The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is heading into its 24th year with a set of history-making headliners. When the festival grounds welcome thousands of music fans back, first on the weekend of April 14 through 16 and again on the weekend of April 21 through 23, they’ll witness …
Read More »For the First Time Ever, None of the Coachella Headliners Are White
The first K-pop headliner. The first Latino headliner. And the return of Frank Ocean. Coachella 2023 is ready to make history as the first iteration of the festival where none of the headliners are white. On Tuesday, the celebrated music festival announced its stacked lineup for 2023. With Blackpink, Bad …
Read More »Frank Ocean Unveils Apple Music 1 Show, 'Homer Radio'
Frank Ocean revealed his latest project on Friday: Homer Radio, a new Apple Music 1 show. Each episode will take place on Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET. “Someone’s vacuuming the carpets adding a distant layer of white noise to the sound,” Ocean wrote in a statement about the show. “Security …
Read More »Frank Ocean Returns With New Music — Kinda — on 'Blonded Radio' Show
Frank Ocean finally dropped a bit of new music, producing an instrumental score for a new episode of his Apple Music 1 show, Blonded Radio. The trance-like composition — which starts out atmospheric before settling into a steady late-night dancefloor groove — appears in “Blonded Lucy in the Sky With …
Read More »The Radical Openness of Frank Ocean's 'Channel Orange'
Released ten years ago today, Frank Ocean’s debut, Channel Orange, stands as a singular achievement in popular culture and a touchstone for a cohort born into the ethics of social media. Frank exhibits the kind of radical openness that would come to define a generation of young people who, like …
Read More »Coachella Announces Dates for 2023 Festival, Headlined by Frank Ocean
Mark your calendars: Coachella is returning to Indio, California, next year. On Tuesday, the music festival announced that its 2023 iteration will take place over the weekends of April 15 to 17 and April 21 to 23 next year. Frank Ocean, who was originally one of the headliners for the …
Read More »Frank Ocean Shares Two New Songs 'Dear April' and 'Cayendo'
Frank Ocean has released two new tracks, “Dear April” and “Cayendo.” The singer first previewed the songs, which appear on special vinyl releases for fans, last October during his first-ever PrEP+ club night in New York. The songs, produced by Ocean alongside Daniel Aged, have been dropped as acoustic versions, …
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