CONTACT RESTAVRANT
Guitar / Vocals - Troy Murrah, +1 323 313 4334
Drums - Tyler Whiteside

www.restavrant.com
IG: @restavrant
Facebook: @restavrant
YouTube: @restavrant1784

HIGHLIGHTS

• Adult Swim's "Momma Named Me Sheriff"
  Theme Song by RESTAVRANT

• Showtime's "Shameless", Season 7, Episode 6: "The Defenestration of Frank" starring William H. Macy
  Song: “Live Like I” by Restavrant

• BTO Sports Extended TV Commercial
  Song: “Live Like I” by Restavrant

• GO FAST PULL UP: The Jimmy LeVan Story Documentary
  Song: “Yeah, I Carve Cheetahs” by Restavrant

• Tommy Dugan: Real BMX | World of X Games
  Song: “Wild Witch” by Restavrant

• “A band that must be seen to be believed.” -Jonathan Kim / Huffington Post

• “The techno drums paired with classic blues instruments are a crazy juxtaposition… that’s some shit I can get behind. Why can’t they play this in clubs?” -entertheshell.com / AOTW

• “…like an 8 track player hooked up to a state of the art stereo system… think techno beats humping old folky sounding guitar, plus a hell of a lot of bottleneck slide.” -Adam Joseph / Monterey County Weekly

• “Probably the only postwar blues sound I’ve loved this much since Bo Diddley. Fans of Jon Spencer, Lightning Hopkins, and Hasil Adkins will love this.” -D.M. Collins / LA Record

• “…Shows will have you pogoing, stomping, and slamming like the first time you crammed into a DIY basement show… Oh and their drummer plays a hubcap and old license plates. This is the punkbilly band that will be headlining the thunderdome post Mayan apocalypse.” -Paul T. Bradley / LA Weekly

RESTAVRANT
/ˈrest(ə)rənt,ˈrestəˌränt,ˈreˌstränt/

"I gave myself the name 'Restavrant' as a one-man band years ago, playing banjo and bottleneck slide guitar, never thinking it would stick with me for all these years. It was a joke--mocking the idea of giving my one man band a band name. I didn't think there would be any live shows on the horizon... just house parties and street corners. Then, my drummer got involved and we created a little buzz about town, and surprisingly, legit venues started asking to book us. I tried to change the name at this point, but the venues and the label we had signed with at the time said it was too late. 'People already know you as that dumb name.' ..Haha, ok ..Anyway, at this point our whole approach to playing music at first was trying 'to create a party... by combining music genres throughout history that were known to us to get the party started! Old Mississippi hill country juke joint blues, punk rock, hip hop, and even throw in a bit of techno dance beats. Now, my approach to music making has only slightly changed. Tyler (my drummer, the other half of the band) and I still bring as much energy to live shows as possible, but the 'fuck it' attitude is not as ‘in your face’ as it was... it’s just a bit more mature, the crazy is more calculated, I guess. Now, there is a goal to create music with lasting integrity. We may still get loose, but we have a bit more control to our chaos.” -Troy Murrah of Restavrant