Brandon Backhaus
Brandon Backhaus has been asleep at the wheel for a decade. He just woke up smashed in a roadside ditch surrounded my empty Mike's Hard Lemonade bottles, and Ragga Jungle mixtapes. And after taking stock, has decided to hitchhike back to life, pausing only to belt out the occasional, "It's the Final Countdown", masturbate, and be mouth-raped by Cap't Crunch.
Album Review
Homeboy Sandman - Kindness for Weakness
Brandon Backhaus | June 1, 2016
I met Luis J. Rodriguez over the weekend. He’s the poet laureate of Los Angeles, author, and Chicano activist. In addition to calling for expansive politics of community, I listened to him speak about redemption, about coming back from monstrous acts, to find...
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Open Mike Eagle and Paul White - I Went Outside Today feat. Aesop Rock
Brandon Backhaus | May 9, 2016
What’s up, everybody?
It’s been a while.
How’s life?
I’m good. And for the first time in a minute.
Been pilfering time while listening to the crickets.
I went on a twelve mile solo hike.
It felt like was recovering from a cobra bite.
Life has a funny...
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World Premiere: Gregory Pepper and His Problems - Smart Phones for Stupid People
Brandon Backhaus | March 7, 2016
Oh, Gregory Pepper. I can remember when you’re Problems first stole my innocent heart. It was way back in 2012’s Great Depression, when Ceschi and the rest of us whipper snappers used to walk uphill...
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Aesop Rock - Rings
Brandon Backhaus | March 2, 2016
Aesop Rock! The guy is almost 40 years old and is putting out rap records that defy the banality of the genre.
Just when I was losing interest. Just when even new releases from artists I generally care for went womp. It's...
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One Song: TV Girl - Song About Me feat. Maddie Acid
Brandon Backhaus | March 1, 2016
California sample-pop band TV Girl has a new record out. A record that asks the question that most need asking when the time comes for asking the questions that need asking, Who Really Cares? The new project sounds like TV...
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World Premiere: OneWerd & Pete Feliciano - The Spy
Brandon Backhaus | February 29, 2016
If James Bond had a cameo in Nacho Libre, you'd have the basic plot of the world premiere video, "The Spy," from Bay Area rap duo Onewerd and Pete Feliciano.
As "the spy," Onewerd goes deep. Severed fingers...
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Reaches - I Am Alive And Well
Brandon Backhaus | February 17, 2016
What happened when I first streamed Reaches' new record I Am Alive and Well:
My shorts just hollered peace to my knees and hi to my thighs. I found myself headband shopping. A cool breeze picked up and, while nary a hair on my...
Album Review
Linafornia - YUNG
Brandon Backhaus | February 16, 2016
Beat tapes. That’s just a sentence unto itself. Linafornia, from Los Angeles, has created YUNG. YUNG is a beat tape. It is meant to invoke the herky jerky head nods of night spent enveloped by heavy sound. It’s the kind of...
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Daniel Ahearn - Safety First
Brandon Backhaus | February 10, 2016
I’m about to take a trip up north. If you haven’t figured it out or are new to Syffal and haven't been hazed in a vat of honey and chin stubble by writhing dad bods, I live in Los Angeles. I also rap and teach. But fuck all that because I’m going up to the...
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