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FRIDAY, JUNE 21 Devendra wears his mega-dick and plays in Megapuss. Crazy. If you don't know by now, Megapuss is the side project Devendra Banhart (sorry, but if he's ballsy enough to put those glasses on in front of paparazzi, we're kind of compelled to use the photo). He's playing a secret show ... More >>
FRIDAY, JUNE 21 Devendra wears his mega-dick and plays in Megapuss. Crazy. If you don't know by now, Megapuss is the side project Devendra Banhart (sorry, but if he's ballsy enough to put those glasses on in front of paparazzi, we're kind of compelled to use the photo). He's playing a secret show ... More >>
For the week of August 9 16
No introduction necessary. Q: So what brings you out to LA? A: Just business brought me out here. I have an office set up out here and we’re just out here networking and keeping our minds at peace and just working on the album, staying in the studio. I’m doing a lot of things—dealing wit ... More >>
Sentencing Diagrams: A swarm turns in on itself
21 years ago, Samuel L. Jackson snagged a bit part as Leeds in Spike Lee's School Daze. Since then, the prolific Tennessean has appeared in roughly 70 films -- some of them good (Kill Bill, Do the Right Thing, Hard 8,), some not so good (S.W.A.T, Amos and Andrew, Deep Blue Sea), and some that can ... More >>
Artist performs his masterpiece in its entirety this week. Here's why you should care.
Teams with Tom Waits, David Byrne, MIA, Santogold, Spank Rock, RZA, Ghostface Killah, Kanye West and others to create The Spirit of Apollo
The Reverend, replicated
Also, Death Cab for Cutie, Ingrid Michaelson and more
The only thing these guys didn't do was cater
Burial, Wu-Tang Clan and Kenna
Superbad director Greg Mottola puts his own spin on the Judd Apatow school of emo-raunch filmmaking
For the week of Nov. 30 – Dec. 7
Superhustler Damon Dash is sitting on ODB’s last album. What gives?
Superhustler Damon Dash is sitting on ODB’s last album. What gives?
Summer love-in for underground hip-hop fans
Critics Choices and Schedule
Common in commotion
Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog
Stalking classic rock with the Charlatans UK
Or, how The Blair Witch Project conquered the world
Hip-hop: The need, not the greed
1. Who made the decision to have an Asian Bjork clone perform a feather dance for one of the video's main plot threads? Okay fine, we all know the answer was Rza, but really, was Erykah Badu that busy taking trips to Israel with Jay Electronica that Bobby couldn't convince her to show up for a cou ... More >>
The film that ended the Cold War. 9. Hi-Tek Ft. Talib Kweli & Dion-"Time" "People get caught up in a time and what that song represents to them at the time they hear it. Nothing I'm gonna do after that is going to match up to that time period, because they can't get that back. So I have to real ... More >>
Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams (Loud/SRC/Universal) By Ben Westhoff The long awaited fifth Wu-Tang Clan album, 8 Diagrams, just leaked, and it’s fucking solid. After just a few listens, it’s already in my 2007 top ten, and it will surely battle Graduation for supremacy on hip hop critics’ year-end l ... More >>
Im no longer subjected to the Top 10 or the Top 100. I get the music from the last 100 years
Here at West Coast Sound we have been long-time fans of the RZA's 2005 book The Wu-Tang Manual, a really inspirational retelling of the conception and formation of hip-hop's unlikeliest spiritual gang. So we were thrilled when we learned earlier this year that The Abbot was working on a follo ... More >>
Though anime has had some sort of presence in the US for decades, it wasn't until the turn of the century that we've seen so many titles hit the domestic market. Combined with the increasing number of conventions and other related events, this could be considered the decade when anime became almost ... More >>
Top of the Hip-Hop Or, how Dan LeRoy learned to stop worrying and love da bomb. Â While year-end, catch-all wrap-ups are common to every musical genre, in no other style of music do they turn into the hand-wringing, "state of the game" examinations that hip-hop seems to provoke. (I've certainly wr ... More >>
In high school Spanish, freshman year, there was a skater named Steve who knew all of the words to Liquid Swords. I sat next to him - more like diagonally behind him - at an angle that both afforded me a prime sightline to the small BIC explosions he'd set off inside of his huge JNCO pockets (fillin ... More >>
The first thing you need to do is examine this painting very carefully. It was based on the famous George Washington Crossing the Potomac painting, created by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze in 1851. Except that that ain't George. That's the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA, flanked by fellow Wu-Men GZA and Ol ... More >>
The latest Wu-Tang-related album is dropping (we are almost certain, though this is the Wu we're talking about, so insert proverbial grain of salt here) on March 20th, and the names on the cover--Ghostface, Method Man and Raekwon--are promoting Wu Massacre in their expectedly eccentric way. Method ... More >>
Erin BroadleyBottoms upSXSW is equally known for the amount of alcohol people consume as it is for music. Let's put it this way: we came, we saw, and some of them puked. Here are our "Top 5 Wasted Musician Moments at SXSW," including GZA, Death Set and an honorary nod to Bill Murray.
Rebecca HaithcoatRZA, ready to ascendA little more than halfway through his show at the Key Club Saturday night, RZA proclaimed, "If you're not havin' a good time, you're wastin' your time." He then launched into a track from 2003's Birth of a Prince, "Drink, Smoke Fuck." Scheme, or serend ... More >>
Also, GZA, Jimmy Webb, Fol Chen and others
Kasey StokesMethod Man of Wu-Tang ClanAs it turns out, you should not fuck tha police. Our Rock the Bells road trip began promisingly: left for San Bernardino early, avoided traffic. We'd maintained a cool objectivity all week, but now were free to exclaim over the lineup, a mix of ones-to- ... More >>
Gustavo TurnerYoko Ono and Lady Gaga frolic on a piano at the Orpheum Theatre in LAWe told you this one was going to be special. Stay tuned for our full review, but Saturday night's brilliant show/tribute to Yoko Ono at the Orpheum brought some extremely special moments with Tune-Yards, the ... More >>
RZA releases "Gone," a memorial.Wu-Tang production mastermind, aspiring filmmaker and L.A. resident RZA has released a new free song called "Gone," which he's dedicated to Sally Menke, the longtime editor of Quentin Tarantino's films who passed away last week. Via his Facebook profile, RZA f ... More >>
bootsycollinsart.comHe's got the art funk: Bootsy CollinsA few months ago, the Wu-Tang's RZA unveiled a limited-edition piece of art billed as his "self-portrait"--a large image of himself as George Washington crossing the Delaware. The artwork was conceptualized by the RZA aided by Scene Fo ... More >>
Not all of these people will be coming to Club Nokia next Sunday...Next Sunday, concert promotion juggernaut Golden Voice is bringing what they claim is the Wu-Tang Clan to Club Nokia. To be more precise, as Mikael Wood pointed out in this week's pick, they're bringing "seven of the eight or ... More >>
Raekwon has just released (through Pitchfork) a track from his forthcoming (and much delayed) project Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang. It starts with a lengthy martial-arts-movie style sample that seems to refer to the not-very-beefy beef between the Abbot (RZA) and the rest of the Clan. In case you for ... More >>
Originally published May 24, 2011, 8:18 p.m. New artists were just announced on the Rock the Bells 2011 lineup:
​Something about achieving major fame in music seems to drive creative artists to assume new personae. Whether it be fodder for an epic concept album, a stab at a different genre or just plain boredom, many of our favorite stars have conjured up characters in order to explore and indulge their fan ... More >>
The buzz around professional party-circuit players LMFAO's second album, Sorry For Party Rocking, is still going strong. The group's success has largely involved cultivating a public image resembling an extreme version of the most ridiculous hipster archetype. But it didn't always used to b ... More >>
Keith PlocekShavo Odadjian stands in front of Shavo Odadjian in Nocturnal Art"They put me next to Dali, and I'm like, Yeah!" said System of a Down's Shavo Odadjian, standing between Salvador Dali's Triumphant Elephant and his own Nocturnal Art. Odadjian's work featured the Armenian genocide o ... More >>
TheUrbanDaily.comThe Halloween season is here again, which means very soon the streets will be filled with trick-or-treating children as well as women dressed as everything from slutty kittens to slutty paperclips to slutty sluts. If you're throwing a Halloween party you're going to want your ... More >>
Hip-hop fanatic Justin BieberSee also: What Will Be The Most Popular Music-Related Halloween Costumes This Year? And How Can They Be Made Slutty? Rivaling his teenie fans' feelings for him, Justin Bieber has a big case of hip-hop fever. Despite being known for unabashedly poppy tunes, the Bi ... More >>
Also, Art Lande, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Gilad Hekselman, The Stitches, The Villains and others
Timothy NorrisWu-Tang Clan Club Nokia January 21, 2012 Sorry, but Wu-Tang Clan is something to fuck with these days. Sure, their fans remain passionate -- a group of grown-ass music writers I know do almost nothing but analyze their lyrics and recent solo projects -- but there's fewer of t ... More >>
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