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  Watch the Weeknd Debut Soaring New Material Live in Chicago

  September 24, 2012 – The Weeknd, like Lynyrd Skynyrd, is as free as a bird, and this bird you'll never change. With this theme, "The Birds (Part 1)," from the second of Canadian outre-R&B auteur Abel Tesfaye's three free mixtapes last year, Thursday, is an apt a summation of the Weeknd's unromantic, antihero take on slinky slow jams as anything. …
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  The Weeknd Goes Clean in First Major-Label Single, a Reworked 'Wicked Games'

  September 14, 2012 – As an art-damaged strain of electronic R&B enters its next phase, the Weeknd's unique selling proposition is sadomasochistic bleakness. Frank Ocean has soaring storytelling, Miguel has Prince-ly psychedelia, Holy Other has pitch-shifty murk, and How to Dress Well has falsettoed spirituality, but what most distinguishes Abel Tesfaye's Toronto outfit is its seductive perversity. …
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  The Weeknd's PBR&B Archive 'Trilogy' Gets Official Release

  September 12, 2012 – The modern soul landscape wouldn't be the engrossingly bleak, post-apocalyptic, charred tundra that it is today without the influential hand of Toronto's Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. the Weeknd. …
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  Frank Ocean, Miguel, and Holy Other Usher in PBR&B 2.0

  August 22, 2012 – Something happened last year to R&B, something more radical than most of us realized. …
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  Lollapalooza 2012: 10 Best and Worst of Day Two

  August 5, 2012 – SPIN's intrepid team has invaded Chicago's Grant Park, attempting to see as many of the 30 essential sets at this year's Lollapalooza as possible while avoiding the twin evils of 21st-century festivals (no, not Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie: bad-attitude bros and foul corndogs). Although the real star of day two was the confusion and crowd-surfing of a three-hour storm evacuation, we managed to catch a few bands anyway! …
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  Hear Ellie Goulding Turn the Tables on the Weeknd's 'High for This'

  May 30, 2012 – For reasons yet unknown, Brit pop darling Ellie Goulding recently decided to cover the Weeknd's particularly creepy (and perhaps best-known) House of Balloons cut, "High for This." The track — which was posted last night and produced by Chiddy Bang's Xaphoon Jones — has a more electronic aesthetic than the original, highlighting how insane its silky-smooth yet ultimately predatory lyrics sound when they're not being sung by  …
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  Watch the Weeknd's Weekend Shows in Boston and New York

  April 30, 2012 – Anyone with a Twitter feed and a passing interest in music has realized a good chunk of the population has been going ballistic over Canada's newest R&B export the Weeknd's first tour dates, which were announced earlier this month. Following two Coachella performances, Abel Tesfaye has kicked it off with dates in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia and sharing live footage on his website. …
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  AraabMuzik on the Weeknd: 'He Just Wants My Music'

  April 26, 2012 – "How does he do that?" If you caught rising star DJ-producer AraabMuzik at Coachella recently, or when you catch him at Sasquatch, Summer Camp, or any number of other festivals this summer, then you'll know that question follows the man around. …
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  Jack White, Weeknd, Justice, Die Antwoord: Your First Believable Lollapalooza Rumor

  March 28, 2012 – "I fink you freeky" "Do the D.A.N.C.E." "I got a test for you" "I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me" SPIN likes to bring you news on who will play festivals rather than who might, but a pretty solid tip-off as to who's headlining Lollapalooza has begun to appear in Chicago. …
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  The Weeknd's 'Montreal' Video: Nobody Is All Right

  January 31, 2012 – Another dreamlike, cinematic video for a song by the Weeknd has surfaced, this time for "Montreal," from the Canadian crooner's third mixtape Echoes of Silence. The clip features a truly disturbed nuclear family, in which the daughter is preyed upon by her creepy father (stepfather, we hope?). …
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