Category Archives: Newspapers & Magazines

Reissue CDs Weekly: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Rodriguez, Benny Spellman, Rupert’s People | New music reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk

Coinciding with the release of the film, here comes the “Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”. What it actually is, rather than a real-life soundtrack, is a compilation drawing tracks from Rodriguez’s two fabulous albums: seven from Cold Fact, four from Coming From Reality (half his released oeuvre), plus the three previously unissued cuts first heard onContinueContinue reading “Reissue CDs Weekly: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Rodriguez, Benny Spellman, Rupert’s People | New music reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk”

Sugar Man Coverage – Weekend reviews

Saturday Times – Review.pdf Saturday Telegraph – Review.pdf Financial Times Weekend – Lead Review.pdf The Guardian Guide – Review.pdf Independent Radar – Review.pdf The Sunday Times – Lead Review.pdf The Independent on Sunday – Lead Review.pdf Mail on Sunday – Review.pdf Sunday Express – Lead review.pdf The Observer – Lead Review.pdf Sunday Telegraph – Review.pdf

Univision News Tumblr, The story of Rodriguez, the greatest Mexican American rock legend you never heard of

Meeting Rodriguez, dressed head to toe in black and wearing sunglasses seemingly designed to protect him from the glare of a Western sunset, is like meeting a super-hip uncle you never knew you had. He presents the crinkled hand that looks like it has lifted a thousand cinder blocks and strummed endless gentle guitar chords,ContinueContinue reading “Univision News Tumblr, The story of Rodriguez, the greatest Mexican American rock legend you never heard of”

Searching for SugarMan: The Incredible and Kickass Tale of the Chicano Bob Dylan | Article | Music | Remezcla.com

There’s nothing better than a good old rock ‘n’ roll Cinderella story, with evil executives screwing singers and songwriters out of their earnings, rock stars falling into oblivion, and a final comeback from obscurity into a well-deserved fame and recognition. The story of Rodriguez (née Sixto Díaz Rodríguez, because he was the sixth child ofContinueContinue reading “Searching for SugarMan: The Incredible and Kickass Tale of the Chicano Bob Dylan | Article | Music | Remezcla.com”

DIFF 2012 | Searching for Sugar Man | Mahala

An American woman in a modest black cocktail dress has wolfish green eyes that flash with neurotic sincerity as she tells me about struggles over food security in California and sweat lodges and how she now lives in Wilderness in the Cape and misses her family. We’re on the Festival shuttle bus going to seeContinueContinue reading “DIFF 2012 | Searching for Sugar Man | Mahala”

Sugar Man Coverage – I Paper review / BBC radio 1, Greg James / BBC radio 4, front row

BBC radio 1, Greg James / Rhianna Dillon – film of the week Link (47mins through) BBC radio 4, Front Row review – Link (14mins through) I Paper – Review.pdf

Sugar Man Coverage – National newspaper reviews

Daily Mail – Review.pdf Daily Telegraph – Review.pdf Financial Times Review.pdf Metro – Review.pdf The Guardian – Review.pdf The Daily Star – Review.pdf The Daily Mirror – Review.pdf The Times – Review.pdf The Sun – Review.pdf Daily Express – Review.pdf The Independent – Review.pdf

Searching for Sugar Man: Movie Review

Malik Bendjelloul’s Searching for Sugar Man is everything a documentary should be: poignant, passionate, and honest. It’s a successful treasure hunt for a dead man that spans two continents, and provides an ending Rudy Ruettiger would be proud of. It’s a story about the power of music, the power of living without regret, and theContinueContinue reading “Searching for Sugar Man: Movie Review”

Sugar Man :: Bigger than the King, Stones, Beatles & Batman | Profoundly South African

You’ve heard every story there is to tell? How about this one? A Swedish guy makes a documentary in 2012 about a 70s folkster from Detroit who returns from obscurity after discovering that he has a large, devoted audience in South Africa. The film culminates in a cathartic 1998 concert marking the musician’s first significantContinueContinue reading “Sugar Man :: Bigger than the King, Stones, Beatles & Batman | Profoundly South African”

New and Hot Video: Exclusive: ‘Searching For Sugar Man’ Preview | Rolling Stone

Director Malik Bendjelloul intended to make a 10-minute segment about Rodriguez, an unlikely Seventies musical icon, for Swedish television. Instead, he spent four years of his life making Searching for Sugar Man, an acclaimed new documentary about the forgotten star whose protest music circulated widely throughout South Africa – eventually inspiring the anti-apartheid protest movementContinueContinue reading “New and Hot Video: Exclusive: ‘Searching For Sugar Man’ Preview | Rolling Stone”

Rock Musician Shrouded in Mystery of What Might Have Been – Malik Bendjelloul’s ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ | NYTimes.com

There are several entrancing mysteries circulating in “Searching for Sugar Man,” a hugely appealing documentary about fans, faith and an enigmatic Age of Aquarius musician who burned bright and hopeful before disappearing. One mystery involves its title subject, a Detroit singer-songwriter known as Rodriguez who, after being discovered in a dive bar, cut a well-regardedContinueContinue reading “Rock Musician Shrouded in Mystery of What Might Have Been – Malik Bendjelloul’s ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ | NYTimes.com”

New Statesman review / BBC Five Live / BBC radio London / BBC radio 4

BBC Radio Five Live, review by Kermode & Al Murray http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01l0ljw (1.39mins) BBC Radio London, Interview with Simon Chinn & played Sugar Man http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/p00vp3hg (1.08mins) BBC Radio 4, Film Programme – Interview with Simon Chinn & music http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r5jt New Statesman – Review.pdf

FIVE QUESTIONS WITH “SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN” DIRECTOR MALIK BENDJELLOUL | Filmmaker Magazine

Bendjelloul — whose previous credits include a number of music documentaries for Swedish TV, but who had never directed a feature film before – wasn’t the first to unravel the Rodriguez mystery. But with Searching For Sugar Man (the film’s title comes from one of Rodriguez’s signature songs), he’s helping to bring the Rodriguez legendContinueContinue reading “FIVE QUESTIONS WITH “SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN” DIRECTOR MALIK BENDJELLOUL | Filmmaker Magazine”

Shortlist review / BBC News online feature / BBC radio London / BBC Radio 4, film programme / BBC radio 2

Radio BBC Radio 2 – Ken Bruce talked about the film this morning BBC Radio London, Robert Elms & Jason Solomons – Simon Chinn will be on at about 1:10pm today, they hope to play a song too. If you want to listen live you can go online here BBC Radio 4, Film programme -ContinueContinue reading “Shortlist review / BBC News online feature / BBC radio London / BBC Radio 4, film programme / BBC radio 2”

BBC News – Discovering ‘Sugar Man’ Rodriguez

Sixto Rodriguez has been called “the greatest 1970’s music icon that never was”. Now with the release of an award-winning documentary about his incredible story, could it finally be time for the 70-year-old singer-songwriter to make it big? via BBC News – Discovering ‘Sugar Man’ Rodriguez.