Frannie Kelley
Frannie Kelley is co-host of the Microphone Check podcast with Ali Shaheed Muhammad.
Prior to hosting Microphone Check, Kelley was an editor at NPR Music. She was responsible for editing, producing and reporting NPR Music's coverage of hip-hop, R&B and the ways the music industry affects the music we hear, on the radio and online. She was also co-editor of NPR's music news blog, .
Kelley worked at NPR from 2007 until 2016. Her projects included a series on and overseeing a feature on women musicians. She also ran another series on and web-produced the Arts Desk's series on vocalists, called . Most recently, her piece on was selected to be a part of the Best Music Writing 2012 Anthology.
Prior to joining NPR, Kelley worked in book publishing at Grove/Atlantic in a variety of positions from 2004 to 2007. She has a B.A. in Music Criticism from New York University.
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Gospel, R&B, politics, family and commerce (and 400,000 fans) all merge at a music festival in New Orleans. -
If "Jack and Diane" isn't your American dream, what song is? -
Solo rappers might be the norm, but one Los Angeles management company is hitting with a group. -
In Washington D.C., Brown is revered as the Godfather of Go-Go. So to have Brown play in a corner of the NPR Music offices with an 11-member group was dream come true for a lot of NPR staffers. -
The actor-turned-teen idol, who made his name in the 1960s made-for-TV band The Monkees,was 66. -
You told us the songs that make you proud to be from wherever you're from, be it the U.S., Argentina or Brooklyn. -
She wrote and sang influential songs about life in coal-mining towns and working-class women. -
A stunt, a joke or a big lie? There was nothing special in the story behind the New Jersey-based band Delicate Steve. A press release used to promote the band, on the other hand, was something altogether more fantastic. -
On her second album, the stories the 22-year-old British singer tells are average, familiar, normal. But the voice she uses to tell them feels like a force of nature — brawny, syrupy and flashy at the same time. Hear 21 in its entirety until its release on Feb. 22.
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Rapper Rye Rye's tour manager says his job is all about flexibility and keeping it business.
