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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The two singers team up for a sultry ballad, which accompanies a new video for the French fashion company Kenzo. It stars Dirty Beaches' Alex Zhang Hungtai and the model Kiko Mizuhara.
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"Slowly," the latest single from Son Lux's upcoming album Brighter Wounds, takes an unnerving look at life in the age of alternative facts and fake news.
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The singer, who drew widespread attention after performing her song "Quiet" at last year's Women's March in Washington, D.C., is back with a follow-up single called "This Is Not The End." -
All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton return after the holiday break with a new mix of essential gritty guitar rock, an epic breakup song, sweetly seductive pop and more.
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We asked and you voted: Here are the 100 best albums of the year, as selected by All Songs Considered listeners.
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2017 was a year of chronic whiplash, not only for the ceaseless horror show of news headlines, but for the overwhelming number of great albums and songs that were released. -
Ann Powers and Stephen Thompson join hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton to look back at the highlights of 2017 in music, from the women's march on Washington to Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. and more. -
Tell us your top five albums released in 2017. We'll share the results in an upcoming episode of All Songs Considered.
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Best known for his role with The Walkmen, as a solo artist he makes unabashedly joyful, sweetly innocent and playful music. And only he would arrive with a barbershop quartet. -
All Songs Considered looks back at each year in music from the past decade, from the birth of the iPhone and Radiohead's In Rainbows, to Beyoncé's Lemonade and the loss of David Bowie.
