Hip-Hop group Latyrx are excited to announce they are hitting the road with New Orleans funk Jazz jam band Galactic on their Freeze Out Tour, starting on February 14 in St Louis and ending in Los Angeles. The groups have collaborated in the past, most notably on Galactic's 2007 album From the Corner To the Block. Latyrx will open eleven shows on the tour and will headline the two Idaho dates (Feb 20 & 21).

In the meantime, Latyrx, who are emcees Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truthspeaker, released a 6 track EP late last year, Disconnection. The duo follow their creative instincts and get experimental on the project, but they maintain their emphasis on lyricism that's at the core of their music. Guests on Disconnection include Zumbi (of Zion I), Headnodic, and Amp Live (of Zion I). The first single off the EP, "Gorgeous Spirits", was produced by The Bangerz and the new video is coming soon.

More, the duo are readying their second LP in over a decade, The Second Album. Guests on the Fall 2013 album include DJ Shadow, Kool A.D. of Das Racist, Blackalicious, Merrill Garbus of Tune Yards, Chris Funk of The Decemberists, Spank Rock, among others.

Based in the Bay Area, Latyrx consist of the gruff and bassy Lyrics Born and the other higher-pitched and trebly Lateef the Truthspeaker. Their first and thusfar, only, full-length, 1997's Latyrx: the Album, "set the tone for what Solesides and Quannum would do," LB recalls, while 1998's Muzappers Mixes EP spawned one of the only feminist-affirming club bangers in hip-hop history, "Lady Don't Tek No." 


Fourteen years after the release of Latyrx: the Album, LB and Lateef have finally answered the prayers of long-starved fans who have begged, pleaded and, by now, tweeted about the possibilities of a reunion. An impromptu Latyrx set at a 2010 Jazz Mafia concert at San Francisco's Mezzanine led to an appearance at 2011's Outside Lands festival, Google's Summer Concert Series (they were the first hip-hop act to perform) and a last minute appearance as part of HITRECORD At The Movies -- a unique film and music traveling showcase curated and hosted by actor and artist Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Disconnection is available now. The Second Album is due out Fall of 2013.

TOUR DATES:

14-Feb Thu MO, St Louis The Pageant
15-Feb Fri KS, Lawrence Liberty Hall
17-Feb Sun CO, Denver Ogden Theatre
19-Feb Tue UT, Salt Lake City The Depot
20-Feb Wed - ID, Sun Valley (Headlining)
21-Feb Thu - ID, Boise The Reef (Headlining)
22-Feb Fri WA, Seattle Showbox
23-Feb Sat OR, Portland Crystal Ballroom
27-Feb Wed CA, Solana Beach Belly Up
28-Feb Thu CA, Los Angeles El Rey
1-Mar Fri CA, San Francisco - The Fillmore
2-Mar Sat CA, San Francisco - The Fillmore
3-Mar Sun CA, Santa Ana Yost Theater

For more information, please contact Nicole Balin, Ballin PR
email: nik@ballinpr.com | tel: 323-651-1580.