Sasha Frere-Jones
Sasha Frere-Jones is a musician and writer who was born and raised in Brooklyn. He founded Ui in 1990; the band toured and recorded until 2010. Frere-Jones was the pop critic of the New Yorker from March 2004 to December 2014 and was anthologized six times in Da Capo’s Best Music Writing series. He left The Times in 2016.
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The Necks have made few mistakes in the last 30 years.
On Tuesday, Malik Isaac Taylor, an original member of the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest and professionally known as Phife Dawg, died.
I was 7 years old the first time I read the word “producer†on an album.
Is Maggie Nelson a poet, a critic, or a memoirist?
“The Old Kanye,†as even Kanye West refers to himself, was like the Robert Moses of hip-hop, tearing apart neighborhoods, installing roads and requiring the general population to follow his rules.
It feels odd to congratulate an awards ceremony that is already an exercise in self-congratulation.
In summer 2014, four writers and one record collector were sitting in a room in Faber, Va.
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He was just like us, David Bowie. Sounds wrong, doesn’t it?
Losing David Bowie isn’t like losing a favorite musician or losing a parent. I’ve experienced both.