Saul Williams News

With a portable CD player, an amplifier and a microphone, Bryan Clardy, a.k.a. "BC," takes the stage on a quiet evening at the Bunker in Ybor.

"Every morning I rise and face the firing /squad / every morning there is one who holds his fire / his dilemma is my system of belief." These lines, in the rhythmic and virtuoso hip-hop English of Saul Williams - the poet who appeared in Tel Aviv on Friday - are memorable not only because they were the first to have been fired from his mouth at the ...

If anyone is going to this, I recommend Saul Williams. He's taken the positive elements of hip-hop, and shed the negative elements to create something truly awesome.

SAUL WILLIAMS & KRAK ATTACK, AMERICAN FANGS, KIMYA DAWSON , NEW KINGDOM, THE BOTS AT THE ROXY Rapper/poet Saul Williams has always been one for a good show.

Latest release: NGH WHT - The Dead Emcee Scrolls with the Arditti Quartet, a collaboration with composer Thomas Kessler.

Belly dancer, Tiffany Madera, 37, has been belly dancing for 14 years. Madera now works as the assistant director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Miami.

Afro-Punk is, at its core, rebellion. It's rebellion against labels, against societal norms; it's about becoming yourself in a world that tries to shove you into prefabricated corporate identities.

Before he was the underground hip-hop icon he is today, Saul Williams got his start as a poet and performer in Atlanta while in college.

Getting a consistent definition of Afro-punk isn't easy. Everyone seems to have their own take on it.

Los Angeles-based MC Thavius Beck is releasing his third full-length solo album, Dialogue , on January 26 of next year via Mush.

New York's Saul Williams is a true original. He's a spoken-word poetry giant who's equally revered for his eight-year recording career, offering music that exists in the forward-thinking realm between the rock, hip-hop and experimental electronic worlds.

Even if you haven't heard of Thavius Beck , you've probably run into him or his work.

Saul Williams 9pm, $18-$21. TLA. Don't be surprised if Saul Williams' performance Friday ends with dude asking for a hug.

Singer Doron Monk Flake wishes there was a simple trick he could share with his fellow musicians for landing such treats as an opening slot for Living Colour/Saul Williams Halloween night - as he and his merry band of Nutmeg State funk rockers The Smyrk will do this Oct.

Fiery spoken-word artist Saul Williams will always have a place in his heart for Niggy Tardust.

Saul Williams at Afropunk 2009 NYC invented HIP HOP , so CMJ would be nowhere if it didn't rep the art form to the fullest.

Local hip-hop group Blue Scholars, known for their quick-witted rhymes and common-man appeal, announced they'd brokered a deal in which New York hip-hop label Duck Down Records signed to them .

Local hip-hop group Blue Scholars, known for their quick-witted rhymes and common-man appeal, announced they'd brokered a deal in which New York hip-hop label Duck Down Records signed to them .

Saul Williams, a musician and spoken word poet who has collaborated with Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor, will play a Sept.

Saul Williams, a musician and spoken word poet who has collaborated with Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor, will play a Sept.