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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Michael Stipe and company are about to release their best album in more than a decade. It's called Collapse Into Now, and you can hear the whole thing here until its official release on March 8.
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After devoting a few years to more conventional folk- and country-flavored songs, Bright Eyes returns with an adventurous, career-defining work in The People's Key. Hear the album in its entirety before its Feb. 15 release date.
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The band Telekinesis uses a backdrop of buzzing guitars, bouncing beats and ambient effects in its catchy songs about unrequited love. Telekinesis' new album, 12 Desperate Straight Lines, will stream here in its entirety until Feb. 15.
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The music and voice of singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten are engineered to turn each listener into a weepy, vulnerable heap. In this lovely performance at the NPR Music offices, Van Etten plays a beguiling set of songs from her latest album, Epic.
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It was an unusually strong year for great unknown artists. While bigger, more established bands continued to attract the most attention, smaller, lesser-known acts made the most memorable music of 2008. All of the great unknown artists featured here made music that was inspired, original and heartfelt.
