Midway Frames, and toward the Back Half [BMP 2026 #3]
OK: Stalin Bollywood is now available on vinyl to celebrate its 5th anniversary + we're back touring this summer in the Pacific Northwest + we resist the carceral state and ask for your support
Thirdly, We Make a Contradistinction (with Brevity)
Nearly three months have passed since the last droplet from the tributary of our great gazette mountain spring. Only slightly importuning your forgiveness for our 90 (or some odd) day interregnum, we come forth with tidings.
Though most is of the positivist assortment, such as a vinyl release and a tour announcement, the second half of the year has not augured uninterrupted goodness. As you will read below, in addition to our notes on artistic developments and triumphs, a good friend of ours has run into some trouble and needs all of our aid.
Stalin Bollywood 5th Anniversary Vinyl Release
Five years ago, in partnership with POW Recordings, we released Stalin Bollywood, our landmark release of noise, invective, and rap-art-rock-punk fusion.
It saw tracks like “hos on my d*ck ‘cuz I look like a drawing of the P*****t M******d”, “the pope is a(n) (unrepentant) r*p*st”, and “dirty whiteboys”, with a litany of press and deep dives (including Rhys Langston’s appearance on the MAGNIFIED VOICES Interview Program).
Well, to celebrate its 5th anniversary Black Market Poetry has pressed up a limited quantity of vinyl records for you good people of the general public. Following the sold-out cassette run and the out-of-print lyric zine, this is now the only form factor for fans seeking a physical widget in our digital landscape.
Find it available for purchase at Rhys Langston’s Bandcamp, while supplies last.
Summer Tour in the Pacific Northwest with Fatboi Sharif and Icky Reels
After touching back down in LA in mid-May, fresh from our international syllabic sojourn with Open Mike Eagle, we smelled the roses for a moment outside our apartment. Then, we pressed play once more on the traveling rapman schemes.
That is to say we will be hitting the road this summer with Fatboi Sharif and Icky Reels, going through major and minor locales in the Pacific Northwest, blending styles and marbled poetics in the fog machine of our day and age.
Dates are as follows:
6/29/26 — Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown — TICKETS
6/30/26 — Seattle, WA - Belltown Yacht Club — TICKETS
7/1/26 — Baker City, OR - Churchill Baker — TICKETS
7/2/26 — Portland, OR - Atlantis Lounge — INFO [TICKETS TO COME]
7/3/26 — Portland, OR - Swan Dive — [DETAILS + TICKETS TO COME]
7/4/26 — Eugene, OR - Blairally — TICKETS
As this is the first tour we’ve booked as a part of the Northstar Artists roster, we are feeling like a real professional musical enterprise out here; though we keeps it humbly and stridently locked in search of the epiphanic, still.
Oh yes, flyer done by us (in fact in an airport terminal on a phone, if you can believe it).
Our Dear Friend and Collaborator Frankie Jax No Mad Has Been Detained by ICE
On May 14th, our good friend and collaborator, Frankie Jax No Mad became the latest target of ICE’s rash of warrantless arrests and kidnappings. As he was leaving his apartment in Portland, OR masked agents swarmed him and took him to be detained at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, WA.
Since then his partner started a GoFundMe in his name to pay for forthcoming legal fees, for necessities to be made available at his commissary, and to cover expenses (like rent and bills) while he is in custody.
Furthermore, as difficult as it was, we managed to conjure up words for POW MAG, telling his story and explaining his invaluable place in west coast indie rap.
Read below (and consider contributing to his fundraiser):
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We will have news of more news as it becomes newsworthy, and by reading this far you have proven yourself worthy of the gravity we are trying to impress, the form we hope to hold (Newton and Non-Newtonian, respectively).
If you would like to support more directly, our Patreon is where we share works in progress, early videos, and even whole finished projects before they come out (and more). Or if you’re even more generous, there is a link on our website where you can quite literally pay our rent. Just saying.
Bless up.