All Songs Considered

Say what you will about the quality of the reportage on National Public Radio, their production values are top-notch. Among the things that make All Things Considered a joy to listen to are the "buttons", those little snippets of music that fill out a time segment or punch a point after a story.

Now Bob Boilen and Bill Deputy have produced a web-only program of nothing but the music from which their buttons are culled. So far, the format is still undecided, and it has not been advertised on the air. But it's an intriguing idea, and the first foray for NPR into a web-only format.