ERIKA:  Searching for Sugarman (Sundance favorite) the documentary on Sixto Rodriguez is now showing at the Angelika theater. ERIKA:  Searching for Sugarman (Sundance favorite) the documentary on Sixto Rodriguez is now showing at the Angelika theater.
ERIKA:  Searching for Sugarman (Sundance favorite) the documentary on Sixto Rodriguez is now showing at the Angelika theater.
ERIKA:  Searching for Sugarman (Sundance favorite) the documentary on Sixto Rodriguez is now showing at the Angelika theater.

ERIKA:  Searching for Sugarman (Sundance favorite) the documentary on Sixto Rodriguez is now showing at the Angelika theater.

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RUBY: Guess who got to meet Sixto Rodriguez? Me! After catching Wednesday’s surprise, last night’s performance at Joe’s Pub + quick meet was definitely the cherry on top!

RUBY:

Guess who got to meet Sixto Rodriguez? Me!

After catching Wednesday’s surprise, last night’s performance at Joe’s Pub + quick meet was definitely the cherry on top!

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M&TC: Here’s some footage we shot of Rodriguez during a surprise performance after the screening of Searching for Sugar Man last night. You can catch him in full concert tonight at Joe’s Pub! 

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IRIS: Go see Searching for Sugar Man at @TribecaFilmFest a documentary on Mexican American 70’s cult folk super star, Rodriguez and his stranger than fiction iconic status in South Africa. Screenings: Tonight, Tuesday 4/24 & Friday 4/27 get tickets here SYNOPSIS Aspiring ’70s folk rock musician Rodriguez never made it big. Despite critical praise, his albums bombed in the U.S., and he faded promptly into obscurity, leaving behind only urban legends of a gruesome onstage suicide. But somehow a bootleg copy of his album made its way to apartheid South Africa, where his antiestablishment message and distinctive sound resonated with the youth protest movement there, making Rodriguez an instant superstar. read more

IRIS: Go see Searching for Sugar Man at @TribecaFilmFest a documentary on Mexican American 70’s cult folk super star, Rodriguez and his stranger than fiction iconic status in South Africa.

Screenings: Tonight, Tuesday 4/24 & Friday 4/27 get tickets here

SYNOPSIS

Aspiring ’70s folk rock musician Rodriguez never made it big. Despite critical praise, his albums bombed in the U.S., and he faded promptly into obscurity, leaving behind only urban legends of a gruesome onstage suicide. But somehow a bootleg copy of his album made its way to apartheid South Africa, where his antiestablishment message and distinctive sound resonated with the youth protest movement there, making Rodriguez an instant superstar. read more

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RUBY: Sixto Diaz Rodriguez!!! I don’t know why I haven’t came around to post about Sixto, this amazing singer-songwriter, guitarist, poet, Mexican-American from Detroit has been a constant play on my ipod for the past year with the re-releases of Cold Fact and Coming from Reality . I love this guy and his whole folk psych rock steez

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Sixto Diaz Rodriguez!!! I don’t know why I haven’t came around to post about Sixto, this amazing singer-songwriter, guitarist, poet, Mexican-American from Detroit has been a constant play on my ipod for the past year with the re-releases of Cold Fact and Coming from Reality . I love this guy and his whole folk psych rock steez

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