If there’s one good omen in this world, it’s the internet producing another fantastic cover of Toto’s painfully catchy classic, “Africa.” This time around, we have Russian guitarist and composer, ...
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 ...
Technically, the song is called “Ocean to Ocean” but the chorus is mostly “Africa” featuring Rhea. The track plays in the movie as Aquaman (Jason Momoa) and Mera (Amber Heard) head into the Sahara ...
It’s tough to pin down the single best moment in Aquaman, a film that features a drum-playing octopus and Patrick Wilson repeatedly screaming, “Ocean master!” with the force of a thousand ...
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 ...
The world, we thought, no longer requires further covers of Toto’s 1982 hit, “Africa.” We have heard the song played by a group of Animal Crossing villagers, performed on beer bottles and in a wide ...
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 ...
Weezer have something to celebrate— their cover of “Africa” by Toto just went certified Gold. In case you forgot how we got here, let’s have a refresher on why the band covered the song in the first ...
According to Entertainment Weekly, the song plays within Aquaman at a point when Arthur (Jason Momoa) and Mera (Amber Heard) are in the Sahara Desert. “The ocean, the sea and any body of water, to me, ...
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 ...
Africa by Toto has seen a resurgence in popularity lately, with Weezer and Al Yankovic recently joining the bandwagon. It's always fun to see covers of your favorite songs done in unexpected ways ...