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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tuesday morning, unequivocal proof finally arrived that Humpty Dumpty is the true consciousness of the Internet. Remember what the giant egg told Alice in Lewis Carroll's children's classic? " 'When I ...

A quirky modern rock group that had platinum success in the 1990s and 2000s, and which recently had its first gold hit in a decade with a cover of a 1980s song, will headline Musikfest’s main stage, ...

Toto guitarist Steve Lukather insists things "got weird" with Weezer after their 'Africa' cover. The 'Buddy Holly' rockers had huge success with their rendition of the 1982 classic in 2018 following a ...

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 ...

The Toto covers by Weezer came after a long-running campaign orchestrated by the Twitter account @WeezerCover Africa – and Toto’s recorded response is being released “in the coming weeks.” Toto’s ...