Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on his giant 50-song album: ‘I wanted to approach it like an experiment’
The composer and arranger has worked with everyone from Ray Charles to Rihanna. Now he’s stepping into the spotlight with a mammoth three and a half hour debut LP … and that’s just volume one
June 2023
‘People complained that I had my ass out’: all-star Glastonbury veterans advise festival first-timers
The likes of Fatboy Slim and Sophie Ellis-Bextor are used to the mud and madness, but Cat Stevens, Rick Astley and others are Glasto virgins. We pair them off to discuss what to expect
October 2022
Louis Cole: ‘Funk is fun but with jazz you can just go wild’
Stunning musicianship and irreverent lyrics have taken this LA jazz drummer from bedroom to stadium, gathering some superstar fans along the way
July 2022
Gen-Z jazz prodigies Domi and JD Beck: ‘It was insane to see Herbie Hancock solo in front of us’
The duo talk about working with the jazz pioneer on their debut album, Not Tight, collaborating with Anderson .Paak and not making music for ‘psycho jazz musicians who stay up until 8am’
December 2020
Best music of 2020
The 50 best albums of 2020: the full list
Our countdown is complete, topped by a mercurial work of sprawling invention by a woman who has dug deep to survive. Taken as a whole, these choices contain drama, solace, poetry and fire, a fitting selection for a turbulent year
April 2020
Thundercat: 'I was always that guy missing a shoe, covered in blood'
Kitty Empire's album of the week
Thundercat: It Is What It Is review – love, loss and hyper-speed star jumps
December 2018
Flying Lotus: ‘Kendrick Lamar absolutely deserves the key to the city’
Steven Ellison, otherwise known as Flying Lotus, on unearthing new talent, LA beat, ‘difficult’ Tyler, the Creator and ten years of Brainfeeder records
December 2017
Best music of 2017
The best albums of 2017, No 8: Thundercat – Drunk
Best music of 2017
The best albums of 2017: the full list
October 2017
I can go for that: how soft rock finally got cool
Once, the sound of 70s and 80s yacht rock was a musical punchline. Now Doobie Brother Michael McDonald is in demand from cutting-edge artists such as Thundercat, and hipster cratediggers are championing lost classics
September 2017
Autumn arts preview 2017
Miley, Morrissey and Marnie the opera: the essential pop, classical and jazz for autumn 2017
Liam goes for broke, St Vincent bounces back, Nico Muhly gets Hitchcockian, Taylor Swift defends her reputation, and Peggy Seeger pens her memoirs
June 2017
The best albums of 2017 so far
Glastonbury 2017: Jeremy Corbyn conquers the stage – as it happened
April 2017
Coachella 2017: Saturday acts Bon Iver, Future, Drake and more reviewed
Thundercat on breakout album Drunk, laughing at racism – and his 'sexy cat', Tron
March 2017
Thundercat review – gripping freakout funk delivered with dizzying telepathy
The prodigious bassist’s songs veer between jazz fusion and intimate, soulful pop – augmented live by detours into wild improvisation
Thundercat review – adventurous ace of bass
The gifted bassist and Kendrick Lamar sidekick twists fusion, soul and hip-hop into magical shapes
On my radar
On my radar: Lias Saoudi’s cultural highlights
The musician on his time in Cambodia, his obsession with Werner Herzog and Brad Pitt’s ‘unbelievable’ hair
February 2017
Thundercat: Drunk review – mesmeric and funk-fuelled
