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    Bob B Boilen (born April 10, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American musician and media personality. He was the host and creator of NPR's online...
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    former All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen in Washington, D.C. The first Tiny Desk Concert came about in 2008 after Boilen and NPR Music editor Stephen Thompson...
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    Brownstein and the All Songs Considered Blog by Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton. All Songs Considered, hosted by Bob Boilen Alt.Latino, hosted by Jasmine Garsd and...
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    program started in January 2000 by NPR's All Things Considered director Bob Boilen. At first, the show featured information and streaming audio about the...
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    visions deliver a magic that reaffirms what we are and what we can be". Bob Boilen featured the "Diamonds" single in his NPR New Music Mix, and Best Releases...
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    multiple album-of-the-year lists, including #1 on NPR's "Bob Boilen's Top Ten Album's of 2017". Boilen said, "I don't recall the last time I had the same band...
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    2019; it was his first studio album recorded with a full band. NPR's Bob Boilen named the album "perhaps the most fiery psych-rock of the 21st century"...
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    exquisite pearls of synth-pop” and gave the album a 9 out of 10, while Bob Boilen of NPR Music included it on his list of 10 favorite albums of 2020. On...
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    Composers, Authors and Publishers. Retrieved March 13, 2023. Bob Boilen (December 7, 2010). "Bob Boilen's Top 10 (Really 9) Albums Of 2010 : All Songs Considered"...
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  • around the house. Natalie Maines and Kate McKinnon guest starred. Musician Bob Boilen appeared as himself. The episode received positive reviews. During breakfast...
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  • song was premièred on NPR's All Songs Considered on June 26, whose host Bob Boilen described the album as "[going in] yet another direction. A lot more drive...
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    CMJ Music Marathon received good notices from All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and from The New York Times's Jon Pareles, who wrote "New York is still...
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  • nobody'll ever hear from you again." — "Weird Al" Yankovic, speaking with Bob Boilen on All Songs Considered in 2006 After encountering difficulty picking...
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  • Reporter, Planet Money David Bianculli – TV Critic/Guest Host, Fresh Air Bob Boilen – Host, All Songs Considered Meghna Chakrabarti – Host, On Point Mary...
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    2017. Producers: Colin Marshall Morgan Noelle Smith; Creative Director: Bob Boilen; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Morgan Noelle Smith, Khun...
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    with Britt Daniel Interview". Soundcloud.com. Retrieved April 4, 2022. Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton. "After Learning To Loosen Up, Spoon Readies Its Return:...
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    Indianapolis label Joyful Noise Recordings, NPR All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen listed Kishi Bashi as his favorite new artist of 2012 noting that he created...
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    on the August 6, 2013, episode of NPR's All Songs Considered. Co-host Bob Boilen said "You can't say The Orwells without saying 'young'" and called the...
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    CMJ Music Marathon received good notices from All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and from The New York Times's Jon Pareles, who wrote "New York is still...
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    Concerts in December 2019 (with the video released in February 2020) and Bob Boilen wrote for NPR that there was "intensity and clear intention to the music...
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    newydd dda! X"". Twitter. 4 January 2013. Retrieved 20 November 2015. Bob Boilen (18 May 2015). "Song Premiere: DRINKS, 'Hermits on Holiday'". NPR. Crab...
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    to Tiny Desk for the fifth time and was chosen as the national winner. Bob Boilen called her, "a powerful voice whose tender performance commands attention...
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    forms of indie-rock" often praised by NPR All Songs Considered's hosts, Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton: "Many listeners who object to the tastemakers' genteel...
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  • Lenker repeating the use of "not" or "nor" at the beginning of each line. Bob Boilen of NPR described the song's subject as "the inability to describe what...
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    Desk Contest for their song "Quick", NPR co-host of All Songs Considered Bob Boilen said, "What won me over about the band's performance of 'Quick' were the...
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  • record labels Interscope, Ninja Tune, Planet Mu, and Warp Records. NPR's Bob Boilen described him as "part musician, part magician". to introduce his 2015...
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    and Bridgers appeared for the third time on NPR's Tiny Desk series. Bob Boilen, creator of the Tiny Desk Concerts, said of their album: "It's that rare...
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  • earns every one of those seconds," and, "A marvel of songwriting," while Bob Boilen of NPR Music's program All Songs Considered declared it "One of 2018's...
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    called a "neo-Annie Lennox" by The New York Times. NPR music journalist Bob Boilen has referred to her as "one of the most striking performers I've seen...
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    Stevens, Nico Muhly And Bryce Dessner On Creating 'Planetarium' at NPR; by Bob Boilen; published June 8, 2017; retrieved September 3, 2023 The Music of Bryce...
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