Category Archives: Newspapers & Magazines

‘Sugar Man’ becomes SA’s most successful doccie of all time – Times LIVE

The hit documentary about musician Rodriguez, which sold out in theatres across the country has become the most successful documentary of all time in South Africa. Searching for Sugar Man has made over R2 million at the box office and is currently still screening exclusively at Cinema Nouveau and select Ster-Kinekor Theatres – and shows continueContinueContinue reading “‘Sugar Man’ becomes SA’s most successful doccie of all time – Times LIVE”

Solid at 70 – Sixto Rodriguez at The Usher Hall | The Edinburgh Reporter

It seems fitting that the American septuagenarian should play Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, the same stage that The Rolling Stones played a good while back, on the same night that they were reforming in London, with an average age of 68. The fact that Rodriguez is 70 was not lost on his audience, but neither wasContinueContinue reading “Solid at 70 – Sixto Rodriguez at The Usher Hall | The Edinburgh Reporter”

‘Searching for Sugar Man’ takes top award at documentary festival – MSN Movies News

“Searching for Sugar Man” is continuing to find critical acclaim. Malik Benjelloul’s documentary about musician Rodriguez, who abandoned music only to find his career resuscitated after becoming hugely popular in South Africa, won the Best Music Documentary award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the festival said Friday. “Sugar Man” also took home theContinueContinue reading “‘Searching for Sugar Man’ takes top award at documentary festival – MSN Movies News”

‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Wins Doha Tribeca Festival Audience Awards – The Hollywood Reporter

Chinese feature film Full Circle, the story of a group of irrepressible senior citizens who decide to enter a reality show on television and Searching for Sugar Man, a documentary on the life of Rodriguez, the 1970s U.S. rock icon who never was, won the Audience awards as the Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) drewContinueContinue reading “‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Wins Doha Tribeca Festival Audience Awards – The Hollywood Reporter”

Rodriguez – Live At Royal Festival Hall, London | Reviews | Clash Magazine

  If you don’t know the story of Rodriguez yet, then don’t read this – go and watch this year’s amazing documentary Searching for Sugar Man, then come back to us. For those who know the tale behind the man, you may still be in a sense of awe that he is here: one halfContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez – Live At Royal Festival Hall, London | Reviews | Clash Magazine”

Review: Rodriguez at LJF 2012

I first heard about the singer-songwriter Sixto Diaz Rodriguez when a film charting his life, Searching For Sugar Man, was in the news earlier this year. The BBC called him “the musician who never knew he was famous,” and I was fascinated by his story. Rodriguez released a couple of albums in the States inContinueContinue reading “Review: Rodriguez at LJF 2012”

Searching for Sugar Man – an evening with RODRIGUEZ | The Belfast Empire Music Hall

“SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN – AN EVENING WITH RODRIGUEZ” with special guest DAVID HOLMES It’s one of the lost classics of the ’60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in colour and inspired by life, love, poverty, rebellion. The album is Cold Fact, and what’s more intriguing is that its maker – a shadowy figure known as RodriguezContinueContinue reading “Searching for Sugar Man – an evening with RODRIGUEZ | The Belfast Empire Music Hall”

How rock ‘n’ roll fairytale led Sixto Diaz Rodriguez to be one of the most acclaimed musicians of his time – Scotland – Scotsman.com

Rodriguez   Scotland on Sunday Feature 11 nov 2012 While he was long forgotten in the US, Rodriguez was unwittingly achieving mythical status in South ­Africa. Decades later, he tells Fiona Shepherd about fame ­after 40 years in the wilderness IN THE internet age, it seems inconceivable that an artist could be unaware of theirContinueContinue reading “How rock ‘n’ roll fairytale led Sixto Diaz Rodriguez to be one of the most acclaimed musicians of his time – Scotland – Scotsman.com”

A Day In The Life: Rodriguez :: Blogs :: 1000 Words :: Paste

When Sixto Rodriguez recorded his debut album Cold Fact in 1969, he dreamed of pop stardom. But, far from the epicentre of the late ’60s folkie scene, the Detroit-based son of Mexican immigrants found that his defining statement was criminally overlooked. Rodriguez went back to reality, working as a gas station attendant, studying philosophy, campaigningContinueContinue reading “A Day In The Life: Rodriguez :: Blogs :: 1000 Words :: Paste”

Film Review: Searching for Sugar Man

Bigger than Elvis – on the other side of the world I have a major fetish for really great songwriters. Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Jacques Brel, Stephen Sondheim, for starters … the list is exclusive, but it’s not terribly short. I consider myself to be something of a scholar in thisContinueContinue reading “Film Review: Searching for Sugar Man”

At 70, Detroiter Rodriguez couldn’t be happier about his unlikely new fame | Music | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Forget could’ve, should’ve, would’ve. For Detroit’s newest rock sensation — the comeback king known as Rodriguez — a career surge at age 70 is all about looking forward. With his Friday band performance at Pontiac’s Crofoot, the biggest metro Detroit date of his life, the musician born Sixto Rodriguez continues to reap the benefits ofContinueContinue reading “At 70, Detroiter Rodriguez couldn’t be happier about his unlikely new fame | Music | Detroit Free Press | freep.com”

Cape Town gets extra Rodriguez show | Channel24

Cape Town – Big Concerts announced on Wednesday that an extra Cape Town show has been added for legendary singer-songwriter Rodriguez’s tour to South Africa in 2013. With three sold-out shows so far, the extra performance was added due to an overwhelming demand and will be taking place on Thursday, 21 February 2013, a dayContinueContinue reading “Cape Town gets extra Rodriguez show | Channel24”