Watch Weezer Singer Cover Green Day’s Basket Case And Smashing Pumpkins’ 1979

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Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo recently performed a solo set in Chicago, and he covered Smashing Pumpkins’ “1979” and “Today” along with Green Day’s “Basket Case” and “When I Come Around.” He praised Billie Joe Armstrong and Billy Corgan: “Both the Billies are so awesome.” Watch video below.

Setlist:
Can’t Fight This Feeling Anymore (REO Speedwagon cover)
Say It Ain’t So
Pink Triangle
When I Come Around (Green Day cover)
Buddy Holly
Island In The Sun
Across The Sea
Today (Smashing Pumpkins cover)
Can’t Stop Partying
El Scorcho
The Good Life
Basket Case (Green Day cover)
Do You Wanna Get High?
Falling For You
L.A. Girlz
(Girl We Got A) Good Thing
1979 (Smashing Pumpkins cover)
Getchoo
Magic (B.o.B. cover featuring Rivers Cuomo)
Medicine For Melancholy
Sober Up (AJR cover featuring Rivers Cuomo)
No One Else
No Other One
Where Is My Mind (Pixies cover)
Tired Of Sex

Encore:
Why Bother?

Encore 2:
You Gave Your Love To Me Softly

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Brett previously hosted the BWR wrestling and MMA podcast, interviewing pro wrestling and MMA stars like Kurt Angle, Seth Rollins, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, Bruce Buffer, AJ Styles, Rob Van Dam, Jeff Hardy, Edge, and DDP. After ending BWR, Brett opened GrungeReport.net in May 2009. The site changed its name to AlternativeNation.net in June 2013.  Brett ran Scott Weiland's social media accounts for his final 'Master Blaster' tour in fall 2015 and continued to run the accounts after Weiland's death until July 2016. On Alternative Nation, Brett controls all aspects of the website and reports the day to day news.  He has interviewed members of Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Imagine Dragons, Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Stone Temple Pilots, and The Smiths. Brett has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal and on the Reelz Channel. You can reach Brett at contact @alternativenation.net