When Weezer – best known for their straight-ahead rock and power-pop sound – cut Toto’s “Africa” in 2018, a lot of people took it as a joke, until they really listened to how well the band performed ...

More than 40 years after topping the Billboard Hot 100, Toto‘s “Africa” is still reaching new milestones: The 1983 No. 1 hit just surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube. “Africa” — Toto’s lone Hot 100 ...

Toto is on a 53-date North American tour, sharing the bill for many of the dates with Journey, another remarkably successful classic-rock band founded in the 1970s. Following the tour’s sold-out ...

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 ...

Somewhere in the world right now a dancefloor is being flooded with people because "Africa" by Toto just came on. "Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun." When it comes to hyping up a crowd, the song's ...

A Namibian artist named Max Siedentopf has assembled a sound installation in the Namib Desert of Africa to play the classic 1982 hit through a solar powered MP3 player and six speakers Everyone likes ...

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 ...

Everybody likes “Africa” by Toto. It’s one of those ubiquitous songs that you catch on the radio every now and then - almost as if the DJ turns to you as if to say “hurry boy, it’s waiting there for ...

You can check it out below. She ran the idea past Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson, who responded that he "laughed" at her suggestion. Joke or not, roughly 340 tweets later, including a retweet of an ...

Somewhere, in an isolated desert location on the southern coast of Africa, a certain Toto song is playing to the vast emptiness. Over. And over. And over. Again. A German artist has set up a musical ...

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 ...

If it takes a lot to drag you away from playing Toto's hit song Africa, then head to the world's oldest desert where it's set to play on loop for eternity. Namibian-German artist Max Siedentopf has ...