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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our staff debates who did the better cover, the effects the songs have on both bands and what other songs in Toto's catalog should be covered. You can read our thoughts below. 1. Who covered whom ...

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 ...

Still, as he said in a new interview, he's enjoying how the 1982 hit has found continued life through covers, samples and internet memes. "No one is laughing harder than me," he told Ernie Ball. "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 ...

"We could actually have a hit record at alternative, which is the funniest f---ing thing I’ve ever lived to see,” says Steve Lukather. Steve Lukather is still finding it hard to believe, after 42 ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, Weezer relented to a fan campaign urging the band to cover “Africa,” Toto‘s signature hit from 1982. But before Weezer released their version of “Africa,” they also took on Toto’s ...

Originally filed Tuesday, August 7, 2018 by RODNEY HO/[email protected] on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog In one of the most unlikely radio cover hits of recent vintage, Weezer's ironically faithful cover of ...