The Ohio Players were an American funk, soul music and R&B band, most popular in the 1970s. They are best known for their songs Fire and Love Rollercoaster.
A spaceship with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen will blow up quite well in the vacuum of space. Chemical explosives will also explode in space since they function by breaking weakly bonded chemical components; no oxygen is necessary. Nuclear explosions can of course occur in space, too.
The explosion of the star creates a shock wave that compresses nearby interstellar clouds. Yes. When the material from the explosion encounters an interstellar cloud, it creates a shock wave in the cloud that compresses the cloud very suddenly. This sudden compression can initiate star formation in the cloud.