Music critic Sasha Frere-Jones covered a star-studded inaugural ball for the New Yorker, providing some barbed commentary on the evening.
After praising the Obamas and Mary J. Blige, Frere-Jones starts to take the piss out of the night. My favorite unnecessary bash: “Sting’s new beard was one of the weirdest things to appear on a handsome man in some time.”
Read Frere-Jones’ coverage and more below.
- Frere-Jones, covering the ball for the New Yorker, also mocks Shakira’s harmonica playing. And really, who can blame him?
- Ryan Gosling prefers high school plays to Broadway shows, we find out in the first interview with his surprisingly good band, Dead Man’s Bones.
- Slash got his worst hangover ever at age 12 — maybe 13 — he tells Blender.
- Everyone’s super-excited Animal Collective recorded a marginally more accessible album — including the New York Times. (You may have to register with the site to access this article.)
- Andrew Bird tells the Onion A/V Club he thought his new album was as weird as they come. No one seems to agree wit him, though.
- Katy Perry tells the Seattle Times she has a responsibility to beat the flu virus when it strikes.
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