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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.
Justin Townes Earle: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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We threw a curve ball at Justin Townes Earle. Despite his five albums full of well-loved songs, we asked him to play new material for this Tiny Desk…
Jessica Lea Mayfield: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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These days, Jessica Lea Mayfield is all contrasts, starting with the way she sets her wistful voice against her shimmering guitar. It's got a harder…
Trampled By Turtles: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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What immediately attracted me to Trampled by Turtles when I first saw the band was its speed, but the Minnesotans are about more than just blistering…
Sturgill Simpson: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Sturgill Simpson doesn't fit today's common image of a country singer. When he arrived for his Tiny Desk Concert, the 36-year-old Kentucky native…
Nickel Creek: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Nickel Creek was made to sing and play around a single microphone, so a Tiny Desk Concert seemed inevitable. All it took was a reunion tour —…
Rodrigo Amarante: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Rodrigo Amarante has made the year's tenderest record. Cavalo is sonically rich and spare at the same time: Every instrument breathes and every sound…
Pacifica Quartet: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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With this Tiny Desk Concert by the Grammy-winning Pacifica Quartet, we have the opportunity to explore the world of a single composer. With the…
Ernest Ranglin: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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At 82, legendary guitarist Ernest Ranglin still plays the ska, reggae and jazz that he's championed and helped perfect for more than half a century…
Bob Mould: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Bob Mould came alone, except for his 1987 Lake Placid Blue Fender Stratocaster. We provided the Epiphone Blues Custom 30 amp, which he promptly…
Irene Diaz: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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The first time I heard it, Irene Diaz's voice stopped me cold: Her sheer power belies her compact stature, and her musical impact is simply immense…
The Family Crest: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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There's a decent chance you're about to discover your favorite new band. Based in San Francisco and led by Liam McCormick, The Family Crest builds…
Quetzal: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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The Southern California band Quetzal recently celebrated its 20th anniversary with a blowout concert that seemed to attract as many musicians as…
Saintseneca: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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One of the many instruments you may hear Saintseneca play — beyond the banjo, baglama, bulbul, balalaika, bowed banjo, baritone ukulele, bass and…
Highasakite: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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My first time seeing this Norwegian band was at a fairly soulless convention center in Austin, Texas. They transformed that big, open room into an…
Hamilton Leithauser: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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This is the second time Hamilton Leithauser has graced the Tiny Desk. Two summers ago, he and his band The Walkmen played a powerful set of songs…
Marisa Anderson: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Marisa Anderson knows where American guitar music has been and where it is now, and probably possesses an inkling of where it can go. She's studied…
Holly Williams: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Truth be told, Holly Williams brought me and many of my hardened colleagues to tears. The singer-songwriter has a magnificent way with words and…
John Grant: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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John Grant's songs don't mess around: The music isn't complicated, while the lyrics function as darts of retort and thought. His album Pale Green…
Moon Hooch: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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People ask me all the time to name my favorite Tiny Desk Concert. It's my desk and I've seen almost all of the nearly 400 concerts up close. So you'd…
The Foreign Exchange: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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While on a world tour to support their fourth album, Love in Flying Colors, The Foreign Exchange stopped by the Tiny Desk to rev up a Friday…
Lydia Loveless: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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For 23-year-old singer-guitarist Lydia Loveless, gritty, countrified blues-rock is a palette broad enough to include literary drama — complete with…
Tracy Silverman: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Tracy Silverman has been called the greatest living exponent of the electric violin. But we're not talking just any electric violin. After he…
Conor Oberst: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Conor Oberst's new album has fast become my favorite of the Bright Eyes singer's solo projects, so having him come to NPR and perform a few of these…
Mali Music: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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On a particularly muggy day this past week, Mali Music arrived at NPR's D.C. headquarters armed with only his enthusiasm (and a teensy entourage)…
Rodney Crowell: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Rodney Crowell performs with the ease and swagger of a man comfortable in his ways. He carries his songs the way he carries his old guitar: out in…
Eliot Fisk & Paco Peña: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Eliot Fisk looks like the happiest man on the planet. Watch that face as he plays guitar. Between performing music by J.S. Bach and partnering with…
Marian McLaughlin: NPR Tiny Desk Concert
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Marian McLaughlin is a unique musician based in the Washington/Baltimore area, and because she's lived in D.C., I've had a chance to watch her grow…
Simone Dinnerstein: NPR Tiny Desk Concert
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Almost any pianist, from a budding beginner to a pro like Simone Dinnerstein, will tell you that one of the basic techniques of keyboard playing is…
Juana Molina: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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No one else makes music that sounds like this. Juana Molina takes familiar elements — guitars, drums, keyboards, voice — and manipulates them into…
Hozier: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Andrew Hozier-Byrne's voice is so rich, so vital and so soulful, I'm certain I'll follow his music for a long time to come. The 24-year-old Irishman,…
Yasmine Hamdan: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Lebanese singer-songwriter Yasmine Hamdan is one of the most groundbreaking musicians in the Middle East — thanks in part to her work in the…
Ages And Ages: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Everyone knows there are five immutable truths in life. No. 1 is "Nothing's ever easy." No. 2 is "Nobody does the right thing." No. 3 is, well, you…
Iestyn Davies: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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The Bee Gees did it. So do Smokey Robinson, Prince and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. They all sing in the high register usually associated with female…
Chvrches: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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For a brief moment, I imagined hearing Chvrches perform "Recover" or "Gun" with a couple of acoustic guitars and perhaps a shaker or two. And, though…
Timber Timbre: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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The music of Canada's Timber Timbre is often strange and unsettling. The band, led by Taylor Kirk — a crooner with a deceptively sweet voice — makes…
Public Service Broadcasting: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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These guys don't speak or sing a word, but each song sends a clear message. Public Service Broadcasting is a duo featuring the nerdy J. Willgoose,…
Cian Nugent: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Cian Nugent doesn't know what he wants to be, and that's OK. The Dublin-based guitarist cut his teeth as a 19-year-old pickin' on the acoustic worlds…
Johnnyswim: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Once you're able to see this three-song set by the band Johnnyswim, NPR Music will have published exactly 350 Tiny Desk Concerts — so we've developed…
Quilt: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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It's right there in the band's name, but the music of Quilt is truly a tapestry. Its songs are made of small bits of verses and choruses that, heard…
Federico Aubele: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Argentine singer-songwriter Federico Aubele uses his dark, husky voice to produce a specific effect in the three songs he performs at this Tiny Desk…
Usman Riaz: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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This is simply astonishing. Watch twenty seconds and you'll be sucked into the world of Usman Riaz, an immensely talented 23-year-old Pakistani…
Courtney Barnett: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Courtney Barnett can tell you a story like she's your best friend — provided your best friend is a funny poet with an Australian accent. Listen to …
Tom Brosseau: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Tom Brosseau possesses one of the most arresting voices in folk music today. Many people who hear him sing, without knowing his name or face, assume…
The Both: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Singer-songwriters Aimee Mann and Ted Leo are often at opposite ends of the volume knob. But what started as separate sets during a mutual tour, then…
The Haden Triplets: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Petra, Rachel and Tanya Haden are three sisters in love with the art of singing. Born in 1971 to a famous musical father (Charlie Haden is a world…
Joseph Calleja: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Malta, the island nation 50 miles south of Sicily, may be small, but it's home to one of the biggest stars in opera, tenor Joseph Calleja. And like…
Diane Cluck: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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When a performer has an exceptional night, we sometimes say he or she "left it all on stage" — the "it" being effort, energy, passion, sweat. To…
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