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Rachel Toups

@racheltoups

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asthmatic choir boy in Moab UT
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I have new music out! ‘your heart, it pours’ featuring this gorgeous photo/print/painting by @samantha.jade.art is available for your listening pleasure wherever you seek tunes, courtesy of @anxietyblanketrecords

A bit about the song:
You’re on a horse, and you’re galloping through a valley, but also the horse is your heart, and the valley is you. It’s a bit of an existential shrug; an acceptance. You don’t get to travel through the underworld and come out the other side unscathed - no way. Your shape will be different, transformed. But what can you do, huh?

Recorded at Studio Studio Dada, and in a bedroom, and in a Winnebago in a ghost town (thank you @ohno.cisco)

Featuring the following angels -
@blywallentine - harmonium, bass clarinet, synth
@bjacksonharp - harp
@erik_louis_maloy - double bass
@mahlaur - flute
@jeffgutierrez34 - saxophone
@jackinthesandbox - drums

Thank you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you. And if you’ve read this far, just know I’ll be announcing some tour dates soon!

Warmly :) by @racheltoups

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ABR is excited to announce @racheltoups’ sophomore record “softissue” is out Friday, January 22nd! The first single “your heart, it pours” is now streaming wherever you find your music!

This collection of songs was written while Rachel was living and working in remote, isolated locations - where they grappled with how to place a small human life within the context of vast geologic and hydrologic features, forces, and timescales, and the interplay between silence and echo - the way the desert swallows sound, the way sandstone returns it, the way water carries it down the canyon, the way a forest soaks it up.

Many hands have made this project into something that’s so much more than it could’ve been on its own. Songs were written in solitude and isolation, yet they were only fully realized with the help of many friends. One of the key collaborators being @blywallentine, who took on the role of album doula.

Head to our bio for links to stream “your heart, it pours” and to pre-order a copy of “softissue” on vinyl :) by @racheltoups

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Our next show is Wednesday Oct. 28th at The Chill Zone!!!!

We're very excited to have the amazing Rachel Toups joining us all the way from Moab, as well as the beloved Julio Lopez from Tucson. It'll be a soft evening of sweet music and wonderful people 💙

Wednesday Oct. 28th
7:30pm Doors
The Chill Zone (Ward 6)
3202 E 1st Street
Suggested donation, NOTAFLOF taken in Ward 6 Council Offices by @racheltoups

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3 days ago

Toby Queef, @august.granath drag birthday 2024, thank you @megan.vicker.y for these gems by @racheltoups

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2 months ago

This Saturday, 7/25! Come find me playing with @rogerramseymusic at the helipad! We gonna pass a good time yall

First photo by @joshlanemusic at the park ages ago
Last photo the jambalaya I made last week (sorry I ate it all)

Love u bye by @racheltoups

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3 months ago

Ancient doodles by @racheltoups

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5 months ago

＊TONITE!! ＊ Bay Area based songwriter, multi instrumentalist, visionary EGGCORN (aka s Lara Hoffman!) @justeggcorn will be bringing her pop-tinged chamber folk to @theestorkclub oakland on Wednesday 5/6/26

+ with the powerful composer and violinist AMBER LANTERN (Ariel Wang) @amberlanternmusic @arielwangmusic

+ Oakland-based sad summer ballads and midnight breakup songs SUCKER CRUSH @sucker.crush

+ and Louisiana-born folk singer-songwriter RACHEL TOUPS @racheltoups !! ⋆·˚

$12/$15 | 8pm | 21+ | #storkshows 𓅡

🎟️ Get tickets at @theestorkcluboakland link in bio

#eggcorn #arielwang #suckercrush #racheltoups taken in The Stork Club Oakland California by @racheltoups

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5 months ago

We are super excited to bring some more music to the bookstore.
Come by Back of Beyond tomorrow, April 23rd, for live music by an array of talented musicians!

Featuring:
Fig Season (@foreverfigseason )
Rachel Toups (@racheltoups )
Tenderwild (@jensayyesss )
Cactus Jacque (@cactusjacquemusic )

-- See you there!

Check out our other happenings at the link in our bio.

WWW.BACKOFBEYONDBOOKS.COM by @racheltoups

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6 months ago

Back when I was a rock witch for @moabtheaterproject by @racheltoups

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6 months ago

Ink and color pencil by @racheltoups

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7 months ago

Intimacy study by @racheltoups

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7 months ago

Moab, WOW! Thanks to all that joined for our Artist Talk with @racheltoups !! Over 40 of you listened as Rachel shared their experience as our Fall 2025 Artist-in-Residence. From overcoming writer’s block, to undulating along the Joy-Despair Continuum, to a thrilling physics lesson in playing the jugs, we were transported to Cisco via song & word.

Want to help support the Spring ‘26 edition of the Artist Residency? Lincoln bio for our Venmo! All donations go straight to artist stipends. taken in Moab Arts - The MARC by @racheltoups

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