{"id":2448549,"date":"2019-09-11T05:46:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T11:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=882841"},"modified":"2019-09-11T05:46:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T11:46:52","slug":"watch-weezer-play-metal-inspired-new-single-the-end-of-the-game-on-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-weezer-play-metal-inspired-new-single-the-end-of-the-game-on-kimmel\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Weezer Play Metal-Inspired New Single \u2018The End of the Game\u2019 on \u2018Kimmel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-11-at-12.46.05-PM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/weezer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_weezer\" data-tag=\"weezer\">Weezer<\/a> may not be a metal band, but the group took its cues from \u201980s hair metal in a late night performance of their new song \u201cThe End of the Game.\u201d Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s stage the same day as releasing the single, the band played the rollicking track with some brightly colored heavy metal imagery.<\/p>\n<p>The song itself, which will appear on Weezer\u2019s forthcoming new album <em>Van Weezer<\/em>, which isn\u2019t expected until next May, also has some hard-driving musical influences. Frontman Rivers Cuomo told Beats 1 host Zane Lowe that the new songs are all about the electric guitar. \u201cIt\u2019s like&nbsp;<em>The Blue Album<\/em> but with more riffs,\u201d Cuomo said. \u201cMetal, hard rock riffs. But it\u2019s still pretty catchy pop rock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the album includes at least a hundred guitars. \u201cThis is all from playing shows, and we just noticed over the last few years there\u2019d be these moments during the show where I\u2019d accidentally bust out a few harmonics or a whammy bar dive or a little tapping just because I can\u2019t control myself,\u201d the singer said. \u201cAnd we noticed like unlike in decades past, now the audience would go ballistic whenever they\u2019d hear even a hint of that style. So I started doing it more and more. And soon I\u2019m just like shredding through the whole show and we\u2019re like, \u2018Jeez, we should make an album like this.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with the new single, Weezer also announced the band will be joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/green-day\/\" id=\"auto-tag_green-day\" data-tag=\"green-day\">Green Day<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/fall-out-boy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fall-out-boy\" data-tag=\"fall-out-boy\">Fall Out Boy<\/a> on next year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/green-day-weezer-fall-out-boy-2020-hella-mega-tour-882156\/\"><em>Hella Mega<\/em> stadium tour<\/a>, which will kick off June 13th, 2020 in Paris, France. The tour hits North American the following month with a show on July 17th at Seattle\u2019s T-Mobile Park. The trek wraps up August 29th at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. All three bands played a preview show at Los Angeles venue The Whiskey A Go Go last night.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/weezer-end-of-the-game-kimmel-882841\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weezer may not be a metal band, but the group took its cues from \u201980s hair metal in a late night performance of their new song \u201cThe End of the Game.\u201d Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s stage the same day as releasing the single, the band played the rollicking track with some brightly colored heavy metal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 15:20:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}