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Wu-Tang Clan have announced the start of their final tour “Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber”, with dates in North America and support from Run The Jewels set for the summer.
The crew announced the news on social media today (February 24), and included a list of dates for June and July 2025 in cities such as Austin, Tampa, Boston, Chicago, Detroit and New York. Run The Jewels will join the tour for all of the announced dates.
All surviving members – RZA, GZA, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Inspectah Deck, U-God and Masta Killa – are set to be at “Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber”.
According to the New York Times, the tour is the culmination of a five-plus-year plan of legacy-building for the group. RZA recently went on the podcast Popcast to chat about getting the crew back together.
“There’s so many places we really haven’t been,” he said. “We had some successful touring, right? But not at the level of what the brand is.”
JUNE
6 Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena
7 Raleigh, NC – Lenovo Center
10 Tampa, FL – Amalie Arena
11 Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
13 Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena
14 Houston, TX – Toyota Center
15 Austin, TX – Moody Center
16 Tulsa, OK – BOK Center
18 Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center
20 Ontario, CA – Toyota Arena
21 San Diego, CA – Pechanga Arena San Diego
22 Los Angeles, CA – Crypto.com Arena
24 San Francisco, CA – Chase Center
26 Sacramento, CA – Golden 1 Center
28 Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
30 Vancouver, British Columbia – Rogers Arena
JULY
1 Portland, OR – Moda Center
4 Greenwood Village, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
7 Chicago, IL – United Center
8 Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
9 Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena
11 Boston, MA – TD Garden
13 Laval, Quebec – Place Bell
14 Toronto, Ontario – Scotiabank Arena
16 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
17 Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
18 Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
Tickets go on sale on Friday, February 28, and are available to buy here.
In other Wu-Tang Clan-related news, the group announced a new album ‘Black Samson, The Bastard Swordsman’, to be released for Record Store Day 2025.
This will be the crew’s first full-length album since 2017’s The Saga Continues. A limited edition run of 5000 copies of the new record will be available in participating Record Store Day retailers.
It sees Wu-Tang reunite with producer Mathematics, who has been associated with the group since their earliest days, and includes contributions from all nine surviving Wu-Tang members, as well as Kool G Rap, Kurupt and Benny The Butcher.
Last year, the crew’s album ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ was turned into an NFT. In the press statement, ‘Once Upon A Time in Shaolin’ producers RZA and Cilvaringz said: “Mass replication has fundamentally changed the way we view a piece of recorded music, while digital universality and vanishing physicality have broken our emotional bond with a piece of music as an artwork and a deeply personal treasure.”
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Brad Paisley has called Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding “one of the least pretentious weddings he’s ever seen”.
The country star attended the ceremony alongside his actress wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley. They joined around 1,000 guests at New York City’s Madison Square Garden earlier this month as the global pop icon married the American football star.
Although the celebration attracted enormous attention and involved tight security and a stunning makeover of the famous arena, Paisley said the occasion never came across as excessive.
“Ironically, (it) was one of the least pretentious weddings that I've ever seen or ever will see,” Paisley told The Associated Press during an interview. “It meant a lot to be (invited). It was, kind of, a big thank you from her to invite us.”
Paisley, who chose Swift as an opening performer for his tour when she was a teenager in 2007, said he was delighted to be included in what many considered the biggest celebrity wedding of the year.
“They were very clear with the invite, and I took this personally when I got the invite, because in the invite, it said, ‘If you're getting this, you mean a lot to us,’” he revealed.
The musician also explained that guests were not told the wedding’s exact location until the date drew nearer.
“It was really fun to watch the cat and mouse game of, like, ‘We can tell you roughly where it's going to be, we're not gonna say what building... and here's the date. If you're in, we'll tell you more,’” he continued. “I went to my wife, I said, ‘Want to go?’ and she said, ‘Absolutely, we gotta be there!’ So, we did it, it was RSVP yes.”
Other famous attendees included Brad Pitt, Gigi Hadid, Bradley Cooper, Ed Sheeran, Sabrina Carpenter, Hugh Grant, Haim and Tom Hanks.
