Westworld’s period-appropriate cover songs have always been a love-it-or-hate-it proposition, and I have, accordingly, always sort of loved and sort of hated them. There’s a bit of comic sparkle to the entire concept, rolling up a somber player-piano cover of Radiohead or Soundgarden or whatever for each new montage…

At this point, it would almost be faster for us to compile a list of celebrities who aren’t releasing their own cryptocurrency, then get savvy readers to start using that list as a means to buy internet goods and services. The dollar is an illusion, baby! Put all your savings into NewswireCoin! But in the meantime,…

As threatened back in December, judge Kiyo Matsuomoto has ordered annoying rich jerk (or maybe formerly rich jerk) Martin Shkreli to forfeit $7.36 million to the federal government as part of his fraud conviction—a sum that’s separate from any fines, penalties, or restitutions Shkreli may be ordered to pay once he’s…

It’s well documented that RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan is a kung fu aficionado, with the man going so far as to write and direct his own addition to the genre, 2012’s The Man With The Iron Fists. In the video above, we asked RZA to give us the five best kung fu movies for those who are unfamiliar with the genre.

At this year’s Riot Fest in Chicago, The A.V. Club asked bands to play a game we call Punk Or Not Punk, in which they rate random things on an arbitrary, dichotomic scale. This round, we see whether or not the Wu-Tang Clan sees itself as punk.

The Saga Continues is the best Wu Tang-related effort since 2010’s Wu-Massacre, while Long Island punks Iron Chic channel the loss of their founding guitarist into an explosive third album. These plus Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, King Krule, and more in this week’s notable releases.

The Wu-Tang Clan is perhaps one of the most influential hip-hop groups in history, selling more than 6 million albums as a group and inspiring an entire generation of rap syndicates in the process. As individual artists, their reach is even wider. They’ve produced some of hip-hop’s most heralded solo LPs, like…

There are few beverages as synonymous with Chicago as Malört. John Hodgman has described the taste of this wormwood-based liqueur as “jägermeister heavily diluted in pondwater, but less piney.” We corralled some of the best acts at Riot Fest, another Chicago staple, including Wu-Tang Clan, Best Coast, and Cap’n Jazz,…

Time has been kind to Wu-Tang Forever. The 1997 double album is sprawling and messy, the Wu’s nine-headed gauntlet of Staten Island talent holding together largely thanks to its shared fiscal interest in advancing the Wu-Tang brand. In hindsight, it’s the capstone of the collective’s golden age, and, in some ways, of…

For the past few summers here at The A.V. Club, we have taken a week to look back at the corresponding year from 20 years ago. Who could forget the fun of David Anthony talking about his favorite movie Cool Runnings for 1993 week, the detailed description of Josh Modell’s 1994 mixtape, Erik Adams’ ode to his beloved…

Pitchfork reports that the Wu-Tang Clan has just released a new song, produced by RZA, and featuring lines from Method Man, Raekwon, and Inspectah Deck. Luckily, you don’t have to be a millionaire sociopath to listen to “Don’t Stop”; it’ll be available on the upcoming soundtrack album for HBO’s Silicon Valley, and is…

The Leftovers might be television’s most beautifully realized show. Whether or not you like what the show is doing, there’s no disputing that it’s doing that thing as bravely and creatively as that thing can be done. There seems to be no stone unturned, no concept unexplored, no idea to small or weird to play around…

Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday, when New Orleans lights up with the bacchanalia of consumption, eccentricity, and general joy known as Mardi Gras. To celebrate, the Atlanta mashup artist DJ BC has released Wu Orleans 2, the sequel to 2006’s unlikely fusion of woozy second-line brass and the legendary rap troupe from Staten…

Obsessive music fans are a strange ilk. Not only will they fill their homes with every deluxe reissue of a record, but they’ll take on some barely functional curiosities, too. Here’s a look at the releases that stretch the definition of “album,” often requiring so much effort that it begs the question if it’s worth…

The Governors Ball Music Festival has just announced this year’s full lineup, which Chance The Rapper, Tool, and Phoenix will headline. That all sounds pretty great, and we’ll share the rest of the performers below, but we also want to remind the younger festival attendees that, while tickets might go on sale this…

Clifford Smith, more commonly known as Method Man, has had one of the more interesting careers in hip-hop. In addition to his successful solo music career and his continued collaboration with East Coast supergroup the Wu-Tang Clan, he’s also made good for himself on the acting front. He had recurring roles in two…