Alexander Roger Wallace "Sasha" Frere-Jones is an American writer, music critic, and musician.
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16 Facts About Sasha Frere-Jones
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Sasha Frere-Jones has written for Pretty Decorating, ego trip, Hit It And Quit It, Mean, Slant, The New York Post, The Wire, The Village Voice, Slate, Spin, and The New York Times.
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Sasha Frere-Jones left Genius after several months to become critic-at-large at The Los Angeles Times.
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In 1983, Sasha Frere-Jones played Capulet in a St Ann's production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Nancy Fales Garrett.
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Sasha Frere-Jones attended the Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn from 1972 to 1984.
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Sasha Frere-Jones won an award from the Young Playwrights Festival in 1983 for his play “We Three Kings.
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Sasha Frere-Jones subsequently attended the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, concentrating on Dramatic Writing, then transferred to Columbia University in 1991.
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Sasha Frere-Jones graduated from the Columbia School of General Studies with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology in 1993.
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Sasha Frere-Jones followed in the footsteps of the magazine's past critics Ellen Willis, Mark Moses, Elizabeth Wurtzel, and Nick Hornby.
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Sasha Frere-Jones has covered independent acts like Arcade Fire, Joanna Newsom, Grizzly Bear, Manu Chao, and Bon Iver, as well as mainstream successes like Neil Diamond, Mariah Carey, Wu-Tang Clan, Lil Wayne, and Prince.
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In 2008, Sasha Frere-Jones was named one of the top 30 critics in the world by Intelligent Life, the lifestyle publication from The Economist.
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Sasha Frere-Jones appears in the 2009 documentary Strange Powers by Kerthy Fix and Gail O'Hara, about Stephin Merritt and his band, The Magnetic Fields, in which he further discusses his ideas of race in pop music.
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Sasha Frere-Jones worked on a planned short book, Pop Is King: On Michael Jackson and Pop Music, which was due for publication in 2010 by Ecco Press, but it was never released.
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Sasha Frere-Jones left the magazine to work for the media annotation website Genius.
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Sasha Frere-Jones stayed there for several months, before moving to the Los Angeles Times, where he stayed for roughly a year.
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