June 2012
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I Just Deleted All My Music →
I just deleted over 25,000 songs from my iTunes library. I am going to trust in the cloud, where my library now lives. I’m a bit scared, but I backed everything up, took a deep breath and stepped into the future.
—All Songs Considered’s Bob Boilen takes the leap
May 2012
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17 Songs For Being 17: I’ve always been a...
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morganautumn asked: You should skip the BBQ and hit up Prince's Hot Chicken in Nashville.
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Want to download a new Dan Deacon song? →
It’s really good.
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Watchwnyc:
Building a better Soundcheck: SoundcheckWorkshop.org
Looking forward to your adventures!
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WatchWith a gifted backing band on hand to help flesh out three songs from Adventures in Your Own Backyard, watch Patrick Watson conduct a swirl of interlocking loveliness that still finds room for surprises, from a singing saw to a microphone that makes his voice sound as if it’s bouncing off some faraway satellite.
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“The subtlest move can be the grandest gesture, you know, because the audience is...”
– Cabaret singer Maude Maggart describes the Oak Room’s uniquely intimate space, which will not reopen after renovations.
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inthemess asked: Just following up on the Daniel Johnston tiny desk concert. Loads of us would like to see it.
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WatchWatch Father John Misty get inspired by a David Lynch photo (who doesn’t?) and shimmy his way through “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic.
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WatchWatch Sauti Sol, an Afro-fusion quartet from Nairobi, greet the morning birds and joggers on the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge in Austin, Texas, with a version of its recent single “Love or Leave.”
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Self-described as “hot, raucous, retro swing...
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WatchTrampled by Turtles’ 2012 summer schedule is packed with high-profile festival appearances, including Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits. Watch the band perform songs at Minnesota’s The Current and discuss their intimate but universal take on bluegrass.
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What song did your parents introduce you to?
Today on All Things Considered, Broadway star Audra McDonald begins a new series: Mom and Dad’s Record Collection. She shares the story of how a music box’s “Edelweiss” melody became her first audition with her dad at the piano.
We want your stories, too. What song did your parents introduce you to? What’s the memory attached to it?
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“I am so lucky, because almost from the beginning, people would record the shows....”
– Regina Spektor on All Things Considered
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“I’m kind of just figuring out the themes now of the record, so...”
– Neko Case on entering the studio to make her new record. Morning Edition will document the process over the coming months. In the first installment, we listen to a song that’s not quite finished, not quite recorded, not even quite written.
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“Ligeti’s deliberately written things that are going to screw with your...”
– Pianist Jeremy Denk on Ligeti, Beethoven and how to play eight fortes (hint: It might involve a bloody corpse).
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“After six seasons of following Idol as a critic and unashamed enthusiast,...”
– Why NPR Music’s critic, Ann Powers, is fed up with the long-running singing contest.
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