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Wu-Tang Clan Live & Backstage (Dour 2013)

Moments before the Wu-Tang concert, we feel that we are going to experience something great. The collective of hip-hop has quickly conquered the world and put the East Coast on the front of the stage twenty year career.

Twenty years they have celebrated in Dour on the biggest stage, The Last Arena. Thousands of festival-goers were able to enjoy chanting the rallying cry of "Wu-Tang! Wu-Tang! "With an energy that surpassed understanding.

It also has recently confirmed that the band will release a seventh album, following 8 Diagrams, released in 2007.

We filmed the emergence of collective RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God and Masta Killa.

RZA Live On Stage With Band On 8/16 (Bay Area)

The Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, and his highly influential production sound, are much too easily taken for granted. You’ve got his Minnie-Ripperton-on-helium tape speeding methods, to which Kanye will forever be indebted; the filthy, resinous 36 Chambers aesthetic that’s informed everyone from MF Doom to Portishead; his prophetic, narrative skits that have irreversibly shaped the dynamics of the hip-hop album.

Even after 20 years in the biz, the Staten Island icon and famed kung-fu fetishist continues to shepherd the hip-hop form in bold, new directions. Expect RZA to reinforce his prestige when he takes the Mezzanine stage this Thursday, with a full live band in tow.

Adding to the mystique, is the relative lack of publicity surrounding the lineup of RZA’s band, and its plans to approach his almost entirely electronic production sound. How will a live drummer approximate the precarious, lo-fi thud of his synthetic beats? How will the melodies and samples be replicated, and on what instrumentation? And, perhaps most intriguingly of all, what effect will live, human interplay have on the loop-based foundations of his recorded output? The addition of a live band to RZA’s domain raises an abundance of tantalizingly unanswerable questions. For those fascinated by musicians pushing themselves into exploratory situations, this live appearance ought to be nothing short of essential.

RZA
9pm, $25 advance
Mezzanine
444 Jessie, SF
(415) 625-8880
www.mezzaninesf.com

Ghostface Killah, Shyheim, Lil' Kim + more @ Paradise Theatre, NYC 18th May

May 18th 2012, Lil' Kim and friends, Ghostface Killah, Shyheim aka Manchild, Cassidy, Saigon @ Paradise Theatre Bronze, NYC.

For Tickets contact 1-888-706-0072 (Tri-State area Only)

GZA + MASTA KILLA Duel Of The Iron Mic MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG NYC April 18 2012

GZA/Genius Annouces East Coast shows with Bad Brains & H2O

Bad Brains have announced a short, four date Northeast tour set to kick off in April. GZA & H2O will open on select dates. The run will make it's way to Boston's Paradise Club on April 16th (w/ H20), NYC's Irving Plaza on April 17th (w/ H2O), Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg on April 18th (w/ GZA) and Philadelphia's Trocadero on April 19th (w/ GZA). Pre-sale tickets go on sale this Saturday. H.R. & Co. will also perform at this year's Bonnaroo Festival.

Source: http://wu-international.com/Tours.htm