Christian Molenaar

Category: Show

  • 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

  • Two Nights

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    A week ago while eating In-N-Out, Max Turner Oestreicher found an extremely large french fry. Read more

  • 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

Thought:

“The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.”

Nikolai Gogol | Dead Souls

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