Contemporary off a tour supporting Future Islands, beloved rapper, screenwriter, comic, and polymath Open Mike Eagle, returns with information of a brand new album and has shared its lead single “contraband (the plug has luggage of me).” Neighborhood Gods Limitless is due out July 11 through his personal label, Auto Reverse Information, and coincides with Mike’s headline tour launching simply days earlier than the album launch. “contraband (the plug has luggage of me)” is produced by Kenny Segal (Billy Woods, Benjamin Booker) and displays on coming of age experiences in Mike’s native Chicago.
Past his profession as a musician, Mike has developed quite a few tv initiatives together with his Comedy Central present The New Negroes. Talking about that course of, Mike displays “One venture I all the time come again to is an idea known as Darkish Comedy Tv. It’s a present
a couple of cable community that may solely afford to be on the air for an hour per week so it has to suit its complete slate of applications in that hour.” Impressed by dramas like Get Out or Sorry to Hassle You, that are tales that have interaction in huge conversations across the trauma of marginalized peoples, and later by the surrealism of Boots Riley’s I’m A Virgo, Mike started to develop Neighborhood Gods Limitless.
Mike continues, “The trauma on the middle of Neighborhood Gods Limitless is mine. I used to be shattered as a youngster and I spent nearly all of my life not figuring out it. In my ignorance I might go on to shatter myself even additional as a result of it was all I knew. This can be a story about how people who find themselves looking for themselves get confused once they encounter issues that remind them of themselves.”
In gentle of the cruel realities that new sequence typically face within the tv trade, Mike determined to remodel his idea into music, partly as a cathartic course of. As Mike says, “It felt good to make and typically TV forces you to desert belongings you’ve put your coronary heart into. If that had occurred with a venture round this explicit material, it could have been unhealthy for my psychological well being.” The following album incorporates a gap theme, flashbacks, a climax and even some commercials.
Touring will see Mike start in his adopted hometown of Los Angeles, CA on July 9 earlier than traversing the nation and culminating in an August sixteenth present in Washington, DC. Full routing is on the market beneath and tickets could be bought right here. Following that run, OME picks up extra dates in help of Phantogram from August thirty first to September fifteenth.
Upcoming Reside Dates
^ = Cavalier (particular visitor)+ = Rhys Langston (particular visitor)7/9 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo ^ +7/10 – San Francisco, CA @ Backside of the Hill ^ +7/11 – Portland, OR @ Mission Theater ^ +7/13 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza ^ +7/14 – Boise, ID @ Neurolux ^ +7/15 – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT @ City Lounge ^ +7/17 – Denver, CO @ Misplaced Lake ^ +7/19 – Las Vegas, NV @ Swan Dive ^ +7/23 – Madison, WI @ Excessive Midday Saloon ^ +7/24 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern ^ +7/25 – Minneapolis, MN @ seventh St Entry ^ +8/13 – Cambridge, MA @ Center East Upstairs 8/14 – South Burlington, VT @ Increased Floor Showcase
Opening for Clipping
8/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Ukie Membership8/16 – Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Membership
Opening for Phantogram
8/31 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore 9/3 – Rochester, NY @ Anthology 9/4 – Albany, NY @ Empire Reside 9/5 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Beanfield 9/8 Portland, ME @ State Theater 9/10 Norwalk, CT @ District Music Corridor 9/11 Allentown, PA @ Archer Music Corridor 9/12 Huntington, NY @ The Paramount 9/15 Richmond, VA @ The Nationwide
