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Frank Ocean

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2013

    I Want to Branch Out But My Fans Won't Let Me. Help!

    Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

  • Music

    March 28, 2013

    Tyler, the Creator: Horsing Around

    Even as a solo act, the Odd Future leader remains relentlessly absurd

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2013

    Who's the All-Time Champion of Rap Beef on Twitter?

    Twenty years ago, rap animosity was expressed via diss songs. Like, if someone pissed you off you went home, thought about it, went to a recording studio, pressed up your album, and sent it around. The object of your diss might not find out until six months later. More recently the rise of the mix ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2013

    Lunch Money Intended For Poor Students 'Misappropriated' By LAUSD, State Says

    Stealing poor kids' lunch money has to be up there with greed, gluttony and ganging up on Frank Ocean on the list of top sins. But the California Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes says the L.A. school district did just that, to the tune of $158 million. According to a report from the office ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2013

    Chris Brown Faked Community Service With Help Of Police, L.A. D.A. Says

    Chris Brown is the new Lindsay Lohan. First he's accused of socking somebody. Now L.A. prosecutors say he violated his probation by essentially faking his community service papers. And police in Richmond, Virginia are implicated in the scam, prosecutors indicate. The L.A. County District Attorney' ... More >>

  • Music

    January 31, 2013

    Laura Escude Is Oz Behind the Curtain

    The music programmer makes blockbuster tours pop

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2013

    Chris Brown Allegedly Punches Frank Ocean Over WeHo Parking Spot

    Sheriff's investigators want to talk to Chris Brown after the pop singer allegedly punched crooner Frank Ocean over a parking space at a West Hollywood recording studio overnight. The fracas happened last night in the 7200 block of Santa Monica Boulevard, according to a sheriff's statement. While ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2013

    Openly Gay Rapper Rob B Draws From Influences Far and Wide

    On a recent cool Friday afternoon, 25-year-old Mexican-American, openly gay rapper Rob B sits in one of the many cafés peppering Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. He's tan and toned, a 6-foot-1 part-time model who has done everything from runway to hand modeling, and today he's fitted in al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2013

    Bizarre Ride: Jeff's Humorous Predictions and Most Anticipated Albums for 2013

    [Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Half of January has elapsed and we've survived. There was no collapse due to fiscal cliff, Central American apocalypse or dubstep deluge. A new year unfu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2013

    Los Angeles Musicians Dominate Pazz and Jop

    Pazz and Jop is here! The Village Voice's annual, venerated, logistically-nightmarish critics' poll has arrived, and there are shit tons of L.A. musicians who placed highly. Frank Ocean won the album poll, which was no big surprise; be sure to peep Eric Sunderman's quite-touching piece about him. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2013

    Om'Mas Keith Helped Make Frank Ocean's Album. He's Far Out

    A native of Hollis, Queens, NY and current resident of Los Feliz, producer Om'Mas Keith broke through with Ice-T signees Raw Breed in 1997, and has since accumulated production and mixing credits on Jay Z's Kingdom Come, Erykah Badu's New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War and Rick Ross' Rise To Power. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2012

    My Favorite Albums of the Second Half of 2012, in Haiku Form

    [Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Kendrick Lamar attributed L.A.'s primacy to the women, weed and weather. He was quoting Biggie, who consecrated the left coast via song, despite his long ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2012

    The Ten Best Los Angeles Concerts of 2012

    10. My Morning Jacket The Wiltern, September 11-13 The ever-electrifying My Morning Jacket held a three-night stint at the Wiltern this past September and didn't repeat a single tune. That's right. Three nights and no repeats. It takes one heck of a repertoire not just to have that many songs, but t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2012

    The Miracle That Is 
A Charlie Brown Christmas

    [Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] If you look outside while reading this, the odds are that it's sunny and mild. You might see green and red lights and tinseled pine trees glowing through ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2012

    The Top 10 L.A. Albums of 2012

    Los Angeles music was a big part of the national conversation this year, from Frank Ocean and Miguel's artisan R&B to Top Dawg Entertainment's hip-hop dominance to the electronic inspirations of Flying Lotus and Gaslamp Killer. Picking but ten albums from this crop as the West Coast Sound writers ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2012

    Ask Fan Landers: Should I Stay in the Closet for the Sake of My Rap Career?

    Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2012

    SBTRKT - Club Nokia - 10/14/12

    SBTRKT Club Nokia 10/14/12 At Club Nokia on Sunday night, the show was opened by Kilo Kish, a pretty rapper/singer from New York. Think Ke$ha but way more indie. Next to come on was Syd the Kyd, from the duo The Internet and Odd Future. She performed a DJ set. See also: *Syd the Kyd on Odd Futur ... More >>

  • Music

    October 11, 2012

    Miguel Finds His Place

    A rare R&B bird, he falls in somewhere between the hipsters and the mainstream

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2012

    Hodgy Beats On the New MellowHype Album, and Why He Dislikes Reporters

    Between all the madcap happenings surrounding the Odd Future crew -- Tyler's maniacal musings, Frank Ocean's R&B ruminations, the occasion palm tree burned down by one of their fans -- sometimes folks forget about MellowHype, the two-man outfit comprised of caustic spitter Hodgy Beats and producer e ... More >>

  • Music

    October 4, 2012

    Flying Lotus' Nocturnal Visions

    Once believing himself destined to fail, the DJ-producer returns triumphant on his new album

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2012

    Fuck Guilty Pleasures: John Mayer's Body of Work is a Wonderland

    [Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] John Mayer has been persecuted for years. Way back in 2003, the Village Voice mocked his music in an article called "Phal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2012

    The Bumbys Judge Los Angeles: "You Actually Have a Lot of Amazing Qualities"

    The red carpet is always a place to be judged. But at Fashion's Night Out at the rustic and usually sedate Malibu Country Mart last Thursday, while a DJ segued from "Benny and the Jets" to Frank Ocean's on-the-nose "Super Rich Kids," the well-heeled crowd wasn't strutting for cameras, press or onlin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2012

    Mac Lethal Gives Away the Chick-fil-A Recipe

    See also: *These Five Rappers, Like Frank Ocean, Should Boycott Chick-fil-A *The Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2012 Thus Far Chick-fil-A's CEO Dan Cathy turned his chicken chain into to a political lightning rod by insinuating same-sex marriage would be "inviting God's judgment on our nation." It's inspi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2012

    These Five Rappers, Like Frank Ocean, Should Boycott Chick-fil-A

    See also: Frank Ocean - The Wiltern - 7/17/12 Why Is Frank Ocean's Coming Out a Big Deal, But Not Syd the Kyd's? Depending on your political point of view, Chick-fil-A is either a patriotic chicken chain whose brass advocate "traditional" marriage or a homophobic gulag to be avoided. R&B singer F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2012

    25 Gorgeous GIFs From Lollapalooza

    By Reed Fischer See also: *Ten Things Your Lollapalooza Outfit Says About You *Lovely Ladies of Lollapalooza This past weekend's running of Lollapalooza in Chicago was intense. The heat, the monsoon-like storm on Saturday, and even the lobster corn dogs all exceeded what the human body can take n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2012

    Lollapalooza Suspended, Resumed After Dangerous Weather Conditions

    BY ERIK THOMPSON The 2012 installment of Lollapalooza has thus far brought the requisite extremes, in terms of performances and potent weather. A two-hour delay cut through the middle of Saturday's entertainment at Chicago's Grant Park, and a good many people were wishing they had just the record h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2012

    The Five Most Overlooked Albums of 2012 So Far

    This year deserved praise has been heaped upon Frank Ocean's debut Channel Orange, the Flaming Lips' blood vinyl project and Beach House's Bloom. Meanwhile, overrated works like The Shins' Port of Morrow and Passion Pit's Gossamer have been overhyped Lost in the shuffle have been five superb-but-u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2012

    Frank Ocean - The Wiltern - 7/17/12

    Frank Ocean The Wiltern 7/17/12 See Also: Why Is Frank Ocean's Coming Out a Big Deal, But Not Syd the Kyd's? Since nobody's talking about much else on the internet right now, we won't bore you with too much background on Frank Ocean. He's a 24-year-old R&B singer aligned with Odd Future who lives ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2012

    Azealia Banks - Fonda Theatre - 7/14/12

    See also: *Our review of Azealia Banks at Coachella *Slutwave, Tumblr Rap, Rape Gaze: Obscure Musical Genres Explained Azealia Banks Fonda Theatre 7/14/12 Hip-hop remains one of the last bastions of bald-faced homophobia. Rappers follow any remotely gay-sounding comment with "no homo," and histo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2012

    The Best Five Concerts in L.A. This Week

    Monday, July 16 Animal Raps LOS GLOBOS By day, Paul Prado is one of the brevity-obsessed comic geniuses at L.A.'s own 5 Second Films. He's their in-house Method actor -- a guy who takes what he does so seriously, he'll shave his head clean for a five-second spoof of Citizen Kane. He can occupy a ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2012

    Why Is Frank Ocean's Coming Out a Big Deal, But Not Syd the Kyd's?

    Syd the Kyd on Odd Future, Her Sexuality and Why She Hates the Word "Lesbian" Earlier this month, rising R&B crooner and Odd Future member Frank Ocean came out of the closet. (More or less.) Since then there's been an outpouring of support from fans, the media and the music industry. Russell Simmon ... More >>

  • Music

    July 12, 2012

    Music Picks: Aesop Rock, Azealia Banks, Toots & the Maytals

    Also, Mariachi El Bronx, Phil Ranelin, Spaceghostpurrp and others

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2012

    The Internet, Kilo Kish - The Echo - 5/25/12

    See also: Odd Future's Syd the Kyd Joins The Internet The Internet, Kilo Kish The Echo 5/25/12 In September, Odd Future subgroup The Internet (producer Matt Martians and DJ/producer/engineer Syd the Kid) quietly released "Love Song - 1." Already a pretty wisp of a track, Syd elevates it to remark ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2012

    The Best Of Coachella: Friday, April 13

    See also: *Coachella: The Garbage Situation Is Out of Control *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers Day one of The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival brought something more unusual than ironic outfits or that poor guy who couldn't get his flip flops on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Best L.A. Twitter Beefs of 2011 (and Who Won)

    ​Like most news bloggers, we probably spend too much time on Twitter. Tips arrive in real time -- quicker than on news television, or over the wire -- and Twitpics open us up to a world of witnesses. In effect, we might also talk about it too much. (Online celebrity rags are guiltiest of all: ... More >>

  • Music

    November 10, 2011

    Mary J. Blige, Larry Carlton, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Also, Peanut Butter Wolf, Lucy Woodward, Chromeo and others

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Chris Brown Can Do No Wrong

    ​[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilt Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] It was fall 2005, and I was sitting in an Internet café in Berlin. Juelz Santana's "There It Go (The Whistle Song) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Top Five Greatest Rap Hook Singers

    Frank Ocean​Last week we were supposed to get the major label release of Odd Future cohort Frank Ocean's debut project, nostalgia, ULTRA, previously a mixtape. Unfortunately, the suits at Def Jam have apparently stricken it from the upcoming-release schedule, with Ocean reacting by releasing t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Live Review: Top Five Reasons Odd Future is L.A.'s Best Live Act

    Andrea Domanick#swaggin'​ If Wu Tang, Iggy Pop and the Flaming Lips threw a birthday party, it might approximate Odd Future's swag-as-hell show Saturday night at House of Blues Sunset. Swinging stateside amidst their first European tour, the horrorcore collective took the stage in full force ... More >>

  • Music

    March 31, 2011

    Page Two: A Young Person's Guide to Odd Future

    The Complete Discography (till this afternoon)

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    FREE: Odd Future Debuts New Album, Mellowhype's Blackendwhite, Featuring Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler the Creator, 'Gun Sounds, Grams of Coke and Dead Cops'

    Left Brain (left), Hodgy Beats (right).​Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All strike again with another boundary-pushing collision of abstract electronic beats and heavy, death-obsessed raps. Yes. Also, a lyric about large, flippered marine mammals: "We march through streets like a pack of walru ... More >>

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