In the fading remnants of presidential campaign season, it seems more people are getting in the spirit of reaching across the isle to their fellow brethren, even in the world of ultra-trendy night clubs. Tonight, Long Beach extends a hand to Anaheim's Ember Cafe and Music Club in the form of a booze-filled party bus. I don't know about you, but I'll take that hand any day.
Pure Evolution Productions is sending a VIP round-trip excursion to Ember Cafe and Music Club at 9:30 p.m that boards fr
The Wu-Tang invasion of Detroit Bar continues. Following GZA's show in March, fellow Wu-Tang member Raekwon will hit the westside Costa Mesa venue on August 7, a mere month before the release of his much anticipated Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II, quite clearly the sequel to 1995's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. I guess it's one of those sequels that take forever to come out, like Toy Story 3, or, uh, Rocky Balboa and Live Free or Die Hard. Let's hope it's better than some of those. Tickets are on sale no
As the legendary members of Wu-Tang make their trek one by one to the Detroit Bar stage, you have to wonder if the club's owner, Jon Reiser, made some kind of pact with the devil to get such a great reputation among New York's finest emcee collective. Already the club has hosted GZA (twice) and Cappadonna . Eventually, they should just say fuck it and do a full-on Wu-Tang concert with all nine surviving members.But tonight offers another jam packed installment for the Wu watchers of OC
In most cases, waiting 14 years to release a sequel to a legendary album would be considered waiting, uh, too long. But in the case of Raekwon the Chef (of the Wu-Tang Clan), the choice to wait almost decade and a half to serve us a follow up to his landmark album Only Built for Cuban Linx wasn't a sign of laziness. Far from it. It just means he was being picky about using right ingredients to produce a bomb hip hop dish. Finally, Only Built for Cuban Linx Pt.II hits stores today, Sep.
James CarneyWe may be a day or so behind on this one, but in a quest to find some ever-elusive liner note credits for Black Key's Thickfreakness album, we stumbled onto something a hundred times better. Up until now, things were staying pretty quiet on the whole "rap-rock" front, at least for the summer. Turns out BlakRoc, a musical collaboration between the Keys and some of hip hop's living legends has been brewing since June. The record comes out Nov. 27. Needless to say, we dropped the lin
