As one of pop music’s preeminent ministers of brood, Abel Tesfaye can lay claim to exerting a huge influence on the menacing tone that undergirds a large swath of contemporary R&B. And he knows it.

The Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy, dropped five years ago today, and to mark the occasion, the artist dropped new merch and a vinyl edition of the record. “One of my favorites,” he said on Twitter. In ...

Abel Tesfaye’s surprise EP – the follow-up to the massively successful Starboy – features ghostly and gorgeous production but lyrics that are suffocatingly solipsistic Few recent releases have had a ...

Abel Tesfaye (AKA The Weeknd) has finally dropped his highly anticipated album My Dear Melancholy, his first since 2016’s pop-infused Starboy. With My Dear Melancholy, The Weeknd seems to have gone ...