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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Deacon's music for the documentary Rat Film is a pulsing electronic soundscape made, in part, by rats themselves. He explains how in this track-by-track breakdown of the score. -
We open with a song of healing from Brooklyn band Florist, continuing with the French-Cuban palette of Ibeyi and finishing by honoring Tom Petty. -
On her latest album, Three Futures, Torres finds light in life's darkest moments, confronting fear, obsession and even unhinged ecstasy with faith and optimism. -
Protomartyr lead singer and lyricist Joe Casey walks us through some of the thorny questions behind the band's new album, Relatives In Decent, track by track. -
This week's mix of essential new songs includes an ear worm from actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, multiple new discoveries, including the rock band Blis., the remarkable M.R. Bennett and more. -
It's hard to think of an artist who's brought more joy to more people, across more generations — and in more ways — than Steve Martin.
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This week's essential new music includes a breathtaking sonic wonder from Björk, a moody breakup song from Kelela, solo acoustic music from Neil Young and more. -
In the band's latest video, for the song "Cover Me," enduring a broken heart is like a rudderless drift through the icy, airless emptiness of outer space.
