NPR member/partner stations will provide content including live concerts, studio sessions, features and reviews. NPR Music also links to the live broadcast music streams of all participating stations. Additional stations and producers will join in the coming months.
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NPR Music is a collaboration between NPR and KEXP and KPLU Seattle; KUT Austin; WBGO Newark; WDUQ Pittsburgh; WFUV and WNYC New York; WGBH Boston; WGUC Cincinnati; WKSU/Folk Alley Kent, Ohio; WXPN Philadelphia; and American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio. All partners will provide content including live concerts, studio sessions, features and reviews. NPR Music also links to the live broadcast music streams of all participating stations. Additional stations and producers will join in the coming months.

Specific sections of the site are dedicated to rock/pop/folk, classical, jazz/blues, world and urban music. In each genre, program and subject area, users can explore NPR’s and the stations’ renowned music journalism; intimate interviews and studio sessions with artists and bands; NPR’s and stations’ popular national and regional web concerts; reviews and news; original blogs from critics, experts and artists; and podcasts. The site culls from NPR’s and the stations’ extensive music archives to present thousands of features; at launch, the site’s Artist Index alone, an A to Z artist directory, offers content about more than 2000 performers. More than 200 new features will be added from NPR and the stations monthly, joining thousands of hours of archived concert, story, review and interview pieces.

NPR Music also offers original video and audio features. Along with the Artist Index, some of the new elements are:

“Project Song” – a video feature challenging songwriters to write and record an original song in two days at the NPR studios. The first participant is songwriter Stephin Merritt, to be followed by indie band Georgie James
“Studio Sessions” – in-studio video performances recorded at NPR and Member stations
“Discover Songs” – audio stories about, and recommendations for, individual songs
“Music Lists” – five-song listening sets curated by musicians and public radio music personalities

The site also features two new blogs. The “All Songs Considered” blog, written by the weekly music show’s producers Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton, goes behind the scenes. “Monitor Mix” offers music picks and industry news from writer and musician Carrie Brownstein, formerly of the band Sleater-Kinney.  

The full announcement from NPR is available on the NPR site.

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