Wu-Tang Clan Announces Tour Dates for December and January
After completing their Rebirth Tour in Europe this summer, the renowned hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan recently rolled out more tour dates, this time in the U.S. The N.Y.C.-based collective will play shows on both coasts throughout December and January. The short leg of dates kicks off in New Jersey and wraps up in Los Angeles at Club Nokia. read more
Found in: Concerts, NewsMos Def and Talib Kweli, Raekwon and Ghostface Tour for Rock The Bells
Touring hip hop festival Rock The Bells has announced a couple of additional tours featuring some pretty big names from this year’s line-up.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsGhostface Killah Announces New Album, Tour Dates
Reader, were you disappointed with Ghostface Killah’s last proper solo album, 2009’s R&B-focused and ridiculously titled Ghostdini: Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City? You weren’t alone. Luckily, we live in a world of possibilities, where an artist always has a second chance as long as he’s willing to give it another shot. A world where, amidst this infinite potential, there is… All right, perhaps we’re getting a little ahead of ourselves.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsGhostface, Lissie, Four Tet, Surfer Blood, Many More to Play CMJ 2010
CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival is slated to have quite the crew of creatives throwing down in NYC Oct. 19-23.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsGhostface Killah, Raekwon, Method Man Finally Set Album Release Date, Still Need Group Name
Last summer, a sneak preview of Ghostface Killah new record made Paste managing editor Nick Marino sad, but maybe Ghostface was just saving up for his forthcoming collaboration with his Wu-Tang brothers Raekwon and Method Man.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsIs Indie Dead?
Indie is, at once, a genre (of music first, and then of film, books, video games and anything else with a perceived arty sensibility, regardless of its relationship to a corporation), an ethos, a business model, a demographic and a marketing tool... read more
Found in: Culture, FeaturesWu-Tang Clan Roundup: Where are the Killa Bees Landing These Days?
Wu-Tang is so scattered that they don't really qualify as a clan; at this point they're probably closer to a loose network of anarcho-syndicalist collectives. So no, we'll probably never see another record approaching the unmitigated brilliance of their 1993 debut Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). The upshot to that is the individual members of the Clan are left to their own devices, which has produced some pretty great stuff, and they're set to continue that trend for the near-future.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRaekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II
In the years following the Wu-Tang Clan’s 1993 masterpiece... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsThe New Ghostface Record Makes Us Sad
When we got word not long ago that a new Ghostface Killah record was coming, we got excited. This is the mad-genius rapper, after all, who gave us one of the last great New York hip-hop records (2000’s Supreme Clientele), plus the brain-busting masterstroke of 2006’s Fishscale. ... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayRaposauria, He: First-Listen Thoughts on DOOM's Born Like This
A couple weeks back, word came down that that tricky masked villain would be dropping a new album. MF Doom, now unfortunately rechristened DOOM ("All big letters, but it isn't no acronym," as he says on "Ballskin."), will release Born Like This on March 23 via Lex Records. For a guy with so much allegedly on his plate (a new Madvillain record? a collaboration album with Ghostface? other various stuff?), it's nice to see him get around to releasing something.We'll have a proper review of the full album, but in the meantime, take a stroll with me through the Born... read more
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