Weezer Follow Through and Play Coachella Set Despite Bassist’s Wife’s Arrest and Shooting

Weezer somehow managed to hit the Mojave tent at Coachella on Saturday night (April 12).

Delivering a by-the-numbers festival set, the band managed to sidestep a headline that’s followed them all week: the arrest and shooting of bassist Scott Shriner’s wife.

As reported by Blunt Magazine last week, Jillian Shriner was taken into custody last Tuesday (April 8) after being shot in the shoulder by police during an incident at her Los Angeles home. According to LAPD, officers were pursuing a suspect from an unrelated hit-and-run when things escalated. Shriner allegedly fired a gun and refused to drop it when ordered—prompting what the LAPD called an “officer-involved shooting.” She was later booked for attempted murder.

Weezer, announced just last week as a late addition to the Coachella lineup, chose not to address the situation onstage. Not once. No comment, no acknowledgement, no nod to the very public chaos that had fans and headlines swirling all week.

Instead, they played it safe.

‘My Name Is Jonas’, ‘Hash Pipe’, ‘Undone – The Sweater Song’, ‘Island in the Sun’—all the usual suspects showed up in the setlist, alongside a fairly committed cover of Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’. The band sounded tight, the crowd was locked in, but the set leaned hard into autopilot. Shriner played the whole thing without missing a beat. Which, considering the week he’s had, is either impressive or unsettling. Probably the former though.

Before the set, Shriner made a brief statement confirming the band would still perform and thanked people for checking in, but didn’t elaborate. “She’s alright,” he said. That was it.

Weezer didn’t give Coachella a scandal performance. They gave it a nostalgia trip. Loud, clean, and completely detached from reality—at least for 45 minutes.

After the festival, they’re heading to the UK and Europe for more dates off the back of last year’s Blue Album 30th anniversary. No word on whether the situation back home will affect those plans. For now, the show goes on. I just wouldn’t be expecting them to talk about it.