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The Weeknd might have graduated from the anonymous aesthetic that helped him gain his core fanbase, but he still makes a point to play with his image so that his music gets the most attention. This was on display when he donned a faux-face for the “Save Your Tears” music video.  For this video, The Weeknd […]

With After Hours currently enjoying a multitude of well-earned appearances across a litany of year-end lists, The Weeknd is giving fans some insight on where he’s at creatively during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In an interview with TMRW as part of a special limited edition 100-page zine project, Abel reflected on how the pause of touring […]

It has been… a year. And while there’s certainly been no shortage of reasons to celebrate its impending end, we’re spending the final weeks of 2020 commemorating the bright spots in what’s been an otherwise flaming garbage dump of a year, celebrating the songs, albums and work that helped make the year a little more […]

Never has the refrain “There’s always next year!” felt more appropriate—or widespread—than in 2020. (Hell, this year has been so unexpectedly savage, it’s even got Pats fans saying it now.) Which is why, for this week’s episode of the Complex Canada Report, your host The6ixatSix is taking a journey down memory lane to look back […]

It’s been a big, weird year for Canadian music. The likes of The Weeknd, Drake, and dvsn all dropped heat in 2020 to help get us through lockdown, while rising artists have been forced to pivot to online streaming formats in order to survive. So, where do we go from here? As we enter 2021 […]

It’s been a long fight. The music industry has been upended, and our lives along with it. But in the most challenging of years, some voices still managed to stand out, either lifting us out of the darkness or resonating with us during a time of unrest. Good music really hit different in 2020. And in Canada, […]

In September 2016, The Weeknd signed a deal with PUMA, joining a strong group of brand ambassadors that then included Rihanna and Kylie Jenner. Under his label XO, he went to release several sneakers with the brand, most notably the boot-like Parallel. XO and PUMA continued to drop product through 2018, but it’s been quiet […]

Dionne Warwick can’t stop thinking about Chance the Rapper. On Saturday night, the legendary singer hit up Twitter to ask the Chicago MC about the redundancy of his rap alias. “Hi, @chancetherapper,” Warwick wrote. “If you are very obviously a rapper why did you put it in your stage name? I cannot stop thinking about this.” In a […]

After teasing a collaboration on social media, The Weeknd has dropped off a remix of his After Hours track “Blinding Lights” with Rosalía. Take a listen to The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” remix with Rosalía below via Spotify or check out the track’s lyric video up top. The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” has been doing extremely well since it was released back on November […]

Spotify has released its annual year in review “Wrapped” figures for 2020.  The list features categories for the most streamed artists, songs, albums, and more on the platform. Spotify’s most streamed global artists for the year were Bad Bunny, Drake, J. Balvin, the late Juice WRLD, and The Weeknd while the most streamed female artists globally were Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa, […]