Kevin Bronson on June 17th, 2009

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[New videos from L.A. artists …]

LA Weekly cover guy Busdriver will have to dumb it down a few dozen IQ points if he ever wants to be a hip-hop star, but thankfully we have guys like him to skip stones across the mainstream. The veteran underground rapper shows no signs of being more accessible on his latest Anti-/Epitaph release, “Jhelli Beam,” but his crazy flow and deft wordplay are worth your careful attention – as is this video for the song “Me Time.” Busdriver does a 7 o’clock in-store at Amoeba tonight and, supported by Blank Blue, plays the Knitting Factory on Thrusday.

War Tapes is about to kick off a long tour supporting industrial rockers VNV Nation – it starts June 27 at downtown’s Club Nokia – which ought to be quite a test for the fledgling L.A. quartet’s “doom pop.” Jon Danovic directed this video for the War Tapes single “Dreaming of You,” off their recently released debut “The Continental Divide.”