Talking Music with Sasha Frere-Jones

Writer and musician Sasha Frere-Jones has been a staff writer and the pop music critic for the New Yorker since 2004. Nearly every review delivers a remarkable history lesson, as he smartly and seamlessly provides context for the most current artists by looking back and sideways at musical precursors and multiple genres. Joined by art and music curator John Corbett, Frere-Jones uses his musician’s ear to explain how and why the music we love works—or doesn’t.

This program is generously underwritten by Paula R. Kahn.

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