Salt-N-Pepa's Salt and Motörhead's Lemmy

Toy and figure makers Funko are presenting a slew of new collectible vinyl Pop! figures at the annual London Toy Fair. They’ve unveiled a bunch of new additions to their “Pop Rocks” music collection, including Slayer, Motörhead, Willie Nelson, ZZ Top, James Brown, Salt N Peppa, Lil Wayne, Slipknot, Eazy-E, Papa Nihil of Ghost, and Rivers Cuomo of Weezer.

Noted cover band Weezer made a new video - their cover of Norvergan synth-poppers A-Ha and their smash hit 'Take On Me'. Rivers Cuomo was into hair-metal in the time of A-Ha's hit, and it's Finn Wolfhard, star of 'Stranger Things', who plays him as a teen-metalhead. Very nice. Watch the original video and the Weezer […]

Weezer surprise released a covers album 'The Teal Album' full of straightforward covers of pop hits, mainly from the ’80s, but there are a few outliers, such as TLC's 'No Scrubs' or Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid'. One of the tracks, 'Africa' — and possibly the entire album — is a direct response to the Twitter user @weezerafrica, a.k.a. […]

Plenty are going to be released, and Spin is especially excited about these: Sky Ferreira, The Weeknd, Grimes, Weezer, Chance the Rapper, Vampire Weekend, My Bloody Valentine, 2 Chainz, Avril Lavigne, Beirut, Carly Rae Jepsen, Cass McCombs, Cherry Glazerr, Chromatics, Deerhunter, Die Antwoord, Fidlar, Girlpool, Janet Jackson, Kanye West, Lana Del Rey, Mandy Rogers, Panda Bear, […]