{"id":804338,"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\/ksmt\/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. 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. 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, one whom he has already [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 07:32:14","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}