Busdriver live in concert.
ON TOUR

Busdriver

7
critic concert reviews
rap

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

70
%
Based on 
7
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
%
Based on 
critic concert
reviews

Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

Based on 7 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Busdriver is rated as a decent live performer, with shows that lack distinction. Busdriver concert reviews describe live shows and performances as abstract and pleasing.

ON TOUR

(empty)

FESTIVALS IN 2024

No items found.
see more festivals

Latest Release

MADE IN LOVE (5 May 2023)

Artist Info

Genre
rap
Origin
Los Angeles, United States (2/12/1978)
Bio
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.
Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

Spectrum Culture (USA)

November 27, 2014
%
After seeing key Hellfyre members Busdriver and Milo live, I’m inclined to believe it when a sampled voice growls, “You don’t stop the Hellfyre Club.

Dallas Observer (USA)

September 28, 2009
%
Busdriver Jessica Miller Long-hailed as one of the world's premier epicenters of culture and diversity, Los Angeles brought some of its artistic variety to the Cavern this past Friday night.

Gig Junkies (UK)

April 20, 2012
%
Bo! Word to your mother. Break it down etc etc. Yep, tonight Digbeth’s legendary boozer, The Rainbow, is well and truly bouncing along to a hippity hoppity beat kicking off with a rising local collective Abes Oddysee. Keeping it old skool there’s a pleasing hint of of J5’s laid back grooves in this four p

Mezzic (USA)

May 7, 2009
%
Of course there’s art gracing the walls, but atypically these are pieces you can actually purchase instead of look at.

Three Imaginary Girls (USA)

May 23, 2008
%
Show Date: May 19, 2008 Underground hip hop was the first genre of independent music that I experienced. While working in the music department of a big box east Texas store, my washed-up hip-hop-o-phile boss drug me to his beat up Honda Accord on breaks to school me on DJ Shadow, Company Flow, De La Soul, Del

Slug Mag (USA)

November 5, 2007
%
Busdriver with Daedelus and Antimc 10.26.07 In The Venue All Photos by Dave Madden I’ll skip my rants about In the Venue’s penchant for always booking a large crowd show and a small crowd show (trying to hear the small show over the din of said large show is impossible) and just say thanks for leaving m

Westword (USA)

October 29, 2007
%
Busdriver, Daedelus and Antimc October 27, 2007, hi-dive Better than: Watching the Rockies lose game 3.

Past critic reviews published in

Image Credit

[CC BY-SA 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons