Rivers Cuomo has responded to Saturday Night Live's Weezer sketch despite not having seen it. When reached for comment by Rolling Stone, Cuomo confirmed that he still hadn't seen Matt Damon and Leslie Jones having a near-violent debate over the greatest era of the band, despite everyone, including his own mother, texting him about it. He then told writer Simon Vozik-Levinson that "if there’s a specific...

Lindsey Jordan was inarguably one of the biggest things in indie rock this year. After her 2016 single “Thinning” and her folk-twinged 2017 Habit EP, the then-17-year-old, who records as Snail Mail, had already found herself in an intense spotlight, with multiple labels bidding for her music. But that was nothing compared to the reception for her 2018 full-length Lush, a triumph of sunlit guitars...

Across publications, tastemakers, even members of our own staff, there was little consensus about who made the best music of 2018. Reliable superstars were either M.I.A. or working through fallow periods: no new Kendrick or Frank, Beyoncé limited to an album of unmemorable duets, Kanye holed up in Wyoming making duds (and Daytona). This vacancy wasn’t all bad, however, because it allowed less obviously...