Back in late September, we all gathered on a Saturday at the NPR Music offices for a special Tiny Desk Concert with Wilco. One of the best we’ve had, and certainly my favorite I’ve seen and played a part in. I had the pleasure of filming and editing the video along with some great NPR [...]

Been awhile since I’ve dumped some links. This time I seem to have a whole boatload…So let’s get to it then.

For the past year I kept an ongoing list of nearly every cover song I came across — from live performances, YouTube clips, web series, compilations and charity albums and more. From that list I whittled it down to two 5-song lists during the year: a mid-year list Five Great Cover Songs From 2010 (So [...]

Another update of links.
In addition to all the videos I produce for NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert series, I have recently taken over as a producer on NPR Music’s Latin alternative show Alt.Latino. The most recent show from last week was dedicated to the diverse sounds of Chile.
– Alt.Latino: All About Chile
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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’ [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here is yet another post highlighting some links to a few things I’ve contributed to over at NPR Music:
– The Antlers: Tiny Desk Concert — Helped shoot and edited\produced the video for this beautiful set.
– Laura Veirs: Tiny Desk Concert – Edited\produced this video of a very preggers Laura Veirs. Great, warm show.
– Song [...]

It’s been awhile since I’ve done a round-up of recent works I’ve played a part in at NPR Music. So here we go with a hail of bullets:
– Exclusive First Listen: Gorillaz, Plastic Beach
– Abaji: Tiny Desk Concert: This is the first video I’ve actually shot for NPR. I also edited the video and produced [...]

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 [...]