NPR Music

Pages

Movies
10:47 am
Thu August 9, 2012

60 Years Later, Still 'Singin' In The Rain'

Credit Warner Home Video
Gene Kelly stars as Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain. In celebration of the 1952 musical's 60th birthday, a newly restored print was released in theaters for a one-night public screening, and a new edition has been released on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Originally published on Thu August 9, 2012 1:37 pm

Hollywood is often at its best when it's making fun of itself, and few movies are funnier or more fun than Singin' in the Rain, the broadly satirical musical comedy about the transition from silent movies to sound.

Gene Kelly, who co-directed the film with Stanley Donen, stars as the stuntman turned matinee idol who falls in love with adorable Debbie Reynolds. He even gets to parody his own swashbuckling in MGM's Technicolor Three Musketeers.

Read more
Deceptive Cadence
10:12 am
Thu August 9, 2012

You Are What You Hear: What Your Favorite Music Says About You

Credit iStockphoto.com
Why are your musical tastes a reflection of you?

Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 2:57 pm

Alt.Latino
10:01 am
Thu August 9, 2012

Guest DJ: Puerto Rican Rap Legend Tego Calderon

Originally published on Tue May 21, 2013 1:07 pm

  • Hear This Week's Show
All Songs Considered Blog
8:03 am
Thu August 9, 2012

Song Premiere: Azure Ray, 'Red Balloon'

Originally published on Thu August 9, 2012 4:36 pm

Azure Ray documents the collision between two distinct musical sensibilities: the sweetly airy, bittersweet pop of Maria Taylor and the buzzier, busier, frequently electronic sounds of Orenda Fink. The two have worked separately quite a bit in recent years — Taylor as a solo artist and Fink both solo and as half of O+S — but in Azure Ray, they still meet in the creamy, dreamy midpoint between their individual sounds.

Read more
The Record
4:06 pm
Wed August 8, 2012

Laughing To Keep From Crying: A Comic Novel About Copyright Law

Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 6:21 pm

Pages