The Weeknd has dropped out of his planned headlining slot at the Global Citizen Festival on Saturday (Sept. 27) in New York’s Central Park and will be replaced on the bill by Cardi B. “I regret to share that, due to personal reasons, I am unable to perform at Global Citizen,” the Weeknd (real name: […]
The Weeknd was forced to cut his second night at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium short after losing his voice on Saturday night. The R&B star went backstage midway through his fifth song, “Can’t Feel My Face,” and came back out to apologize to fans but did not continue his set. “I can’t give you the […]
The Weeknd transforms into an animated zombie in the new video for “How Do I Make You Love Me?,” the fourth clip from his fifth studio album, Dawn FM. In it, a cartoon version of Abel Tesfaye takes a bloody, limbless trip through a city to find his love. Along with the video, The Weeknd […]
The following acts released quality albums in May 2022 alone: Radiohead off-shoot The Smile, Kendrick Lamar, Wilco, Arcade Fire, Sharon Van Etten, The Black Keys, Florence + the Machine, Harry Styles — we’ll stop there for space reasons. It’s been such a wild music year so far, only some of them made the following list. […]
It’s almost absurd how much good music — universally acclaimed, big-ticket, year-end contender music — came out in 2022’s first five months. It’s hard to imagine the next seven matching that pace. We’ve heard soul-bearing rap songs (Kendrick Lamar), future windows-down rock classics (Momma), loads of elite-level Thom Yorke (The Smile) — the list, literally, goes […]
And there you have it. The Weeknd will be joining Swedish House Mafia next Sunday at Coachella. The combination will replace Kanye West, who dropped out earlier this week. Coachella is teasing it as a party/after-party. Probably that it will be a Weeknd set followed by a late Swedish House Mafia set. That would be […]
The Weeknd released yet another extravagant video for the Dawn FM single “Out of Time.” The classy date night portrayed in the video takes a dark turn — which includes Jim Carrey as a surgeon. [embedded content][embedded content] The Weeknd and a friend do karaoke throughout the night to the seventh track off Dawn FM, […]
The Weeknd‘s will be stopping at some of the most iconic stadiums in the U.S. this summer during the first leg of his massive world tour. The Afters Hours Til Dawn stint kicks off in The Weeknd’s own hometown of Toronto on Friday, July 8. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. local on Thursday, March 10 via […]
Now that listeners have had more than a month to absorb Dawn FM, The Weeknd has unveiled a new way for fans to connect with the album: a fully immersive music special called The Weeknd x The Dawn FM Experience. The theatrical performance event is set to premiere on February 26 via Prime Video. “I’m ecstatic […]
The Weeknd released a new video for “Gasoline,” the second track off his most recent album, Dawn FM. [embedded content][embedded content] The Weeknd only released Dawn FM a few days ago on January 7, and the “Gasoline” video is the second of a song off the new album. A video for “Sacrifice,” the fifth song on […]