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Friday May 30, 2008

Our Show

Dr. Dog Exclusive, Adem, Ratatat, More

May 30, 2008 • Plus, gentle new folk from Adem, singer-songwriter Thao Ngueyn, Atlas Sound, electro-rock duo Ratatat and songs of accidents and emergencies from Spiritualized.

Dr. Dog Exclusive, Adem, Ratatat, More

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Friday May 23, 2008

All Songs Considered

Special: Vic Chesnutt Live

by Robin Hilton

May 23, 2008 • We've finally got the Vic Chesnutt video edited for you (sorry for the wait).

Thursday May 22, 2008

Our Show

Mates of State, Sam Phillips, Jethro Tull, More

May 22, 2008 • On this week's show, hear music from Rupa and the April Fishes, New Orleans pianist Henry Butler, and Rachel Taylor Brown, another great unknown from our Second Stage series.

Mates of State, Sam Phillips, Jethro Tull, More

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Wednesday May 21, 2008

All Songs Considered

iTunes Visualizer Reveals My Darkest Secrets

by Robin Hilton

May 21, 2008 • You might be familiar with iTunes, but not some of its many features. Take the Visualizer. The Visualizer allows you to play various, colorful images that pulsate and swirl in synch with the music. You can also customize the feature with plug-ins,...

Tuesday May 20, 2008

All Songs Considered

Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits

by Robin Hilton

May 20, 2008 • We get a lot of promotional press releases from labels, and normally don't run a word of them. They are, after all, promotional and full of an often comical amount of untethered praise for an artist. But when Anti Records sent us this interview To...

Monday May 19, 2008

All Songs Considered

DeVotchKa in Concert, Illustrated

by Robin Hilton

May 19, 2008 • If you missed our live webcast of the DeVotchKa concert this past friday, you should definitely check it out in our live concert archives. It as an absolutely enchanting perf

Thursday May 15, 2008

Our Show

Guest DJ T-Bone Burnett

May 15, 2008 • On this edition of All Songs Considered T-Bone Burnett shares some of his favorite songs and talks about his new solo release, Tooth of Crime.

Guest DJ T-Bone Burnett

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Monday May 12, 2008

All Songs Considered

Suffering for Art; Big Venues and Music

May 12, 2008 • Last night I and small group of others from NPR Music went to see/hear Radiohead at the Nissan Pavilion, about an hour outside of Washington, D.C. The band was as amazing as I hoped they would be, but the venue nearly killed it.

Thursday May 8, 2008

Our Show

A Great Unknowns Showcase: Bowerbirds, Bell, Port O'Brien, Okay, AU, and More

May 8, 2008 • Hear the art-folk group Bowerbirds, Russian-born singer Olga Bell, the pop trio Try Me Bicycle (from our 'Second Stage' series) and more.

A Great Unknowns Showcase: Bowerbirds, Bell, Port O'Brien, Okay, AU, and More

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Tuesday May 6, 2008

All Songs Considered

Garage Rock and FM Radio

May 6, 2008 • The Electric Prunes were the first band I can remember hearing on the FM dial, WOR-FM at 98.7. It was late 1966, and my dad had bought a stereo with an FM tuner. No one else I knew had FM back then. It wasn't in cars or on your transistor dial.

Friday May 2, 2008

All Songs Considered

You Can Tell a CD by Its Cover

May 2, 2008 • Today, I went through a few hundred CDs looking for a handful for next week's All Songs Considered. There simply isn't enough time to listen to every song on every CD, so I listen to the first cut on most every disc. If I don't like the aest

Thursday May 1, 2008

Our Show

Guest DJ Portishead

May 1, 2008 • Hear selections from Third, along with music from Jimi Hendrix, Public Enemy, Kraftwerk and British actor and singer Noel Harrison.

Guest DJ Portishead

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Wednesday April 30, 2008

All Songs Considered

Neil Diamond vs. Neil Young

by Robin Hilton

April 30, 2008 • I'm not a big fan of American Idol, but boredom drove me to turn it on last night, just in time to see contestant Brooke White slaughtering Neil Diamond's "I'm a Believer."

Thursday April 24, 2008

All Songs Considered

Make It Stop!

April 24, 2008 • Does anyone know a good cure to get a stuck song unstuck from one's head?

Our Show

Elf Power, The Black Keys, Gnarls Barkley, More

April 24, 2008 • Former members of Olivia Tremor control return as Circulatory System.

Elf Power, The Black Keys, Gnarls Barkley, More

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