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.
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World Premiere: Sammy Warm Hands and Ogar Burl - Slubberdegullion
Brandon Backhaus | January 25, 2016
I decided the best way to write about this video was with a silly 16 bars:
Cuddliest curmudgeon coming correct with the Warm Hands /
Mr. Sammy slamming mics down your throat like you’re...
Album Review
Shut-ins and the Colony - Lo-fi Love Songs
Brandon Backhaus | January 21, 2016
If Astronautalis and Mayer Hawthorne’s molecules vibrated to a frequency as to leave them forever combined into one gravely, soulful, hip hop letter home, you’d have something close to Shut-ins and The Colony. Solid raps, surprisingly good...
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Soul Inscribed - Soul Inscribed
Brandon Backhaus | January 19, 2016
I now consider my Soul Inscribed as it takes a certain admiral girth to unzip, whip, and slap your song out on the table like this shit is self-titled like the record which is also the title of my band. But other than gasp at the apparent circumference of...
Concert Review
LA Got Aloha: Sage Francis - Los Angeles, California
Brandon Backhaus | January 18, 2016
What started out as a unknown name at the top of a list of the best rappers in the early oughts, has become something of a religion. A cult, if you will?
I ordered a CD from a rapper previously unknown to me. His name was Sage ...
Article
Quick Fix: Onry Ozzborn to Premiere New Film: DUO - Feat. Live Performances from Void Pedal, Kimya Dawson, Rob Sonic, Grayskul, Graves33, and more!
Brandon Backhaus | January 16, 2016
This is the kind of night that makes me want to be able to jetset to Portland, Oregon and back again full of whimsy and with fancy feet, bruh!
Fucking Friday February 12th at Hawthorne Theatre and Lounge, Onry Ozzborn's is ...
Bandcamp
One Song: Damnationland - Ordinary Monsters
Brandon Backhaus | January 16, 2016
Brzowski is the homie. He’s a kindred spirit out there on the road. When you realize you’re on the same bill as a rapper from Portland, Maine opening for Grandmaster Bizzy Bee in San Di-fucking-ego, you just know.
Ole Brz...
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Joyner Lucas - Ross Capicchioni
Brandon Backhaus | January 15, 2016
Every now and then a song and a video comes along that makes you see your whole shit in a different light. Joyner Lucas's "Ross Capicchioni" is that video and song.
I’ve always been one to run with hard knocks. Call me dumb. Call me...
Soundcloud
One Song: AsImOff - One
Brandon Backhaus | January 14, 2016
There are sacred places in this world.
There are little corners of comfort. Little slices of home.
I'm not from Los Angeles. But having been here so long, after not being from here, those pockets have been priceless.
Those little sacred places where I can...
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Semi Hendrix - Jesus Pressed Mute
Brandon Backhaus | January 13, 2016
Rass Kass, as part of Semi Hendrix with Jack Splash, from Mello Music, channels his best Immortal Technique in "Jesus...
Album Review
Kid Advay and Carolina Fiend - Teal
Brandon Backhaus | January 11, 2016
My adoration for different type shit is very clearly documented.
Kid Advay, out of Greensboro, North Carolina, continues to make rap music that doesn’t give a shit about what you purists think. On Teal, his new EP with producer...
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