One of pop music's biggest stars is calling it quits — well, kind of . . . The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, is wrapping up his three-album journey of self-discovery and annihilation ...

The pivot worked, turning The Weeknd into an edgy manifestation of ... grew louder and more diffuse in tandem with his own rising profile, that conflation became taxing, forcing a subtle but ...

For a decade and a half, the Toronto singer and songwriter Abel Tesfaye — d.b.a .The Weeknd — has explored the flip side of that feel-good story in sometimes-excruciating depth. The Weeknd’s ...

“Hurry Up Tomorrow” picks up where that one left off, but the Weeknd has bad news: There’s no afterlife, no other side, just legacy and dust. What follows is Tesfaye looking back on his ...

Throughout his relatively long and exceedingly productive career as the Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye has seemed restless. His music, a rangy mix of electronic pop and R&B styles streaked with a touch of ...