THUNDERCAT
“Show You The Way” Video from Grammy-Winning Bassist & Producer featuring Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins
Wraps North American Tour This Weekend,
Red Bull Music Academy Festival Los Angeles Show at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Forever with Flying Lotus This Saturday Oct 14
‘Drunk’ Named One of the Best Albums of the Year So Far by:
AV Club, Billboard, Complex, Esquire, High Snobiety, LA Weekly, Mass Appeal, NME, Pigeons & Planes, SPIN, Stereogum, The Guardian & More
Look for Red Bull Music Academy Daily's Exclusive Album Track-By-Track with Thundercat Later Today
“Show You the Way” is the lead single from Drunk, the critically acclaimed third full-length album from Grammy-winning bassist and producer Thundercat, out now on Brainfeeder. The track features Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins and, this summer, the trio performed the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The video for “Show You The Way” was just released and follows the spiritual journey of the samurai featured in 2015’s “Them Changes” video.
“Show You The Way” features cameos from McDonald and Loggins and was directed by Katarzyna Sawickaand Carlos Lopez Estrada who note, “We got the track from Thundercat and quickly realized that we had a unique opportunity to continue the story that we had started with ‘Them Changes.’ We ended that video on a fairly grim note but ‘Show You The Way’ offered a bright and contrasting soundtrack for a sequel of redemption.”
The Los Angeles native will wrap up his extensive North American tour this weekend at the Red Bull Music Academy Festival Los Angeles. He’ll be performing at Hollywood Forever along with Brainfeeder headFlying Lotus. Thundercat’s fall tour that saw numerous sold out shows, including a two-night stand at NYC’s Brooklyn Steel. He’ll follow the North American run with a European tour, kicking off November 11 at the Netherlands’ Rockit Festival. See tour dates below and, for tickets, visit: http://brainfeeder.net/thundercat.
Drunk is a 23-track epic journey into the often hilarious, sometimes dark mind of the Grammy-winning singer/bassist and finds a few of his friends joining him along the way including: Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell,Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Wiz Khalifa, Kamasi Washington and Brainfeeder mastermind Flying Lotus. Since it’s release earlier this year, the album has gone on to be named one of the best albums of the year so far by AV Club, Billboard, Complex, Esquire, High Snobiety, LA Weekly, Mass Appeal, NME, Pigeons & Planes, SPIN, Stereogum, The Guardian and more.
Today, the Red Bull Music Academy Daily will release an exclusive and extensive album track-by-track from an interview between Thundercat and RBMA co-founder Torsten Schmidt. Look for it here later today. In the meantime, revisit Schmidt’s original interview with Thundercat on “Show You The Way” from earlier this year:http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/01/thundercat-drunk-interview.
Thundercat is the alter ego of virtuosic bassist / singer Stephen Bruner. The South Los Angeles-native has released three critically acclaimed full length albums on Brainfeeder Records—The Golden Age of Apocalypse (2011), Apocalypse (2013) and Drunk (2017)—and 2015 mini-album The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam. Thundercat has also made outstanding contributions to landmark albums by KamasiWashington (The Epic) and Kendrick Lamar (To Pimp A Butterfly). His work on Lamar’s netted him his first Grammy in 2016.
THUNDERCAT TOUR DATES
10/13 Miami, FL - III Points Festival
10/14 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Forever / Red Bull Music Academy Festival Los Angeles with Flying Lotus
11/11 De Oosterpoort, NL - Rockit Festival
11/14 Glasgow, UK - ABC
11/15 Manchester, UK - Albert Hall
11/16 London, UK - Shepherd's Bush Empire
11/17 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
11/18 Hamburg, DE - Überjazz Festival
11/19 Antwerp, Belgium - Roma
11/21 Paris, France - Elysee Montmartre
11/23 Madrid, ES - Teatra Barceló
11/24 Barcelona, ES - Apolo
11/25 Milan, IT - Jazz:RE:Found @ Base
11/27 Trento, IT - Jazz’ About @ Teatro Sanbapolis
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