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October 17, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
NZ Festival 2018: Check Out The Full Programme
Wellington’s NZ Festival takes place over February/March of 2018 – earlier tonight the full programme was announced – along with theatre, comedy, dance, visual arts – a separate Writers Week and many multi-discipline acts there’s a stunning music line-up. David Byrne, Thundercat, Grizzly Bear, Perfume Genius, Anne Sofie Von Otter, The Staves and Cecile McLorin Salvant w/ […]Archive
March 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Thundercat: Drunk
Thundercat Drunk Brainfeeder The West Coast Get Down collective really made their mark with Kamasi Washington’s triple, The Epic. Famously, the sessions for that album resulted in a handful of other albums – in fact they’re still coming; the group set themselves the goal of wasting no time, so every day they turned up and […]Archive
February 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Thundercat (February 3, Wgtn)
Thundercat San Fran Wednesday, February 3 Thundercat is a freak! He’s got the jazz-noodling from the 70s/80s down pat; he’s like all of your favourite session stars from the fusion era and (slightly) beyond – and all at once. He’s like the best example of the worst nightmare that is the session guys running away […]Archive
July 22, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Thundercat: The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam
Thundercat The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam Brainfeeder Thundercat – aka Stephen Bruner – has contributed to a handful of the very best albums in recent years, collaborating with Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus and Kamasi Washington (which means he’s already played on the best album of 2015) and if his leathery-liquid bass lines have been a […]Archive
October 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman