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Miley Cyrus teamed up with Foo Fighters and Def Leppard at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert in Los Angeles, performing a rendition of Def Leppard’s 1983 hit “Photograph.”

Miley Cyrus, Def Leppard, Foos, etc #TaylorHawkinsTribute pic.twitter.com/wnYhXD7uyP

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Beforehand, Def Leppard was joined by the Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, Weezer drummer Pat Wilson and Foos guitarists Pat Smear and Chris Shiflett for “Rock of Ages.” Smear told the crowd, “I came here in 1983 to hear this band play this song.”

Foo Fighters honored Hawkins,...

The Foo Fighters have announced the initial slate of guests for their tribute concerts to late drummer Taylor Hawkins in London and Los Angeles.

The lineup for the London gig will boast Liam Gallagher, Josh Homme, Chrissie Hynde, Brian May, Mark Ronson, Stewart Copeland, Geddy Lee, Roger Taylor, Rufus Taylor, Omar Hakim, Chris Chaney, Wolfgang Van Halen, Supergrass, and Hawkins’ Chevy Metal bandmates. Comedian Dave Chappelle will also be on hand for a special appearance.

Many of those artists will appear at the Los Angeles gig as well, along with Miley Cyrus,...

'Back to the Shack' is the lead single off the band's forthcoming album, 'Everything Will be Alright In The End.'

Weezer is back – and they’re headed "Back to the Shack" with their latest single.

The band released their first new song since 2010 on Monday and it's just as fun, catchy and nerdy-cool as any of our old favorites. Rivers Cuomo and his cohorts will perform "Back to the Shack" live on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday.

"Back to the Shack" is the lead single off Weezer's forthcoming album, Everything Will Be Alright In The End, out September 30.

"If you took the Pinkerton band and then play all the other records – that's what we sound like now," drummer Pat Wilson said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. "Bombastic, loose, kind of booming. This record sounds like it's going to have the tight structure of Blue Album with a little bit more abandon like Pinkerton...

Did you ever watch an episode of, say, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and there's a young kid in the family and the designer asks "What do you like?" and kid's like "I like baseball and blah blah blah," and then all of a sudden when the reveal happens, the kid's room is Entirely covered in baseball wallpaper and decals and baseballs and paraphernalia and you think, man, they are just gonna outgrow that if you shove it down their throats. We were like that kid -- "I liked the Blue album and 'Pinkerton!'" -- when it comes to Weezer and it was iterated enough that Weezer heard. The Blue album came out in 1994, "Pinkerton" in 1996. The band -- after a number of hit singles, a number of maligned albums, some bonkers pop experiments and funny, fun live shows -- heard the cry "I like those albums" and reissued "Pinkerton...

Ah, yes, it is now the time of the year when horror movies finally get their due. All year round, the horror community keeps doing what they love but it isn’t until October that the world of gore is universally accepted. Soon you hear about your Aunt getting scared because she finally saw Insidious or your cousin texts you to see if you want to check out Sinister with them. Scary movies start trending and for one month out of the year, it’s Ok to post gory images on your Facebook wall (I do it all year because fuck those people, right?).

I thought it would be fun to briefly talk about five films that I enjoy watching around Halloween, and if you haven’t seen any of these, I hope you check them out. Let me point out that these are not The Top 5 Horror Films Of All Time,...

Best DirectorDarren Aronofsky'Black Swan'In many ways, Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" is similar to his previous film, "The Wrestler." Both lead characters are dedicated artists struggling with inner demons. To express themselves, they have only their bodies. Their age, injuries, and mental stability threaten to undermine their art.However, in "Black Swan," Aronofsky masterfully adds another layer. He parallels the journey of Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) with the tale of "Swan Lake," the tragic ballet in which she performs. The astute viewer will notice his use of black and white in the set pieces of almost every scene, alluding to the contrast between the white and black swans. He adds elements of horror, drama, and paranoia, all of which exist in "Swan Lake." He directs the actors in such a way that you aren't ever sure what is fantasy and what is reality. All of these elements add...

Band performed 1994's Blue Album at previous night's show.

By Matt Elias

Weezer's Rivers Cuomo performs in San Francisco on Monday

Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images

Halfway into Weezer's set on Tuesday night, frontman Rivers Cuomo was sprawled out onstage, basking in the overwhelming sense of adoration in the room. It was night two of Weezer's Memories Tour stop in San Francisco, at the Nob Hill Masonic Center, and the band started with a 10-song set followed by their 1996 sophomore effort Pinkerton in its entirety (night one saw Weezer play its entire Blue album).

As loose and energetic as the previous night, Weezer's second engagement was a nod to die-hard Weezer fans. The set included some rarities like 1995's "You Gave Your Love to Me Softly" and "Susanne." Band members shared vocal duties throughout the set — guitarist Brian Bell took over on "Pork and Beans" and bassist Scott Shriner on "Dope Nose.

'We're going to put the music thing aside for a couple years,' drummer Pat Wilson jokes after shooting scenes for MTV comedy.

By James Montgomery

Weezer's Brian Bell

Photo: MTV News

At this point in their career, Weezer have the whole acting thing down pat. So much so that they don't even need to see a script. Of course, that's mainly because they usually don't have any lines.

" 'Keep Fishin' ' was probably our acting debut, but we didn't speak any lines in it," guitarist Brian Bell said of their music video with the Muppets.

"Actually, in [the video for] 'Buddy Holly,' I said, 'Thanks, Al,' " drummer/guitarist Pat Wilson laughed. "And we've done all kinds of stuff, like 'Beverly Hills, 90210,' some 'Melrose Place,' old-school, but legit, really."

So basically, they're old pros, and it's probably why they weren't sweating their cameo on a season-two episode of...

Frontman Rivers Cuomo talks about the carnage that results when a mysterious woman enters Weezerville.

By James Montgomery, with reporting by Matt Elias

Weezer's Rivers Cuomo

Photo: MTV News

As if you didn't already have enough good reasons to watch Weezer's brand-new "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" video — The spooky doppelgängers! The wanton violence! The girl who was in "Kindergarten Cop"! — well, we've got another one for you: Hot Weezer-on-Weezer reproduction.

That's right, "I Want You To" features the guys in Weezer makin' babies, presumably with each other, since the video is set in a town — called Weezerville — where every man, woman and child is a member of the band. Confused? Turned on? Both? Here's director Marc Webb to explain.

"The idea of the video is really simple: It's a town that's made up of clones of Weezer. There are multiple versions of...

Weezer's new album Raditude contains a number of songs that represent the latest in a series of departures for the band. On their last album, band members Brian Bell and Pat Wilson were much more involved in the songwriting process, and they even took lead vocals on a few songs. This time around, Rivers opened the doors for a number of people outside the Weezer camp, including members of the All-American Rejects as well as Jermaine Dupri and Lil Wayne on a song called "Can't Stop Partying." But there is one person that Cuomo wanted to work with on the album but was undone by timing and logistics.

"One of the things I'm really looking forward to trying is writing a country song," Cuomo told MTV News on the set of the band's video shoot for Raditude's first single "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To.

Expect everything from Nirvana and Green Day to Miley Cyrus and classical.

By Gil Kaufman

Weezer

Photo: Jason Merritt/ Getty Images

Nirvana to Miley Cyrus. Green Day to Howlin' Wolf. Jimi Hendrix to Jimmy Eat World. Obscure sample-happy Queens one-man band Kid America and the Action Figures to, of course, current tourmates Blink-182.

Those are some of the artists you'll hear on "Radio Weezer," the personal radio station the band launched Friday (August 28). The station follows in the footsteps of similar "Artist Personal Experience" radio stations from Christina Aguilera and the Eagles' Joe Walsh — who share management with Weezer — that have debuted in recent weeks.

A dip into the playlist Friday morning revealed some of the usual suspects (Ramones, R.E.M., Foo Fighters, Nirvana, the Pixies), as well as a few unexpected, more obscure surprises (songwriter Landon Pigg, MxPx, Frank Zappa) and, not surprisingly, Weezer's back catalog, including the band's toe-tappingly retro-pop new single,...

Yet-untitled LP will drop October 27, while '(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To' hits radio this month.

By James Montgomery

Weezer's Rivers Cuomo

Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images

Weezer fans, rejoice. On October 27, the geek-rock gods will return with their seventh studio album, a yet-untitled affair that sees the band partying hard and getting parenthetical.

That's because, following in the grand grammatical style of classics like Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)", Weezer have announced that the first single from the album is called "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To," and it's shipping to radio August 25.

That's all according to a series of posts on Weezer.com, and the band promises that more information about the new album — title, track list, color, whether Rivers Cuomo will look like Bruno Kirby in...

Weezer are to begin working on a new album just months after the release of their sixth LP. The album Red was released in June, with frontman Rivers Cuomo describing it as "meaty, crunchy and melodic like a good Weezer album should be". The group is again considering a self-titled record, which would be known by the colour of its cover like their previous three releases. Drummer Pat Wilson told Billboard: "If I had my way, we would just use colours from now on. Then we wouldn't have to think about (more)...