Robin Hilton

Robin Hilton is the producer and co-host for the popular NPR Music show All Songs Considered.

In addition to his work on All Songs, Hilton produces NPR Music live concerts and festival coverage across the country, including live broadcasts and webcasts from the Bonnaroo and Sasquatch festivals, South by Southwest and the Newport Folk Festival.

Prior to joining NPR in 2000, Hilton co-founded Small Good Thing Productions, a non-profit production company for independent film, radio and music in Athens, GA.

Hilton lived and worked in Japan as a translator for the government, and taught English as a second language to junior high school students.

From 1989 to 1996, Hilton worked for NPR member stations KANU and WUGA as a senior producer and assistant news director and was a long-time contributing reporter to NPR's daily news programs All Things Considered and Morning Edition.

Hilton is a multi-instrumentalist and composer. His original scores have appeared in work from National Geographic, Center Stage and, most recently, in the documentary film Open Secret. You can hear some of his music here.

Along the way, Hilton worked as an emergency room orderly, a blackjack dealer and a fruitcake factory assembly lineman.

3:59pm

Mon May 6, 2013
Music

Question Of The Week: Do You Hear Music When You Dream?

Originally published on Mon May 6, 2013 8:13 pm

9:23am

Tue March 26, 2013
First Listen

First Listen: 'The Music Is You: A Tribute To John Denver'

Originally published on Wed April 3, 2013 7:57 am

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4:34pm

Tue February 26, 2013
First Listen

First Listen: Youth Lagoon, 'Wondrous Bughouse'

Originally published on Tue February 26, 2013 2:31 pm

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Youth Lagoon's second album, Wondrous Bughouse, is one of the most arresting headphone records you'll hear this year. Trevor Powers, the band's sole member, layers strange but alluring synth textures under quirky melodies and simple pop beats, in the process creating an expansive and endlessly engrossing world of sonic curiosities.

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10:06am

Fri February 1, 2013
Music

Trent Reznor: New Band, New Song, New Video, Still Terrifying

Originally published on Thu January 31, 2013 10:13 am

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The members of How To Destroy Angels, a collective featuring Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, his wife and singer Mariqueen Maandig, art director Rob Sheridan and the brilliant composer Atticus Ross, have an unambiguously grim view of where civilization is headed. In a new video for the song "How Long," from the band's upcoming album Welcome Oblivion, man hunts man in (surprise) a terrifying, dystopian future.

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1:17pm

Wed December 5, 2012
Music

Question Of The Week: What Song Did You Listen To The Most In 2012?

Originally published on Mon December 3, 2012 1:26 pm

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8:35am

Wed October 31, 2012
Music

Question Of The Day: Top Five Bands That Should Be Way Bigger Than They Are?

Originally published on Fri November 9, 2012 4:48 pm

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8:08am

Tue October 9, 2012
First Listen

First Listen: Jason Lytle, 'Dept. Of Disappearance'

Originally published on Sun October 21, 2012 6:07 pm

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After two decades of writing beautifully inspired, idiosyncratic pop and rock songs, former Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle has come to one immutable conclusion: His music isn't that heavy.

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3:33pm

Tue October 2, 2012
All Songs Considered Blog

Song Premiere: Beck Remixes Philip Glass With 'NYC: 73-78'

Originally published on Sat October 6, 2012 12:58 pm

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The latest tease from this fall's upcoming collection of remixed Philip Glass tunes comes from Beck. The 20-minute song, "NYC: 73-78," includes snippets from more than 20 Glass songs, which Beck cut together and re-imagined.

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3:18pm

Tue August 28, 2012
First Listen

First Listen: Cat Power, 'Sun'

Originally published on Tue September 11, 2012 8:55 pm

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Chan Marshall, the creative force behind Cat Power, has long been indie rock's standard-bearer for melancholy navel gazing. In a career spanning nearly two decades, she's produced a large catalog of mostly moody confessionals, mixing blues, folk and arty punk with a swoon-inducing, transcendent voice. She could sing random figures from her tax returns and convey more heartache and angst than many other artists could match in their deepest moments.

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5:26pm

Tue June 12, 2012
All Songs Considered Blog

Vote For The Year's Best Music (So Far)

Originally published on Thu June 14, 2012 1:06 pm

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Around this time each year I begin to marvel at how we've already reached the halfway point. I haven't even taken down my Christmas lights yet and already everyone's reflecting on all the great music we've had so far.

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