Poet, performer & occasional Trent Reznor collaborator Saul Williams is to play the Button Factory (Temple Bar Music Center) on May 12th. Tickets are available at 17 euro each.

Here's Williams being backed by NIN at the Voodoo festival in 2005 performing the excellent 'List of Demands':






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I'm looking forward to this- Nine Inch Nails' latest album 'Year Zero' is being released in a completely remixed version on November 21st. Artists who have remixed tracks for the album entitled 'Y34RZ3ROR3M1X3D' include Saul Williams, who has just released a collaboration with Reznor for free online (click me), and possibly the coolest band in the world: 'The Faint'. This could be uber-fun.

Here's the full tracklisting:

'Gunshots By Computer' - Saul Williams
'The Great Destroyer' - Modwheelmood
'My Violent Heart' - Pirate Robot Midget
'The Beginning Of The End' - Ladytron
'Survivalism' - Saul Williams
'Capital G' - Epworth Phones
'Vessel' - Bill Laswell
'The Warning' - Stefan Goodchild featuring Doudou n'Diaye Rose
'Meet Your Master' - The Faint
'God Given' - Stephen Morris & Gillian Gilbert
'Me, I'm Not' - Olof Dreijer
'Another Version Of The Truth' - Kronos Quartet & Enrique Gonzalez Müller
'In This Twilight' - Fennesz
'Zero Sum' - Stephen Morris & Gillian Gilbert

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NIN are following in Radiohead's footsteps and releasing their (his?) latest album for free online. It's not the much anticipated 'Year Zero' remix album (which will feature a remix by the faint), but a collaboration with hip-hop poet Saul Williams. Hmmm...interesting.
The album is called 'The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of Niggy Tardust', and will be available for download here from November 1st.

In the meantime, here's the video for Saul Williams' 'List Of Demands', which is pretty bad-ass:



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