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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: and ZZ Top perform as supergroup 'Wee-Z Top' on Jimmy Kimmel - listen
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Collaboration took place as part of new series Mash Up Mondays
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Weezer: Watch Weezer Join ZZ Top As Wee-Z Top On Jimmy Kimmel
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How nervous would you have to be to stand in between Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill onstage? I imagine you’d be pretty fucking nervous! But last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo took on that challenge like a G. Weezer and ZZ Top performed together last night to begin the show’s “Mash Up [...]
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ZZ Top: and Weezer To Do Live TV Mash-Up
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ZZ Top will staging an unusual performance with Weezer as ABC-TV's Jimmy Kimmel Live for the debut installment of the late night talk show's Mash-Up Mondays on February 2.
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Linkin Park: Rob Zombie and Weezer Lead Loudwire Music Festival
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Linkin Park, Rob Zombie and Weezer have been announced as the headliners for the very first Loudwire Music Festival which will be taking place this summer
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Weezer: Haim and Weezer to form supergroups for Jimmy Kimmel
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Weezer and ZZ Top will become 'Wee-Z Top' as part of 'Mash Up Mondays'
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