Subject: Wu-Tang Clan

• Rock the Bells Fest Venue Change

  The talent-heavy hip-hop festival Rock the Bells (which we previewed here) will now take place at Hyundai Pavilion at Glen Helen Saturday, Aug. 11. Performers include Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy and MF Doom. All tickets for the originally scheduled National Orange Show Events Center will be honored.

  June 14, 2007

• Free the Robots, Detroit Bar (Busywork), September 26, 2007

  Click the photo for more snaps from the show. I had absurdly high expectations for Free the Robots' OC live debut—and, knock me over with a feather, those expectations were exceeded. That experience is so rare, I'd almost forgotten what it feels like. Seeing Free the Robots (SanTana impresario/musicians Chris Alfaro and Phil Nisco, who are also readying the potentially awesome Crosby restaurant/club) walk off the stage at Detroit Bar after their riveting, teasingly brief set, I was overwhelme

  September 27, 2007

• Wu-Tang Clan Sample Beatles (Legally!), Set Tour Dates

  Pitchfork reports that Staten Island hip-hop superheroes Wu-Tang Clan have become the first group to clear a Beatles sample legitimately. The George Harrison-authored “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” will appear in “Gently Weeps,” off the Wu's forthcoming album The 8 Diagrams (now pushed from Nov. 13 to Dec. 4). The track features Harrison's son Dhani and Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusciante playing guitars (tear content currently unknown). Wu-Tang Clan play a Los Angeles venue to be a

  October 2, 2007

• The Worst Things in Music This Year

  Freelancer Ben Westhoff (you may recognize the name from "The Efron Scandal") posted this provocative list on our sister paper Pitch Weekly's blog. We reprint it here because this is a time of giving (said the atheist). By BEN WESTHOFF 1. Worst Album: Arcade Fire, Neon Bible This cerebral garbage entertained about 100 people, none of whom didn’t either live in Canada or work as a music critic. Speaking of critics, it’s hard to agree with Sasha Frere-Jones about anything, but he was right

  December 21, 2007

• RZA Off Wu-Tang Clan Tour

  Jason Handelsman reports on our sister paper Miami New Times' blog that Wu-Tang Clan mastermind/producer extraordinaire the RZA has left the tour. This is akin to Eye leaving the Boredoms or Keith Richards bailing on the Rolling Stones. It can't bode well for future dates on this current tour. As his departure is alleged to be partially due to financial disagreements, it seems relevant here to view the Wu's “C.R.E.A.M.” (Cash Rules Everything Around Me) video.

  January 14, 2008

• To Do Tonight 8/28

  Boogie Nights, 9 p.m. Do it. Que Sera 1923 E. Seventh St. Long Beach, CA 562-599-6170 Killah Priest (Wu Tang) CD Relaease hosted by Shavo (System of a Down), 8 p.m. Killa Beats The Rhythm Lounge 245 Pine Ave. Long Beach, CA 562-435-4288 Wine Tasting, 5:30 p.m. Tasteful boozin' Bayside Restaurant 900 Bayside Dr. Newport Beach, CA 949-721-1222 Triple Threat Thursdays, 9 p.m. Karaoke with a twist Paradise 1800 E. Broadway Long Beach, CA 562-590-8773 Girls Night Out, 9 p.m. Bitches welcome Chron

  August 28, 2008

• We The People Festival at L.A. Historic Park

  (Lede) I don't care what kind of music you came to see, thirty four bands, in thirty two acres of space turned a hot weekend in Chinatown into a non stop sonic binge. Last saturday, thousands of fans from all over So Cal trucked into the dust bowl parking lot across from L.A. Historic Park for the ___annual We The People Festival. In case you didn't catch that little reference to the Constitution, the event was designed to do two things: entertain and inform. In addition to rocking your socks

  September 29, 2008

• Get Out!

  June 22, 2006

• Sprawl of Sound

  I regret . . . Things that made me sigh and rue in 2007

  January 3, 2008

• Hits!

  Fingerprints

  January 3, 2008

• On-Sale Tomorrow: Stung Out, GZA at Detroit Bar

  Couple shows coming to Detroit Bar in the near future with tickets going on sale tomorrow: veteran soCal punks Strung Out are playing on April 3, with support from Year Long Disaster. They played Chain Reaction back in November; Doug Wallen wrote about them for us in advance of that gig. $15, on sale tomorrow (2/20) at 10 a.m. GZA of the Wu-Tang clan is also on his way to the Costa Mesa venue, on March 6. He released his latest solo album, Pro Tools, last summer; tickets are $15 in advance, $20

  February 19, 2009

• Club Pick: GZA at Detroit Bar TONIGHT!!!

  There are some things that are hard to imagine. It's the kind of stunning news that you usually have to hear a couple of times before you actually believe it. When a flyer for a live performance by the GZA of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan appeared on the Detroit Bar website, you probably thought it had to be some mistake. GZA? At Detroit Bar? No way. Then you got hit with it again in this weeks article [see Rex Reason's story here] on the platinum-selling MC. Okay, now it has to be real, because yo

  March 6, 2009

• Big weekend at Detroit...again, yeeesh.

  Okay, so most of you who read this blog probably get the sense that us Heard Mentality goons generally like what happens at Detroit Bar on a weekly basis. Sometimes we write about them way too much considering that there are about 100 or so perfectly good (or at least mediocre) places to get drunk and dance in Orange County. But you have to understand, they really don't make it fair for us sometimes. Barely a week after hosting fucking GZA of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan these guys produce another

  March 20, 2009

• GZA: Wu-Tang's Genius at Work

  March 5, 2009

• [CD Review] PAS/CAL, 'I Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura' (Le Grand Magistery)

  August 7, 2008

• [Locals Only] Oddity, 'Illegal Truth' (Gutter Water Music)

  July 24, 2008

• [Sprawl of Sound] A Night at the Red Bull Music Academy in Newport Beach's Tentation Ultra Lounge

  April 24, 2008

• [Hits!] Top-Selling Records at Music Revolution

  March 13, 2008

• [Sprawl of Sound] All Excess Pass

  The problem with hipster dance DJs, plus a Mars Volta member's solo album

  February 7, 2008

• Hits!

  Music Revolution

  January 17, 2008

• Hits!

  The Noize Music

  December 20, 2007

• Career Killah

  Is Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface as Dumb as He Sometimes Acts?

  November 15, 2007

• 49th State Blues

  Portugal. The Man Prove That Alaskans Got Soul to Burn

  November 8, 2007

• Cream of Elite

  Sporting perhaps the greatest hip-hop bill ever, Rock the Bells enshrines rap's history—and foreshadows its future

  August 9, 2007

• Fo' Sizzle!

  Summer concerts/festivals to heat the beat

  June 7, 2007

• Confusion Is Good

  Ima Robot mess with gender, subvert expectations

  May 31, 2007

• The Arcane Cocaine Poet

  Ghostface Killah reaches a new high

  April 26, 2007

• Ah Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

  FEB. 8-FEB. 15

  February 8, 2007

• The Modern Organics

  eVocals mix of clothes-art-music: Hippie-skater-tagger with a twist

  January 25, 2007

• Snap to It

  WEB EXCLUSIVE!: Comeback kids, rhymin Limeys and songs about partying defined Hip-Hop Nation in 2006

  December 28, 2006

• Hip! Hop! Shop!

  May 4, 2000

• The Method to Your Madness

  October 12, 2006

• In the Good

  August 3, 2006

• Get Out!

  May 18, 2006

• Shaolin Ironmen

  March 23, 2006

• Aural Reports

  February 9, 2006

• Dead Hot Crazy

  November 24, 2005

• Tell Me Im Bad

  Nightlife and more: June 16-23

  June 16, 2005

• Alone in the Dark

  April 14, 2005

• New Music

  April 4, 2002

• Rapitalism

  March 7, 2002

• Glowstick Smackdown

  September 21, 2000

• It's a Wu-Tang After All

  February 24, 2000

• Method Man

  May 7, 2009

• ALSO TONIGHT: The GZA Returns to Detroit

  There's something to be said for the credibility of a music venue when an artist like GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan decides to stop by once and do a show. But twice? Detroit Bar must be doing something right these days. And for anyone who shelled out the $20 for his last appearance at this South County watering hole remembers what a crazy night that was, filled with guest appearances, packed crowds and ridiculous flows courtesy of  The Genius and his crew.Tonight should be no different, perhaps e

  May 15, 2009

• Incoming: Raekown, As Tall as Lions Coming to Detroit Bar

  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

  July 1, 2009

• [CD Review] Various Artists, 'Wu-Tang Chamber Music' (E1 Music)

  July 9, 2009

• TONIGHT: RAEKWON of Wu-Tang Clan at Detroit Bar

  ​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

  August 7, 2009

• 'nother Wu Member Coming to Detroit

  Somehow Costa Mesa's Detroit Bar has become the local spot for any of the 37 dudes in the Wu-Tang Clan to perform solo. Next on the list (after two recent shows by the GZA) is Cappadonna, who might be a member of a contributor, depending on how you define those things. All I know is, he's more of a member than I am and that's good enough for me. The show is June 13. Tickets are $15. On sale now. 

  June 4, 2009

• Release the Sounds: Only Built for Cuban Linx Pt. II by Raekwon the Chef

  ​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.

  September 8, 2009