The jazzy instrumental rendition of Frank Ocean’s 2012 track is the third single from Flea’s upcoming solo album Honora. The song is paired with a visualizer by Nespy5euro that tells a story through a series of watercolor and pencil illustrations.
Read MoreIn an Instagram comment, Ocean clarified that the “unreleased 2020 project” circulating online in recent years is not a scrapped album of his and some of its tracks are inauthentic. He also explained the origin of the “LAUWIL” tagline, which some fans had mistaken for the title and rollout of his fifth album.
Read MoreVSQ Performs Frank Ocean covers 13 songs, including tracks from Ocean’s 2011 project Nostalgia Ultra, 2012 album Channel Orange, 2016 album Blonde, and 2017 single “Chanel.”
Read MoreThe MMA fighter posted a 35-second excerpt of a new track, unofficially known as “Dairy.”
Read MoreAmerican singer-songwriter Omar Apollo reveals in the liner notes for his second studio album, God Said No, that his track “Life’s Unfair” interpolates the melody or lyrics of a previously unheard-of piece by Frank Ocean.
Read MoreIn June 2020, full-color stills of Frank Ocean’s 2016 Endless visual album made their way online, revealing for the first time the rainbow-colored staircase being built behind a black-and-white veneer. Today, it was discovered that a full-color copy of the video has been made available online.
Read MoreThe 24-second clip offers a glimpse behind the scenes at new music in the works.
Read MoreThe one-minute video features an unreleased track, unofficially known as “Boundaries/Younger Self.”
Read MoreFrank Ocean’s 2012 song has reappeared in “Virginia Beach,” the opening track of Drake’s eighth studio album.
Read MoreFrank Ocean’s scrapped vinyl—originally intended to replace “Little Demon” orders in 2020—sold on eBay for a price that ranks it among the most expensive 7-inch singles ever sold on the site.
Read MoreThe unreleased 7-inch vinyl track has surfaced three years after Frank Ocean shelved its release due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Read More“There is some beauty in chaos.” Frank Ocean headlines weekend 1 of Coachella on the main stage at the Empire Polo Club, delivering an array of new remixes in perhaps his most unique and controversial concert to date. We examine the event and its aftermath, with exclusive reporting from blonded.blog’s Odysseus.
Read MoreFrank Ocean, through his luxury brand Homer, has debuted a new online radio show on Apple Music 1. The hour-long program, described as “an office soundtrack,” will air every Thursday at 10 PM EST. Each episode will center around electronic music and feature a guest DJ, kicking off with French artist Crystallmess.
Read MoreEmails from Frank Ocean’s producers shed light on his 2016 album’s development, detailing changes made to several released and unreleased tracks between January 2014 and February 2015.
Read MoreA two-minute clip of Chris “Lonny” Breaux singing his high school’s alma mater at his 2005 graduation ceremony is racking up hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube and Reddit. It appears to originate from a digitized VHS tape produced by the school.
Read MoreIn an interview with i-D magazine, the Spanish singer says she worked with Ocean at an NYC recording studio and credits him with inspiring her recent single, “Saoko,” on her upcoming album, Motomami.
Read MoreIn the first episode of his Apple Music 1 radio program in two years, Ocean interviewed the Dutch motivational speaker about “how to change your mind.” The third Blonded Radio Christmas special concludes with a 9-minute freestyle, titled “Come On World, You Can’t Go!”
Read MoreAn undergraduate trio from the College of William & Mary beat over 16,000 teams at an international mathematics contest by designing a quantitative way to evaluate any musician’s influence in both their own and other genres. The award-winning model ranked Frank Ocean above all his peers in this millennium.
Read MoreThe undelivered 7-inch single, sold by Blonded in November 2019, has been stricken by a little demon: the coronavirus. In February 2020, customers were first notified that their orders would be replaced with a new record, later revealed to be Ocean’s unreleased single “These Days.” However, those orders are now being refunded due to supply chain issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreThis is the first time Frank Ocean has reached the top 10 on any chart according to Billboard.
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