That Teal is now a part of the Weezer canon is, again, thanks to a meme started by the then-14-year-old Mary. That there’s now an entire album built around it feels improbable, though it fits ...

Today, the band decided to give the 14-year old fan who runs the Twitter account ‘Weezer Cover Africa By Toto’ almost what they wanted, but not quite. They did do a Toto cover, but elected to ...

Toto Founder on Weezer’s Hit Cover of ‘Africa’: ‘No One’s Laughing Harder Than Us’ Guitarist Steve Lukather weighs in on the phenomenon which arrives just as the band embarks on its ...

Me: Alexa, play ‘Africa’ by Toto.” “If you play ‘Africa’ by Toto at exactly 11:58:33 p.m. on December 31st, the first “I bless the rains down in Africa’ will play at exactly midnight.

This meme is getting out of control. With Weezer scoring their biggest hit in a decade by covering Toto’s “Africa,” the band went full tilt by bringing ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic onstage to jam ...

It started on Twitter, as these things often do. A then-14-year-old Weezer fan named Mary (@weezerafrica) began a public campaign to persuade the alt-rock band to cover the 1982 Toto hit “Africa ...

Yankovic was the closest thing to a meme generator that there could have been pre-internet, and Weezer, with their Twitter-spawned cover of “Africa,” are currently riding some meme-driven ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Weezer has released a cover of Toto's "Africa" after a teenage fan pressed the group for months on social media to record the song. The teen, known as @weezerafrica, jokingly ...

Weezer isn’t letting up on the Toto tributes: The band has already given the 14-year-old people what they want by covering “Africa, ” then performing the soft-rock track on Kimmel Live!.

It’s finally happened. Weezer has, at last, covered Toto’s smash hit “Africa.” The campaign to make this happen began last December, when a 14-year-old named Mary set up @weezerafrica, a ...

It’s finally happened. Weezer has, at last, covered Toto’s smash hit “Africa.” The campaign to make this happen began last December, when a 14-year-old named Mary set up @weezerafrica, a ...

Weezer recruit “Weird Al” Yankovic and a band of doppelgängers for the video for their surprise hit cover of Toto‘s “Africa.” Yankovic plays a Rivers Cuomo replica in the video, which ...