Today, NPR has launched a new multimedia music site at npr.org/music, incorporating content from its national programs and several partner stations' programming. Among the site's features are artist interviews, concerts, and live broadcast streams from the member stations. One special feature is Project Song, which challenges songwriters to write and record a new song in two days. Participants are asked to choose from a stack of images and words and write a song based on one of each. Kicking off the series is The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt, who used the project to create "A Man of a Million Faces."
Today, NPR has launched a new multimedia music site at npr.org/music, incorporating content from its national programs and several partner stations' programming. Among the site's features are artist interviews, concerts, and live broadcast streams from the member stations.
One special feature is Project Song, which challenges songwriters to write and record a new song in two days. Participants are asked to choose from a stack of images and words and write a song based on one of each. Kicking off the series is Stephin Merritt, who used the project to create "A Man of a Million Faces." See the inspiration behind the song and watch the video of Stephin at work at npr.org/music.
The new album from The Magnetic Fields, titled Distortion, will be available on Nonesuch Records January 15; the group has just announced a US tour for February and March, with stops in Massachusetts, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Chicago. For more tour information, visit houseoftomorrow.com.
