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 ...

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 ...

Social media watchdogs can still hear the drums of “Africa” echoing from Sunday night. British actor Daniel Kaluuya and American singer H.E.R., who both won big at last year’s Academy Awards, appeared ...

“I think it was kind of sinking in just how big it was becoming. Maybe it was just my imagination, but I thought maybe on [Weezer leader] Rivers Cuomo’s face, there was an expression like, ‘Oh s***, I ...

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 ...

A Cleveland-based metal band has recorded a version of Toto's "Africa," complete with a crunchy solo that rises like Olympus above the Serengeti. Affiance, who released their first EP in 2007, came ...

The 94th Academy Awards are off and running and with every major awards show, there are bound to be awkward moments — some more blatant than others. For the presentation of the first trophy, Best ...

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 ...

You can still hear it blasting out of classic rock and golden oldies stations all over the world, and against all odds, Toto’s “Africa” has become a millennial anthem 35 years later. The rousing ...

Ladies and gentlemen of the internet, the rains have once again been blessed. This morning, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo released a cover of the infamous '80s earworm "Africa" by Toto, once again ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Maybe Steve Lukather is always a livewire, or maybe his fifth cup of coffee kicked in just in time for his interview. Either way, the longtime guitarist for Toto spoke a mile a ...

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 ...