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December 03, 2010
Family-friendly branding, combined with the promise of all-local musicians, isn’t always electrifying. But All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen sent the show's new intern on a mission ...
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December 03, 2010
NPR producer Veronica Miller says it’s been a great week for girls of color. Two videos — one with a muppet, the other by a budding child star -- are circulating the web and helping ...
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December 03, 2010
How young do we want our symphony orchestra conductors? Watch a video of a toddler who exhibits a remarkably expressive stick technique in Beethoven’s 5th.
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December 03, 2010
In the hope that you survive this bloody day, we dedicate to you Delorean’s new video.
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November 12, 2010
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November 10, 2010
Los Lobos has proven time and again that a universal shared experience will always trump culture and language. This short set from the NPR Music office features something new, something old and ...
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November 08, 2010
At the NPR Music offices, Trixie Whitley and Daniel Lanois brought a variety of instrumental backing, including an electronic bed for the single "I Believe in You," only to ditch many of the ...
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November 06, 2010
Nearly 40 years ago, The Rolling Stones decided to film four performances in Ft. Worth and Houston for a theatrical release. The finished film, Ladies and Gentlemen ... The Rolling Stones, has ...
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November 04, 2010
Santacruz’s music is as magical as his persona. His songs are filled with fantastic stories of men who make a thousand women fall in love with him, and whose funerals cause a biblical flood of ...
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October 21, 2010
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October 19, 2010
These three songs, performed live at the NPR Music offices, benefit from a rich assortment of instrumentation: cello, viola, accordion, trumpet, snare drum, cymbal, tambourine, another gigantic ...
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October 17, 2010
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October 15, 2010
Watch a live video webcast of the singer for the ethereal Icelandic rock group Sigur Ros in a solo concert, webcast live from the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles this Sunday, Oct. 17. The full ...
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October 11, 2010
The music of Lower Dens is dark but spacious and hypnotic, with swaths of feedback and echoing guitars. At the heart is Jana Hunter, a Texas-born, Baltimore-based singer and songwriter whose ...
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October 09, 2010
Tom Tom Club began as a side project of Talking Heads' rhythm section: the bass of Tina Weymouth and the drums of Chris Frantz. The group’s music was a staple of parties and clubs back ...
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October 05, 2010
The bassist and vocalist conceived of Chamber Music Society as an intimate experience, a close musical exchange between a small group of friends. If it was intimacy she wanted, she got her wish: ...
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September 29, 2010
The name Chuck Brown might not mean a whole lot to people outside the Washington, D.C., area. That would be their loss. In D.C., Brown is widely known, even revered, as the Godfather of Go-Go, a ...
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September 17, 2010
The young cellist plays Bach with elegance, and takes listeners through the back streets of Buenos Aires with a gripping performance of Omaramor, Osvaldo Golijov’s tribute to tango singer Carlos ...
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September 17, 2010
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September 15, 2010
Individually, Fleck, Meyer and Hussain are world-class masters of the banjo, the bass fiddle and the tabla, respectively. Playing together in the offices of NPR Music, the three demonstrate the ...
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