THEY ARE THE GOAT, AND ALSO THROWING IT

Backstage in Huntsville, Alabama, the site of their tour's sold-out first show, the members of Crush Music's indomitable Weezer pose for a photo, naturally assuming it will run somewhere cool—and not, say, on the website of this trade-hack sanctuary. But you can't have everything. In any case, the alt-rock luminaries' tour is (according to those who know) fully off the chain, with merch numbers that could make a grown man weep with joy. Oh, and Jack White was a surprise visitor on night 1, raising Huntsville's rocking-balls-out quotient (RBOQ) to its highest level since 1978. In possibly related Alabama news, dancing is still legal in the state. But the legislature is working on that.