André Benjamin, otherwise known as the rapper, producer, and multi-instrumentalist André 3000, has just announced more live performances of his instrumental record New Blue Sun. André 3000’s 2024 “New Blue Sun” Tour” comes in support of his latest evolution: his 90-minute instrumentalist album New Blue Sun. The LP didn’t contain a single bar of rap, … Read more
N.E.R.D, comprised of Pharrell, Chad Hugo, and Shae Haley, have dropped the second single off their upcoming album No_One Ever Really Dies. The album has already garnered a good amount of praise with the first single “Lemon”, which features an incredible Rihanna verse and earned N.E.R.D their first ever Hot 100 entry. Now, N.E.R.D has released their second … Read more
Back in 2001, superstar producers Pharrell and Chad Hugo, otherwise known as The Neptunes, were joined by hometown pal Shae Haley to form N.E.R.D and release their brittle but funky debut In Search Of…. Though the album wasn’t much of a hit, N.E.R.D successfully cultivated a devoted following and continued to drop everything from soul to rock … Read more
We’ve been excited to write this for quite some time. After almost two years of teased release dates for Frank Ocean’s Boys Don’t Cry, we weren’t sure when, if ever, we would see the follow-up to Channel Orange. But alas, it finally came, and despite being thrown by several false release dates, the world has embraced Blonde/Blond, the product of Ocean’s … Read more
Breaking news! We at TickPick….are proud to present you…our second-EVER…(drum roll, please)… TICKPICK QUIZ. I don’t know, was that too dramatic? We’re too excited to tell. For any of you readers out there who were struck with violent illness or some such emergency (which are the only possible why you’d miss our first-ever quiz…right?), we’ll … Read more