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👇 nofrillsreviews.com/2025/07/03/a...

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. open.substack.com/pub/elmattic...

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...

oh it’s groove time lovers 🪩📻 new video from los angeles sweetheart @rhyslangston.bsky.social cop the album here: rhyslangston.bandcamp.com/album/pale-b... youtu.be/2Bo6omYfPlc?...

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. www.passionweiss.com/2025/08/05/r... @rhyslangston.bsky.social

@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 mikeeaglestinks.tumblr.com/post/8966612...

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 rhyslangston.bandcamp.com/album/pale-b...

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 mikeeaglestinks.tumblr.com/post/8966612...

"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. 🧵 blog.djregular.tech/whats-good-w...

This new @rhyslangston.bsky.social is lovely. youtu.be/GQOHSUHgfLY

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

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" _________ 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"

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"

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"

One of my favorite things that happened in my rap career has to be when I was when I was subtweeted by a rapper for crowdfunding for a record Jokes on him, cuz I'm about to do that again next year (and he's still got Stockholm Syndrome about white folks)!

"soft power tools" 2024 Ink, watercolor, chrome marker, colored pencil on paper 9"x12"

"3 po' boys" (triptych) 12" x 18" Acrylic, pencil, oil stick, soft pastel on MDF

"Threefold Still Life" 2022 Graphite, colored pencil, orange juice on paper 8" x 10.5" ________ When drafting the Grapefruit Radio Operator's Manual, the loose theme was some allusion to citrus (obvious I know) This went with lyrics to "Blacksmith Django with All the Fingers" prod. by nahhphet

"Gestural Agriculture" 2022 acrylic, marker, colored pencil on paper ___________ The page from the Grapefruit Radio Operator's Manual beside the written lyrics from the song "In the Suburbs of Babylon", a hypnotic bop regarding postwar partition, in literal and figurative form---

Omega 3 Drawing Lookin'-Ass" 2021 Acrylic, Marker, Graphite on Paper 9"x12" ________________ Another page from my Grapefruit Radio Operator's Manual book. This was paired with the lyrics from the song "Marinara in the Marianas" produced by Randal Bravery

How long you gotta swallow your pride before it upchucks?

"soft power tools" 2024 Ink, watercolor, chrome marker, colored pencil on paper 9"x12"

DIY sublimation

RIP NIKKI GIOVANNI THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME BLESSING US HERE youtu.be/cMKSSlaqTLE?...

"I'm the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter"

BREAKING: 300+ musicians including Tegan and Sarah, Kathleen Hannah of Bikini Kill, Deerhoof, Eve 6, Speedy Ortiz & more have signed an open letter opposing big corporate record labels' lawsuit attacking the nonprofit Internet Archive www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... h/t @liaholland.bsky.social

"3 po' boys" (triptych) 12" x 18" Acrylic, pencil, oil stick, soft pastel on MDF

Language and speech were a mistake

Excerpt from one of two poems of mine published in Sunflower Station Press' (DIS)HARMONY issue sunflowerstationpress.com/product/maga... Grateful to be included And for this poem to finally get outside of my personal archive

Kind of surreal to be an employee of the school district that educated me as a child and to be experiencing systemic mistreatment and instability by them when all I want to do is give back

Also updated my bio on the evil streaming site

Buy my book for Bandcamp Friday It comes with a digital download of Grapefruit Radio rhyslangston.bandcamp.com/merch/grapef... Today I was assigned without warning to help in Pre-K special ed and I need a way out of these situations my work puts me in. Your purchase helps immensely.

“A masterclass in minimalism, providing the backdrop for a lyrical maximalist.” Polyglot on Chloroform from @rhyslangston.bsky.social @fusedarrowrecords.com is no.3 in our top EPs of 2024. 🔗 nofrillsreviews.com/2024/12/04/2...

Next up in the EOY review, is 2024’s top 10 EPs. Featuring underground hip-hop, punk rock, stripped back indie-folk. nofrillsreviews.com/2024/12/04/2...

"Threefold Still Life" 2022 Graphite, colored pencil, orange juice on paper 8" x 10.5" ________ When drafting the Grapefruit Radio Operator's Manual, the loose theme was some allusion to citrus (obvious I know) This went with lyrics to "Blacksmith Django with All the Fingers" prod. by nahhphet

The LA scene is allergic to organizing shows in a non-gentrified/transplant part of town We really need a venue in mid city and south central