“Sorry, underground hip-hop happened ten years ago.” So read a T-shirt on sale at abstract rapper Busdriver’s homecoming set at the Troubadour on Friday night ...

When I was a young squirt, I used to marvel at the crude horsepower chugging beneath the hoods of the buses that carted me to school each morn. The vaguely angry man who sat astride the driver’s seat ...

December is list-making season. And for us music journalists, it is a time to look back on scores of albums, reflect upon the music and recapitulate our favorites. But this year, just like the last, ...

Busdriver has shared a new track from his forthcoming record Perfect Hair, due out September 9 via Big Dada. It's called "Ego Death", and features Danny Brown and Aesop Rock. It was produced by ...

Prolific LA underground rapper Busdriver AKA Regan John Farquhar is best known for his dense, wordy verses and rolling, rapid-fire delivery. He dropped his 10th full-length, Perfect Hair, last ...

Having made waves in underground hip-hop with The Weather, his acclaimed collaboration with Radioinactive and Daedelus, Busdriver returns with beatmaker Daddy Kev on his tightest, most consistent ...

Aesop Rock, right, dished up a fierce set last night. Credit: ERIC SANDY/SCENE There’s something really great about underground hip-hop shows. Whether it’s the sense of community in the room or the ...

Busdriver, Daedelus and Antimc October 27, 2007, hi-dive Better than: Watching the Rockies lose game 3. There was a ton of Halloween stuff (and the Series as well) going on around town, so these guys ...

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You'll need five listens of this new Busdriver track to get a beat on the dextrous, rapidfire tongue twirling at hand, which is to say it is a Busdriver track. The forthcoming Jhelli Beam is his ...

From an early age, Busdriver was weened on rap and what he calls “heavy jazz.” His father wrote the 1985 Def Jam biopic Krush Groove. Busdriver emerged as a rap contender when he was “rapping a lot” ...

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