It’s no secret we love The Weeknd here — we put his Thursday mixtape as #2 on our 2011 Year In Music retrospective. Now The Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, releases the first album from the man who produced the Echoes Of Silence mixtape cut “Initiation”. DropxLife’s 9-song instrumental Further mixtape recalls much of the atmospheric, bass-oriented, reverb-drenched […]
18
Jan
The Weeknd's "Initiation" producer drops first solo effort
9
Jan
40 minutes of dubstep heat from LIFE + TIMES
Jay-Z’s LIFE + TIMES website drops a new 40-minute dubstep mix via DJ/producer Troublemaker. Titled Pantystep – Pleasure Her Pain, the 18-track mix features bangers from heavyweights like The Weeknd, Joker, Skrillex, Clams Casino, Com Truise, Skream, Boards of Canada and James Blake. Congrats to Jay who saw the birth of his daughter B.I.C. (Blu Ivy […]
22
Dec
Abel Tesfaye returns with his last mixtape of the 2011 trilogy
One of our favorite new artists of the year (so much so he made it quite high on our Year In Music Top 10 list), The Weeknd continues his emergence and finally wraps up his 2011 trilogy following his House of Balloons and Thursday mixtapes. Today the future R&B crooner released Echoes Of Silence, which […]
20
Dec
Henry Rollins, The Weeknd, James Blake, Charlie Sheen, SBTRKT, DJ Mehdi, plenty of mixtapes & more
Time for the fourth edition of our Best Of 2011 retrospective series (after ART, BOOKS & STYLE), where we look back on the LIAS Year In Music. Frankly none of these lists are easy — we can trim each down to about 20 but then cutting them down to 10 means we gotta chop some […]
1
Nov
More highly suggestive NSFW fan made videos for Abel Tesfaye
As is the MO for The Weeknd, the latest video for his “Initiation” track is not official but rather fan made. And as usual of his fans’ work, the video is highly suggestive (and NSFW) in nature. Having just dropped his second mixtape of 2011, Thursday, we can be expecting the last third of Abel […]
12
Oct
Abel Tesfaye leaks his latest track of future R&B goodness
What is one of the most of played new artists at The Meadows continues to be The Weeknd, the Toronto crooner’s post-dubstep sound being something we cannot get off our playlists — his Thursday mixtape being a weekday standard. The Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, recently leaked his latest track “Initiation” and it’s just more bassy […]
19
Aug
Toronto future R&B crooner drops second mix in trilogy
Highly secretive future R&B/slow-step crooner The Weeknd come through this fine morning with his new Thursday mixtape, the followup to the justifiably hyped House of Balloons which came out this past spring. Utilizing highly stylized user-created videos, the Toronto-based The Weeknd (aka Abel Tesfaye) has managed to keep a very low profile despite much scrutiny, […]
