Yahoo! Music — Our guide to this week's (and last week's) album releases also features the week's top new music videos from artists like Lady Gaga, Dirty Projectors, and New Order, plus brand new streaming music from Drive-By Truckers, Nicolas Jaar, ... more info

Consequence of Sound — Lineups for Chile, Argentina, and Brazil events to be revealed in October. more info

MSN Music — Justin Bieber, The Weeknd and more stars have undergone major hair style transformations. more info

MTV.co.uk News — This week's BEST new tracks, featuring The Weeknd, Kings Of Leon AND MORE... more info

New York Times — The nine songs and videos that caught our pop critics’ attention this week, from Common’s “Black America Again” to LVL Up’s “The Closing Door.” more info

Pop Justice — A handful of decent songs near the top. The post The week’s best new releases: The Weeknd, Skott, Amanda Winberg and more appeared first on Popjustice. more info

NME — Abel Lesfaye books first promo appearance for new album 'Starboy' more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Weeknd will now play an earlier Meadows slot to accommodate his 'SNL' appearance. Continue reading… more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Margot Robbie is the first guest host as “Saturday Night Live” begins its 42nd season next week. NBC said Thursday that The Weeknd will be the musical guest when the show returns Oct. 1. Robbie is on movie screens as Harley Q... more info

Stereogum — Given that Beauty Behind The Madness came out less than 13 months ago, the Weeknd is not somebody I even factored in when predicting this fall’s big pop albums. But we’re just one day into autumn and Abel Tesfaye is already in full promo offensiv... more info