Christian Molenaar

Category: Show

  • Coming Attractions

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    Two weeks from now I’ll be playing saxophone for Shanghai punks Round Eye on their East Meets West tour with Fang and the Besmirchers. Read more

  • Hotfoot @ Open Gate 5/3/25

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    Hotfoot finally put out our album in January but I’d swear we had this show booked before it was even written. Nathan’s 50th birthday is in a couple weeks which means the end of his 12 Records Towards 50 project is nearly upon us. I should have gotten him a cake, but I guess a… Read more

  • Avant et après le dernier samedi d’avril

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    Wednesday marked 56 years since the day in 1970 when raza activists planted the Chicano flag in protest of a planned CHP station in Barrio Logan. Read more

  • Cretins

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    Escondido’s Team Cretins put together this show with a number of other mutual aid organizations to raise funds for the AIDS/LifeCycle ride from SF to LA. Benefit shows pretty much always mean the bill comprises basically anyone who will say yes, so this particular show featured tall:shadow alongside other rappers plus cumbia, hardcore and teenage… Read more

  • Resurrection

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    I returned from Paris last week after showing Strophische Gedichten to enthusiastic crowds in London, hobnobbing with directors and producers, meeting Slovenian writers and professors of architecture, sharing a panel discussion with leading academics on medieval mysticism and generally feeling cultured and educated. My first gig back in San Diego was at a barbecue joint. Read more

  • tall:shadow @ Aztlan Libre 12/13/25

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    Coinciding with Tall Can’s recent release from prison, Aztlan Libre’s fifth annual El Barrio No Se Vende show offered the perfect opportunity to showcase his photography documenting the restoration of the Chicano Park murals. Read more

  • Los juegos de territorio no se vende

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    Two shows in a small world Read more

  • Hotfoot @ Vernacular New Music 11/18/25

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    Back in June, Nathan Hubbard assembled Dan Clucas and myself to record nine tracks of obnoxious avant-jazz a la Naked City or Universal Congress Of. You’ll hear that album eventually, but if you had made it out to Sun Space in north LA last night you could have heard it all twice. Read more

  • Sandpiper Ensemble @ Panama 66 11/16/25

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    This was the gig Max had actually asked me to play before September’s mission materialized, so this gig’s been on the calendar at least since… August? You’d think given the amount of time I’d be supererogatorily prepared. You’d think that! Read more

  • The Food Shed 10/8/2025

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    Shadow Ticket finally dropped today and you know I was always going to be a day one buyer. Read more

Thought:

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The world of illusions — the world of religions — brings to light or embodies the prohibition that has us speak. Thus, it gives legitimacy to hatred if it does not invert it into love. Embodying, legitimizing — today we are too aware of their techniques to yield to them. The worlds of illusions, now dead and buried, have given way to our dreams and deliriums if not to politics or science — the religions of modern times. Lacking illusions, lacking shelter, today’s universe is divided between boredom (increasingly anguished at the prospect of losing its resources, through depletion) or (when the spark of the symbolic is maintained and desire to speak explodes) abjection and piercing laughter.

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Julia Kristeva | Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

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