March 28, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- The three singers who perform together as I'm With Her sound like sisters. It's as if they've known each other all…
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Every Tiny Desk Concert from NPR Music, newest first. They play from NPR Music's own YouTube posts. 1,451 videos.
Jenny and the Mexicats: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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March 26, 2018 | Felix Contreras -- Jenny and the Mexicats is a discovery from South by Southwest a few years ago that I haven't been able to get out…
Robin Olson: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Editor's note on April 2, 2018: You may have figured this out already — this video was an April Fools' joke. It's not real. We hope you enjoyed it…
Väsen: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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March 23, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- There's an abundance of jubilation and glee in the strums, trills, double stops and drones from the Swedish…
Cornelius: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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March 19, 2018 | Lars Gotrich -- As Cornelius, Keigo Oyamada has stretched his vision across frenzied indie rock, lush '60s-style pop, psychedelic…
Raul Midón: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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March 15, 2018 | Felix Contreras -- Raul Midón lives in a world of sound — blind since birth, Midón's interpretation of his surroundings is…
John Prine: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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March 12, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- An American treasure came to the Tiny Desk and even premiered a new song. John Prine is a truly legendary songwriter…
Kuinka: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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March 9, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- Every year for the past four years we've had a Tiny Desk Contest (there's one going on right now), and though only one…
Alex Clare: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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March 7, 2018 | Felix Contreras -- Even before The Beatles recorded their own version of "Twist and Shout," British fascination with American soul…
Big K.R.I.T.: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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March 5, 2018 | Rodney Carmichael -- Grandmothers never truly die. Especially not when they bear as much influence on your life as Big K.R.I.T.'s…
Anna Meredith: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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March 2, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- Out of nearly 700 performances at the Tiny Desk, this is simply the most exhilarating one I've experienced. The…
Roy Ayers: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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March 1, 2018 | Abby O'Neill -- Roy Ayers arrived at his Tiny Desk performance beaming with positivity. The 77-year-old funk icon and vibraphonist…
Lee Ann Womack: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Feb. 26, 2018 | Lyndsey McKenna -- Lee Ann Womack occupies rare terrain in country music. Though massively popular singles led to commercial success…
Vagabon: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Feb. 23, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- Laetitia Tamko, the artist known as Vagabon, is a 25-year-old, Cameroon-born musician with a big, tenor voice just…
August Greene (Common, Robert Glasper, Karriem Riggins): NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Feb. 21, 2018 | Abby O'Neill -- August Greene, the collaborative effort of Common, Robert Glasper and Karriem Riggins, was born at the White House in…
Big Daddy Kane: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Feb. 19, 2018 | Abby O'Neill -- One of the greatest to ever bless the mic, Big Daddy Kane treated Tiny Desk to an office block party in the true…
Betsayda Machado y Parranda El Clavo: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Feb. 16, 2018 | Felix Contreras -- Watching Betsayda Machado y Parranda El Clavo perform their Tiny Desk concert is like peering back in time. The…
Nick Hakim: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Feb. 14, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- The music of Nick Hakim occupies a space and time that is faintly out of this world. The guitars and machinery that…
Marlon Williams: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Feb. 12, 2018 | Bob Boilen --Marlon Williams is a handsome devil with a heart-stopping voice, who writes songs about vampires and horror films. This…
The Crossrhodes: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Feb. 9, 2018 | Bobby Carter -- Witnessing The Crossrhodes perform at the Tiny Desk instantly snapped me back to their early beginnings, just a few…
Ibeyi: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Feb. 7, 2018 | Felix Contreras -- The twin sisters in Ibeyi started their turn behind the Tiny Desk by singing an invocation of a West African Yoruba…
Announcing The 2018 Tiny Desk Contest: Meet HDHG
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Want to play a Tiny Desk concert at NPR Music? For the third year in a row, we’re inviting unsigned musicians to enter the Tiny Desk Contest. Enter…
Hurray For the Riff Raff: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Feb. 5, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- Alynda Segarra's unamplifed voice in this Tiny Desk performance had no problem rising above the drums, congas, cello,…
Vicente García: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Feb. 2, 2018 | Felix Contreras -- Singer-songwriter Vicente García is still relatively under the radar, but performances like the one he gave at the…
Alice Smith: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Jan. 31, 2018 | Abby O'Neill -- Alice Smith is umami for the ears. From the opening licks of her Tiny Desk set, the eclectic singer-songwriter turned…
Jamila Woods: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Jan. 29, 2018 | Suraya Mohamed -- Singer, songwriter, poet, educator and community organizer Jamila Woods is also a freedom fighter: a voice that…
Barbara Hannigan: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Jan. 26, 2018 | Tom Huizenga -- In these days of wireless earbuds, streams and podcasts, the notion of people gathering to hear a lone classical…
George Clinton & The P-Funk All Stars: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Jan. 24, 2018 | Abby O'Neill -- The rhythm of family has been a constant thread throughout P-Funk's long lineage and the myriad iterations the band…
St. Vincent: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Jan. 22, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- Whenever I imagined a St. Vincent Tiny Desk Concert, it was always going to be loud and electric. But I didn't see this…
Amadou and Mariam: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Jan. 19, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- The title and subject of Amadou & Mariam's latest album, La Confusion, would lead you to believe that the music this…
The Lemon Twigs: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Jan. 17, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- It's as if brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario fell from the sky, victims of a transporter beam gone awry in 1971, and…
AHI: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Jan. 16, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- The first time I heard the music of AHI (pronounced "eye") was in the midst of listening to 120 other song submissions…
The Artists From The "Take Me to the River" Tour: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Jan. 15, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- "Take Me To The River" is a 1974 song from the legendary Al Green and guitarist "Teenie" Hodges. And though it wasn't a…
Daniil Trifonov: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Jan. 12, 2018 | Tom Huizenga -- When we invited Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov to play a Tiny Desk concert, we rolled out the big guns. In place of…
Julien Baker: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Jan. 10, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- In March of 2016, just a handful of months after her debut album Sprained Ankle was released, Julien Baker came and…
The Weather Station: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Jan. 8, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- The Weather Station's fourth (and self-titled) album was a constant companion for me in 2017, in no small part for the…
Lo Moon: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Dec. 5, 2018 | Suraya Mohamed -- They drove into the NPR garage crammed into an extended cargo van, 9 feet tall, instruments and luggage crammed all…
Open Mike Eagle: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Jan. 3, 2018 | Rodney Carmichael -- Open Mike Eagle may have released one of the most political albums of 2017, but Brick Body Kids Still Daydream is…
This Is The Kit: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Dec. 19, 2017 | Bob Boilen -- Effortless storytelling is at the heart of This Is The Kit. And the stories the band's only permanent member, Kate…
Hanson: NPR Music Holiday Tiny Desk Concert
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Dec. 18, 2017 | Stephen Thompson -- We've been recording Tiny Desk concerts for nearly a decade, and in that time, a few artists have come back for…
Cigarettes After Sex: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Dec. 13, 2017 | Bob Boilen -- This comes close to the quietest Tiny Desk Concert we've ever had. The music Greg Gonzalez makes with his longtime…
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Dec. 8, 2017 | Bob Boilen -- Put your love of perfection outside the office door and come in for some office fun. This collaboration between…
Tyler, The Creator: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Watch Tyler, The Creator play "Boredom", "See You Again" and "Glitter"at the Tiny Desk. Did you know you can watch new Tiny Desk Concerts on npr.org…
King Krule: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Dec. 6, 2017 | Bob Boilen -- The Ooz, the title to King Krule's latest album, is the perfect name for his music. It conjures, in my mind, a word…
Ted Leo: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Dec. 4, 2017 | Daoud Tyler-Ameen -- The Ted Leo who showed up to perform at our office this fall was no stranger to NPR Music; in fact, he'd stood on…
Walter Martin: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Dec. 1, 2017 | Robin Hilton -- Only Walter Martin would bring a barbershop quartet to the Tiny Desk. Best known as a singer and multi-instrumentalist…
Moses Sumney: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Nov. 29, 2017 | Bob Boilen --Moses Sumney puts a great deal of thought into the heartfelt music he creates. On his debut album, Aromanticism, he was…
Phoebe Bridgers: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Nov. 27, 2017 | Stephen Thompson --Phoebe Bridgers' songs come laden with sly, finely detailed observations about unsuccessful flirtations with…
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