Toronto, Montreal and more with @rhyslangston.bsky.social
Brooklyn with ELUCID
Germany added to EU/UK dates with @videodave.bsky.social
on sale now
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🎧Our Top 50 Albums of 2025🎧
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3 months too late, the vid for "Psychic Rhyming Like Kings Shining" feat. Andrew Mbaruk is out now
no fake entelechy utilized in this handcrafted reel music movie:
I frame-by-frame animated these lyric cut outs, and sorted through hours of archival footage to collage so
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Just seeing this damn.
The more I think about the percentage of Americans that can read and the apparent "rise of anti-intellectualism", the more I can truly understand, as sad as it is, why @rhyslangston.bsky.social is not a household name yet because if it were the early 2000s...
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
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
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 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
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!
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"
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
