Weezer don’t address bassist’s wife’s arrest at Coachella 2025, cover Metallica

Say it ain’t so, but Weezer did not address bassist Scott Shriner’s wife’s recent shooting and arrest during their Coachella 2025 performance on Saturday. Instead, it was rock business as usual for the band, as they played their greatest hits and covered Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” for the set, a last-minute addition to the Indio, Calif., festival lineup.

Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, Brian Bell, and Shriner played to a packed house despite their early set time. The crowd chanted “Weezer! Weezer! Weezer!” and threw up their trademark “W” hand sign as the group powered through every fan-favorite song, from “Island in the Sun” to “Beverly Hills” to “Say It Ain’t So,” sounding perfect on each one.

But it was their cover of “Enter Sandman” that had Coachella attendees head-banging and going wild as they ripped through the intense metal song. Watch a video of that thrilling moment below.

Some fans turned their “W” hand signs upside down in support of the vibe change. This isn’t the first time Weezer have played “Enter Sandman” — the band’s version of the iconic song is featured on the tribute album The Metallica Blacklist.

What was more surprising was the fact that Cuomo and Shriner bantered and played throughout the entire set as if the band’s name hadn’t dominated headlines this past week after Shriner’s wife, Jillian Lauren, was shot by Los Angeles police and arrested on charges of attempted murder.

On Tuesday, just days after Weezer were announced as surprise Coachella 2025 performers, Lauren was involved in a bizarre standoff with Los Angeles police that began when three suspects in a misdemeanor hit-and-run allegedly fled the scene of a traffic accident on the 134 Freeway and escaped into a residential area in the neighborhood of Eagle Rock. Police said they established a perimeter on Waldo Place after one of the suspects was allegedly spotted there, and that a nearby homeowner, later identified as Lauren, walked out of her house with a handgun.

Lauren was warned to drop the weapon, but she refused and eventually pointed the gun toward the officers, authorities allege. A press release stated that Lauren “was struck by gunfire” in “an officer-involved shooting” and retreated into her home before returning outside, where she was taken into custody. Paramedics transported her to a hospital, where she was treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.

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The LAPD said they determined that Lauren had no connection to the initial hit-and-run incident, but she was absentee booked for attempted murder. Jail records reviewed by Entertainment Weekly indicate that her bail was set at $1 million.

Two days before their Coachella performance, Shriner, 59, told the New York Post that Lauren is “alright” and then said simply, “See you at Coachella!”

Weezer will not return to play the second weekend of Coachella, as Ed Sheeran has that time slot next Saturday. His performance was planned before Lauren’s shooting and legal troubles.