Weezer have something to celebrate— their cover of “Africa” by Toto just went certified Gold. In case you forgot how we got here, let’s have a refresher on why the band covered the song in the first ...

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 ...

Weezer had a smash hit with their cover of Toto‘s “Africa” and it worked out well for both bands in the end, but what does Toto guitarist Steve Lukather really think about how the whole thing went ...

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 ...

Virtually everything about Weezer covering Toto’s “Africa” was strange, from the social media campaign that sparked the cover in the first place to the music video starring Weird Al Yankovic to, ...

In 2018 the bands exchanged cover versions, a move fired up by a Weezer fan who’d started an online campaign to have Cuomo’s group perform Toto’s signature track. The result was a surprise hit single ...

When Weezer’s 2018 cover of Toto’s “Africa” earned the band its biggest Hot 100 smash since 2005 (and hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart), singer Rivers Cuomo marked the occasion in his ...

When Weezer – best known for their straight-ahead rock and power-pop sound – cut Toto’s “Africa” in 2018, a lot of people took it as a joke, until they really listened to how well the band performed ...

Back in 2018, Weezer covered Toto's classic floor-filler Africa, and though it might not have become as successful as the original - how could it - it certainly pushed the indie rockers back into ...

"I don’t know about him loving the song, man," said Steve Lukather of Toto about Cuomo's feelings toward the 1982 classic Jack Irvin has over five years of experience working in digital journalism, ...