Thievery Corporation: All Things Considered's In-House Band For A Day — npr.org

Thievery Corporation performs all the interstitial music during Friday's episode of All Things Considered. Courtesy of the artist hide caption Thievery Corporation performs all the interstitial music during Friday's episode of All Things Considered. If you listen to NPR's newsmagazines, short bits of instrumental music often provide the connective tissue linking one story to the next. We call them buttons or breaks or deadrolls, and each is chosen by the show's director that day. Sometimes the selections make a sly reference to the story they follow — say, a snippet of "Baby Elephant Walk" after a story about elephants — but more often they're there to capture, enhance or brighten the mood while helping the listener differentiate between news pieces.

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