I had a discussion with some folks at KRTU about the importance of year-end lists as moments of assessment, of looking at this moment in time in a century-year-old genre of music and say this is where the music was at this point of the narrative. At a time where we're analyzing the culture at large at a rate as fast as the lives we're living in it, it's sometimes necessary to … [Read more...]
For Your Consideration: Thundercat’s ‘Apocalypse’
It's been two years since bassist Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner released his debut album on Steve "Flying Lotus" Ellison's indie label Brainfeeder, The Golden Age of Apocalypse. In that time, Thundercat's star has continued to rise, continuing his work alongside FlyLo, Erykah Badu, Suicidal Tendencies, Snoop Dogg (before the Snoop Lion transition), among others. His artistic … [Read more...]