Busdriver rolls with Epitaph/ANTI-

Maverick L.A. Hip/Hop Artist ‘Kills’ On Upcoming Single; Fifth Studio Album Forthcoming

Epitaph/Anti- is pleased to announce the signing of L.A.’s own Busdriver, a maverick hip/hop artist with scope well beyond the genre’s traditional limitations. Upholding his ironclad reputation as a chop maestro and style monster, the man born Regan Faquhar has readied his adventurous and contagious fifth album, RoadKillOvercoat for release early next year.

Preceded by the club-banging new single, “Kill Your Employer (Recreational Paranoia Is The Sport Of Now),” which drops September 26th, RoadKillOvercoat was produced masterfully by L.A.’s own beat champion DJ Nobody (Plug Research, Ubiquity) and multi-instrumentalist/programming whiz, Boom-Bip (Lex).

“This is the grassroots, off-kilter, rap intelligentsia… undertow that your friends talk about,” BD says proudly of RKO, which affirms his universal appeal while building off of his recent triumphant, set-mingling tour with rising indie rockers Islands.

No mere overnight success, BD has been wowing unsuspecting audiences with his patented visceral onslaught of rants, rhyming and displaced musical sensibility for more than a decade. Whether sitting-in with unlikely cohorts such as Daedelus, Z-Trip, TTC, Boom-Bip, 2mex etc., or plowing throw his enthralling solo sets, his distinct brand of showmanship has germinated over the course of the past 13 years.

With a depth and stadium-sized bombast that has only been hinted at on earlier independent efforts like 2002’s definitive Temporary Forever, 2003’s The Weather, ‘04’s Cosmic Cleavage and last year’s Fear of a Black Tangent, Busdriver’s all-encompassing wares are evident on RoadKillOvercoat. Be it the 80’s rock-tinged tour-de-force ”Sunshowers”, the aforementioned “Kill Your Employer” or the psychedelic touched “Secret Skin,” BD is sure to defy any categorizations created by his existing output