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
OptimisGFN - Iller Thriller
Brandon Backhaus | October 27, 2015
I don't know much about OptimisGFN aka GoldxHolyxWater except that I want to meet him. Originally from Cambridge, Mass., I want to wake up in his room and throw on my patterned socks and overstuffed backpack and fucking ROLL...
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Buriers - We Are Small
Brandon Backhaus | October 27, 2015
We ain't shit. You ain't shit. I ain't shit. She ain't shit. Your kids ain't shit. Your girl ain't shit. Buriers ain't shit.
This is a song about not being shit. "We all die twice. The first time when we cease to breathe. And the last time...
Album Review
Bloodmoney & Morbidly-O-Beats - Lawnmower Men
Brandon Backhaus | October 27, 2015
Until the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, children, often the sons and daughters of recent immigrate, toiled endless hours inside the bellies of factories for wages that kept their families, living in tenements, in abject poverty. During the Industrial...
Album Review
John Heart Jackie - Episodes
Brandon Backhaus | October 26, 2015
Music is sometimes functional. It provides a soundtrack to your regular life in a way that feels like assistance. It's like a little helper making the chores go by faster, more efficiently, making the long and dusty road more inviting, making life a little...
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One Song: Child Actor - El 7 De Septiembre (Mecano Cover)
Brandon Backhaus | October 23, 2015
If you know me, you know that after Matt and Kim I've written off synth pop duos for LIFE!
But then Child Actor. Holy shit is Max Heath is a synth god. His electro-sonic wave machine just fucking made me...
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Verbal Kent - Notes
Brandon Backhaus | October 23, 2015
This is a dope rap song about learning you're going to be a dad. How it took me this long to Syffal it is a disgrace and I express my deepest dad rap apologies to all the rap dads coast to coast. I never fucked with Verbal Kent...
Soundcloud
One Song: Kid Presentable - Let Go (prod. Rokem)
Brandon Backhaus | October 8, 2015
Sometimes the urge hits to write about a song or an artist or an album RIGHT AWAY! Other times a little marinating is in order.
I was going through our submissions, tagging bands or songs or videos that I might just get up the energy to write about. I also...
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Jared Paul - Five or Five Thousand
Brandon Backhaus | October 5, 2015
As a staunch advocate of pretty partisan politics, regularly attending rallies, job actions, union events, and protests, I've thrown my lot in with people like Jared Paul. As a rapper who owes his breeches to the hobbled...
Article
Quick Fix: Moodhouse Wednesdays - (Noise Monthly)
Brandon Backhaus | October 4, 2015
After watching how my dudes on the East Coast still fill up old squatter pads to the brim with humans there to hear other humans scream and mash away on drum machines and synthesizers in cacaphanous shows meant to shock, disturb, and entertain the fucking...
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Quick Fix: RisingSons Independent present: Ohana Tree - feat. Scarub and Abstract Rude
Brandon Backhaus | October 4, 2015
If you're in Los Angeles this week and want to get your backpack rap on, there ain't no better place than with our favorite Hawaii to LA collective, RisingSons Independent at their reocurring event, Ohana...
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