Frank Ocean

‘Julian Cope told me: you’re unemployable in the real world’: David Wrench, the Welsh studio wizard behind pop’s A-list

Wrench has mixed music for Frank Ocean, FKA twigs, Blur and dozens more – all drawn to what have been called ‘the finest ears ever’. He explains how he went from the dole to the big time

Daniel Dylan Wray

28, Oct, 2024 @12:00 PM

‘Blue Monday is one of the 20th century’s greatest artworks’: Wolfgang Tillmans on swapping his camera for a microphone

His student band was a catastrophe but the Turner prize-winning artist decided to release his music after Frank Ocean appropriated one of his experimental songs. So is his uplifting new album pop – or art?

Alexis Petridis

04, Apr, 2024 @3:00 PM

Queer sounds: our writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ songs

For Pride month, Guardian writers have singled out their favourite LGBTQ+ songs, from Pet Shop Boys to Frank Ocean

Shaad D'Souza, Veronica Esposito, Owen Myers, Benjamin Lee, Jim Farber, Michael Cragg, Laura Snapes and Rob LeDonne

07, Jun, 2023 @3:00 PM

Injured Frank Ocean cancels second Coachella performance after ‘chaotic’ first show

Singer says first performance ‘isn’t what I intended’ following leg fracture and sprain, with reports of an ice rink stage being dismantled hours before

Sian Cain

20, Apr, 2023 @1:12 AM

Frank Ocean at Coachella review – a rollercoaster ending in disappointment

The elusive singer made his headliner debut at the desert festival but delivered an awkward set of some high highs but very low lows

Adrian Horton

17, Apr, 2023 @1:49 PM

Coachella 2023: global superstars and long-awaited returns in the desert

Bad Bunny, Blackpink and Frank Ocean will headline North America’s largest music festival, which returns this weekend in Indio, California

Adrian Horton

13, Apr, 2023 @12:10 PM

Pharrell Williams’s 30 greatest songs – ranked!

It’s 20 years since his band NERD released their debut album – but the rapper-producer-singer-songwriter has been responsible for an avalanche of hits. As he and co-pilot Chad Hugo get inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, we count down Williams’s 30 greatest bangers

Alexis Petridis

10, Mar, 2022 @2:00 PM

Billie, Lorde, Lizzo: has being a female pop star in 2021 become unbearable?

New releases by three pop icons reveal their extreme attempts to protect themselves from the damage caused by fame. Pop stardom has never seemed less aspirational

Laura Snapes

20, Aug, 2021 @3:20 PM

‘My hope is to make things that last’ – Frank Ocean announces fashion range

The collection will feature 25 pieces of high-end jewellery including silk scarves

Priya Elan

09, Aug, 2021 @4:11 PM

Boris Johnson stopped me getting fit – but he couldn’t come between me and my guitar

I’m still no Jimi Hendrix, but after a year’s solid practice I have just about mastered one R&B track

Nish Kumar

30, Dec, 2020 @2:00 PM

Drake calls for Grammys to be replaced after snubbing Black artists

Singer’s demand follows absence of the Weeknd in all categories of the 2021 awards despite huge success this year and dismay at exclusion of Lil Uzi Vert

Laura Snapes

26, Nov, 2020 @1:19 PM