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Weezer Covers of ‘Enter Sandman’ For a New Metallica Tribute Album Complete With a Spooky Music Video
The prolific band Weezer, who are no strangers to cover songs, performed the classic Metallica anthem “Enter Sandman” in their distinctive fashion, using rather spooky…

Musician Reimagines Songs From Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ Album In the Distinctive Styles of 12 Different Bands

A ‘Juicy’ ‘Sure Shot’ Remix of 60 Songs From 1994 That Can’t Easily Be ‘Undone’ While ‘Chasing Waterfalls’
In the final installment of the 2020 reboot of the “Thursday Mashups in October” series, Aaron Brink and Steve Reidell of The Hood Internet found…

Weezer Joins Jimmy Fallon and The Roots for a Classroom Instruments Cover of a-ha’s ‘Take On Me’
While promoting their Teal album of cover songs and other new projects, the members of Weezer joined Jimmy Fallon and The Roots in a Tonight…

Why Cover Songs That Don’t Stray Too Far From the Original Version Inevitably Invite Critical Comparison
The wonderfully motor-mouthed, artistically talented music theorist 12Tone explains why covers songs aren’t always the most successful form of music, no matter who is performing…

Finn Wolfhard of ‘Stranger Things’ Is a Teenage Rivers Cuomo in Weezer’s Video for Their ‘Take On Me’ Cover
At the end of January 2019, the band Weezer dropped the Teal Album, a surprise compilation album consisting of popular cover songs. One such cover…

Rivers Cuomo Is an Eerie Mister Rogers in the Music Video for the New Weezer Song ‘High as a Kite’
In the music video for the Weezer song “High as a Kite”, frontman Rivers Cuomo dressed up as a Mister Rogers lookalike and joined the…

Weezer Drops Surprise Album of Popular Cover Songs
Inspired by how well their cover of Toto‘s “Africa” was received, the members of Weezer decided to drop an entire album of cover songs called…

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Looks Just Like ‘Buddy Holly’ as He Fronts Weezer’s Music Video of the Toto Song ‘Africa’
Several months after Weezer premiered their version of the Toto classic ““Africa” aka “the internet’s favorite song” at the behest of a teenage fan with…