Robin Hilton
Robin Hilton is a producer and co-host of the popular NPR Music show All Songs Considered.
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, Georgia.
Hilton lived and worked in Japan as an interpreter 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 also a multi-instrumentalist and composer. His original scores have appeared in work from National Geographic, Center Stage, and in films, including the documentary Open Secret.
Hilton also arranged and performed the theme for NPR's Weekend All Things Considered. You can hear more of his music here.
Along the way, Hilton worked as an emergency room orderly, a blackjack dealer and a fruitcake factory assembly lineman.
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The band's latest song and video is both eerie and beautiful, filled with anguish and longing.
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The band's frontman Robin Pecknold announced the song on his Instagram account.
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The band's latest album finds frontman James Mercer reflecting on growing older and parenthood. Heartwormsis due out March 10 on Aural Apothecary/Columbia Records.
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Some years these polls aren't even close, but this time it was a tight race for our listeners' top five most popular albums of 2016.
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The song, "Not Myself," is a gorgeous and haunting elegy.
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The tracks, "Too Much Is Never Enough," "I Will Be" and a cover of Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" were recorded for the Final Fantasy XV video game.
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On this week's All Songs Considered, we share songs that are punk in spirit, synth-fueled, noisy and touched with real-life tragedy.
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Our first new mix of 2016 includes a David Bowie cover from Glen Hansard, premieres from Ray LaMontagne, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and Laura Gibson and more.
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This week's mini podcast offers a ten-minute preview of some of the must-have releases for Record Store Day.
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All Songs Considered features "The Voyager," the new album from Jenny Lewis, a singer known for complicated, emotional lyrics and vivid storytelling. It's part of NPR Music's "First Listen" series.
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The world you inhabit as a teenager has a way of digging its claws into you. Hear All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton talk about the universal themes on Okkervil River's new album.