Thundercat

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Stephen Bruner, better known as Thundercat, grew up in Los Angeles in a musical family; his brother Ronald Bruner Jr. is a drummer. As a teenager he played in the punk band Suicidal Tendencies. He plays a six-string bass guitar and names Jaco Pastorius as a major influence. He worked closely with the producer Flying Lotus and played on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly, for which he received a Grammy. On his own albums such as Drunk (2017), he sings funny and melancholy songs in a high voice over virtuosic bass lines. For It Is What It Is (2020) he received a Grammy.

Listening

• 
  Show You the Way · Thundercat, 2017
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  Dragonball Durag · Thundercat, 2020
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  Them Changes · Thundercat, 2015

Discography

Studio albums

• 2011The Golden Age of Apocalypse
• 2013Apocalypse
• 2017Drunk
• 2020It Is What It Is
• 2026Distracted

Other work

• 2015The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Jazz Map^NL Map
• After Hours: Session 4^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• New jazz from Los Angeles GenreThe bassist Thundercat, the saxophonist Kamasi Washington and other musicians who already knew each other from school played as the collective The West Coast Get Down.

See also

• The Golden Age of Apocalypse
• New jazz from Los Angeles
• Jazz-funk