{"id":481271,"date":"2019-01-24T07:16:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T14:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=783780"},"modified":"2019-01-24T07:16:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T14:16:26","slug":"weezer-follow-africa-with-surprise-covers-lp-the-teal-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/weezer-follow-africa-with-surprise-covers-lp-the-teal-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Weezer Follow \u2018Africa\u2019 With Surprise Covers LP, \u2018The Teal Album\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eight months after scoring a surprise hit<\/a> with their fan-demanded rendition of Toto\u2019s \u201cAfrica,\u201d<\/a> Weezer<\/a> surprise-released a full covers LP,\u00a0Weezer (The Teal Album)<\/em>. The record is out now<\/a> via\u00a0Crush Music\/Atlantic Records and available via iTunes, Spotify and other digital retailers.<\/p>\n

The Teal Album<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 which arrives weeks before Weezer (The Black Album)<\/em>, the alt-rock band\u2019s 13th set of original material \u2013 features songs they performed on their summer 2018 tour, including a-ha\u2019s \u201cTake on Me\u201d and the Turtles\u2019 \u201cHappy Together.\u201d The LP spans Eighties pop (Tears for Fears\u2019 \u201cEverybody Wants to Rule the World,\u201d the Eurythmics\u2019 \u201cSweet Dreams (Are Made of This,\u201d Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cBillie Jean\u201d), vintage metal (Black Sabbath\u2019s \u201cParanoid\u201d), art-rock (Electric Light Orchestra\u2019s \u201cMr. Blue Sky\u201d), classic soul (Ben E. King\u2019s \u201cStand By Me\u201d), Nineties R&B (TLC\u2019s \u201cNo Scrubs\u201d) and, naturally, \u201cAfrica.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dave Sitek-produced Black Album<\/em>, out March 1st, includes the previously issued cuts \u201cCan\u2019t Knock the Hustle\u201d<\/a> and \u201cZombie Bastards.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Weezer will promote the LP with a spring U.S. tour with the Pixies that launches March 8th in Louisville, Kentucky; the joint trek wraps April 12th in Las Vegas, Nevada, followed by a slot at Coachella and a run of international dates.<\/p>\n

Weezer \u2013 Weezer (The Teal Album)<\/em> Track List<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Africa (Toto)<\/p>\n

2. Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Tears for Fears)<\/p>\n

3. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (The Eurythmics)<\/p>\n

4. Take On Me (a-ha)<\/p>\n

5. Happy Together (The Turtles)<\/p>\n

6. Paranoid (Black Sabbath)<\/p>\n

7. Mr. Blue Sky (Electric Light Orchestra)<\/p>\n

8. No Scrubs (TLC)<\/p>\n

9. Billie Jean (Michael Jackson)<\/p>\n

10. Stand By Me (Ben E. King)<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eight months after scoring a surprise hit with their fan-demanded rendition of Toto\u2019s \u201cAfrica,\u201d Weezer surprise-released a full covers LP,\u00a0Weezer (The Teal Album). The record is out now via\u00a0Crush Music\/Atlantic Records and available via iTunes, Spotify and other digital retailers. The Teal Album\u00a0\u2013 which arrives weeks before Weezer (The Black Album), the alt-rock band\u2019s 13th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 00:58:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}