Thundercat

KRCL 90.9 FM Presents

Thundercat
Distracted AF Tour
With support from fera

Sunday, November 15
Doors: 7:00 PM
All ages
Rockwell at The Complex

Thundercat released his album It Is What It Is on Brainfeeder Records on April 3, 2020. Produced by Flying Lotus and Thundercat, the album features musical contributions from Ty Dolla $ign, Childish Gambino, Lil B, Kamasi Washington, Steve Lacy, Steve Arrington, BADBADNOTGOOD, Louis Cole and Zack Fox.

It Is What It Is follows his third album, Drunk (2017), which completed his transition from virtuoso bassist to bonafide star and cemented his reputation as a unique voice that transcends genre. “This album is about love, loss, life and the ups and downs that come with that,” Bruner says. “It's a bit tongue-in-cheek, but at different points in life you come across places that you don't necessarily understand... some things just aren't meant to be understood.”

The passing of his friend Mac Miller in September 2018 had a profound effect on Thundercat and the making of It Is What It Is. “Losing Mac was extremely difficult,” he explains. “I had to take that pain in and learn from it and grow from it. It sobered me up... it shook the ground for all of us in the artist community.”

Comedy is an integral part of Thundercat's personality. “If you can't laugh at this stuff you might as well not be here,” he muses. He is friends with comedians including Zack Fox, Dave Chappelle, Eric Andre and Hannibal Buress. “Every comedian wants to be a musician and every musician wants to be a comedian,” he says. “And every good musician is really funny, for the most part.”

Thundercat is a cornerstone of the Brainfeeder label. He released The Golden Age of Apocalypse (2011), Apocalypse (2013), and the EP The Beyond / Where The Giants Roam, featuring “Them Changes.” He was also a contributor to Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly, winning a Grammy for his collaboration on “These Walls,” and released Drunk in 2017. In 2018, Thundercat and Flying Lotus composed an original score for an episode of Atlanta. For It Is What It Is, Thundercat won the Grammy Award for Progressive R&B Album. He also contributed an original song for the reboot of the anime series Thundercats, which inspired his name.