The bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding conceived of Chamber Music Society as an intimate experience, a close musical exchange between a small…
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Lost In The Trees: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Led by Ari Picker, who studied film scoring at Berklee, Lost in the Trees creates a cinematic blend of storytelling and strings. There's freshness…
Lower Dens: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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The music of Lower Dens is dark but spacious and hypnotic, with swaths of feedback and echoing guitars. At the heart is Jana Hunter, a Texas-born,…
Eef Barzelay of Clem Snide: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Eef Barzelay may be the most underrated songwriter in the business today, with a sneakily firm grasp on poignancy and humor, and his live…
Tom Tom Club: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Tom Tom Club began as a side project of Talking Heads' rhythm section: the bass of Tina Weymouth and the drums of Chris Frantz. The group's music was…
Chuck Brown: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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The name Chuck Brown might not mean a whole lot to people outside the Washington, D.C., area. That would be their loss. In D.C., Brown is revered as…
Alisa Weilerstein: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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The young cellist plays Bach with elegance, and takes listeners through the back streets of Buenos Aires with a gripping performance of Omaramor,…
The Nels Cline Singers: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Nels Cline, the preposterously skillful and adaptable guitarist's guitarist, is known mostly for his nasty solos with Wilco. But he's also part of…
Ana Tijoux: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Tijoux is proof that hip-hop knows no boundaries. In this intimate performance at the Tiny Desk, the French-born Chilean rapper held a mid-afternoon…
Brian Courtney Wilson: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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It's not quite right to suggest that Wilson transformed NPR Music's boisterous, slightly disheveled, certainly overcrowded office into a church on a…
Peter Wolf Crier: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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The duo exudes sentiment, but with a tinge of fury. The music comes straight from Peter Pisano's heart: He says five songs came to him in rapid fire…
Los Campesinos!: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Los Campesinos! usually performs with as many as eight members -- the group needs that many to reproduce the mightily clamorous ruckus heard on its…
The Holmes Brothers: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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When The Holmes Brothers showed up to play a Tiny Desk Concert, the group arrived early -- really early, and ready to work. These folks are pros:…
Villagers: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Conor O'Brien essentially is Villagers. The Dublin, Ireland, native played nearly all of the instruments on the band's debut album, 'Becoming a…
The Mynabirds: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Laura Burhenn says she'd long imagined a band that sounded like Neil Young playing Motown. A veteran of the pop group Georgie James, she formed The…
Zuill Bailey: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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There's something about the rich and resonant sound of the cello that connects with many people. Perhaps it's because the instrument is the closest,…
Phoenix: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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The sounds of the group's best-selling 2009 album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix are so ubiquitous to viewers of TV commercials that they produce a…
Regina Carter: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Regina Carter's violin has expressed moods inspired by European classical, bebop, Afro-Cuban and Southern blues music. On her new album 'Reverse…
Moby: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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On an early winter's evening, with an acoustic guitar and lyric sheet in hand, Moby and Kelli Scarr strolled up to Bob Boilen's desk and gave a small…
Fredrik: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Fredrik's music is simply gorgeous and hypnotic. It's also very much a studio album, so we were curious to see how they would pull it off as a Tiny…
David Russell: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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With rippling notes, intertwining melodies and a warm, lyrical tone, classical guitarist David Russell plays pieces from the baroque, from Latin…
Jakob Dylan: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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There have only been a handful of Tiny Desk Concerts where NPR employees have overflowed our modest office space, stepping away from looming…
Brooklyn Rider: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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It's hard to know what will happen when the string quartet Brooklyn Rider starts playing. Yes, these four guys love to play Debussy and Brahms, but…
Edmar Castaneda: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Edmar Castaneda is the sort of musician who isn't afraid to challenge the established order. He's carving out a place for himself in Latin jazz on an…
Alec Ounsworth: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Ounsworth recently recorded some songs with his Philadelphia-based friends in a band called Flashy Python, which features members of Dr. Dog, The…
Omara Portuondo: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Portuondo's performance here of two classic boleros was enough to transport us to another time and place. Achingly tender and direct, her Tiny Desk…
Fanfarlo: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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After playing a pair of songs from Reservoir, the band closed with a cover of Low's 1999 song "Just Like Christmas." Fanfarlo's members had practiced…
Lightning Dust: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Lightning Dust's music lends itself to listening in small venues, as their finely knit vocals and intricately woven melodies could easily get drowned…
Zee Avi: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Avi's unique rise to fame(she was signed to a record label a month after posting some songs on YouTube and MySpace), is easily understood as soon as…
K'Naan: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Though his appearance at the NPR Music office qualifies as the first-ever hip-hop Tiny Desk Concert, Somali-born rapper K'naan isn't one to adhere to…
Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeroes: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros can't exactly slip into an office building unnoticed: Clad in the same clothes they'd worn at a concert the night…
Rodrigo y Gabriela: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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I can't think of a better way to describe the music of Rodrigo y Gabriela than with three words: "heavy metal flamenco." And yet the duo doesn't play…
Ralph Stanley: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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The Tiny Desk Concert series almost always brings out the lighter side of both the artists who perform and the staff of NPR Music. When Tom Jones or…
John Vanderslice: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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John Vanderslice is a songwriter's songwriter. His music, a beautifully finessed mix of acoustic instruments, analog drum machines and digital…
Telekinesis: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Michael Benjamin Lerner and Chris Staples of Telekinesis showcase three gorgeous songs from their debut album including the songs "Coast of Carolina,…
Tallest Man on Earth: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Swedish native, Kristian Matsson, a.k.a. The Tallest Man on Earth, plays a few tracks from his debut album "Shallow Grave."
Dark Meat: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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We often joke about how many people we can fit behind Bob Boilen's desk for one of NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concerts. Every month, we seem to push the…
The Swell Season: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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For those who can't wait to hear songs from Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova's follow-up to Once (titled Strict Joy, out Oct. 27), the pair played…
Dave Douglas Brass Ecstasy: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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A lot of talented artists pass by Bob Boilen's desk. But this was the first time that NPR Music was serenaded by a trumpet, trombone, French horn,…
Bill Callahan: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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It's a high compliment to suggest that these three Bill Callahan songs may well implant themselves in your brain, lay eggs and sprout horrifically…
Julie Doiron: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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If you see Canadian singer-songwriter Julie Doiron perform live, you'll hear a good deal of distorted guitars and intense drumming. Well, at least…
The Avett Brothers: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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With all due respect to its terrific albums and kinetic, frenetic live shows, if The Avett Brothers could put on a three-song acoustic concert at…
Jason Vieaux Tiny Desk Concert at NPR Music
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The classical guitarist has a huge appetite for diverse music, and plays with a clear, lyrical technique. His diverse set at the desk of All Songs…
Great Lake Swimmers: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Great Lake Swimmers vocalist Tony Dekker has developed a sterling track record for gentle ruminations on nature, beauty, conflict and the human body…
Benjy Ferree: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Benjy Ferree is a character with enough charisma to draw you into his oddball world. To me, Ferree is a local, growing up in nearby Prince George's…
Horse Feathers: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Sweet-voiced, bearded acoustic guitarists are not a rare commodity in the Pacific Northwest, which has spawned the likes of Fleet Foxes, Band of…
Sera Cahoone: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Sera Cahoone got her start playing drums for a few widely adored bands in the Pacific Northwest, most notably Band of Horses and the spell-checker…
Jim White: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Jim White is a storyteller first and a musician second. It's a kind of storytelling rooted in his own unusual history: He grew up in Florida in a…
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