Light In The Attic Records’ 10 year anniversary 7″ series continues with Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band taking on Rodriguez’s “I’ll Slip Away“. Pressed to colored vinyl, the A-side houses the cover, (a […]
Category: Rodriguez
Searching For Sugar Man: Downtown Independent – July 9th (Tickets Giveaway/Afterparty)
Next Monday, July 9th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Searching For Sugar Man , the Malik Bendjelloul documentary on the life, and mystery, surrounding 70s psych-folk musician, Rodriguez . We saw it last month at the LA Film […]
AD Presents :: Rodriguez @ The El Rey, 6.27.09
June 27th AD presents Rodriguez at the El Rey in Los Angeles. We are giving away a few pairs of tickets to AD readers. Also, if you did not win the Rodriguez vinyl […]
Rodriguez :: Coming From Reality
Last year Sixto Rodriguez was responsible for one of my favorite reissues of 2008 — 1970’s Cold Fact . He also composed an Off The Record that pissed some folks off. Good times. […]
Off The Record :: Rodriguez (Detroit, MI)
Rodriguez :: Cold Fact (Revisited 2008)
His name is Rodriguez …Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, and, among other things, he sang about “jumpers, coke, sweet mary jane,” and would reportedly only gig at “hooker bars, inner city dives, and […]