30 critics in the world by Intelligent Life, the lifestyle publication from The Economist. 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. On March 9, 2009, The New Yorker published his first profile, of British pop singer Lily Allen. At the end of 2009, he helped bring mainstream attention to then-unsigned indie rock band Sleigh Bells when he wrote that, "After shows at Le Poisson Rouge and Public Assembly, I knew they were my favorite band in New York." In a 2009 “Ask the Author” feature on The New Yorker's Web site, Frere-Jones revealed he was working on a collection of pieces that would include an extended version of “Paler” that would expound upon his thesis and address responses to the original piece. He also 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. Frere-Jones published his final column for The New Yorker on January 15, 2015. He left the magazine to work for the media annotation website Genius.com to work as an executive editor. He stayed there for several months, before moving to the Los Angeles Times'', where he stayed for roughly a year. Bibliography References 1967 births Living people American music critics American music journalists The New Yorker people The New Yorker staff writers The New Yorker critics The Wire (magazine) writers Tisch School of the Arts alumni Brown University alumni Columbia University School of General Studies alumni Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn) alumni Dustdevils members Sasha American people of English descent