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Album Review: Rhys Langston – Pale Black Negative A boundary blurring opus as Langston’s lyrical flair is met with an emotive immediacy, amidst inventive, convention-defying compositions Pale Black Negative is ostensibly an underground hip-hop rec…

Album Review: @rhyslangston.bsky.social - Pale Black Negative

Rhys Langston’s “rapper’s singer-songwriter record” is a boundary blurring opus as his lyrical flair is met with an emotive immediacy, amidst inventive, convention-defying compositions.

Full Review👇
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Dope of the Month Club :: Majunely 2025 Moor Mother x SUMAC, Open Mike Eagle, Rhys Langston & 9 more.

DOPE OF THE MONTH CLUB :: MAJUNELY 2025

Ruminated on how the personal is the political in rap, the newish records from Moor Mother x SUMAC, @mike-eagle.bsky.social, @rhyslangston.bsky.social, plus 9 other album recommendations.

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I got to see @mike-eagle.bsky.social, with Cavalier and @rhyslangston.bsky.social at @highnoonmadison.bsky.social last night, and it was a *great* show. The performances were all super impressive, funny, thoughtful, entertaining, and skillful. Open Mike Eagle in particular was incredible live...

Just seeing this, appreciate your ears always

YouTube video by Rhys Langston Rhys Langston – When the Orchestra Is Dreaming feat. Mike Ladd

oh it’s groove time lovers 🪩📻
new video from los angeles sweetheart @rhyslangston.bsky.social
cop the album here:

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Rhys Langston Is Too F*cking Weird For Genres Between playing a dead guy’s clarinet and releasing his newest album, ‘Pale Black Negative,’ LA polymath Rhys Langston breaks down his creative world for POW.

Rhys Langston made one of the best albums of the year with "Pale Black Negative."

He spoke to Kevin Crandall about genre abolition, learning to play the clarinet, the ICE Raids in LA, coping with grief, collabs with Mike Eagle & more.

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@rhyslangston.bsky.social’s new Pale Black Negative LP is terrific

The live instrumentation, all self-played is routinely warm and inviting

The singer-songwriter meets rap ethos of the record leads to some truly beautiful slices of melodic sweetness

With thoughtful lyrical vulnerability to boot 🙏🏽

the Neighborhood Gods Unlimited tour starts in a little over a month

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My 20th project is a rapper’s singer-songwriter album

Pale Black Negative
it is called

Self-produced to the tune of 7 different instruments

Featuring @mike-eagle.bsky.social , Mike Ladd, Andrew Mbaruk, Hymnal

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ANNOUNCING

the NGU tour where I'm joined by Cavalier and Rhys Langston

and a run of dates supporting Phantogram

ALL ON SALE NOW

this is the first of a lot of news to come. don't sleep

photo by @alexsteed

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"When the Orchestra is Dreaming" featuring Mike Ladd

comes out this Thursday, 5/1/25

The third single from my self-produced album 'Pale Black Negative'

Out 6/11/25

Press advances of my record 'Pale Black Negative' are going out this week

If you want to be added to the blast list, please let me know

What's Good (Week of 3/30/25) New music from Anika, Aesop Rock, Blu & August Fanon, ialive, Infinity Knives & Brain Ennals, L.A. Witch, Miki Berenyi Trio, Scowl, and much more!

Lil' quick fire post of stuff you shouldn't sleep from this week's What's Good drop. Thread of dope incoming. 🧵

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Thank you!

YouTube video by Rhys Langston - Topic When I'm Squared with Happiness

This new @rhyslangston.bsky.social is lovely.

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Rhys Langston & Open Mike Eagle Share New Song "Ate The Tuning Fork While I Taxied In The Crepuscular": Listen From Langston's new album 'Pale Black Negative.'

Hear @rhyslangston.bsky.social and @mike-eagle.bsky.social team up on the airport-themed dance-rap track "Ate The Tuning Fork While I Taxied In The Crepuscular"

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I got 3 shows in LA this week

Tues (today), 2/25
The Stowaway DTLA w/
Aaron Goldberg, Pendleton Ward, Smax

Thurs, 2/27
Melody Lounge w/
Beat Cinema

Sat, 3/1
De La Playa Records
for nahhphet and Dick Chainey's 'Lavender Maze Recitations' release show

Started sending out advances of the first single from my next album

If you're a writer / press / radio person and are interested

Bang my line

I am also open to maybe submitting my poetry manuscript elsewhere

I've only pivoted to this possibility of self-publishing because having several completed full-length drafts of my book since 2023, it feels damning to wait 3-6 months for rejections w/o real critique given back

Got ghosted by a publisher who I thought was going to publish my book of poems

After 1.5 years of submissions, trying to bend the knee via email feels daunting

Therefore, I'm seeking someone (who will be paid) who has experience copyediting (language) poetry

so I can self-publish

Reading poems this evening at the Expo Park Library

Rapping raps Friday in Downtown

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"Missing Persons Retort (Half-Carton Self-Portrait)"
2023
Acrylic, oil stick, spray paint, epoxy resin, canvas board, ceramic, plasticine on wood
12" x 14" x 3"
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Something I didn't get digitized until this year

A self-portrait of deferred expectation, in execution and surrounding life

Thanks to @nofrillsreviews.com for giving me the space to talk about some of my favorites from this year

Approaching old age in basketball years, but I still only need to play once every 10 days to still dunk with two hands

Your favorite could never

"Beninese Truck Stop (Libra)"
2024
chrome marker, acrylic, colored pencil on black paper
8.5" x 11"

still waters [demo ca. 2018] | Rhys Langston and Black Market Poetry Get more from Rhys Langston and Black Market Poetry on Patreon

Dropped a song for my patrons www.patreon.com/posts/118042...

"Half-Orc with Daisy Chain Mail"
2024
acrylic, ink, colored pencil on paper
5.5" x 8.5"

still waters [demo ca. 2018] | Rhys Langston and Black Market Poetry Get more from Rhys Langston and Black Market Poetry on Patreon

Dropped a song for my patrons www.patreon.com/posts/118042...