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More elegant than the Travelocity Gnome, our famed office mate Maria Callas is on the move! This may not be Milan’s famed La Scala (where Maria first sang in 1950), but today she found the longest eSCALAtor in Washington. #divaonthemove

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Follow Maria Callas around DC! -Emily

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Take a minute to remember the artists we lost in 2012 and the music they left behind. 

Check out this cool interactive incorporating audio, photos and web features!

-Emily

Take a peak into the “wonderful, joyful madness” of Jeremy Denk in the latest video from NPR Music’s In Practice. 

- Becky 

Original photo cred: Ryan Muir

Claire in action filming The Shins at the launch party for NPR Music’s iPad app. See her skillz on screen here: http://www.npr.org/event/music/147985261/live-wednesday-watch-the-shins-in-concert

-Mito

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Watch The Shins perform new songs from its forthcoming album, Port of Morrow, plus some reinvigorated favorites, in a concert from Le Poisson Rouge in New York City.

Photos: Ryan Muir for NPR

Mito and Claire shot the video for this concert. Check it out on your iPad or other video viewing device!

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We finally decorated the red hallway leading to the NPR Music office with some of our favorite concert photography (a.k.a. Yo dawg, we heard you like photo galleries, so we made a photo gallery of a photo gallery). 

You can see more concert photos on Flickr and listen to hundreds of concerts at NPR Music.

Photos: Mike Katzik/NPR

As a gaggle of videographers, musicians, industry types and hangers-on stepped gingerly through tall brush to enter a dilapidated section of Fort Adams in Newport, R.I., you couldn’t blame us for feeling like unwitting participants in a horror movie. Standing amid hundred-year-old rubble as the 2011 Newport Folk Festival clattered merrily in the distance, we were either going to capture two breathtaking minutes of music or get eviscerated by maniacs as part of The Newport Witch Project. Thankfully, we made it out with the footage you see above.

Like a ray gun that shoots weaponized gorgeousness, the Vermont trio Mountain Man fit an awful lot of moony harmonies into this all-too-brief performance of “Sewee Sewee.” As a self-explanatorily named group called The Seeger Clogging Allstars clomped away behind them, Mountain Man’s three members — Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Amelia Randall Meath — sang and stared sweetly into each other’s faces. If the scene above once seemed destined to devolve into a grisly horror movie, at least we had a choir of angels on hand to escort us into the afterlife.

See more Field Recordings: http://www.npr.org/series/144918893/field-recordings

Great Tiny Desk Concert today with @realestateband. Photo shot with @ImpossibleUSA color shade first flush.  (Becky Lettenberger/NPR)

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Mantra: Post-Minimalist Percussion In Aisle 12

There’s something primeval about guys banging on wood. But the New York percussion group Mantra takes such primitive pounding to a surprisingly refined level. For composer Michael Gordon’s mesmerizing new work — Timber, written for six two-by-fours — Mantra set up a public performance of the piece in the lumber department of a big-box hardware store in Alexandria, Va.

We shot some video of David Murray Cuban Ensemble and Vijay Iyer Trio for NPR Music’s coverage of NYC Winter Jazzfest, using our new live video setup at (Le) Poisson Rouge.

(Mito Habe-Evans/NPR via Instagram)

Lots of knobs and buttons on this thing, but it allows us to direct a live show and switch between cameras as it’s happening. We’re still working on getting the cameras to match, but look forward to seeing many more performances from NPR at LPR! 

-Mito