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As some artists move to pull their music off Spotify in response to the streaming service’s relationship with Joe Rogan’s podcast, Weezer have come up with a new plan to target defectors. Over the weekend, Rivers Cuomo launched an app called Weezify, which is a self-described “Spotify-like player for all of Rivers Cuomo’s demos.” Per its official description, Cuomo says he made the app himself and that it took him all of 2021 to do it.
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Weezer: – “Africa” (Toto Cover)
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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’
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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)
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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
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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
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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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