{"id":975156,"date":"2020-02-18T23:05:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T06:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=954709"},"modified":"2020-02-18T23:05:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T06:05:10","slug":"the-weeknd-unveils-after-hours-release-date-title-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/the-weeknd-unveils-after-hours-release-date-title-track\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd Unveils \u2018After Hours\u2019 Release Date, Title Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TheWeekndNewSong.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-weeknd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-weeknd\" data-tag=\"the-weeknd\">The Weeknd<\/a> has unveiled the release date of his new album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-new-album-after-hours-952501\/\"><em>After Hours<\/em><\/a>. His fourth LP will arrive on March 20th via XO Records\/Republic Records and is available for <a href=\"https:\/\/umusic.digital\/afterhours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">pre-order<\/a>. Along with revealing when the album will arrive, the singer unveiled the title track.<\/p>\n<p>On the new song, the Weeknd yearns for his former lover, one whom he has already left broken-hearted. \u201cOh baby, where are you now when I need you most,\u201d he laments in his trademark falsetto over a spare, icy sound bed and skittering beats. \u201cI give it all just to hold you close\/Sorry that I broke your heart, your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, he teased he would be releasing a new song and he also shared the cover of his fourth album, the follow-up to 2016\u2019s <em>Starboy<\/em>. The artwork features a photo of the artist, cynically smiling as blood drips down his face.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.6923076923077\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Album Cover (New Track Tonight) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NOA9R9hkYD\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NOA9R9hkYD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Weeknd (@theweeknd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theweeknd\/status\/1229889363460247552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">February 18, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAfter Hours\u201d follows the Weeknd\u2019s previously released LP singles \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-heartless-song-listen-919202\/\">Heartless<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-blinding-lights-video-940248\/\">Blinding Lights<\/a>.\u201d On March 7th, he is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/snl-david-byrne-the-weeknd-john-mulaney-daniel-craig-949075\/\">slated to perform<\/a> on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>, which will be his third appearance on the show.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-after-hours-release-date-hear-title-track-954709\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weeknd has unveiled the release date of his new album, After Hours. His fourth LP will arrive on March 20th via XO Records\/Republic Records and is available for pre-order. Along with revealing when the album will arrive, the singer unveiled the title track. On the new song, the Weeknd yearns for his former lover, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-975156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 05:49:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}