Thundercat again pays tribute to his late friend Mac Miller on “She Knows Too Much,” the latest song to emerge from his upcoming Brainfeeder album, Distracted. The song is accompanied by a heartwarming and hilarious animated video directed by Léa Esmaili and produced by Blinkink. “She Knows Too Much” finds Thundercat in a familiar predicament: […]
Thundercat will roar back on April 3 with his fifth album, Distracted, which will arrive exactly six years since its predecessor, It Is What It Is. The Greg Kurstin-produced project is led by first single “I Did This to Myself,” which features Lil Yachty. Other high profile guests on the Brainfeeder album include A$AP Rocky, […]
A$AP Rocky has dropped another new single, “Punk Rocky,” ahead of the Jan. 16 release of Don’t Be Dumb, his first album in eight years. The accompanying video stars Winona Ryder, Danny Elfman, Thundercat and A$AP Nast and introduces five of Rocky’s six Don’t Be Dumb-specific alter egos, who are apparently named GR1M, RUGAHAND, BABUSHKA […]
** Bass virtuoso Thundercat brings his signature style to a cover of the 1980 Diana Ross classic “Upside Down,” which is out now in collaboration with the game Candy Crush Saga and Brainfeeder. The track arrives in tandem with a playable in-game music video featuring “bursts of color” and other surprises. Fans can also obtain […]
Ahead of a fall North American tour, bass virtuoso Thundercat is back with his first new music since 2023 in the form of “I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time” and the Remi Wolf collaboration “Children of the Baked Potato.” Both were produced by Greg Kurstin and are out now through Brainfeeder. “Children of the […]
Gorillaz have always embraced the spirit of collaboration, and during their show in Los Angeles on Friday night (Sept. 23), Damon Albarn’s virtual band had a whole lot of special guests on hand. As Rolling Stone reports, Beck, Tame Impala, Schoolboy Q, Thundercat, Del the Funky Homosapien, De La Soul and Bootie Brown all joined […]
Gorillaz have rounded up an eye-popping roster of guests for their new album Cracker Island, which will arrive Feb. 24 from Warner in North America and Parlophone in Europe. Stevie Nicks, Tame Impala, Bad Bunny, Beck and Adeleye Omotayo lend a hand on the project, with Thundercat having already appeared on the summer release of […]
Kids today … with their memes, vapes and disdain for all things old. Don’t they know what they’re missing, like the satisfaction that comes with learning how to play and eventually master an actual instrument that isn’t a laptop? You’d be forgiven for ascribing such a sentiment to a local boomer or aging music critic, […]
Gorillaz have drafted Thundercat for their latest new song, “Cracker Island,” which was produced by the group in tandem with Greg Kurstin and Remi Kabaka Jr. The high-energy track has been a part of the Gorillaz live show since “the world’s biggest virtual band” returned to the road this spring and finds vocalist 2D (aka […]
The wacky world of the little yellow Minions from the Despicable Me film franchise will be enhanced by the suitably eclectic soundtrack to the movie Minions: The Rise of Gru, which hits theaters July 1. The film is set in the 1970s and tells the origin story of super-villain Gru, so it’s only natural that […]