Robin Hilton
Robin Hilton is a producer and co-host of the popular NPR Music show .
Prior to joining NPR in 2000, Hilton co-founded , 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 . You can hear more of his music .
Along the way, Hilton worked as an emergency room orderly, a blackjack dealer and a fruitcake factory assembly lineman.
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NPR Music presents a sneak preview of some of the interesting albums coming our way in the new year.
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NPR's Robin Hilton sits down with composer Volker Bertelmann to talk about how he channeled the drama and horror of World War I into his Oscar-nominated score for "All Quiet On The Western Front."
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Composer Nathan Johnson speaks with NPR's All Songs Considered podcast about his score for the film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
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Carrie Brownstein joins the All Songs gang to chat about relentless earworms, annoying novelty songs and other songs our hosts think of as quite possibly the worst of all time
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Chan Marshall and her band perform a brisk and beautifully orchestrated medley of Cat Power songs: "Wanderer," "Woman" and 2006's "The Moon."
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"Almost Like Praying" will raise money for hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico. "I'd much rather be writing a song than jumping up and down and making noise," Miranda tells NPR. -
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. -
The singer talks about the challenges of making what became one of the most important records of the 1990s, dealing with the fame it brought and how she didn't like its hit song until recently. -
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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"Thinking Of A Place" is both epic and wistful, with moody reflections and memories of a time gone by.
