List of supporting acts

From Weezerpedia

This list attempts to document every band that has opened for and/or toured alongside or in support of Weezer. This list does not include festival lineups.


Band Year Tour Shows played together
AM Radio 2002 Dusty West Tour
Japan World Cup Tour
Enlightenment Tour
Angels and Airwaves 2008 Troublemaker Tour 21
Archers of Loaf 1995 World Domination Tour (North American leg)
Ash 1997 Pinkerton Tour
Asian Kung Fu Generation 2008 Troublemaker Tour (Japanese Leg) 2
Basement 2019 Weezer/Pixies 2019 Tour
Ben Folds 2005 Make Believe Tour 2
Best Coast 2010 Memories Tour
Biffy Clyro 2002 Europe Tour 1
Black Market Flowers 1992-1993, 1997 Pre-Blue Album club dates
Weezer concert: 08/15/1997
blink-182 2000, 2009 Weezer concert: 12/31/2000
Bleezer Tour
15
The Bravery 2005 Make Believe Tour 1
Carnival Art 1993 Pre-Blue Album club dates
Cast 1995 World Domination Tour (European leg)
Cold 2001 Midget Tour 6
Chester French 2009 Bleezer Tour
Conic 2005 Make Believe Tour (European Leg) 1
The Cranberries 2002 Europe Tour 3
The Dambuilders 1994 Split Tour (Opening for Lush) 4
Dashboard Confessional 2002 Enlightenment Tour
Dillon Fence 1994 Split Tour (Opening for Lush) 3
Dogstar 1992 Pre-Blue Album club dates
Dover 2002 Europe Tour 3
Dynamite Hack 2000 Summer 2000 Tour 12
Ednaswap 1997 Tragic Kingdom Tour (Opening for No Doubt)
Everclear 1994 Opening for Material Issue
Fall Out Boy 2009, 2021 Bleezer Tour
Hella Mega Tour
Fatima Mansions 1994 Opening for Live 52
Foo Fighters 2005, 2018 Foozer Tour
Concrete And Gold Tour (Opening for Foo Fighters on Oceania leg)
25
The Fray 2005 Make Believe Tour 10
The Get Up Kids 2001 Yahoo! Outloud Tour
Gob 1994 Opening for Material Issue
Going Under Ground 2008 Troublemaker Tour (Japanese Leg) 2
Green Day 2021 Hella Mega Tour
Guns N' Roses 2002 Chinese Democracy World Tour (Opening for Guns N' Roses) 1
Handfullaflowers 1995 World Domination Tour (European Leg)
Holidays of Seventeen 2008 Troublemaker Tour (Japanese Leg) 3
Home Town Hero 2002 Enlightenment Tour
HoneyCrack 1995 World Domination Tour (European Leg)
Hot Hot Heat 2005 Foozer Tour
Make Believe Tour
10
The Interrupters 2021 Hella Mega Tour
Jimmy Eat World 2001 Midget Tour
Kaiser Chiefs 2005 Foozer Tour 10
The Kooks 2005 Make Believe Tour (European Leg) 1
Live 1994 Opening for Live 52
Lombardi 2002 Europe Tour 3
LucyBell 2005 Make Believe Tour (South American Leg) 1
Lush 1994 Split Tour (Opening for Lush) 20
Mae 2005 Foozer Tour 6
Material Issue 1994 Blue Album Tour (Opening for Material Issue) 20
Melissa Ferrick 1995 World Domination Tour (North American leg)
Nerf Herder 1996 Pinkerton Tour 13
New Found Glory 2000 Weezer concert: 12/31/2000 1
Nine Black Alps 2005 Make Believe Tour (European Leg) 4
No Doubt 1997 Tragic Kingdom Tour (Opening for No Doubt)
Organic Mechanic 2000 Summer 2000 Tour 2
The Orwells 2014, 2018 The Weezer Cruise II, Feels Like Summer Tour 11
Ozma 2001, 2002 Yahoo! Outloud Tour
Hyper Extended Midget Tour (North American Leg)
38
Panic! at the Disco 2016 White Album Tour
Pete Yorn 2002 Dusty West Tour
The Pixies 2005, 2018, 2019 Make Believe Tour, Weezer/Pixies 2018 Tour, Weezer/Pixies 2019 Tour
Placebo 1996 Pinkerton Tour 10
Pluto 1994 Blue Album Tour (Opening for Material Issue)
The Pulsars 1997 Pinkerton Tour 11
Radiohead 1995 The Black Sessions
Red Hot Chili Peppers 2005 Make Believe Tour 1
The Relationship 2008 Troublemaker Tour (California dates) 3
Remy Zero 2002 Europe Tour 4
Ringside 2005 Make Believe Tour 12
Rooney 2002 Weezer concert: 05/13/2002
Enlightenment Tour
Saves the Day 2002 Hyper Extended Midget Tour (North American Leg)
Seven Day Diary 1995 World Domination Tour (European leg)
The Smithereens 1994 Blue Album Tour (Opening for Material Issue)
Sparta 2002 Enlightenment Tour
The Special Goodness 2002 Enlightenment Tour
theStart 2001 Midget Tour 6
The Subways 2005 Make Believe Tour (European Leg) 5
Superdrag 1996 Pinkerton Tour 10
Supersport 2000
Taking Back Sunday 2005, 2009 Make Believe Tour
Bleezer Tour
1
Teenage Fanclub 1995 World Domination Tour
Tegan and Sara 2005 Make Believe Tour (European Leg) 2
Tenacious D 2001 Midget Tour
That Dog 1994, 1995 Blue Album Tour
World Domination Tour
Throneberry 1994 Split Tour (Opening for Lush) 4
Tokyo Police Club 2008 Troublemaker Tour
Veruca Salt 1994 Blue Album Tour
Wax 1993, 2009 Pre-Blue Album club dates
Weezer concert: 10/24/2009

AM Radio

See AM Radio

AM Radio is an American rock band fronted by singer Kevin Ridel, a longtime personal friend and former bandmate of Weezer lead singer Rivers Cuomo.

Concerts 

Amyl and the Sniffers

Amyl and the Sniffers is a pub rock/punk rock band based in Melbourne, Australia. The group opened for Weezer (and Green Day and Fall Out Boy) on the 2022 European leg of the Hella Mega Tour.

Concerts 

Andy Gonzales


Angels & Airwaves

Angels & Airwaves is an American rock band fronted by Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge. The band opened for Weezer alongside Tokyo Police Club on Weezer's Troublemaker Tour.

Concerts 

Archers of Loaf

Archers of Loaf is an American indie rock band originally formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1991.

Concerts 

Ash

See Ash

Ash is a Northern Irish rock band formed in Downpatrick, County Down in 1992 by vocalist and guitarist Tim Wheeler, bassist Mark Hamilton and drummer Rick McMurray.

Concerts 

Asian Kung-fu Generation

See Asian Kung-Fu Generation

Asian Kung-Fu Generation is a Japanese alternative rock band formed in Yokohama, Japan, in 1996. The band opened for Weezer on the Troublemaker Tour in 2008, and Rivers Cuomo co-wrote two songs for their 2018 album, Hometown. The band later included a cover of "I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams" as a b-side on their 2022 single Demachiyanagi Parallel Universe.

Concerts 

Bad Rabbits


Ball Park Music

Ball Park Music is an indie rock band from Brisbane, Australia. The group opened for Weezer on the latter's 2013 Australasia Tour.

Concerts 

Basement

Basement is an English rock band formed in 2009. The group toured on Weezer's joint tour with the Pixies in the spring of 2019.


Ben Folds

Ben Folds is a American singer-songwriter. He first gained widespread prominence as the eponymous frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. Folds opened for Weezer for two shows in 2005.

Concerts 

Best Coast

Best Coast is an American rock duo consisting of songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist Bethany Cosentino and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno. The duo opened for Weezer in 2010 on Weezer's Memories Tour, wherein Cosentino accompanied Rivers Cuomo on lead vocals for the song "Island in the Sun." Cuomo and Cosentino remained in touch thereafter, eventually collaborating on the song "Go Away" for Weezer's 2014 album, Everything Will Be Alright in the End.


Biffy Clyro

Biffy Clyro is a Scottish rock band from Kilmarnock, Scotland consisting of Simon Neil and brothers James and Ben Johnston. The band opened for Weezer for one show during the Europe Tour (2002) as original opening act Remy Zero was unable to play due to illness. They have also released a cover version of "Buddy Holly" on the 2006 compilation album High Voltage - A Brief History Of Rock released by Kerrang! Magazine.

Concerts 

Black Angel's Death Song

Black Market Flowers

See Black Market Flowers

Black Pistol Fire

Blink-182

See Blink-182

Blood of Abraham

The Bravery

Breland

Cast

Cloud Control

Cold

Chelsea Automatic

Chester French

Conic

Crackout

The Cranberries

Cut You Up

The Dambuilders

Dashboard Confessional

The Delta Riggs

Dillon Fence

Dinosaur Jr.

Dismemberment Plan

Dogstar

Dover

Dynamite Hack

Ednaswap

Elastic Purejoy

Elliot & the Ghost

Eric's Trip

Everclear

Fall Out Boy

Fatima Mansions

The Fauves

The Figgs

Flathead

Foo Fighters

See Foo Fighters

Frank Lloyd Vinyl

The Fray

Future Islands

Gashi

Gaslight Anthem

The Get Up Kids

Giant Sand

Give

Gob

Going Under Ground

Green Day

See Green Day

Green Thumb

The Grim

Guided by Voices

Guns N' Roses

Handfullaflowers

Harkland

Holidays of Seventeen

Home Town Hero

HoneyCrack

Hot Hot Heat

Hunter Hunted

Imagine Dragons

Inflatable Soule

The Interrupters

See The Interrupters

Jack's Mannequin

Jimmy Eat World

See Jimmy Eat World

JJAMZ

Joyce Manor

See Joyce Manor

J. Roddy Walston and the Business

Kaiser Chiefs

KennyHoopla

The Knux

The Kooks

Lefty

Letters to Cleo

Liar's Club

The Limousines

Live

Lombardi

Love Buzz

Lucybell

Lush

Lutefisk

Mae

Male Bonding

MaryMonique

Material Issue

Matt and Kim

Meet Me at the Altar

Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Ferrick

MewithoutYou

Modest Mouse

Momma

Motion City Soundtrack

Natalie Portman's Shaved Head

Nerf Herder

See Nerf Herder

New Found Glory

Nine Black Alps

No Doubt

Organic Mechanic

See Organic Mechanic

The Orwells

Overwhelming Colorfast

Ozma

See Ozma

Ozma is a rock band from Pasadena, California who have cited Weezer as a major influence.

Panic! at the Disco

See Panic! at the Disco

Paranoid Lovesick

Passion Pit

Pete Yorn

Pet the Fish

Phantom Planet

The Piersons

Pixies

See Pixies

The Pixies are an influential alternative rock band formed in 1986. They have been cited as a primary influence on Weezer.[citation needed] Weezer first co-headlined with the Pixies for multiple shows in 2005. The two bands later co-headlined tours in the summers of 2018 and 2019.

Placebo

Pluto

Plunk

Popsicko

Powder

PT Walkley

Propaganda Child

The Pulsars

Radiohead

Ray

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Regurgitator

The Relationship

See The Relationship

The Relationship was a band founded by Weezer guitarist Brian Bell and musician Nate Shaw. The band has featured multiple lineups, with Bell as the only consistent member.

Remy Zero

Ridel High

Ringside

Rival Schools

Rooney

Sakanaction

Saves the Day

Seven Day Diary

The Sheila Divine

Sleeper Agent

The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smithereens

Sourmash

Sparta

The Special Goodness

See The Special Goodness

The Special Goodness is a moniker and side-project fronted by Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson.

Splendid

Spoon

theStart

The Stone Foxes

The Subways

Superdrag

Supersport 2000

See Supersport 2000

Taking Back Sunday

Teenage Fanclub

See Teenage Fanclub

Teen Mortgage

Tegan and Sara

Tenacious D

That Dog

See That Dog

Third Grade Teacher

Throneberry

Tokyo Police Club

See Tokyo Police Club

Tolchok Trio

The Town Monster

The Tuffskins

Tugboat Annie

Turn

Tuscadero

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Veruca Salt

Wax

See Wax

The Weekend

White Reaper

Zebra Crossing

See also