Blevin Blectum & Rhys Langston

Thursday 14 November 2024 • 8pm

$10

Trade School is thrilled to welcome Blevin Blectum back to LA for an audio/video presentation of sonic mini-maxi universes via swirls and activations. We've been trying to get her down here for years and insist you come see why. 👽👾👽 LA's own Rhys Langston opens the night with bars for days. He will consider challenges regarding his vertical leap if you bring your fav rapper along but suggests you save your energy and that person's time because there's just no way.

Blevin Blectum (Bevin Kelley) develops sonic sci-fi fantasy in its most decadent technicolor forms, fueling the journey of OMNII and Multitudes of Venom - her most recent audio/visual solo adventures (Deathbomb Arc records). OMNII soundtracks a long-lost space opera, falling perfectly within the gaps between Barbarella and The Beast in Space. Multitudes of Venom, a live set recorded at KZSU'a Day of Noise, is an extended, expanded variant, spinning out omnii-materials. She performs these two albums in live mashed-up iterations. Blevin is half of early-noughties-era San Francisco punk-electronic duo Blectum From Blechdom. She was recently featured in The Wire magazine (UK) for her OMNII release, including a short history of her long illustrious electronic music voyage thus far. She lives in Willits, CA, on a ridge overlooking another ridge, with a cat.

https://linktr.ee/blevinblectum

Rhys Langston Podell is a musician, visual artist, and writer born, raised, and based in Los Angeles, California. Publications such as the NY Times, the LA Times, AFROPUNK, LA Weekly, STEREOGUM, and SPIN have praised his multimedia efforts. Notable projects include 2020's dissertation and musical album Language Arts Unit: a Rap Textbook and 2022's Grapefruit Radio, which melded his outré rap, visual art, and absurdist prose. Ever composing and plotting between disciplines, he remains the poet laureate of his living room and has a higher vertical leap than your favorite rapper.

https://www.langstonia.org/