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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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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"Bogie," is a dizzying, kaleidoscopic trip with hairpin turns and surreal word-wonders.
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Thom Yorke grinds one of Radiohead's most indelible songs into an extended, weirdly beautiful rant.
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The Michigan-based singer-songwriter makes beautifully transporting, pulse-slowing music. On "Existing," they find comfort and gratitude in simply persevering.
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A standout track from Mia Berrin's debut album shreds its way through the dizzying uncertainty of young love, dating, parties and heartache, all while still living with one's parents.
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Watch Liz Phair perform songs from her new album, Soberish, as well as a classic from Exile In Guyville.
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Rostam and his band perform acoustic-driven versions of two songs from Changephobia, plus "In a River."
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The band is still quarantined in houses around the country, but you wouldn't know it from this video.