The Weeknd w/Big Boi

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At some point Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, decided it wasn’t enough to be an R&B star, he wanted to be a massive pop star in the mold of Michael Jackson, and with his 2015 album Beauty Behind the Madness and 2016’s Starboy and big dance-minded hits like “I Can’t Feel My Face,” he came remarkably close. There’s still a tension in Tesfaye’s music between his mass-appeal ambitions and his miserabilist tendencies—and sometimes he lets the latter get the best of him. His latest EP, My Dear Melancholy, is a total buzz kill. For this show, he’ll be joined by a rap veteran who knows how to bring the party: Big Boi of OutKast fame.