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Tag: Sasha Frere-Jones
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Pavement, No Age at Millennium Park Tonight
A recommendation for No Age and an explanation of Pavement, who play Millennium Park tonight.
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“Pizza Hut Taco Bell” Made This Happen
Das Racist on joke rap, Internet fame, “authenticity,” and Kings of Leon’s haircuts
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Sonic Reducers
While I was off gallivanting up and down the west coast, New Yorker pop critic Sasha Frere-Jones dropped the first installment of a new series called Dithering, which will be devoted to a subject he describes succinctly in an introductory post as “the sound quality of recorded music—analog, digital, or any combination thereof.” The first […]
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Back in the Mux
Sasha Frere-Jones interviews Justin Ouellette about the new Muxtape and its potential to become “the Facebook of music.”
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First off we’re probably going to have to kidnap some scientists
Show your support for rapper reanimation.
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The only way censorship improves anything
The case against Snoop Dogg’s “Sexual Eruption”
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SFJ loves the Cool Kids
The Cool Kids make the New Yorker (or at least Sasha Frere-Jones’s blog).
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Class in Session
Pavement is guided by a voice integral to but rarely heard in rock—that of the Privileged White Guy, as played here by Stephen Malkmus. He began with “love” songs set in monied locales like “Here” and “Summer Babe” (the Salinger phase); he’s snapped on hoi polloi pop artists Smashing Pumpkins and Stone Temple Pilots (the […]