Saul Williams

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Dot To Dot 2008: the DiS review

DiS heads to Nottingham for the third annual Dot To Dot festival; proceeds to pick its best, and worst, bands of the weekend»

Explosions' ATP: the DiS review

In Depth by DiS Festivals

DiS does ATP for a second weekend, this time boarding the Minehead train for Explosions In The Sky's little lot, including De La Soul, Battles and Mono»

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In Depth by Dom Gourlay

The second bank holiday in May is almost upon us and with it comes this year's Dot To Dot Festival, with a bigger line-up than ever before»

The Great Escape 2008: the DiS preview

In Depth by Mike Diver

It’s Thursday! It's time for The Great Escape! Here we present our top ten must-see acts at the seaside festival, including DiS's own awesome line-up»

Explosions In The Sky's guide to ATP

In Depth by Ben Patashnik

This weekend, May 16-18, Explosions In The Sky curate the second ATP of the year. The band tell DiS about the background to their festival stewardship»

Label Focus #10: Wichita Recordings

In Depth by Gareth Dobson

Rocking up the crest of their seventh birthday, DiS scribbler Gareth Dobson hacks away at the defences of Castle Wichita to reveal a set of rather contented innards, complete with tales of DFA1979 loss, guitar solos that never finished and why no-one got The Cribs for the first four years...»

The Weekly DiScussion: An Open Letter To Muse

In Depth by Sean Adams

So Muse have only gone and sold out Wembley Stadium, before the thing's even open! Now they've added a second show for June 2007. Shitting crikey! Congratulations... now, can we suggest some support acts...»

DiS is 6! Our 66, part 3

In Depth by Mike Diver

My, you’re patient sorts, dearest DiS faithful. We ran part two of our run down of DiS’s favourite/most inspirational/bestesteva albums almost two weeks ago, and yet you’re still champing at the bit to find out who has, and more importantly who hasn’t, made it into the top twenty of Our 66. Well, the time has come to quit your champing: we’re here, this is the penultimate countdown...»

Ilosaarirock 2006: DiS does Finland (again)

In Depth by Raziq Rauf

One whole per cent of the Finnish population has arrived in Joensuu this weekend for Ilosaarirock. Fair enough there are only two million people in the country, but that’s still quite a turnout...»

DiS preview: Latitude Festival

In Depth by Ben Yates

Latitude Festival makes its debut this year, boasting a fantastic line-up of music, film, poetry, and other arts. DiS will be there to watch it all, so here are the top seven acts to watch out for during the weekend.»

DiS does ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas

In Depth by DiS Festivals

The road was both long and winding – and not even a road but a railway line, if we’re being entirely accurate – but DiS finally made it back from The Mars Volta-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Only now have we regained strength enough to put our experiences into words; to reassemble the muddled memories into some kind of coherent piece...»

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Leeds: Error in Movies

In Depth by DiS Festivals

Saul Williams, Type2error, Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, Neon Productions»

Reading/Leeds: The Other Stages

In Depth by DiS Festivals

thisGIRL, iForward, Russia!, iLiKETRAiNS, 65daysofstatic, Future Ex-Wife, Mystery Jets, Million Dead, Komakino, Sleater-Kinney, Blackalicious, Amusement Parks on Fire, Buck 65, Test Icicles, The Go! Team, Saul Williams.»

Saul Williams: "I desire to live within a nation on fire..."

In Depth by Mike Diver

"...tell me this: when it's really cold, why the f*ck would I walk to the beach? Just because it's pretty? You like going to beaches in the winter? I like pretty girls and fireplaces." DiS meets Saul Williams to talk politics, festival appearances at ATP and Reading/Leeds, and about his hopes and dreams for all of us...»

A Month in Records: April 2005

In Depth by DiS News

Late spring! Such a glorious time; new hope, new love, new records to buy. And April indeed presented a veritable bouquet of top recorded delights. There were American legends, returning indie heroes, poetic soothsayers and everything else inbetween. here's a selection of April items to mull over...»

SxSw: Adventures on Sixth Street

In Depth by Sean Adams

From folkish to foppish to fukkin-fuk-death-rokka-rawk!
They call themselves the live music capital of the world and frankly - despite claims that like in London and New York you’re never more than 10metres away from a rat, here’s it’s shotguns - we ain’t gonna argue.»