Weezer’s Pinkerton Goes Platinum 8 Days Before Its 20th Anniversary

Pinkerton, Weezer’s second album, was first a legendary flop and then just plain legendary. Upon its release in 1996, the album’s roughhewn hysterics were a shock to many fans of the band’s self-titled “Blue Album,” and critics weren’t too kind either. But within a couple years Pinkerton had become a cult classic, retroactively annexed into […]

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