{"id":23108,"date":"2016-05-17T11:11:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T15:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23108"},"modified":"2016-05-17T11:11:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T15:11:49","slug":"sasha-frere-jones-suffers-an-al-capone-like-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/sasha-frere-jones-suffers-an-al-capone-like-takedown\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasha Frere-Jones Suffers an Al Capone-Like Takedown"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Busted!\"

Busted!<\/p><\/div>\n

The Feds got Al Capone on tax evasion charges rather than the more horrendous crimes he committed. In similar fashion, rock critic Sasha Frere-Jones<\/strong>\u00a0was nabbed for running up a tab at a strip club<\/a> rather than alleged\u00a0Rock Crimes, as documented here (for gross exaggeration of research)<\/a> and played out at least one other time in the Halls of Rock, possibly back in our days as a YahooGroup, when I believe I actually had a couple of e-mails back and forth with the critic over whatever instance of shoddy criticism it was that we flagged.<\/p>\n

According to a person with knowledge of the situation, Frere-Jones recently filed a $5,000 expense report for a venue that the paper discovered was actually a strip club.<\/p>\n

Asked to explain,\u00a0Frere-Jones said he was writing an article about\u00a0a rapper. But according to the insider, the rapper\u2019s representatives told the paper that no interview had taken place.<\/p>\n

In addition, a source close to the situation said that Frere-Jones had accepted a luxury trip sponsored by\u00a0Dom P\u00e9rignon to The Joshua Tree National Park in April \u2014 a freebie that is considered a no-no by most mainstream news organizations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I know, I know…taste is taste and to each his own and whatnot, but I always thought that guy wasted a lot of word and pseudo-social criticism on a fraction of musical content. Funny, to me, that he tried blaming the strip club tab on a rapper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Feds got Al Capone on tax evasion charges rather than the more horrendous crimes he committed. In similar fashion, rock critic Sasha Frere-Jones\u00a0was nabbed for running up a tab at a strip club rather than alleged\u00a0Rock Crimes, as documented here (for gross exaggeration of research) and played out at least one other time in […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,16,20],"tags":[231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}