Weezer: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

April 1, 2019, Robin Hilton This is probably the loosest you ll ever see Weezer. Known for meticulously produced and electric live shows, frontman Rivers Cuomo and the rest of the band settled in behind the Tiny Desk for an entirely acoustic set without the inear monitors, click track or vocal separation they usually employ to stay lockedin and tight for bigger performances. The result is surprisingly intimate, with songs that feel livedin and rumpled, like an old flannel shirt from the 90s. Weezer opened with one of the band s rarer songs: Longtime Sunshine, a 1994 track that s only appeared as a Rivers Cuomo home recording on bootlegs and compilations, and on the deluxe edition of Pinkerton. Then the band performed a strippeddown version of its electropop song Living in from Weezer s new selftitled Black Album, followed by another deep cut, Across the It s a song Cuomo originally wrote in his early 20s, inspired by a fan letter he d received from a young woman in Japan. Wh