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  Hear the Weeknd's Endless Sex-and-Drugs 'Kiss Land' Title Track

  May 17, 2013 – "You ain't takin' nothin' but your clothes off," the Weeknd main man Abel Tesfaye coos more than once on "Kiss Land," the title track of his upcoming follow-up to three strong 2011 mixtapes recently compiled as Trilogy. That's right: The most memorable hook from the eponymous song on an album hilariously called Kiss Land is basically a low-budget porn version of the old traveler's standby, "Take only pictures, leave only footprints …
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  Hear French Montana and the Weeknd Get 'Gifted' via Booze, Pills, and 'Groupie Love'

  May 15, 2013 – When French Montana out-Weeknd'd the Weeknd back in February, we should've known it'd only be a matter of time before the two actually collaborated. The Bronx MC is at last releasing his official LP debut, Excuse My French, on May 21, and the latest taste from that long-anticipated set is "The Gifted," which gets a massive assist from Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. the Weeknd. …
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  The Weeknd Goes Daft Punk, Shares 20-Second 'John Carpenter' Snippet

  May 14, 2013 – The Weeknd is such a tease. Anticipation for Abel Tesfaye's Trilogy followup was already high back in January when he tweeted a photo of a computer folder labeled "Untitled 2013 Album." A couple months later, the Alt-R&B poster boy dropped said LP's title — Kiss Land — with no other information. …
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  The Weeknd Didn't Sign $200 'Trilogy' Vinyl Set As Promised, a Machine Did

  April 1, 2013 – The Weeknd's next album is set to be dubbed Kiss Land, but that lovely locale might bear a "population: one" sign if the man born Abel Tesfaye doesn't get out ahead of this. …
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  The Weeknd's New Album Is Flirting With You

  March 18, 2013 – The Weeknd has been teasing his upcoming studio album for months — note this screenshot featuring a folder called "2013 untitled album" — and now we've finally got the first bit of solid information on Abel Tesfaye's next project. According to the Weeknd's Twitter, the follow-up to Tesfaye's Trilogy is called Kiss Land and the cover art can be seen up above.Judging from the electric text and the puckered-up title, Kiss La …
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  The Weeknd's 'Trilogy' Will Finally Be Available on Vinyl

  March 12, 2013 – The Weeknd's three navel-gazing 2011 mixtapes — House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence — have been bundled and packaged once before, as last year's triple-disc Trilogy collection. …
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  Tha Real Mother****ing Doggfather

  March 5, 2013 – Jerry Williams, Jr. would rather be writing a song than wasting his time trying to wrangle a dumb-love mistake. "That's the intention most motherfucking mornings," he says in a reedy southern accent as he stands in the doorway of his six-bedroom San Fernando Valley bungalow. "Then some shit happens." "Shit" is a car that he wants back. …
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  The Weeknd's Distractingly Boob-Centric 'Twenty Eight' Video Is NSFW, Duh

  February 13, 2013 – Happy Mistress Day! Just in time for the day before Valentine's Day, when cheating husbands reputedly meet with their non-spouses, the Weeknd has unveiled a video for "Twenty Eight," a spectral, wounded Trilogy electro-R&B falsetto-smolderer about sleeping with someone he shouldn't have. …
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  Ultra Music 2013 Adds the Weeknd, Skrillex, and Sleigh Bells

  January 25, 2013 – The Weeknd, Sleigh Bells, Snoop Dogg, Azealia Banks, and more have been added to Miami's Ultra Music Festival lineup, according to an official announcement released yesterday (January 24). The double-weekend event, set for March 15 to 17 and March 22 to 24, has also booked sets from Boys Noize and Skrillex (performing as Dog Blood), Pretty Lights, and Steve Aoki. …
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  Trend of the Year: Alt R&B

  December 6, 2012 – The sheets of cheers coming from the first seven-or-so makeshift rows at Frank Ocean's Lollapalooza performance this past summer were practically the Beatles at Shea Stadium. It was the closest to an unbridled can't-hold-it-in embrace of a musician by his or her fans that I've ever witnessed. …
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