"Few would have predicted Jason Braun's evolution from ne'er-do-well barfly and open-mic hipster into a full-blown spoken- word beat maestro. As leader of Jason and the Beast, he more than dabbles in hyper-literary, name-check science, declaiming his rhymes over heady hip-hop arrangements. Braun's heroes remain the Beats, Bukowski and the Bard... (RK)." -The Riverfront Times ... more