Weekend (San Francisco noise rock band)

Weekend is an American lo-fi or shoegaze trio from San Francisco, California. The band formed in 2009 and released two EPs, with the full-length debut album Sports coming on Slumberland Records in 2010. The album received an 8.2 rating from Pitchfork Media. It also received 4/5 stars on Tinymixtapes and was also reviewed by National Public Radio, the Portland Mercury, Boston Phoenix, NME, Drowned in Sound, Brooklyn Vegan, The Onion's AV Club, and PopMatters. Sports was also mentioned in Sports Illustrated alongside the more commercially successful album with the same name by Huey Lewis and the News. Their song "End Times" was used in a commercial to promote Season 6 of Dexter. The band released their second album, Jinx, on July 23, 2013, on Slumberland Records. In late 2018, Weekend toured with Nothing and Thursday. Sports (2010, Slumberland) Jinx (2013, Slumberland) Red (2011, Slumberland) All-American (2010, Mexican Summer) End Times (2011, Slumberland, Neon transparent yellow) Weekend's End Times b/w Young Prisms' I Don't Get Much (2010, Transparent) Comentale, Ed. "Weekend - Sports | Music Review". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved April 13, 2013. Comentale, Ed (August 4, 2015). "Weekend brings post-punk sound back to town". San Francisco Examiner. Murphy, Tom (November 12, 2010). "Shaun Durkan of Weekend talks about Sports and the foibles of music journalism - Denver - Music - Backbeat". Blogs.westword.com. Archived from the original on October 10, 2012. Retrieved April 13, 2013. Hughes, Josiah (September 30, 2010). "Weekend Announce Slumberland Debut • News •". Exclaim.ca. Retrieved April 13, 2013. "Weekend: Sports | Album Reviews". Pitchfork. November 11, 2010. Retrieved April 13, 2013. Myers, Erik (October 24, 2010). "First Listen: Weekend, 'Sports'". NPR. Retrieved April 13, 2013. Milbauer, Rachel. "Unlimited Nights and Weekend | Music". Portland Mercury. Retrieved April 13, 2013. Archived October 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine "NME Album Reviews - Album Review: Weekend - Sports (Slumberland)". Nme.Com. December 10, 2010. Retrieved April 13, 2013. Gourlay, Dom (November 8, 2010). "Weekend - Sports / Releases / Releases // Drowned In Sound". Drownedinsound.com. Archived from the original on January 11, 2013. Retrieved April 13, 2013. "Weekend released 'Sports', touring w/ Young Prisms (dates)". Brooklynvegan.com. November 11, 2010. Retrieved April 13, 2013. Heller, Jason (November 9, 2010). "Weekend: Sports". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on November 12, 2010. Retrieved April 13, 2013. "Weekend: Sports". PopMatters. Retrieved April 13, 2013. Rebecca Shore (February 28, 2011). "Do two sporty CDs really have game? - 02.28.11 - SI Vault". Sportsillustrated.cnn.com. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved April 13, 2013. "Weekend: "Mirror" | Tracks". Pitchfork. April 3, 2013. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved April 13, 2013. Band's Myspace page Weekend on Facebook v t e