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Saul Williams – Saul Williams Saul Williams hasbeen lurking around the hip hop underground for at least ten years.  With a BA in Philosophy from Morehouse and a Masters in Acting from NYU, he’s not your average MC, though. Originally considered a spoken-word poet and not a rapper, Saul starred in 1998′s SLAM, which I remember [...]

Roots Manuva – Awfully Deep So I’ve kinda slept on Roots Manuva over the years but finally picked up his latest, Awfully Deep. I agree with him when he says, “I’m not the best MC I’m not the worst MC” but overall I really dig this record.  I’ll take this record over The Streets and Dizzee [...]

We started our last day at SXSW at Las Manitas for some Mingas (tortilla strips scrambled with eggs) and black beans for breakfast.  Most excellent and a highly recommended way to spend that important first meal of the day if you ever find yourself in Austin.   After breakfast, we followed a lead and headed [...]

Friday at SXSW was all about quantity, not quality. It’s Saturdaymorning and my dogs are still barkin’.  Here’s the tale, or partof it at least. We started at the Little Radio party seeing Apostle of Hustle, the bandof one of the guys from Broken Social Scene. Somewhat sleepy rockfeaturing a keyboard player that also doubles [...]

Hello from the SXSW Music Festival in Austin. I’m not sure we could have played it any better yesterday. Here’s how it went down. Found Charlene, Cricket, and the Y! Music booth right away. Looked very nice. The carpet was HOT. Met up with Rob Lord, Carol Dunn, and Bruce Gilbert. Grabbeddinner atsome cuban place [...]