This year was one big stress test that presented artists with a choice: Face uncomfortable realities or serve distractions to the audience. Pop music turned inward and looked backward while hip-hop ...

It was a strange sight, but so utterly specific to The Weeknd, who migrated from underground blog darling to one of the most successful radio hitmakers of the past decade. His dark lyrical subjects ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Now in its fifth season, Apple TV+’s excellent spy drama Slow Horses has become an absolute master of pacing, sometimes cantering along, ...

Is there a more gloriously entertaining idiot on TV than Roddy Ho? The computer savant played by Christopher Chung in spy show Slow Horses is, put simply, a thundering twat, a preening berk, cringe in ...

The Weeknd's After Hours Til Dawn Tour at State Farm Stadium featured new songs from "Hurry Up Tomorrow" plus classic hits. The stunning production included elements from earlier legs of the tour, ...

After months of cryptic teasers, and speculation, The Weeknd’s latest album, Hurry Up Tomorrow – the grand finale of a trilogy that began with After Hours (2020) and Dawn FM (2022) – is finally here.

You can hear traces of his DNA everywhere. Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy In the months following the release of 2011’s House of Balloons, no one knew much of anything about ...

On a somewhat exhausting sixth album, Abel Tesfaye uses Brazilian funk, punishing house and lush 70s soul to press great songs into the service of rotten lyrics It takes precisely 20 seconds for the ...

Everybody loves bass, right? Low frequencies don't just move a substantial mass of air, they're also crucial when it comes to music moving you both emotionally and even physically. Nothing makes you ...

Discover The Weeknd’s journey from a troubled youth in Canada to becoming a chart-topping music legend. Taiwan's electronic music queen: Jeannie Hsieh's amazing comeback story Man walked 250,000 steps ...

Apple's 'Glowtime' event has confirmed two long-awaited new features for the iPhone 16 Pro -- 4K 120fps slow-mo video recording and spatial audio. Ajay has worked in tech journalism for over a decade ...

The role of the music producer has never been static. While many think that a producer walks into the studio and hits the big red "record" button, their role is much more dynamic than that. Over the ...