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Bicycles, bakeries, Earlier, Busytown, Hammer & Hope, Lana Del Rey, Los Angeles, Ui, Radiohead, Kassel Jaeger, Balka Sound, Neal Schon
Sasha Frere-Jones

February 2023

Here’s the latest installment of our radio show, Busytown. My co-host is Mina Tavakoli and if you don’t know her work, start with this new one in The…
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January 2023

UK garage, Janet Malcolm, the 2022 playlist, worst diner in the U.S., and more
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I’ve been crabby as hell but the following sequence of music has lifted me towards agreeableness. Mohi Bahauddin Dagar’s Ahir Bhairav is his version of…
Sasha Frere-Jones

December 2022

This is our annual reflection post, and by annual I mean that we have done it twice before: in 2021 and 2020. The idea remains constant: talk about the…
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2022 in music, part two
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2022 in music, part one
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You probably know that the new Number One film in the once-a-decade Sight and Sound poll is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080…
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November 2022

So much yak and so much anxiety around where we should yak. With all this agitation afoot, it’s good to know that there is a spreadsheet of every single…
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I spent two years talking to people (108 of them) in order to write this essay on loudspeakers and how we listen to music for Harper’s Magazine. Enjoy…
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Some thoughts on scale, moths, and rust.
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October 2022

I keep returning to an eleven-minute (sort of) jazz-funk reworking of “Sister Ray” from 1976. Lou Reed — with Marty Fogel on sax, Bruce Yaw on bass, and…
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