-undeserved success of Make Believe, Rivers Cuomo got rid of Alone: The Home Recordings - a cathartic shedding of some solid extr... more info

Radio Exile — The Blue Album. It arrived in the mail on a sunny summers day back in 1994. I had ordered it through the music mail service BMG. At 13 years old, I had no idea who they were, but I liked the color of the cover. On the day it arrived, I grabbed my ra... more info

Detroit Free Press — The alternative rock outfit (below) heads for the Palace in support of its new album, "Weezer." The single "Pork and Beans" and its video, featuring YouTube celebs, were big hits. more info