This past weekend, as previously announced, longtime Wu-Tang Clan comrades Raekwon and Ghostface Killah went head-to-head in the latest battle from Swizz Beatz and Timbaland’s pandemic institution Verzuz. It was made for a fun heartwarming spectacle — two old friends bantering back and forth, rapping immortal tracks at each o...

Mike Patton is in a whole lot of bands: Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Dead Cross, plenty of others that even he might not remember. Back in 1999, Patton formed a band called Tomahawk to make jagged, intense hard rock. Patton’s bandmates in Tomahawk are all seasoned pros with busy schedules: Mr. Bungle’s Trevor Dunn, the Jesus...

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Back in the peak era of initial quarantine, Timbaland and Swizz Beatz did a DJ battle on Instagram Live that kicked off the Verzuz series. It became a whole thing -- so much so that in April, we published a column imagining the best Verzuz battles we'd like to see. What happened tonight on Verzuz,…

The record industry getting caught napping at the onset of the file-sharing era is one of the most resonant cautionary tales of this young century, and one of the saga's most notorious battles officially began 20 years ago today: the instance of mutually assured destruction known as Metallica v. Napster, Inc. This was a case,…