Bon Iver On World Cafe
It's a stretch to call "Beth/Rest" the year's most divisive song, but it's hard to discuss Bon Iver's second album without weighing in on its '80s-style closer.
View ArticleThis One's For The Chicken: A Super Bowl Party With A Purpose
This Sunday will mark the 16th annual installment of "Chicken Bowl," my Super Bowl party, which doubles as a grand fried-chicken-eating contest. As many as 80 friends, coworkers, enablers and...
View ArticleHail To The Chipmunks: A Holiday Classic Re-Revisited
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View ArticleSunday, 8 p.m. ET: Spend Grammy Night Staring At Screens With Us!
With the conclusion of Sunday night's ceremony, Linda Holmes and I have now live-blogged fully one-eleventh of the Grammy Awards' 55 annual incarnations. Below is our original post and an archived live...
View ArticleBaby Bands, Pop Stars And Room-Filling Joy: What To Expect At SXSW 2013
Listen to Stephen Thompson's conversation with Audie Cornish on All Things Considered by clicking the audio link.The South by Southwest music festival kicked off Tuesday with the first of five straight...
View ArticleJittery Jams: 10 Songs For Coffee Lovers
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View ArticleIndie-Pop Albums That Make The Cut Are More Than Mere Collections
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: At NPR Music, they're wrapping up the year the best way they know how, with their hotly contested list of their 50 favorite albums of 2013. Now, all this week, we'll get...
View ArticleBon Iver On World Cafe
This session, from Sept. 2, 2011, is part of our Vintage Cafe series, in which we revisit some of our best studio performances.It's a stretch to call "Beth/Rest" 2011's most divisive song, but it's...
View ArticleThis One's For The Chicken: A Super Bowl Party With A Purpose
This Sunday will mark the 16th annual installment of "Chicken Bowl," my Super Bowl party, which doubles as a grand fried-chicken-eating contest. As many as 80 friends, coworkers, enablers and...
View ArticleAnother Year, Another 'Christmas With The Chipmunks'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rnPHlOHb7g Even before Thanksgiving, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole and Brenda Lee were reborn for the holiday season, with classic songs of theirs — "White Christmas," "The...
View ArticlePlay-By-Play: Read Along With The Grammy Awards
With the conclusion of Sunday night's ceremony, Linda Holmes and I have now live-blogged fully one-eleventh of the Grammy Awards' 55 annual incarnations. Below is our original post and an archived live...
View ArticleBaby Bands, Pop Stars And Room-Filling Joy: What To Expect At SXSW 2013
Listen to Stephen Thompson's conversation with Audie Cornish on All Things Considered by clicking the audio link.The South by Southwest music festival kicked off Tuesday with the first of five straight...
View ArticleJittery Jams: 10 Songs For Coffee Lovers
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View ArticleIndie-Pop Albums That Make The Cut Are More Than Mere Collections
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: At NPR Music, they're wrapping up the year the best way they know how, with their hotly contested list of their 50 favorite albums of 2013. Now, all this week, we'll get...
View ArticleJudge Stops Release Of Posthumous Prince Record
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit (SOUNDBITE OF PRINCE SONG, "KISS") STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A man, Prince, died a year ago today. It's an anniversary the world will not mark by hearing unreleased...
View ArticleIt's Time To Say Thnks Fr Th Mmrs To Vans Warped Tour
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: And now a goodbye to the Warped Tour. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE ROCK SHOW") BLINK-182: (Singing) I couldn't wait for the summer and the Warped...
View ArticleTom Petty Showed Grace And Beauty In Songwriting
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Tom Petty wrote a lot of hits during his more than 40 years making music. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "AMERICAN GIRL") TOM PETTY: (Singing) Well, she...
View ArticleThe Austin 100
In the middle of every March, the SXSW Music Festival fills Austin, Texas, with thousands of musicians from around the world. It's a marathon so daunting — it's a marathon and a sprint, really — that...
View ArticleFrightened Rabbit Singer Scott Hutchison Found Dead At 36
Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison, whose bleak but often triumphantly arranged rock songs tackled depression, anxiety and self-doubt, was found dead at Port Edgar near South Queensberry,...
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