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…

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...

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…

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…

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-...