Justin Lee Brannan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article may not meet the general notability guideline. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. (June 2009) |
|
|
This biography of a living person does not cite any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. (April 2007) Find sources: (Justin Lee Brannan – news, books, scholar) |
 |
A major contributor to this article appears to have a conflict of interest with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. (October 2009) |
Justin Lee Brannan (b. October 14, 1978) is a musician, voice actor, writer, blogger, lyricist and humanitarian financier from Brooklyn, New York.[1] He is best known as the founding member of Indecision and Most Precious Blood, two hardcore bands from Brooklyn, New York.
Justin's ancestors trace back to before the Civil War. Justin is related to John Milton Brannan[1][unreliable source?] who was a career American Army officer.
Contents |
[edit] History
He is the founding guitarist and song writer for two New York City hardcore bands, Brooklyn's Indecision (1993 - 2000) and Most Precious Blood (2000 - still active). Both bands were always loosely tied to the straight edge and vegan/vegetarian hardcore scenes and were outspoken on their stance on animal rights, animal rights activism, atheism and vegetarianism.[citation needed]
Brannan also played guitar in two other hardcore bands, The Judas Factor (with Rob Fish of 108 and Resurrection) and Milhouse (from which Indecision would poach WreckAge/Exit label-exec and vocalist Artie Philie for the final incarnation of Indecision).
Taking cues from the frontier punk bands such as Black Flag and touring 250–300 days per year across the globe, equally inspired by bands like Fugazi[citation needed] and their good friends in Sick Of It All, Indecision and Most Precious Blood made their name daring to go where other bands hadn't gone before. Both bands collectively have traveled to well over 40 countries throughout Europe as well as the entire United States (save for Hawaii), Puerto Rico, Canada, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.[citation needed]
Indecision was the first American band to play in Croatia (Zagreb) after the Croatian War of Independence ended in 1995[citation needed] and Most Precious Blood was the very first American hardcore band to ever step foot on South African soil.[citation needed]
[edit] Life outside music
He has contributed music reviews for Foundrymusic.com as well as several sordid tales from various early Indecision tours circa 1996 for a book called "Anecdote" published independently some years ago.[1]
[edit] Caninus Phenomenon
Brannan and long-time femme comrade Rachel (Rosen) met on Rosen's old radio show the infamous WNYU 89.1 FM's Crucial Chaos. They have masterminded many bands and projects throughout the years most recently (and notably) a death-metal grind-core group called Caninus (pronounced K-9-us). The band received international notoriety for being the first band to feature an animal as a lead singer, their two adopted pet pit bulls.
The band began as an inside joke and quickly became the media's darling novelty - receiving national exposure through coverage from FHM, Maxim, Stuff, Details, GQ, Vogue, Satya, Rolling Stone, Varla, National Public Radio, The Howard Stern Show and several other "morning zoo" type radio programs. They've even received several unsolicited celebrity endorsements - everyone from Andrew W.K. to Susan Sarandon has given Caninus 'the nod'.[citation needed]
Regardless of the mainstream media attention, Brannan has been quoted as calling Caninus itself "a joke which morphed into a social experiment" referring to the current state of music and culture where "everything is disposable and all you need is gimmick" to get the attention of all the "glossy people"[citation needed]
[edit] Trivia
 |
Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (July 2007) |
- Is a vegetarian.[2]
[edit] Collaboration with other artists
Brannan has written music with a wide array of people. Most notably:[citation needed]
- Roger Miret, Agnostic Front frontman
- Monk Orff, son of world renown German composer Carl Orff
- NASA Def Jux prog-rapper/engineer/producer
- The Presence feat. Cirrus
- Ronni Raygun Thomas, childhood friend, musician and filmmaker
