{"id":643535,"date":"2026-10-28T06:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643535\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T06:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:44:16","slug":"geek-rock-icons-weezer-announce-one-auckland-show-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643535\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek-rock icons Weezer announce one Auckland show for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">They won a Grammy Award in 2009 for Best Short Form Music Video for their song Pork and Beans and continue to produce and write music. <\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">In more recent times, TikTok has introduced the band to a whole new generation of fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">Their latest album, colloquially called the Gold Album, was released this year to positive reviews, and the band have just wrapped up a 32-date arena run across North America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">Music from the band has featured in movies such as American Pie 2, Mallrats and Mr Deeds. Cuomo famously once said that the name Weezer came from school kids who teased him about having asthma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">From 1997-2000, the band took a major hiatus before returning to music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">In April 2025, bassist Scott Shriner\u2019s wife Jillian Lauren-Shriner was shot by police after refusing to surrender her weapon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">She was subsequently arrested for attempted murder, and Shriner filed for divorce that December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">Fan club and promoter tickets for Weezer\u2019s Spark gig go on sale on November 4, with general sales starting Friday, November 6. Ticketing info can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/destroyalllines.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/destroyalllines.com\">destroyalllines.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They won a Grammy Award in 2009 for Best Short Form Music Video for their song Pork and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18516,315498,25429,28440,51,25759,6097,156,1888,2082,315495,48205,3096,111,139,315497,69,5270,24266,1305,14625,110493,105344,315496,1533,102,80],"class_list":["post-643535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-18516","tag-altrockers","tag-announce","tag-arena","tag-auckland","tag-concert","tag-down","tag-entertainment","tag-first","tag-for","tag-geekrock","tag-icons","tag-islands","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-noughties","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-revered","tag-show","tag-summer","tag-touching","tag-weezer","tag-weezers","tag-will","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}