“I just want to be a filmmaker,” Abel Tesfaye told Rolling Stone in 2020, months after he made his big-screen debut in Uncut Gems. “I want to make great cinema.” With his latest album, Dawn FM, he’s channeled his passion for film into one of his most theatrical work yet. …
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The Weeknd said he still plans to boycott the Grammys after the Recording Academy announced it would get rid of the “secret committees” that, for years, finalized the nominees for major categories. The Recording Academy announced its rule change Friday, April 30th, saying the categories decided by the “Nominations Review …
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The Weeknd is poised to have one of his biggest weeks in Rolling Stone Charts history after his Super Bowl Halftime performance delivered triple-digit growths in sales. Three days after Sunday night’s show, a sparkly red jitter through his greatest hits from “The Hills” to “Blinding Lights,” The Weeknd rises …
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Oneohtrix Point Never revealed a hazy new video for “No Nightmares,” his Magic Oneohtrix Point Never track featuring the Weeknd. Directed by Nate Boyce, the video features Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin) and the Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye) roaming through a dreamy CGI universe as avatars. Tesfaye has a video camera …
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