Weezer’s cover of Toto’s perennial favorite “Africa” undoubtedly became one of the band’s biggest successes, but Toto guitarist Steve Lukather isn’t sure the reasons behind the cover were genuine. The ...
How does Weezer's Rivers Cuomo feel about "Africa" by Toto? Over six years after the "Island in the Sun" band released a cover of "Africa" in response to an internet campaign and subsequently earned ...
The world, we thought, no longer requires further covers of Toto’s 1982 hit, “Africa.” We have heard the song played by a group of Animal Crossing villagers, performed on beer bottles and in a wide ...
In 2018, in response to months of campaigning by an Ohio teenager named Mary, Weezer famously covered Toto’s 1983 chart-topping hit “Africa,” yielding a fun music video with Weird Al Yankovic and ...
“I think it was kind of sinking in just how big it was becoming. Maybe it was just my imagination, but I thought maybe on [Weezer leader] Rivers Cuomo’s face, there was an expression like, ‘Oh s***, I ...
The internet is obsessed with two songs and two songs only. But for different reasons. The first is Smash Mouth’s “All Star.” It’s a bad song that garners a lot of ironic admiration. It’s silly and it ...
Without trying to presume we at AudioPhix know the exact definition of racism and precisely what it means to be oppressed by racism, we should ask, "If someone writes a song about what is to them a ...