Stereogum — Thundercat, aka Stephen Bruner, was a key member of the collective that made Kendrick Lamar’s jazzy hip-hop meditation To Pimp A Butterfly one of the year’s best releases. He was also part of Kamasi Washington’s lauded new jazz record The Epic.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Thundercat in Philly in 2014 (more by Ryan Muir) Thundercat (aka Stephen Bruner) will follow 2013's Apocalypse with a new mini-album, The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam. Flying Lotus co-produced half of it and is releasing it on... more info

Stereogum — Stephen Bruner (bka Thundercat) will release his first solo material in two years next week on his old label, Brainfeeder, after having worked on two of the best-received records of 2015 so far: Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly and Kamasi Washi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The annual Afropunk Festival returns to NYC in 2015 from August 22-23 in Brooklyn's Commodore Barry Park. The lineup includes Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Kelis, Danny Brown, Suicidal Tendencies, Kele, Thundercat, Cakes Da Killa, Goldlink... more info

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L.A. Times - Entertainment — In the germinal stages of a musical movement, it's hard to know whether a particular sound will live for a month, a year or a decade. Whether a new scene will influence a neighborhood, a city or the world, whether the ideas morph into something bigge... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Jazz saxophonist/composer Kamasi Washington has been at it for over a decade -- early works include Young Jazz Giants, his quartet with Stephen Bruner aka Thundercat and others, who released a self-titled album in 2004 -- but he's been... more info

Stereogum — The tracklist for Kendrick Lamar’s new album To Pimp A Butterfly surfaced last week, but didn’t have any features attached. Now, iTunes has the official tracklist up and, along with that, the confirmed features for each of the songs. There aren�... more info

Stereogum — Flying Lotus hosted his first BBC Radio 1 Residency last night, joining a roster that’s included James Blake, SOHN, Jacques Green, and (starting next week) Jon Hopkins. He had a few surprises to share: an unreleased Thundercat song, a new edit of h... more info

Stereogum — Flying Lotus has shared one of the new tracks that appears on his FlyLo FM station on the new next-gen edition of Grand Theft Auto V. It’s a dark alley banger of a track called “Medication Meditation” and features rapping from Krayzie Bone and ... more info