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Fewer Songs Considered Vol. II: The Nostalgia Show
After all the attention we received following the first installment of Fewer Songs Considered, we thought we’d take another crack at it during our final ‘official’ week as music interns. Again, we weren’t sure if all four of us would [...]

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The music of Mates of State has always been playfully innocent and unabashedly upbeat. Since forming a decade ago in Lawrence, Kan., the husband-and-wife duo of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel has released a string of sticky-sweet studio albums with hooky synth lines, two-part harmonies and bounding rhythms. But on their latest [...]

-by Ellen Grafton-
photo by Christopher Toothman
On Feb. 6 in Manhattan, a crowd of girls gathered underneath a large window. They waved homemade posters covered in hearts. They hoisted signs bearing the face of an attractive young man. They sang songs, chanted the name of their beloved pop-star, and screamed enthusiastically when he [...]

As the music interns at NPR this spring, we have sifted through countless albums of varying caliber and shared an office space with some of the best voices in the music industry. Though we build out music stories for the website on a daily basis, there’s only so much you can do to interject [...]

According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, fewer black and white high school students are having babies. It’s a trend that holds true throughout the Washington area. But teen pregnancies are climbing within the region’s Latino community. David Klatt reports….
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Welcome to the weblog portion of the Intern Edition project.  Here you will find writings & musings, audios & visuals, snips & blips of anything we deem worthy of sharing.  This is a showcase for our smaller projects, a laboratory for multimedia, and a drawing board as we plan the premiere of our final radio [...]