Blog: Minneapolis Fucking Rocks

Sasha Frere-Jones is a pop music critic and commentator for The New Yorker, a title seemingly dripping with pretention. But Frere-Jones' writes about music in a way that few writers do these days. His New Yorker essays are often part review, part reflection on a given artist, but are never mistakenly labeled as reviews. His prose unfolds in a direct but easy-going manner, balancing the high style of The New Yorker and and the more casual voice of most music journalism. The most important thing is that Frere-Jones writes seriously about pop music, oscilatting easily between [...]