June 27th AD presents Rodriguez at the El Rey in Los Angeles. We are giving away a few pairs of tickets to AD readers.  Also, if you did not win the Rodriguez vinyl last month, his label just hooked me up with another copy, so even if you don’t live in L.A. you can enter [...]

Last year Sixto Rodriguez was responsible for one of my favorite reissues of 2008 — 1970′s Cold Fact.  He also composed an Off The Record that pissed some folks off. Good times.  This spring Light In The Attic reissued the follow up to Cold Fact entitled Coming From Reality.  We have copies of both the [...]

Off The Record is a recurring feature here on the Drunkard that marries two of my greatest interests; music and travel. Having a locals perspective when visiting a new locale is the difference between experiencing it through the lens of a tourist and of that of a native. Off The Record gathers some of my [...]

His name is Rodriguez…Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, and, among other things, he sang about “jumpers, coke, sweet mary jane,” and would reportedly only gig at “hooker bars, inner city dives, and biker bars.” Sounds like a party, no? If you haven’t heard of him, it is most likely because he dropped out of the music world [...]