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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"Thinking Of A Place" is both epic and wistful, with moody reflections and memories of a time gone by.
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The singer takes aim at all of humanity on his sprawling new masterwork Pure Comedy. -
Hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton, bleary-eyed from a mind-bending Flaming Lips show, share this week's favorite music discoveries. -
Here's a second chance to listen to inspiring conversations with veteran musicians like Paul McCartney and Jonny Greenwood, as well as newer visionaries like AURORA and Danny Brown. -
We take a chronological audio stroll through 2016, looking at memorable moments and important releases with NPR Music's Ann Powers and Stephen Thompson. -
OK Go's latest (and astonishing) video, for the song "The One Moment," took only 4.2 seconds to film. But the whole thing was slowed down to fill the four minutes it takes the band to sing the song.
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If you love Pink Floyd like we do, chances are you've got a story or two to tell about how the band's music has figured into your life. Whatever it is, we want to hear it. -
The musical easter eggs buried in HBO's Westworldare now available to hear in their entirety, including solo piano versions of Radiohead's "No Surprises" and The Cure's "A Forest." -
The forthcoming album from the experimental rock band comes with a plastic bag containing 2 grams of Don Joyce's cremated remains.
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The sibling folk duo take a disturbingly dark turn in their new video for the song "Westfield," as the sisters find themselves running from two shadowy predators.
