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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Our list of the best new albums out Friday includes delicate piano pieces from Hauschka, the brilliantly burning rock of Bob Mould, songs inspired by the film Roma, and more. -
This week on All Songs Considered: A kind of demented nursery rhyme from singer Billie Eilish, a surprising cover tune from Lucy Dacus, the return of producer and musician John Vanderslice and more.
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Guitar rock dominates this week's list of the best new albums out on Feb. 1, including the gritty Norwegian band Spielbergs, Mexico's mighty Le Butcherettes, Cherry Glazerr's best album ever and more. -
The acoustic rock duo from Mexico offers a thrilling instrumental take on the Pink Floyd classic for the just-announced Rodrigo y Gabriela album Mettavolution.
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Stream our favorite albums of the month in the first installment of a new series from NPR Music. -
Stream our favorite songs of the month in the first installment of a new series by NPR Music. -
Our sprint through this week's essential new albums includes music from the Compton rapper Boogie, the good-times riff-rock of FIDLAR, a return to form from The Dandy Warhols and more.
