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Monday 06/18/2012
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Music :: Hip Hop
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Busdriver with special guests
9:00 PM  Zebra Cocktail Lounge
Description:
Monday, June 18th
Hip Hop – 11:11 Presents Busdriver with special guests – www.busdriverse.com
Tix $10 @ the door
Possessing a hyper-literate, intellectual style of rapping augmented with dizzying
elocution that would tongue-tie even the fiercest auctioneer, Busdriver is eclectic and
eccentric enough to cite vocalese jazz singer Jon Hendricks as a primary influence. Born
Regan Farquhar, the Los Angeles MC was introduced to hip-hop culture early -- his father
wrote the screenplay to one of the earliest films focusing on hip-hop, Krush Groove.
He began rapping at age nine, releasing his first record at age 13 with his group, 4/29,
named after the 1992 L.A. riots. By the mid-'90s, Busdriver was a regular at the Project
Blowed open mic, where he would meet future collaborators and underground luminaries
like Aceyalone, Abstract Rude, and Freestyle Fellowship. And shortly after, the vinyl did
flow.
Busdriver guested on upward of 20 singles, and by 2001 he could no longer be contained
by guest spots, releasing his first full-length, Memoirs of the Elephant Man. There were
just as many detractors as supporters for his singular style, which was so densely packed
it made his chosen name seem a reference for multiple-personality disorder, and the lo-fi
production also left more listeners scratching heads than nodding them. His next album,
This Machine Kills Fashion Tips (2002), continued in a similar manner before being
trumped by better production and more focused rhymes on Temporary Forever the same
year. Joined by another West Coast avant-garde MC, Radioinactive, and the breezy,
fractured pop of electronic producer Daedelus, Busdriver released yet another odd puzzle
piece in 2003, The Weather. Fear of a Black Tangent followed on Mush in 2005. After
moving to Anti-/Epitaph, the rapper issued RoadKillOvercoat, which featured production
from Nobody and Boom Bip. His second Anti- release, Jhelli Beam, appeared in 2009.
In 2010 he put out a full-length mix tape of unreleased gems and illegal remixes called
Computer Cooties. It was released as a free album.
2010 saw Bus toiling over a new album that will shock fans and confuse the unconverted
into unwilling servitude. It is called Beaus$Eros and will be released in January 2012 on
Fake Four. Download preview song "No Blacks No Jews No Asians" here.
Other upcoming projects include a full-length release from Bus' new experimental punk
band, Physical Forms and a hiphop superduo with rapper Nocando called Flash Bang
Grenada.
Age Group: 21+
Venue: Zebra Cocktail Lounge
Address: 321 E Main St
Bozeman, MT
Phone: 406 585 8851
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