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"Weird Al" Yankovic has joined Weezer for a new music video for their hit cover of Toto's "Africa." Yankovic, who recently joined the band to perform the song live onstage in L.A., stands in for frontman Rivers Cuomo in a remake of the band's iconic "Undone (The Sweater Song)" video. So meta. (Stereogum)

SiriusXM buying Pandora

SiriusXM is buying Pandora for $3.5 billion. It's a major step into the streaming world for the satellite radio service, and Sirius executives say the ad-supported Pandora is a good free option to offer the many listeners who sample Sirius offerings but decide not to buy a satellite subscription. (New York Times)

Paul Simon said goodbye

It wasn't necessarily his last live performance ever, but it kind of felt like it as Paul Simon's Farewell Tour wrapped up with a hometown show on Saturday night in Queens. Despite the poignance of ending his final tour just a short walk from where he grew up, "the mood of the night was overwhelmingly celebratory, more silly than serious," reports Billboard. In tribute to his schoolyard days, he even put on a glove and tossed a baseball back and forth with audience members.

Carrie Underwood does big numbers

Carrie Underwood outsold even Cardi B as she racked up this year's biggest sales numbers for a female artist, on her way to number one with her new album Cry Pretty. The album sold well at big retailers like Walmart and Target, and Underwood became yet another artist to pave her way to the top by bundling albums with concert tickets. (New York Times)

Music is in your DNA

Spotify and Ancestry have teamed up to curate playlists inspired by listeners' DNA. Over 10,000 Spotify users have already linked their Ancestry accounts, which generates a playlist of artists from regions your DNA hails from if you've taken Ancestry's saliva test. (Noisey)

"For example," writes Quartzy, "someone with Chinese heritage might get classical musician Wu Fei on their playlist, while a person with a Spanish background might get the rock band Los Sírex."

Even if you haven't done a DNA test, you can work out your "musical DNA" with a new feature that tallies your listening preferences.

Médine cancels Bataclan concerts

Médine, a French rapper who is Muslim, has canceled a pair of scheduled concerts at the Bataclan in Paris. He said the cancellation was due both to safety concerns and out of respect to the families of the people who were killed by terrorists in a 2015 terrorist attack on the venue.

Despite the fact that the rapper has repeatedly decried fundamentalist violence, far-right groups have mounted an aggressive campaign against the shows and were planning to hold protests outside the venue if the shows went ahead as scheduled next month. Marine Le Pen, the most prominent politician of the French far right, celebrated the cancellations as "a victory."

In the song "Bataclan," released earlier this year, Médine rapped about his lifelong dream to play the famed venue. In his Instagram post announcing the shows' cancellation, he quoted a line from that song: "All I wanted to do was play the Bataclan." (New York Times)

Songs sampled in podcast
Jahzzar: "Comedie" (CC BY 4.0)
BoxCat Games: "Against the Wall" (CC BY 3.0)
Paul Simon: "Still Crazy After All These Years"
Carrie Underwood: "Cry Pretty"
David Davidson: "Speak Softly, Love" (Theme from The Godfather)
Médine: "Bataclan"
Weezer: "Beverly Hills"
Weezer: "Undone (The Sweater Song)"
Weezer: "Africa"