Daniel Craig may have portrayed cunning international spy James Bond, but when it comes to Internet memes and social media, the actor is blissfully oblivious. In an interview published on Thursday in The New York Times, Dave Itzkoff spoke with the actor in a story thatbegan more than a year-and-a-half …
Read More »The Weeknd's Super Bowl Halftime Performance Gets Showtime Documentary
The Weeknd‘s Super Bowl halftime performance will be chronicled in the new documentary The Show, out September 24th on Showtime. “The halftime show is the most-watched 12 minutes in television,” executive producer Jesse Collins says in the trailer above. “You just don’t want anything to go wrong.” The clip shows …
Read More »'Folklore' Is Officially the Biggest Album of 2020
We already declared Taylor Swift‘s Folklore to be the Best Album of 2020. But until now, we had yet to hear from the numbers. Now, the numbers have spoken, the data has assembled into integers and decimal points, and the answer is in: Folklore is the biggest album of 2020, …
Read More »Maluma Taps the Weeknd for New Remix of Breakup Tune 'Hawái'
Maluma has released a new remix of “Hawái” with the Weeknd, as well as an accompanying video. The new version of the track opens with a fresh verse from the Weeknd who adds a characteristically tender and compelling vocal performance to the song, which delves into a tumultuous break-up rattled …
Read More »Record Store Day 2020: 12 Great Exclusive Releases From the August Drop
Since its inception in 2008, Record Store Day has occurred annually on a single Saturday in April. But due to the ongoing pandemic, things are going to look a little different this year. The event that celebrates independent record shops around the world will be spread out in “drops” over …
Read More »The Weeknd Throws a Drug-Fueled Confetti Party in 'Until I Bleed Out' Video
The Weeknd has shared a new XO-directed visual for “Until I Bleed Out,” from his latest album, After Hours. The clip sees the Weeknd at a drugged-up, confetti-covered party in an old movie palace. As he struggles to stand upright amid all the technicolor papier-mache, he finds that the ground …
Read More »Yeasayer Sue the Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar Over 'Black Panther' Song
The now-defunct Brooklyn band Yeasayer has filed a lawsuit against the Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar and others claiming their 2018 Black Panther soundtrack collaboration “Pray for Me” infringes on the band’s 2007 track, “Sunrise,” Pitchfork reports. In the suit, Yeasayer — which broke up last December — said that “Pray for …
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