Christian Molenaar

Category: Show

  • Memory Rehearsal

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    Some day in the future, Eleni Sikelianos will need no introduction. Great-granddaughter of the five-time Nobel candidate Angelos Sikelianos and the choreographer and Delphic Festival revivalist Eva Palmer-Sikelianos and herself a recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Fulbright Program, Sikelianos’s artistic credentials should be clearly established from the start. 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:

“Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.”

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