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submitted by Nick Jul 27th 2018 10:00 pm (stereogum.com)

One of the great successful grassroots campaigns in recent music history involved a teenage girl from Ohio lobbying to get Weezer to cover Toto's 1983 mega-hit "Africa," a song that's been experiencing a renaissance among younger generations in recent years. Not only did Rivers Cuomo and company oblige that request -- earning themselves their biggest…

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Weezer: – “Africa” (Toto Cover)

submitted by Nick May 29th 2018 01:00 pm (stereogum.com)

For the past few months, one particular Weezer fan, an Ohio teenager named Mary, has bee running a viral campaign attempting to convince Weezer to cover Toto's massive 1982 cheese-pop hit "Africa." Last week, Weezer responded to that campaign in a way that was part fan-service and part troll move. They covered a different Toto…

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Weezer: cover wrong Toto song for fans requesting ‘Africa’

submitted by Nick May 25th 2018 03:00 pm (www.nme.com)

As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti, they've covered 'Rosanna' insteadWeezer frontman Rivers CuomoA dedicated Twitter account named @WeezerAfrica has been campaigning for months, requesting that Weezer cover Toto’s karaoke classic ‘Africa’. Now …Continue reading »The post Weezer cover wrong Toto...

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Weezer: – “Rosanna” (Toto Cover)

submitted by Nick May 24th 2018 02:00 pm (stereogum.com)

For months now, a teenage Weezer fan in Cleveland has been running a viral campaign attempting to convince Weezer to cover "Africa," a deeply cheesy and kind of excellent sweeping pop song by prog veterans Toto, which went to #1 in 1982. There's a Twitter account dedicated to it and everything. The fan, whose name…

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Daft Punk: Chilly Gonzales Shares Piano Covers Of Daft Punk, Drake, Weezer, Lana Del Rey, & More

submitted by Nick Apr 17th 2018 06:00 pm (stereogum.com)

Chilly Gonzales is a talented composer in his own right, but in recent years, he's made a nice little side career for himself out of deconstructing other people's compositions. In his Pop Music Masterclass web series and more recently his Beats 1 show Music's Cool, he's broken down the mechanics of pop music for laymen…

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The Rentals: – “It’s Time To Come Home” Video

submitted by Nick Apr 29th 2015 07:00 pm (stereogum.com)

Last year, the ’90s alt-pop survivor and former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp convened a new lineup of his old project the Rentals, putting together the new album Lost In Alphaville. The band’s new video for the precise, mechanical album track “It’s Time To Come Home” casts Sharp in some sort of mad-...

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