Tag: NPR

Reblogging: Another NPR Link Update

It’s been awhile since I had my last link dump of articles and videos and projects posted over at NPR Music and NPR.org. So here goes.

Reviews and Blog Posts:

— First Listen: Superchunk, ‘Majesty Shredding’

— First Listen: Blonde Redhead, ‘Penny Sparkle’

— First Listen: Jesca Hoop, ‘Hunting My Dress’

— All Songs Considered blog: How ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Rocks Out On Both Page And Screen

— Song of the Day: Lower Dens: A Blissful Swarm Of Feedback

Video work:

— Ana Tijoux: Tiny Desk Concert (filmed and edited)

— Brian Courtney Wilson: Tiny Desk Concert (filmed and edited)

— Lawrence Arabia: Tiny Desk Concert (filmed)

— Peter Wolf Crier: Tiny Desk Concert (edited)

— Frazey Ford: Tiny Desk Concert (filmed)

— Mavis Staples: Tiny Desk Concert (filmed)

— The Holmes Brothers: Tiny Desk Concert (edited)

— Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain: Tiny Desk Concert (filmed)

— Villagers: Tiny Desk Concert (filmed and edited)

Oh yeah, and be sure to check out the new podcast I’m producing alongside NPR’s arts and entertainment blog Monkey See. It’s called Pop Culture Happy Hour and features Linda Holmes, Trey Graham, Stephen Thompson and Glen Weldon discussing all things television, movies, comics, books.

Here’s the most recent one:

— Pop Culture Happy Hour: Emmys, ‘Runway,’ And General Misanthropy

Reblogging: NPR Linksplosion

Been awhile since I’ve dumped some links in for things I’ve done. Away we go…

— Song of the Day: School Of Seven Bells: A Spacey Dance-Pop Hymn

— All Songs Considered blog: Five Great Cover Songs From 2010 (So Far)

— Jason Moran: Finding Sound, Then Making It His Own
— A Blog Supreme: More Moran Motion Pictures Please

— Los Campesinos!: Tiny Desk Concert

— Gogol Bordello: Tiny Desk Concert

— ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic: Tiny Desk Concert

— A Blog Supreme: Where Was The Jazz At Bonnaroo 2010?

— NPR Music: Live From Bonnaroo webcast and coverage

— The Mynabirds: Tiny Desk Concert

— Zuill Bailey: Tiny Desk Concert

— First Listen: Blitzen Trapper

— Fredrik: Tiny Desk Concert

— Broken Social Scene: Leaner Lineup, Same Big Sound

Reblogging Update: LCD Soundsystem, Broken Social Scene, more.

Here are a few recent pieces that have run elsewhere on NPR Music:

— First Listen: LCD Soundsystem, ‘This Is Happening’

— First Listen: Broken Social Scene, ‘Forgiveness Rock Record’

— Make Music With Your (Wait For It) Shoes
A new ad campaign from Nike shows musicians making music with samples triggered from their kicks.

— Regina Carter: Tiny Desk Concert
Edited the video for this one.

— Jakob Dylan, Neko Case, Kelly Hogan: Tiny Desk Concert
Co-filmed and edited the video for this one.

— Wye Oak: Tiny Desk Concert
Co-filmed and edited the video for this one.

Interactive: Musicians Remembered

This year seemed to have an incredible amount of important figures pass away, more than most years it feels. And music was no different — including Michael Jackson, Jay Bennett, and shockingly Vic Chesnutt, who died on Christmas Day.

So as 2009 winds down, there’s still more to cover at NPR Music, including the fairly slick multimedia interactive of musicians who died in the last year. I played a big hand in putting this sucker together, from gathering songs and editing all the music clips to hunting down photos and general assembly.

Check it out here.

Tiny Desk Concert: Lightning Dust (and more…)

Over at NPR Music, I continue my reign of recent Tiny Desk Concert videos that I’ve helped put together. This week, is Lightning Dust, who put out one of my favorite albums of the year, Infinite Light. This video is infectious thanks to the wonderful harmonies of the two female singers, presumably sisters.

Take a look below, and read my little write up here on the website.

Also on NPR Music today, I contribute to the Take Five series’ Top 10 Jazz Records of 2009 list as part of our end of year coverage. Here I write about one of my favorite guitarists, Nels Cline — notably of Wilco fame — who put out a great jazz/rock/folk/minimalist album Coward.

Tiny Desk Concert: Bowerbirds

Way back in July, I invited one of my more recent favorite groups Bowerbirds to perform at the NPR Music offices for a Tiny Desk Concert.

Many, many (MANY) months later, after getting buried in an almost insurmountable backlog and actually having the raw HDV tapes go missing for a few weeks, the video has finally gone live, produced and edited by yours truly. This is my second real foray into video editing, but I think the video looks pretty good.

Check it out below and read my short write up at NPR Music here.

Reblogging: NPR’s Decade In Music ’00-’09

Last week we at NPR Music launched a two-week long jaunt looking into the decade in music from 2000-2009. Focused primarily on Carrie Brownstein’s awesome blog Monitor Mix, we delve into all sorts of topics regarding the most important news events, recording industry and business issues, technology changes, the relevancy of labels, big overarching trends and most important recordings of the decade…oh yeah and ‘American Idol.’ Plus so much more, it’s definitely worth checking out.

Here are a few of my own personal contributions:

— Interactive Multimedia Timeline: The Decade In Music

— Song Of The Day: The Decade In Music: OutKast’s ‘So Fresh, So Clean’ (2001)

— All Songs Considered: The Decade’s 50 Most Important Recordings (Here I write about TV On The Radio, The Flaming Lips and Animal Collective.)

— Monitor Mix: The Decade In Music Timeline: What Did We Miss?

— All Songs Considered: Missing The Cut: More Important ’00s Music (Here I nominate Girl Talk’s uber-mashup, Night Ripper)

— A Blog Supreme: The Decade In Review: Jazz And The Mash-Up (In which I considered Norah Jones, Ornette Coleman and Floratone — among others — as helping define the decade in jazz.)