Pitchfork

Attention, San Diego, L.A., and San Fran: the head to the Wu-Tang's Voltron body, GZA, is coming to your city to perform 1995's classic Liquid Swords in its entirety.

This trio of Cali dates finds the Genius swinging Swords and cutting clowns much as he did last year at the Pitchfork Music Festival, in London, and a couple times in New York. Bodies will drop, heartbeats will stop, and rhyme thoughts will travel at tremendous speed as the GZA tackles the 1995 classic in full. Come to think of it, that line about "natural blends of weed" will probably apply to the proceedings as well.

RZA has a few shows of his own lined up too. The one they call Bobby Digital will rock Brooklyn this weekend and head to Toronto next month, and he'll also drop by the Hollywood branch of Guitar Center before long for the unveiling of one hella sweet piece of swag, the Roland RZA/Forat Custom MV8800. Co-designed by RZA and audio guy Bruce Forat, the sampler/synthesizer is limited to a run of eight machines. They go on sale February 28 and will put you back nearly six grand, but the price includes a tutorial session with the RZA himself that very day.

RZA's also working on a new Bobby Digital album for Koch records, and will appear in the upcoming movie Gospel Hill with Danny Glover, Julia Stiles, and Angela Bassett.

In other news of the Wu, they recently wrapped their kickass (if RZA/8 Diagrams free) winter tour, U-God's suing the Wu Music Group over royalties for said 8 Diagrams, and the Tough Alliance recently showed some love (and their stripes) in tribute to a fallen Wu legend.

GZA (performing Liquid Swords):

03-28 San Diego, CA - Canes
03-29 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre *
03-31 San Francisco, CA – Independent

* with Blue Scholars

RZA:

02-22 Brooklyn, NY - Studio B ^
03-09 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Concert Theatre

^ with Team Facelift, the Stationary Set, Blood Red Sun, Murder Mystery, Paul Holmes and the Great Depression