Category Archives: Reviews & Interviews

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”

Rodriguez w/ Jenny O – House of Blues Bronze Peacock Room – Houston, TX – REVIEW – HoustonMusicReview.com

Several weeks ago I was watching Sixty Minutes after the ball game and saw a segment on “Rodriguez: The Rock Icon That Didn’t Know It” and one of the songs that was featured aroused an old scratchy vinyl memory. It came up from someplace between Dylan and Donovan, Phil Ochs and Gil Scott-Heron. I knewContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez w/ Jenny O – House of Blues Bronze Peacock Room – Houston, TX – REVIEW – HoustonMusicReview.com”

Rodriguez concert raises the question: What if?

‘Are there any Africans in the house?” joked Sixto Diaz Rodriguez as he took the stage at a sold-out World Cafe Live on Sunday night. As fate would have it, the 70-year-old psych-folk singer from Detroit owes his belated fame to the people of South Africa. After his two critically acclaimed, early-1970s albums flopped inContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez concert raises the question: What if?”

Searching for Sugar Man (****) | The Awards Circuit – By Clayton Davis – Academy Awards, Oscars, and Other Award Show Predictions

Life’s a funny thing… Recently I spoke with my fellow staff writers about the importance of sitting on a film you feel is perfect or “four-star” worthy before you officially go on record with the review. It feels acceptable to say a film grew in estimation for you over a time but it can beContinueContinue reading “Searching for Sugar Man (****) | The Awards Circuit – By Clayton Davis – Academy Awards, Oscars, and Other Award Show Predictions”

Search for Sugar Man Leads to Cape Town – Cape Town Tourism

Star-struck doesn’t even begin to describe our reaction on Monday 22 October, 2012 to meeting not only Stephen “Sugar” Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, fans of musician Sixto Rodriguez and stars of the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, but also Eva Rodriguez, daughter of the music legend himself. Searching for Sugar Man, directed by MalikContinueContinue reading “Search for Sugar Man Leads to Cape Town – Cape Town Tourism”

‘Searching for Sugar Man’ review: Part music documentary, party mystery, all inspiration | NOLA.com

He emerged from late-1960s Detroit as a ready-for-mythologizing troubadour, boasting a voice like Cat Stevens and a songwriting style reminiscent of Bob Dylan. He went by the name Rodriguez — just Rodriguez — and, chances are, you’ve never heard of him. That’s because, despite his considerable talent, and despite earning the respect of those inContinueContinue reading “‘Searching for Sugar Man’ review: Part music documentary, party mystery, all inspiration | NOLA.com”

Googling Sugar Man: Is it possible to remain unknowable in the Internet age? | Film | For Our Consideration | The A.V. Club

When I watched the wonderful, crowd-pleasing documentary Searching For Sugar Man at Sundance earlier this year, I had an advantage over audiences who caught it during its theatrical run: I didn’t know the fate of its subject, Detroit folk singer Sixto Rodriguez, who released two gorgeous, poor-selling albums in the early ’70s to a tidalContinueContinue reading “Googling Sugar Man: Is it possible to remain unknowable in the Internet age? | Film | For Our Consideration | The A.V. Club”

“Sugarman” Resurrected: Rodriguez Appears Tonight | Oregon Music News

From Oregon Music News The resurrection of Rodriguez, the enigmatic singer-songwriter whose rediscovery is at the heart of the astounding Searching for Sugarman film, continues tonight at the Wonder Ballroom. His blend of biting lyrics and folk-rock songcraft cut in the 1970s disappeared in the United States but made him a hero to the middle-class anti-apartheid movement inContinueContinue reading ““Sugarman” Resurrected: Rodriguez Appears Tonight | Oregon Music News”

Searching for Sugar Man is a Guarantee for an Oscar Nomination | Film School Rejects

Another film from The Imposter’s producers Simon Chinn (also producer of Oscar-winning doc Man on Wire) and John Battsek has the greater chance, though: Searching for Sugar Man. The debut of Malik Bendjelloul, which tells a kind of musical fairy tale about singer-songwriter Rodriguez, who was a huge star in South Africa and never knewContinueContinue reading “Searching for Sugar Man is a Guarantee for an Oscar Nomination | Film School Rejects”

Rodriguez Has Been Found | GRAMMY.com

Underground folk/rock musician Rodriguez recently visited The Recording Academy’s headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif., to participate in an exclusive GRAMMY.com interview. Rodriguez discussed the evolution of his music, the popularity of his music in South Africa and the new documentary in which he is featured, Searching For Sugar Man, among other topics. “Barriers are beingContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez Has Been Found | GRAMMY.com”

Searching For Sugar Man—movie review | Leonard Maltin

I know I’m late to the party, but I only recently caught up with Searching for Sugar Man, which debuted to great acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and has built a steady following ever since. Its protagonist is even being profiled on 60 Minutes this Sunday. But if you’re curious about him, orContinueContinue reading “Searching For Sugar Man—movie review | Leonard Maltin”

Rodriguez: The rock icon who didn’t know it – 60 Minutes – CBS News

A Detroit musician living in poverty didn’t know that in South Africa, he was more popular than the Beatles. Bob Simon reports. via Rodriguez: The rock icon who didn’t know it – 60 Minutes – CBS News.

Review: Searching For Sugar Man

A story so incredible it has to be true. Or completely false. I can’t tell. Surely there’s no way that the world could have been duped into believing that 1970s folk artist Rodriguez really poured gasoline over himself on stage and set himself on fire in a brazen act of public suicide. Or is itContinueContinue reading “Review: Searching For Sugar Man”

Watching People Search for Sugar Man

The first time that I heard ‘Sugar Man’ I was seven year old, restlessly confined within my great Aunt’s dusty Kenilworth flat. Driven mad by boredom and the fetid smell of old people, and hoping to imitate the cool guy from Limp Bizkit, I decided to try my hand at turntablism. Wiping the dust offContinueContinue reading “Watching People Search for Sugar Man”