Thundercat just shared “Satellite,” which appears on the soundtrack for Insecure: Music From the HBO Original Series, Season 5, the comedy series starring Issa Rae. [embedded content][embedded content] The soulful “Satellite” features funk musician Knower, YouTuber Louis Cole, and singer Genevieve Artadi, and, of course, Thundercat on bass. The track is out today via Atlantic. Other tracks […]
To mark the 10-year anniversary of The Golden Age of Apocalypse, Thundercat announced he will release a deluxe vinyl edition of his debut. Thundercat’s label, Brainfeeder, said that the new vinyl will include two bonus tracks, “$200 TB” and “Daylight (Reprise).” The physical vinyl is a translucent red LP, within a gold sleeve, and with […]
Another day, another festival announcement with the reveal of who’s heading down to Austin for Levitation 2021. Get your costume ready because the event takes place on Halloween weekend beginning on Thursday, Oct. 28 to Oct. 31. There will also be a kick-off preshow on Wednesday Oct. 27 with Red Fang, Nothing, and Starcrawler headlining. […]
Despite 2020 being a pretty bad year, Haim did alright. Women in Music Pt. III was a success, spawning a number of great songs and several Grammy nominations, including for Album of the Year, the first time an all-female rock group got tapped for the nod. Now, the Haim sisters are back with an expanded version of that […]
Hanukkah ends tonight and the Haim sisters decided to take the holiday out in style. The trio, with an assist by Thundercat on bass and some new lyrics from playwright Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play), released their own version of Waitresses’ 1981 tune “Christmas Wrapping” with the appropriately titled “Christmas Wrapping 2020 (All I Want […]
For a year that made no sense, it’s only fitting that 2020’s best songs make strange neighbors on a mixtape. You can’t recap 2020 without mentioning Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP,” a sex song so dirty that even the edited version leans toward an R rating (“wet and gushy,” anyone?). But on this […]
After a deluge of canceled or delayed tours, drive-in experiments, Bandcamp Fridays and bedroom livestreams, we’re finally here. Yay? It’s hard to celebrate much of anything in 2020. But one encouraging sign from the music industry has been the number of artists innovating on the fly — figuring out ways to sustain their careers through […]
Thundercat’s “Fair Chance” may have released in March. But the LA artist and producer knew there could be more done with the song. Released on Wednesday (Nov. 11), the track features Ty Dolla $ign and Lil B. While the original groove is still there, Floating Points speeds up the ballad exponentially — adding some new life […]
Great songs have a freedom that albums don’t because great songs only have to pull off their trick once. It’s like how a great SNL sketch can be a terrible movie or why Vine was an underrated miracle of online comedy. Sometimes an artist can get a lot more done in miniature. When people say […]