Christian Molenaar

Category: Show

  • The Witches Tower 3/5/25

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    Ryan asked me to play this show and the very next day had to back out upon realizing he’d double-booked himself to sit in with Swing Kids in LA the same night. Obviously I wasn’t going to begrudge him taking the bigger gig, but it did leave the question: how the hell do you play… Read more

  • Smoke Show

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    Five Free-Punk Stunts Read more

  • Mike’s Birthday

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    In the morning I dragged myself sleeping from the second connecting bus into your cafe, ordered a triple hammerhead and told myself I was ready for a job interview. Read more

  • The Brown Building 1/17/2025

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    I loved the concept for this show: the Brown Building’s proprietor and Make Believe DIY head Matty asked me to open for LA-based violinist Lina Tullgren; Amy Cimini on viola and I on cello would round out a sort of deconstructed string trio. Read more

  • Bikes Del Pueblo 11/17/24

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    Bikes del Pueblo is a community bike repair space in City Heights whose wide purview includes repair, refinement and — most importantly — riding. Humble Servant of the Worm is a composting co-op who have set up a community garden in the back of Bikes del Pueblo’s lot, focused primarily on local herbs but also… Read more

  • The Brown Building 11/9/24

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    Every single person I invited to this show declined for one reason or another: anniversaries, brothers’ birthdays, cousins’ weddings, TTRPG nights; apparently every event in the county had to occur on this particular Veterans’ Day weekend. Read more

  • Best Practice 9/5/24

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    I’ve played with Nick Lesley and Jonathan Piper both together and separately, but missed their duo’s premiere at the Brown Building last month. Apparently neither had played with Stevie Richards before, but that didn’t appear to be any obstacle. Read more

  • Read or Die!! 2023

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    Abominomicon reunited at the Che last night for Stay Strange’s first Read or Die!! zine fest alongside Badge Grabber and Bastard Noise. Read more

  • Abominomicon II: Domination

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    Abominomicon reforms for one night only tomorrow at the Che Cafe for Stay Strange’s Read Or Die!! A Book And Zine Fair alongside Bastard Noise and Badgegrabber. Featuring readings by Patrick Loveland (Too Many Eyes, A Tear In the Veil), Chad Deal (Ketcel), Chad Stroup (Sexy Leper, Secrets of the Weird), Ego Death (The End… Read more

  • Those Darn Gnomes @ Til-Two 5/25/22

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    Those Darn Gnomes are no more. Read more

Thought:

“I have noticed that the flatter an image is, the less it expresses, the more it will transform when it comes into contact with other images. At some point there must be transformation, or there is no art.”

Robert Bresson