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 singer's latest album is a love letter to urban areas he loves and the people who live there. -
Tell us who your favorite new artist is of the year so far — we'll tally the results and share the most popular picks on an upcoming episode of All Songs Considered. -
The former Vampire Weekend singer and producer says his new album Half-Light takes a hopeful and optimistic look at the future in difficult times. -
This week's essential new music includes the frenetic pop of Guerilla Toss, a long-awaited solo return from Metric singer Emily Haines, bruising hardcore rock from Thoughts Of Ionesco and more. -
It's hard to know what's real in a new video for the English actor and musician's song "In The Deepest." A meteor streaking across the sky could be the end of the world or a complete hoax.
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The band's long-awaited performance at the Tiny Desk was both beautiful and, at times, intense, featuring three deeply personal songs by frontman Mike Hadreas.
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The song, "Mississippi," perfectly captures the strange unease and surreal mystery of Twin Peaks, with slow-burning, two-part harmonies.
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The song, recorded during sessions for the band's 1997 album OK Computer, is an acoustic meditation on themes common throughout the record, including alienation and paranoia.
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The band channels '80s-era Bruce Springsteen on its latest song, with glockenspiel chimes set against gritty guitars and synths. -
On this week's essential new releases Mitski covers One Direction, Kevin Morby pays homage to The Ramones, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy goes solo acoustic, and much more.
