The Weeknd Pushes Back New LP, Cancels L.A. Show

The Weeknd is making two major schedule adjustments “out of respect and concern for the people of Los Angeles County” dealing with wildfires, per an Instagram post. The artist is pushing back his new XO/Republic album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, from Jan. 24 to Jan. 31 and canceling a major one-off concert on Jan. 25 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Ca.

That event was to have featured “never-before-seen production” on a stage that filled the entire stadium floor.

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“This city has always been a profound source of inspiration for me, and my thoughts are with everyone impacted during this difficult time,” the artist born Abel Tesfaye said. “My focus remains on supporting the recovery of these communities and aiding its incredible people as they rebuild.”

Hurry Up Tomorrow will complete a trilogy already featuring the LPs After Hours and Dawn FM. Tesfaye has released three singles from it since September 2024: “Dancing in the Flames,” “Timeless” featuring Playboi Carti and the “Sao Paulo” featuring Anitta. The latter is accompanied by a horror-tinged video, while a fourth song, “Open Hearts,” can still only be accessed through Apple Vision Pro.

As previously reported, Tesfaye will act in a feature film “extension” of Hurry Up Tomorrow — a so-called “musically driven psychological thriller” written and directed by Trey Edward Shults and also starring Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan.

“Jenna brought so much depth to the character,” Tesfaye recently told Variety. “There was a scene where Trey and I looked at each other like, ‘On paper, this is just ridiculous — how is it going to translate on screen?’ And she said, ‘I have an idea.’ She led that whole scene — none of it was rehearsed, and a lot of my reactions in it are not acting.”

Lionsgate has secured worldwide theatrical distribution for the project, which will be released May 16. Tesfaye wrote the score in tandem with Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin. He previously starred in the maligned HBO series The Idol, which ran for a single season of five episodes in 2023.

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