Vijay Iyer is probably best known as a pianist and bandleader in the African-American creative improvisational tradition — most say "jazz" for short …
NPR Tiny Desk
Every Tiny Desk Concert from NPR Music, newest first. They play from NPR Music's own YouTube posts. 1,451 videos.
Diego El Cigala: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Every now and then, if we are extremely lucky, we are witness to a musical game changer. That is the rare musician who single-handedly alters the…
José González: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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There's a quiet and a calm from José González that amplify his words. This has never been truer than on his new album, Vestiges & Claws. The songs…
DakhaBrakha: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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People always ask me, "What's your favorite Tiny Desk Concert?" Well, right now it's the one recently performed by DakhaBrakha. The creative quartet…
Jessie Ware: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Young, soulful English singer Jessie Ware has a powerful voice, but it's used with grace. Her singing brings warmth to electronic music and swoon to…
Rosa Díaz: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Rosa Díaz is nothing if not passionate: Her performance behind Bob Boilen's desk practically burst with the kind of passion that made it feel almost…
Chadwick Stokes: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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His songs feel familiar; they're old friends before the first play is done. They'd fit nicely on a mix alongside Paul Simon or the McCartney side of…
Beach Slang: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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James Snyder writes songs as if he were in the room next door — hushed and vulnerable in his own space, but aware and perhaps even thrilled that…
Death Cab For Cutie: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Death Cab For Cutie came as a trio: Ben Gibbard sang, Nick Harmer played bass, and we wheeled in our piano for Zac Rae. This intimate set included…
Sylvan Esso: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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It's hard to believe that it hasn't quite been a year since the first Sylvan Esso album came out. The odd yet perfect marriage of Nick Sanborn's…
Anonymous 4 With Bruce Molsky: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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It was December 1990 — more than a year before the first Anonymous 4 album was released — when NPR invited four slightly shy women into our studio to…
Punch Brothers: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Spoiler alert: The Punch Brothers came to the Tiny Desk on Chris Thile's birthday. We made him a cake and gave him an NPR surprise! This wasn't the…
Matt Haimovitz & Christopher O'Riley: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Whether it's warranted or not, classical music wonks are perennially worried about the next generation of fans. It seems there's less need to fret…
Aurelio Martinez: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Many tributaries follow the story of African migration to this part of the world. Much of that narrative is well-known, but little-known pockets of…
Fantastic Negrito: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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It says a lot that, with almost 7,000 entries to choose from, we selected Fantastic Negrito as the winner of our Tiny Desk Concert Contest. For his…
Phox: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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I first saw Phox in an impromptu concert at a restaurant in Philadelphia. I thought the band was talented and charming, and I still do. Phox is six…
Dan Deacon: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Sometime years from now I may be asked: What was your favorite day at NPR? I am likely to say it's the day Dan Deacon got the NPR staff worked up…
Zola Jesus: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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With her huge voice and an assist from talented trombonist Daniel Walter Eaton, Zola Jesus presented a curious combination at the Tiny Desk — a…
Until The Ribbon Breaks: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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The beauty of the Tiny Desk lies, at least partially, in the limitations of size and technology. We rarely amplify voices, for example, so for a band…
Mucca Pazza: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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When I first imagined Mucca Pazza at the Tiny Desk, I honestly had no idea how the Chicago band's 23 members would fit in — in the literal sense of…
John Reilly & Friends: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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It might be easy to dismiss a music project from actor John Reilly, but that would be a huge mistake: Reilly is a fine singer, especially when he…
Bobby Bare Jr.: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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So I'm in Nashville, standing in line at a food/music festival ordering some kind of pulled pork bun when this guy behind me says hears my voice,…
Rubblebucket: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Before Rubblebucket played its Tiny Desk Concert, its members asked if they could bring a confetti cannon. And, though I said no — dear coworkers, I…
Daniel Lanois: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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I came to know Daniel Lanois through his instrumental collaboration with Brian Eno, Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks, in 1983. I fell in love with…
Trey Anastasio: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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He came so humble, holding his acoustic guitar and wearing his heart on his sleeve. Trey Anastasio isn't new to NPR: Concerts of his have even…
HMSTR: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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You could never fully steal the show when you're followed by the blown-out spectacle of Sun Ra Arkestra's Tiny Desk Concert. But the opening act kept…
Lucinda Williams: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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She came to the Tiny Desk a little unsure, and left singing "West Memphis" with intensity and passion. Lucinda Williams has a voice like no other,…
Yusuf/Cat Stevens: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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In the summer of 1971, I was a camp counselor at a sleep-away camp for a bunch of 5- to 7-year-olds. For those eight weeks, I walked home with about …
Dublin Guitar Quartet: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Don't ask the members of the Dublin Guitar Quartet to play the time-honored classics of the Spanish repertoire. They might play traditional Spanish…
St. Paul And The Broken Bones: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Close your eyes and listen, and you might imagine someone who looks a bit like Otis Redding. Open them, and you're likely to see someone who looks…
Sam Amidon & Bill Frisell: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Sam Amidon takes traditional music and makes it his own. He might begin with a traditional murder ballad and then morph it into something of his own,…
Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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"You know I wrote this for you, baby — you know that." "Oh, yeah, sure.” Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo do mock-bickering as well as any long-married…
J Mascis: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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The loudest guy in the world came to the Tiny Desk to perform some of his quietest music. Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis, for years a guy who's turned my…
Davíd Garza: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Davíd Garza was already a favorite son for folks in Austin when I discovered a collection of his past works, filled with stunning songwriting and a…
Roomful Of Teeth: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Mix a bit of yodeling with Tuvan throat singing, add in a pinch of Sardinian cantu a tenore, fold in compositions from cutting-edge composers and you…
Making Movies: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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When Los Lobos' Steve Berlin sent me an audio file of a band he was producing, I stopped what I was doing and listened closely. There was something…
Sun Ra Arkestra: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Sun Ra was a big-band innovator, a pioneer of recording and playing with electronics, a poet, a cosmic philosopher, a bandleader and a keyboard…
Banks: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Tiny Desk Concerts often require creative and logistical transformations, from electric bands going acoustic to big bands squashing into a tiny space…
Danish String Quartet: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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An abundance of facial hair is not restricted to the sensitive male indie-rocker set. Three of the four players in the Danish String Quartet could…
T-Pain: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Watch T-Pain play "Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')", "Up Down (Do This All Day)" and "Drankin' Patna" at the Tiny Desk. Did you know you can watch…
Anthony D'Amato: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Anthony D'Amato sings and writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter: His songs sound friendly musically, but they also tackle the…
Ásgeir: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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When he was 20, Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson released an album in Iceland, sung in Icelandic, with many of the words written by his father. Dýrð í…
The Bots: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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The Bots' members are brothers and bandmates whose playful, catchy songs rock hard. Singer-guitarist Mikaiah Lei is 21 and drummer Anaiah Lei is 17;…
Raquel Sofia: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Singer Raquel Sofia has spent most of her career 20 feet from stardom as a backup singer for Juanes and Shakira. But these days, she's got her own…
Jackson Browne: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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My admiration for Jackson Browne began with his first album in 1971. I was wowed by the fact that the singer-songwriter had worked with Nico of…
Ryan Keberle & Catharsis: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Even if you've never been to a jazz concert in your life, it's likely that you've heard Ryan Keberle play trombone. He's toured with Sufjan Stevens,…
Bio Ritmo: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Latino migration in the U.S. has placed people of Afro-Caribbean heritage all over the country. Bio Ritmo's heritage leads directly back to that…
Tweedy: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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There's something heartwarming about a family making music together. I'm especially sentimental when I see a father with a son, because my son and I…
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