NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
Intimate musical performances, recorded live at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen.
Seasons
1. Laura Gibson
Air Date: 2008-04-22
Laura Gibson works through a handful of tenderhearted songs: two of them unreleased and two of them from her full-length debut, If You Come to Greet Me.
2. Vic Chesnutt
Air Date: 2008-06-05
When Athens, Ga., songwriter Vic Chesnutt was on tour in support of his album, “North Star Deserter,” he stopped by NPR to perform live at All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's desk. Chesnutt played five songs, including two entirely new ones.
3. Sam Phillips
Air Date: 2008-06-25
The music of Sam Phillips unfolds like perfect, miniature pop dramas. Of all her incarnations as a performer — first as a Christian singer, then as a pop singer — the current Sam Phillips is one of the most alluring. Phillips performs four songs from “Don't Do Anything.”
4. Sera Cahoone
Air Date: 2008-07-10
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-defying Carissa's Wierd. But her self-titled, self-released 2006 album marked her as a fully formed talent — a warm and inviting singer whose songs convey world-weariness and homespun grace.
5. Thao Nguyen
Air Date: 2008-09-04
Thao Nguyen makes captivating music. Her songs are raw and infectious, her voice has a distinctive swagger, and she's a remarkably nimble guitarist.
6. Lambchop's Kurt Wagner
Air Date: 2008-10-08
Kurt Wagner writes and sings beautiful songs with Lambchop, a hefty Nashville ensemble with a calm, restrained sound. When Kurt Wagner came by the office to play a Tiny Desk Concert, he came alone, with just an acoustic guitar, a stack of lyrics and his humble, good-natured sense of humor.
7. Dr. Dog
Air Date: 2008-10-20
Dr. Dog isn't an obvious choice for one of NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concerts. For one thing, it's a pretty big group, at least for the small space behind Bob Boilen's desk. The band's music can be pretty chaotic — loud and rumbling, with multiple instruments fighting to be heard. And singer Toby Leaman likes to belt out his vocals in a window-rattling, raspy growl.
8. Jim White
Air Date: 2008-11-07
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 deeply Pentecostal community and fell in love with the white gospel music he heard. But from there, White took a surprising path to becoming a full-time musician. He was a professional surfer, a boxer, a fashion model in Milan and a cab driver in New York City. White's travels recently took him to Washington, D.C., where he stopped by the offices of NPR Music for this live performance.
9. Shearwater
Air Date: 2008-11-14
A glorious four-song set that's at once pristine and ramshackle — equal parts clarity and clatter — not to mention one of our best Tiny Desk Concerts yet.
10. David Dondero
Air Date: 2008-12-30
He should be a name everyone knows by now. Instead, troubadour David Dondero returned to NPR having slept the night before in his car. Dondero travels from club to club, singing his well-crafted songs — songs that have his signature lyrics at their core. His lyrics can make you smile with their wit and hurt with their bite, all at the same time.
1. Woven Hand
Air Date: 2009-01-07
David Eugene Edwards performs his fiery Americana and covers a rare Bob Dylan song.
2. Super XX Man
Air Date: 2009-01-27
Hear the singer give an intimate acoustic performance at the desk of NPR Music's Bob Boilen.
3. Tom Jones
Air Date: 2009-03-02
Hear the legendary singer perform at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen.
4. Horse Feathers
Air Date: 2009-05-08
See the band perform live at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen.
5. Benjy Ferree
Air Date: 2009-05-29
Ferree has enough charisma to draw you into his odd world. Watch him perform in the NPR offices.
6. Great Lake Swimmers
Air Date: 2009-06-08
Singer Tony Dekker performs three songs at the desk of All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen.
7. Jason Vieaux
Air Date: 2009-06-15
The classical guitarist plays with a clear, lyrical technique in music from the baroque and beyond.
8. The Avett Brothers
Air Date: 2009-06-22
Hear the harmony-drenched roots-rock band perform a kinetic, frenetic set in the NPR Music offices.
9. Maria Taylor
Air Date: 2009-06-29
Hear the singer-songwriter's tender, winsome music, performed live in the NPR Music offices.
10. Julie Doiron
Air Date: 2009-07-06
After a few restarts, the singer played a bare, stark, memorable solo set in the NPR Music offices.
11. Bill Callahan
Air Date: 2009-07-13
Watch the artist formerly known as Smog play a three-song set that's almost eerily transfixing.
12. Dave Douglas Brass Ecstasy
Air Date: 2009-07-20
Or, the day a trumpet, trombone, French horn and tuba played us a soulful Rufus Wainwright cover.
13. Sarah Siskind
Air Date: 2009-07-27
In this video shot at the NPR Music offices, Siskind showcases a voice that's both honeyed and raw.
14. The Swell Season
Air Date: 2009-08-10
Hear Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, stars of the movie Once, playing six new songs and an encore.
15. Dark Meat
Air Date: 2009-08-24
Dark Meat has as many as 20 members. We fit as many as we could behind Bob Boilen's desk.
16. The Tallest Man On Earth
Air Date: 2009-09-14
The young Swedish folksinger is passionate, gruff, a great guitar picker and a damn good poet.
17. Telekinesis
Air Date: 2009-09-21
Reduced to a duo for this charming session in the NPR Music offices, Telekinesis is all heart.
18. Raphael Saadiq
Air Date: 2009-09-28
The Grammy-nominated R&B artist performed three acoustic interpretations of his soul-inspired tunes.
19. John Vanderslice
Air Date: 2009-10-04
Vanderslice shares acoustic versions of songs from his most recent album, Romanian Names.
20. Rodrigo y Gabriela
Air Date: 2009-10-10
The duo's new album pays tribute to the pair's heroes, such as Jimi Hendrix and Carlos Santana.
21. Ralph Stanley
Air Date: 2009-10-19
See and hear the legendary bluegrass and old-time gospel singer give an a cappella performance.
22. Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros
Air Date: 2009-10-26
At 10 members, this is the biggest band ever to play a Tiny Desk Concert in the NPR Music offices.
23. Sondre Lerche
Air Date: 2009-11-02
The Norwegian-born singer-songwriter performs three liltingly sweet songs in the NPR Music offices.
24. K'naan
Air Date: 2009-11-09
The rapper's set exuded shimmery grace while incorporating the sounds of soul, pop and reggae.
25. Bowerbirds
Air Date: 2009-11-16
Bowerbirds' handcrafted songs creak and swell like wooden floorboards in an old house.
26. Zee Avi
Air Date: 2009-11-23
Avi sings three hushed lullabies, including her signature cover of Morrissey's "First of the Gang."
27. Andrew W.K.
Air Date: 2009-11-30
The fearless party-rocker stands in NPR Music's offices and performs four songs alone at the piano.
28. Lightning Dust
Air Date: 2009-12-07
Lightning Dust specializes in quiet moments, whether in a shared glance or a finely knit harmony.
29. Fanfarlo
Air Date: 2009-12-16
The charming London indie-folk band performs a holiday-themed set in the NPR Music offices.
30. Australian Chamber Orchestra
Air Date: 2009-12-21
Members of the adventurous ensemble play music by Ravel and an original piece, Egyptian-style.
1. The Mountain Goats
Air Date: 2010-01-03
In a solo show at NPR Music, John Darnielle's twitchy energy serves his fearless songwriting well.
2. Adam Arcuragi
Air Date: 2010-01-10
In a performance at NPR, the talented singer's voice is powerful without unnecessary melodrama.
3. The Low Anthem
Air Date: 2010-01-20
The band's sullen, spacious music was a perfect fit for the intimacy of the NPR Music offices.
4. Brooklyn Rider
Air Date: 2010-01-26
The string quartet showcases a small sample of its visceral fire at the offices of NPR Music.
5. Dave Rawlings Machine With Gillian Welch
Air Date: 2010-02-01
A longtime session guitarist, Rawlings takes the lead, playing his own music at NPR Music's offices.
6. Edmar Castaneda
Air Date: 2010-02-08
The harpist crafts a transporting mix of tradition and improvisation in this desk-side performance.
7. Abaji
Air Date: 2010-02-15
With roots in Greece, Turkey, Armenia and France, Abaji has a passion for music from many countries.
8. Alec Ounsworth
Air Date: 2010-02-22
The singer-songwriter performs music from Mo' Beauty, accompanied only by two guitars.
9. Laura Veirs
Air Date: 2010-03-01
The singer treated the NPR Music offices to three songs that invited us into her warm musical world.
10. Omara Portuondo
Air Date: 2010-03-08
The Cuban singer performs two boleros, which transport the listener to another time and place.
11. The Antlers
Air Date: 2010-03-15
The Brooklyn-based trio strips down its wall of noise for an intimate performance at NPR Music.
12. Wye Oak
Air Date: 2010-03-29
The talented Baltimore duo didn't have to travel far to liven up a day at the NPR Music offices.
13. Jakob Dylan
Air Date: 2010-04-02
Jakob Dylan, Neko Case and Kelly Hogan perform a mesmerizing set at the Tiny Desk.
14. Regina Carter
Air Date: 2010-04-11
The violinist plays traditional African melodies, re-imagined through her own jazz sensibilities.
15. David Russell
Air Date: 2010-04-19
The classical guitarist showcases his warm, lyrical tone in three staples of the repertoire.
16. Lionel Loueke
Air Date: 2010-04-26
The unusual jazz guitarist and his drummer perform at the NPR offices, literally with bells on.
17. Fredrik
Air Date: 2010-05-03
Fredrik's lush harmonies are stripped to guitar, snare drum and maraca in this intimate performance.
18. Moby And Kelli Scarr
Air Date: 2010-05-04
Moby gives a live performance of his Project Song creation, "Gone to Sleep," at NPR's offices.
19. Tarrus Riley
Air Date: 2010-05-11
The singer performs three harmony-drenched reggae songs with Dean Fraser and a guitarist.
20. Phoenix
Air Date: 2010-05-18
Hear instantly recognizable hits such as "1901" and "Lisztomania," stripped down and reassembled.
21. Bettye LaVette
Air Date: 2010-05-21
The veteran soul singer blew into the NPR Music office and conquered it before she'd sung a note.
22. Roger McGuinn With Amy Tan, Dave Barry And More: Authors At The Tiny Desk
Air Date: 2010-06-01
Seven authors (Roy Blount Jr., Scott Turow and others) perform with a big-time ringer.
23. Zuill Bailey
Air Date: 2010-06-04
Hear the acclaimed musician play Bach on his amazingly resonant cello, built in 1693.
24. The Mynabirds
Air Date: 2010-06-21
Laura Burhenn's new band performs a soulful Tiny Desk Concert at the NPR Music offices.
25. 'Weird Al' Yankovic
Air Date: 2010-06-22
The venerable, multimillion-selling pop parodist plays three acoustic originals in the NPR offices.
26. Gogol Bordello
Air Date: 2010-06-28
The frenetic gypsy punk band performs the most rollicking and insane Tiny Desk Concert of all time.
27. Los Campesinos!
Air Date: 2010-07-05
The whip-smart sometimes bawdy U.K. band performs a clamorous ruckus in this Tiny Desk Concert.
28. Jimmy Cliff
Air Date: 2010-07-12
The reggae icon performs classics from the film The Harder They Come in this acoustic performance.
29. Villagers
Air Date: 2010-07-19
Villagers' Conor O'Brien performs a beautiful and memorable solo set in the NPR Music offices.
30. Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain
Air Date: 2010-07-26
The three demonstrate the way musical mastery can become an exercise in wordless communication.
31. The Holmes Brothers
Air Date: 2010-08-02
Hear the band play inspired soul from its latest album, Feed My Soul, at the NPR Music offices.
32. Mavis Staples
Air Date: 2010-08-09
The soul icon performs songs from her latest album, You Are Not Alone, at the NPR Music offices.
33. Frazey Ford
Air Date: 2010-08-15
The singer came to NPR Music with just her guitar to play four beautiful tunes from Obadiah.
34. Peter Wolf Crier
Air Date: 2010-08-17
The Minneapolis duo performs songs from its stormy debut album, Inter-Be.
35. Lawrence Arabia
Air Date: 2010-08-23
The New Zealand band plays four songs from its album Chant Darling at the NPR Music offices.
36. Brian Courtney Wilson
Air Date: 2010-08-25
The gospel singer sounds like somebody you know — somebody you know with stage presence for days.
37. Ana Tijoux
Air Date: 2010-08-30
With these intimate songs, the French-born Chilean rapper proves that hip-hop has no boundaries.
38. The Nels Cline Singers
Air Date: 2010-09-07
The ever-adaptable guitarist creates challenging and expressive music in the NPR Music offices.
39. Seu Jorge
Air Date: 2010-09-13
The singer and his band feed off the audience's live energy in a concert at the NPR Music offices.
40. Alisa Weilerstein
Air Date: 2010-09-15
The young cellist plays Bach with elegance and a new piece by Golijov with Technicolor brilliance.
41. Eef Barzelay Of Clem Snide
Air Date: 2010-09-20
Barzelay, maybe the most underrated songwriter in the business, performs at the NPR Music offices.
42. Lost In The Trees
Air Date: 2010-09-23
The band showcases its cinematic blend of storytelling and strings at the NPR Music offices.
43. Tom Tom Club
Air Date: 2010-10-06
The legendary group performs its pop hits in a rare acoustic set at the NPR Music offices.
44. Lower Dens
Air Date: 2010-10-10
Watch Jana Hunter bring her delicate, haunting voice and hypnotic sound to the Tiny Desk.
45. Hey Marseilles
Air Date: 2010-10-17
It doesn't take more than four minutes to fall in love with this utterly charming seven-piece band.
46. Stile Antico
Air Date: 2010-10-25
The 12-person ensemble performs from the NPR Music offices.
47. Nick Lowe
Air Date: 2010-11-01
At 61, Lowe is part crooner, part country and a little crotchety, but with a heart of pure pop.
48. Rana Santacruz
Air Date: 2010-11-02
In honor of the Day of the Dead, Santacruz performs at the NPR offices in traditional mariachi garb.
49. Black Dub
Air Date: 2010-11-08
In an intimate four-song set, Daniel Lanois and Trixie Whitley sound warm, vulnerable and ferocious.
50. Los Lobos
Air Date: 2010-11-10
This set from the NPR Music office has something new, something old and something to dance to.
51. Sharon Van Etten
Air Date: 2010-11-14
In this lovely Tiny Desk performance, Van Etten plays beguiling songs from her latest album, Epic.
52. The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger
Air Date: 2010-11-17
Watch Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl perform songs from Acoustic Sessions in the NPR offices.
53. Olof Arnalds
Air Date: 2010-11-22
Watch the Icelandic singer perform a lovely, folk-flavored set from the NPR Music offices.
54. Khaira Arby
Air Date: 2010-11-29
Watch Mali's queen of desert rock unveil her stunning vocal chops at the NPR Music offices.
55. Buke And Gass
Air Date: 2010-12-06
Watch the inventive and unpredictable duo play a joyfully pummeling set from the NPR Music offices.
56. Yolanda Kondonassis
Air Date: 2010-12-08
Watch the harpist give a powerful and intimate performance at the NPR Music offices.
57. The Red River
Air Date: 2010-12-13
Watch the 10-member band squeeze behind the Tiny Desk for an elegant, stripped-down performance.
58. The Heligoats
Air Date: 2010-12-15
What better way to celebrate our 100th Tiny Desk Concert than by discovering an artist worth loving?
59. Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O
Air Date: 2010-12-20
Though heavy on puns, the extraordinary jazz drummer's merry band isn't light on musicianship.
60. Luisa Maita
Air Date: 2010-12-26
The Brazilian singer floats and sprinkles notes onto just the right places at the NPR Music offices.
1. Abigail Washburn
Air Date: 2011-01-03
Watch the singer-songwriter mix American bluegrass and Chinese folk from the NPR Music offices.
2. Gyptian
Air Date: 2011-01-05
The reggae star performs his hit "Hold You" and more from the NPR Music offices in Washington, D.C.
3. David Wax Museum
Air Date: 2011-01-09
The band brings a frenetic, infectious blend of American and Mexican folk to the NPR Music offices.
4. Ballake Sissoko And Vincent Segal
Air Date: 2011-01-17
The masterful kora-and-cello duo performs a transfixing set combining African and European strings.
5. Iron And Wine
Air Date: 2011-01-21
Sam Beam gives a fresh side of his new songs at NPR, and tops it off with a devastating 2004 gem.
6. Basia Bulat
Air Date: 2011-01-24
The Canadian singer-songwriter sings highlights from her two albums, plus a surprise from Poland.
7. Richard Thompson
Air Date: 2011-02-01
Watch the folk-rock legend perform songs from his 20th solo album, Dream Attic, at NPR Music.
8. Stars
Air Date: 2011-02-03
Watch Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell transform three of Stars' songs into spare, pretty folk music.
9. Ivan And Alyosha
Air Date: 2011-02-07
The band showcases its Beatles-esque pop harmonies and sweet melodies from the NPR Music offices.
10. Esperanza Spalding
Air Date: 2011-02-12
The jazz bassist, singer and Best New Artist Grammy winner performs in the NPR Music offices.
11. Turtle Island Quartet
Air Date: 2011-02-16
With an eclectic palette of sounds and styles, the Turtle Island Quartet swings at NPR Music.
12. Adele
Air Date: 2011-02-17
In a three-song set at the NPR Music offices, the U.K. pop star showcases her brilliant voice.
13. Local Natives
Air Date: 2011-02-21
The L.A. band brings its euphoric choruses and clattering Afrobeat rhythms to the NPR Music offices.
14. Damien Jurado
Air Date: 2011-02-28
Hear Jurado's raw, time-worn, authentically graceful music, performed in the NPR Music office.
15. Steve Riley And The Mamou Playboys
Air Date: 2011-03-07
Watch the Grammy-nominated Cajun band play an upbeat yet bittersweet set from the NPR Music offices.
16. Lizz Wright
Air Date: 2011-03-14
In this two-song set at the NPR Music offices, Wright channels the gospel and soul of her past.
17. Nellie McKay
Air Date: 2011-04-04
McKay's bold, audacious personality shines in this set recorded at the NPR Music offices.
18. Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Air Date: 2011-04-06
Hear the Refugee All Stars' upbeat reggae grooves, performed live at the NPR Music offices.
19. Josh Ritter
Air Date: 2011-04-11
Ritter can't hide his enjoyment of a performance, even when his songs convey obsession or disaster.
20. Otis Taylor
Air Date: 2011-04-13
Watch the banjo player perform his trademark trance-inducing blues at the NPR Music offices.
21. Mount Kimbie
Air Date: 2011-04-18
Watch the dubstep duo perform our first-ever electronic Tiny Desk Concert at the NPR offices.
22. Pokey LaFarge
Air Date: 2011-04-20
Watch LaFarge play '20s- and '30s-inspired music with the help of his band, The South City Three.
23. Steve Earle
Air Date: 2011-04-25
A singer, author, actor and activist, Earle showcases many of his talents at the NPR Music offices.
24. Wu Man
Air Date: 2011-04-27
Watch the world's reigning pipa virtuoso play ancient music from her Chinese homeland.
25. Booker T. Jones
Air Date: 2011-05-02
Jones' name is synonymous with the Hammond B3 organ. Watch him play one in the NPR Music offices.
26. Julieta Venegas
Air Date: 2011-05-09
After six albums, including last year's Otra Cosa, Venegas is still defying expectations.
27. Neil Innes
Air Date: 2011-05-11
Watch the Rutles alumnus play three of his classic satirical songs in the NPR Music offices.
28. Future Islands
Air Date: 2011-05-16
Watch the band's short but intense and cathartic set, performed live in the NPR Music offices.
29. Low
Air Date: 2011-05-22
Singers Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker perform three songs from their gorgeous new album, C'mon.
30. Jackie Evancho
Air Date: 2011-05-23
Watch the 11-year-old perform Handel's "Ombra mai fu" at the NPR Music offices.
31. The Kopecky Family Band
Air Date: 2011-06-06
The Tennessee band's sweet, swollen folk-rock songs keep blooming into something irresistible.
32. The Black Angels
Air Date: 2011-06-08
Hear a bold and surprising mix of sensibilities — at once icy and rustic, cavernous and confined.
33. Chris Thile And Michael Daves
Air Date: 2011-06-13
Watch Thile and Daves play traditional bluegrass with New York intensity at the NPR Music offices.
34. Charlie Siem
Air Date: 2011-06-15
Watch the stylish young violinist pull out a bag of tricks in music by Paganini.
35. The Decemberists
Air Date: 2011-06-20
With Chris Funk and Sara Watkins, Colin Meloy plays three sparkling songs from The King Is Dead.
36. YACHT
Air Date: 2011-06-22
Watch the electro-pop band's striking and infectious performance at the NPR Music offices.
37. The Civil Wars
Air Date: 2011-06-27
Watch Joy Williams and John Paul White's swooning chemistry and stirring harmonies at NPR Music.
38. Milos
Air Date: 2011-06-30
Watch the newcomer from Montenegro play Spanish standards and a passionate ode to his homeland.
39. The Blind Boys Of Alabama
Air Date: 2011-07-05
Hear the gospel greats' mix of polished blues, swinging soul and from-the-gut expressions of faith.
40. Julian Lage Trio
Air Date: 2011-07-07
The guitarist, 23, was once called a prodigy. But he's maturing into a distinctive bandleader, too.
41. Ben Sollee
Air Date: 2011-07-11
The genre-bending cellist and songwriter has created a unique take on folk music.
42. Joe Boyd And Robyn Hitchcock
Air Date: 2011-07-18
Boyd reads from White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, while Hitchcock plays songs from the era.
43. Y La Bamba
Air Date: 2011-07-21
Watch Luzelena Mendoza and Y La Bamba craft joyfully rich vocal harmonies in the NPR Music offices.
44. Givers
Air Date: 2011-07-24
At the NPR offices, the band plays a sunny, exuberant set, suitable for dancing and bobbing along.
45. They Might Be Giants
Air Date: 2011-07-28
Watch the band perform two of its brand-new songs, as well as "Fingertips," a classic 1992 chestnut.
46. Amanda Shires
Air Date: 2011-08-03
The singer plays a charming set featuring songs from Carrying Lightning at the Tiny Desk.
47. Noah And The Whale
Air Date: 2011-08-10
The London band plugs in its drum machine, but sweet simplicity still reigns in the NPR offices.
48. Paul Jacobs
Air Date: 2011-08-12
Watch the miraculous hands (and feet) of the Grammy-winning organist in an all-Bach performance.
49. Gaby Moreno
Air Date: 2011-08-15
Watch the Guatemalan singer's breathtaking and passionate set at the NPR Music offices.
50. Other Lives
Air Date: 2011-08-18
The Oklahoma band brings its spacious minor-key hymns to the NPR Music offices.
51. James Vincent McMorrow
Air Date: 2011-08-25
The Irishman has one of the most arresting voices of any young singer you're likely to hear.
52. CALLmeKAT
Air Date: 2011-08-29
Watch the synth-pop musician perform a hauntingly beautiful set at the NPR Music offices.
53. Phosphorescent
Air Date: 2011-09-01
Watch Matthew Houck play a stirring, road-ragged solo Tiny Desk Concert at the NPR Music offices.
54. King Creosote And Jon Hopkins
Air Date: 2011-09-04
Diamond Mine's unassuming creators lose little of their charm and mystique in the NPR Music office.
55. Foster The People
Air Date: 2011-09-09
Armed with the summer song of 2011, the band brings "Pumped Up Kicks" and more to NPR Music.
56. Diego Garcia
Air Date: 2011-09-12
Watch the former Elefant frontman perform songs from his album Laura at the NPR Music offices.
57. Sean Rowe
Air Date: 2011-09-16
Rowe brings his booming voice and ever-louder acoustic-guitar set-ups to the NPR Music offices.
58. Jeremy Messersmith
Air Date: 2011-09-19
The Twin Cities singer is a pop genius, with creative ambition to match his considerable charm.
59. Beirut
Air Date: 2011-09-21
Beirut performs worldly, inspired songs from its new album The Rip Tide at the NPR Music offices.
60. Jenny Lin
Air Date: 2011-09-26
The pianist usually plays eight-foot Steinways. See what she does on an electronic keyboard.
61. The Klezmatics
Air Date: 2011-09-28
Ring in Rosh Hashanah with three globe-trotting tunes from one of the world's greatest Jewish bands.
62. Trombone Shorty
Air Date: 2011-09-29
The New Orleans native achieved stardom with his voice and his horn. But he just wants you to dance.
63. Mates Of State
Air Date: 2011-10-05
The band's performance in the NPR Music offices creates a vibe of ragged, awkward intimacy.
64. Fountains Of Wayne
Air Date: 2011-10-06
These songs showcase a band with tremendous narrative gifts and a flair for subtle beauty.
65. JEFF The Brotherhood
Air Date: 2011-10-08
Of course, the power-punk duo took off their shirts at the NPR Music offices, because why not?
66. Grouplove
Air Date: 2011-10-11
The upstart band brings youthful, infectious energy to the NPR Music offices.
67. Chris Bathgate
Air Date: 2011-10-14
The Michigan native's deliberately paced music is too rustic and pretty to be a true downer.
68. Wilco
Air Date: 2011-10-17
Armed with tiny amps and a ton of grace, Wilco plays new songs and an old favorite at the Tiny Desk.
69. Hilary Hahn
Air Date: 2011-10-21
The classical violinist blends Bach and Charles Ives with flair, then tops it off with a fedora.
70. Ben Williams And Sound Effect
Air Date: 2011-10-24
The jazz star and his band perform two songs from their album State of Art at the NPR Music offices.
71. Lisa Hannigan
Air Date: 2011-10-29
Exuding both musical and personal warmth, the Irish singer mesmerized at the NPR Music offices.
72. Juanes
Air Date: 2011-11-03
Watch the charismatic Colombian superstar give an intimate performance at the NPR Music offices.
73. Jens Lekman
Air Date: 2011-11-07
The Swedish singer shows off his humor and charm in this intimate set at the NPR Music offices.
74. Marketa Irglova
Air Date: 2011-11-10
At the NPR Music offices, Irglova mixes the exotic and the familiar; sweetness and longing.
75. Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile And Stuart Duncan
Air Date: 2011-11-17
The genre-bending cellist heads a dream team of string players who borrow from bluegrass.
76. Joe Henry
Air Date: 2011-11-21
Asking the fearless, easygoing singer to perform in a crowded office never felt like an imposition.
77. Hospital Ships
Air Date: 2011-11-23
Hospital Ships' beautiful, crushing songs pack an emotional punch in this performance at NPR Music.
78. Gabriel Kahane
Air Date: 2011-11-26
Hear the agile musician's rigorously crafted songs, which fall somewhere between classical and pop.
79. tUnE-yArDs
Air Date: 2011-12-01
tUnE-yArDs sings of rage and inequality, but also celebrates the joy of letting out a wild sound.
80. I Wayne
Air Date: 2011-12-12
As the cameras rolled, the reggae star came to life, showcasing his smooth voice and vibrant energy.
81. Gem Club
Air Date: 2011-12-16
Maybe you couldn't hear a pin drop when Gem Club played, but you could hear the click of a keyboard.
82. The Music Tapes
Air Date: 2011-12-20
The Elephant 6 alum plays a holiday set compete with bowed banjos, singing saws and tape machines.
83. Maria Volonte
Air Date: 2011-12-27
The Argentine singer blends tango, Latin blues and the traditional music of Brazil and Peru.
1. Tinariwen
Air Date: 2012-01-05
Even in a stripped-down acoustic set, Tinariwen's trance-inducing desert music doesn't disappoint.
2. Le Butcherettes
Air Date: 2012-01-09
Watch singer Teri Gender Bender transform from a soft-spoken musician into a rock 'n' roll beast.
3. Screaming Females
Air Date: 2012-01-17
The band's keen sense of song prevails, especially in a new song called "It All Means Nothing."
4. Jake Schepps' Expedition Quartet
Air Date: 2012-01-19
Banjo master Schepps and friends create an intriguing goulash of Bartók, bluegrass and bebop.
5. Glenn Jones
Air Date: 2012-01-23
Watch the masterful folk guitarist perform a lovely instrumental set at the NPR Music offices.
6. Anna Calvi
Air Date: 2012-01-26
Calvi plays songs from her self-titled debut in this powerful performance at the NPR Music offices.
7. Girl In A Coma
Air Date: 2012-01-30
The San Antonio trio gets back to basics to explore its songs' forms and the soul of its lyrics.
8. Bill Frisell
Air Date: 2012-02-03
The brilliant and nimble guitarist reinvents the songs of John Lennon at the NPR Music offices.
9. The Creole Choir Of Cuba
Air Date: 2012-02-06
The group has revitalized a long-lost culture through music performed entirely in Haitian Creole.
10. Craig Finn
Air Date: 2012-02-09
The Hold Steady singer's stark side is nicely conducive to barren arrangements at the NPR offices.
11. Red Baraat
Air Date: 2012-02-14
The dance-friendly, India-inspired funk group performs a high-energy set at the NPR Music offices.
12. Joan Soriano
Air Date: 2012-02-16
"The Duke of Bachata" gives a raw but beautiful interpretation of bachata at the NPR Music offices.
13. Joyce El Khoury And Brian Jagde
Air Date: 2012-02-20
Hear the fresh-faced opera singers perform Puccini at the NPR Music offices.
14. The Cranberries
Air Date: 2012-02-23
In this performance at the NPR Music offices, the Irish pop band mixes new songs with early hits.
15. Milagres
Air Date: 2012-02-27
A band of selective minimalism, Milagres gets the most of simple sounds at the NPR Music offices.
16. Pistolera
Air Date: 2012-03-01
Through her insightful lyrics, Sandra Velasquez conjures the sounds of the Mexican desert.
17. Laura Gibson
Air Date: 2012-03-05
Her gorgeous, whispery voice inspired the Tiny Desk Concerts series in 2008. Now, Laura Gibson returns with her band to perform four songs from her new album, La Grande.
18. Rudresh Mahanthappa
Air Date: 2012-03-08
The saxophonist's new repertoire salutes electric funk, South Indian modes and swarming solos.
19. Real Estate
Air Date: 2012-03-12
Real Estate wears placidity well: It's a band born and bred to convey and celebrate laconic comfort.
20. Kayhan Kalhor
Air Date: 2012-03-24
A soulful master musician from Iran, Kalhor performs a beautiful improvisation at the NPR offices.
21. First Aid Kit
Air Date: 2012-03-28
Sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg make charming, folk-infused pop music that lulls and enchants.
22. So Percussion
Air Date: 2012-04-02
The ensemble employs all kinds of toys, from an amplified cactus to a mug filled with spare change.
23. Kathleen Edwards
Air Date: 2012-04-05
The Canadian singer performs four sweet, warm, relatable songs that soothe as they nourish.
24. Caveman
Air Date: 2012-04-10
Caveman writes guitar-based pop songs full of space and melodies you can carry around in your head.
25. Novalima
Air Date: 2012-04-12
At the NPR offices, the band plays in a lean, funky configuration that gets the room grooving along.
26. Soweto Gospel Choir
Air Date: 2012-04-16
The group fuses the music of many Christian cultures, with nods to African songs of celebration.
27. Jolie Holland
Air Date: 2012-04-23
Holland plays songs with an unadorned tone that makes the voice and lyrics all the more touching.
28. Cowboy Junkies
Air Date: 2012-04-26
The venerable band sounds as poignant and tender as ever in this performance at the NPR offices.
29. Hospitality
Air Date: 2012-04-30
The group doesn't overwhelm so much as it wears listeners down with a subtle charm offensive.
30. Nathan Salsburg
Air Date: 2012-05-03
The guitarist displays intricate fingerpicking in two songs inspired by Kentucky Derby racehorses.
31. Endangered Blood
Air Date: 2012-05-07
The jazz quartet draws from post-bop, 20th-century chromaticism and New Orleans funeral marches.
32. Kishi Bashi
Air Date: 2012-05-10
K Ishibashi is a master at building songs from live violin loops, layered singing and beatboxing.
33. Pedro Soler And Gaspar Claus
Air Date: 2012-05-14
The improvisational music of the father-son, guitar-cello duo functions as a beautiful conversation.
34. Chuck Brown
Air Date: 2012-05-16
The Godfather of Go-Go died Wednesday. In 2010, he brought his full band to the NPR Music office.
35. Arborea
Air Date: 2012-05-17
Rooted in acoustic traditions, the music of Arborea stands out for its calm beauty and rough edges.
36. Yann Tiersen
Air Date: 2012-05-21
Tiersen's rich, liltingly eccentric pop music is constructed from lots of sweet, intricate pieces.
37. Canadian Brass
Air Date: 2012-05-26
The venerable brass quintet sports virtuosic, fresh-faced players in tried-and-true repertoire.
38. Patrick Watson
Air Date: 2012-05-31
Watson has a lovely voice and a gift for wringing evocative sounds out of everything he touches.
39. Kelly Hogan
Air Date: 2012-06-04
The unflappable singer performs three songs with seeming effortlessness and easygoing charm.
40. Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom
Air Date: 2012-06-07
The drummer dedicates tunes to her friends, including her first teacher — a "sometimes great guy."
41. Daniel Johnston
Air Date: 2012-06-11
Watch three songs by a troubled soul with a talent for writing honest, disarmingly direct music.
42. Glen Hansard
Air Date: 2012-06-17
Hansard flexes his neck muscles a bit as he performs new songs and deep cuts at the NPR offices.
43. Mariachi El Bronx
Air Date: 2012-06-21
The band plays with just the right mixture of passion and pathos in a fun set at the NPR offices.
44. Reggie Watts
Air Date: 2012-06-25
The comedian and musician performs spontaneous improvisations full of killer grooves and humor.
45. Exitmusic
Air Date: 2012-07-02
The band plays a beautifully buzzing, nuanced set, marked by gorgeous grace and stirring melodies.
46. Brandi Carlile
Air Date: 2012-07-09
At the NPR offices, Carlile and her band sing from-the-gut songs about messy lives, loudly lived.
47. Laura Marling
Air Date: 2012-07-12
Two songs from A Creature I Don't Know bookend a gorgeous new, unreleased song called "Once."
48. Souad Massi
Air Date: 2012-07-15
A soulful yet steely singer-songwriter from Algeria charts her own course in these four songs.
49. The Milk Carton Kids
Air Date: 2012-07-16
Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale sing sweet but intricate folk-pop songs in the NPR offices.
50. Janet Feder
Air Date: 2012-07-22
Feder marries classical and folk techniques with otherworldly guitar textures and sounds.
51. The Walkmen
Air Date: 2012-07-29
The band makes the Tiny Desk accommodate its booming sound rather than the other way around.
52. Beth Orton
Air Date: 2012-08-06
Known for mixing folk and electronics, Orton unveils three new songs with just an acoustic guitar.
53. The Zombies
Air Date: 2012-08-12
Two surviving members of the band still have the same chemistry here in a stripped-down performance.
54. Rufus Wainwright
Air Date: 2012-08-20
By the middle of Wainwright's final song, "Montauk," few dry eyes remained in the NPR offices.
55. Renaud Garcia-Fons
Air Date: 2012-08-27
Watch the renowned double bassist thump, strum and loop his way through three mesmerizing songs.
56. Avi Avital
Air Date: 2012-09-10
Avital's mandolin sings with the sounds of Ernest Bloch and a raucous Bulgarian folk tune.
57. Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra
Air Date: 2012-09-17
These songs' fervor is the product of a singer armed with intensity and musicians who can match it.
58. Yva Las Vegass
Air Date: 2012-09-24
Watch Las Vegass bring a punk aesthetic to Venezuelan folk music with a cuatro at the NPR offices.
59. Kat Edmonson
Air Date: 2012-10-01
Hearing the 29-year-old singer makes it virtually impossible to do anything but stop and listen.
60. Antibalas
Air Date: 2012-10-04
It's one thing for 11 musicians to make a big sound, but what stands out is Antibalas' subtlety.
61. Spirit Family Reunion
Air Date: 2012-10-08
The group plays fiddle, banjo, guitar and washboard, all gathered around a single microphone.
62. Dirty Three
Air Date: 2012-10-15
The band unleashes a gorgeous flurry of shambolic rumbling, prolific hairiness and dramatic yelling.
63. Robert Cray Band
Air Date: 2012-10-22
Like any great blues singer, Cray makes heartache and dysfunction sound engaging and relatable.
64. Lord Huron
Air Date: 2012-10-25
The band's rich harmonies are welcoming, its lyrics relatable and its live performances thrilling.
65. Passion Pit
Air Date: 2012-10-29
Michael Angelakos makes electro-pop with monster hooks. But his songs are sturdy, versatile things.
66. Jason Lytle
Air Date: 2012-11-05
The longtime frontman for Grandaddy goes it alone with acoustic solo songs from his latest record.
67. Flaco Jimenez
Air Date: 2012-11-12
The conjunto icon spins magic, and stays true to tradition, with his trademark button accordion.
68. Ben Gibbard
Air Date: 2012-11-19
For Tiny Desk Concert No. 250, the Death Cab for Cutie and Postal Service singer performs solo.
69. Martha Wainwright
Air Date: 2012-11-26
Wainwright roughs up life's smooth spots, then digs her fingertips into the cracks that form.
70. Taken By Trees
Air Date: 2012-11-29
Victoria Bergsman's songs seem to come from a place somewhere between a dream state and waking life.
71. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Air Date: 2012-12-03
The Seattle duo literally shakes the dust off the ceiling tiles at the NPR Music offices.
72. Anaïs Mitchell
Air Date: 2012-12-06
The singer-songwriter performs three of Young Man in America's most bracingly beautiful songs.
73. Daniel Bachman
Air Date: 2012-12-09
Once the acoustic guitarist zeroes in on the center of a song, it's easy to get lost in it yourself.
74. Lyle Lovett
Air Date: 2012-12-10
Lovett gives a loose, engaging performance that feels like both an introduction and a victory lap.
75. Alt-J
Air Date: 2012-12-17
The Mercury Prize-winning band plays angular, poetic, inventive music that takes unexpected turns.
76. The Polyphonic Spree
Air Date: 2012-12-21
The sprawling group, 17 strong, squeezes behind Bob Boilen's desk for a special holiday performance.
77. Miguel
Air Date: 2012-12-31
Performing at the NPR Music offices, Miguel strips his highly produced hits down to their bones.
1. Lucius
Air Date: 2013-01-07
One minute, Lucius sounds like a '60s girl group; the next might conjure images of Emmylou Harris.
2. Black Prairie
Air Date: 2013-01-14
With members of The Decemberists, the band lends a snappy, lilting quality to songs of alienation.
3. Of Montreal
Air Date: 2013-01-28
Frontman Kevin Barnes uses the intimacy of the NPR Music offices to try out some quiet new material.
4. Cantus
Air Date: 2013-02-04
The a cappella ensemble sings widely divergent songs from American, European and Sufi traditions.
5. The xx
Air Date: 2013-02-11
In The xx's songs, all the calm chilliness in the world can't quite contain an exposed heart.
6. Night Beds
Air Date: 2013-02-18
Winston Yellen's arresting voice propels a lighthearted but deeply affecting set at the NPR office.
7. Mary Halvorson Quintet
Air Date: 2013-02-25
The guitarist brings a decidedly non-standard approach to jazz's standard practices.
8. The Lone Bellow
Air Date: 2013-03-04
The fast-rising Brooklyn trio sings beautiful, heartfelt, impeccably harmonized folk-pop songs.
9. Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill
Air Date: 2013-03-11
Watch one of the best fiddlers on the planet and a subtle guitar master work their magic.
10. Efterklang
Air Date: 2013-04-08
The Danish band ransacks the NPR Music offices looking for sound-making material and new ideas.
11. Yo La Tengo
Air Date: 2013-04-15
To coincide with the release of the band's 13th album, Fade, Yo La Tengo performs an acoustic set.
12. Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu
Air Date: 2013-04-22
The duo's quietly energetic performance hangs over the the NPR Music offices like a soft mist.
13. Father Figures
Air Date: 2013-04-29
Zany, brainy and danceable, these guys' music mixes rock and jazz like King Crimson at its fiercest.
14. Nicola Benedetti
Air Date: 2013-05-06
Watch the violinist spin out music by John Williams and Bach in sweet, soulful tendrils of sound.
15. Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale
Air Date: 2013-05-13
The veteran country players mix corny humor, musical merrymaking and timeless vocal harmonies.
16. Mohammad Reza Shajarian
Air Date: 2013-05-20
The 73-year-old Iranian icon unleashes torrents of swooping, soaring sound that elicit goosebumps.
17. Imani Winds
Air Date: 2013-05-29
Imani Winds' members shrink Igor Stravinsky down to size in a quintet take on The Rite of Spring.
18. OK Go
Air Date: 2013-06-03
OK Go helps us transport the Tiny Desk from NPR Music's old headquarters to our new facility.
19. The National
Air Date: 2013-06-10
Watch the band perform acoustic arrangements of four songs from its new album, Trouble Will Find Me.
20. NO BS! Brass Band
Air Date: 2013-06-15
An 11-piece brass band turns up the funk and flies the flag high for its native Richmond, Va.
21. Billy Bragg
Air Date: 2013-06-17
One of the world's finest folksingers channels the spirit of Woody Guthrie at the NPR Music offices.
22. Patty Griffin
Air Date: 2013-06-24
Watch the singer-songwriter and her band perform three songs from her fine new album, American Kid.
23. Maya Beiser
Air Date: 2013-06-29
A brilliant cellist with a stunning command of her instrument, Beiser performs at the NPR offices.
24. Laura Mvula
Air Date: 2013-07-01
The U.K. singer performs some of her most intimate material in a short set at the NPR Music offices.
25. Cheick Hamala Diabate
Air Date: 2013-07-06
The Malian musician and his band craft melodies and rhythms that cut across age and ethnicity.
26. Skinny Lister
Air Date: 2013-07-08
The rowdy English folk-punk band brings its barely controlled mayhem to the NPR Music offices.
27. Frank Turner
Air Date: 2013-07-13
Two men with unplugged instruments convey the bawdy rowdiness of a full band.
28. Alice Russell
Air Date: 2013-07-15
When the British singer performs, her emotionally fiery music just gets hotter and grittier.
29. Cheyenne Mize
Air Date: 2013-07-20
The singer, instrumentalist and music therapist plays slinky, forceful songs at NPR Music.
30. Guards
Air Date: 2013-07-22
Hear three sturdy pop songs from In Guards We Trust, performed live at the NPR Music offices.
31. Time For Three
Air Date: 2013-07-27
Hear the "classically trained garage band" perform with staggering technique and contagious energy.
32. Dana Falconberry
Air Date: 2013-07-29
Watch Falconberry and five bandmates perform three delicate songs from her recent album Leelanau.
33. Keaton Henson
Air Date: 2013-08-03
Henson's voice is so fragile and hushed, if you were 10 feet away from him you'd barely hear a peep.
34. Jim Guthrie
Air Date: 2013-08-10
Guthrie and his band drove 18 hours round-trip from Ontario to perform three songs for NPR Music.
35. Alpine
Air Date: 2013-08-12
The Australian sextet crafts busily impeccable, harmony-intensive pop music with a danceable sway.
36. Mother Falcon
Air Date: 2013-08-17
The 17-member chamber-rock collective uses its size in the service of great, snappy, stirring songs.
37. The Front Bottoms
Air Date: 2013-08-19
The community that's formed around The Front Bottoms speaks to the band's passion and compassion.
38. Buika
Air Date: 2013-08-26
Concha Buika's voice comes from Africa and the past. Watch her perform in the NPR Music offices.
39. Steve Gunn
Air Date: 2013-08-31
Watch Gunn's trio perform a set of hypnotic long-form jams that are perfect for taking it easy.
40. Baths
Air Date: 2013-09-04
Watch Baths' Will Wiesenfeld perform mysterious, textured electronic music in the NPR offices.
41. Bombino
Air Date: 2013-09-07
For our 300th Tiny Desk Concert, we showcase a Tuareg guitarist's fierce, hypnotic, alluring jams.
42. The 1975
Air Date: 2013-09-10
Performing solo, singer Matthew Healy doesn't hesitate to transform both his songs and himself.
43. Arturo O'Farrill
Air Date: 2013-09-14
With an eye on both the past and the future, O'Farrill has jazz and Afro-Cuban music in his DNA.
44. Shovels & Rope
Air Date: 2013-09-16
The husband-and-wife duo mixes rowdy folk-rock and rootsy ballads, with the help of a canine friend.
45. The Cristina Pato Trio
Air Date: 2013-09-21
A Galician bagpiper and her trio take Celtic sounds in an entirely wild and wonderful direction.
46. Hem
Air Date: 2013-09-28
Hem makes a homey, fireside kind of music, with songs that feel as if they've always been there.
47. Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi
Air Date: 2013-09-30
The Zimbabwean legend performs songs from the mournful but celebratory Sarawoga for NPR Music.
48. Lawrence Brownlee
Air Date: 2013-10-05
The operatic tenor, acclaimed for his Rossini, circles back to his roots as a singer of spirituals.
49. Superchunk
Air Date: 2013-10-07
Watch the venerable band translate its electric sound to acoustic instruments in an intimate way.
50. Valerie June
Air Date: 2013-10-12
Short of seeing her live and in person, this is the best way to encounter June's heartfelt sound.
51. Okkervil River
Air Date: 2013-10-15
The band performs three songs from a record inspired by the childhood of singer Will Sheff.
52. Matt Ulery's Loom
Air Date: 2013-10-19
The bassist composes beautiful, unpretentious music for an unusual jazz band with accordion.
53. Daughter
Air Date: 2013-10-21
Pretty and melancholy, the Londoners' music conjures a perfect mix of gloom, desire and hostility.
54. Typhoon
Air Date: 2013-10-26
The dozen members of this Portland, Ore. band crammed behind the Tiny Desk for a transcendent set.
55. San Fermin
Air Date: 2013-10-28
The orchestral folk-pop band's little song-worlds burst with ambition, talent and extreme joy.
56. Neko Case
Air Date: 2013-10-31
Watch a Halloween Tiny Desk Concert in which Case performs with Kelly Hogan and Eric Bachmann.
57. Ashley Monroe
Air Date: 2013-11-03
This three-song set in the NPR Music offices captures a nice cross-section of Monroe's appeal.
58. Gary Burton
Air Date: 2013-11-09
The jazz vibraphone pioneer is 70 now, but that hasn't slowed his flying four-mallet technique.
59. Debashish Bhattacharya
Air Date: 2013-11-12
Bhattacharya draws on North Indian classical music, but blues also pours out of his stunning work.
60. John Legend
Air Date: 2013-11-16
The soul singer retains the easygoing grace of a performer fit for any stage — even a tiny one.
61. Waxahatchee
Air Date: 2013-11-23
This is Katie Crutchfield as Waxahatchee, playing intimate music for an intimate setting.
62. Kronos Quartet
Air Date: 2013-11-25
The intrepid champions of new music bring a lullaby, rare blues and a work by Bryce Dessner to NPR.
63. The Dismemberment Plan
Air Date: 2013-12-02
The band exudes playfulness and wry charm throughout these three songs from Uncanney Valley.
64. Sarah Jarosz
Air Date: 2013-12-07
Jarosz and her small backing band craft a careful mix of technical proficiency and poppy warmth.
65. Dessa
Air Date: 2013-12-09
The whip-smart rapper, singer, poet and songwriter performs three tracks from Parts of Speech.
66. Christine Salem
Air Date: 2013-12-14
Salem sings work songs and chants from the maloya tradition on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
67. La Santa Cecilia
Air Date: 2013-12-16
The video here provides just a hint of the L.A. band's dynamic live shows, albeit a spectacular one.
68. Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Air Date: 2013-12-21
The hot and historic New Orleans band brings a tuba-wielding Santa and some original holiday cheer.
1. Van-Anh Vanessa Vo
Air Date: 2014-01-04
The musician unpacks an array of traditional Vietnamese instruments — and 1,000 years of culture.
2. Lily & Madeleine
Air Date: 2014-01-07
The teenagers play a restrained, homespun mix of folk and pop with undeniably sweet harmonies.
3. Afro Blue
Air Date: 2014-01-13
The Howard University vocal jazz ensemble performs beautiful African-American spirituals.
4. Robert Glasper Experiment
Air Date: 2014-01-20
Members of the Grammy-winning, organic R&B Experiment band jam with singer Marsha Ambrosius.
5. Angel Olsen
Air Date: 2014-01-27
The expressive, powerful singer previews songs from her new album, Burn Your Fire for No Witness.
6. Pixies
Air Date: 2014-02-03
Hear the legendary band perform 1989's "Monkey Gone to Heaven" and two new songs — one unreleased.
7. Fanfare Ciocarlia
Air Date: 2014-02-08
The joyous Balkan brass band plays at a pace that would make the Ramones burst into a sweat.
8. Suzanne Vega
Air Date: 2014-02-10
The inventive folk-music veteran book-ends a four-song set with her hits "Luka" and "Tom's Diner."
9. Cate Le Bon
Air Date: 2014-02-18
The Welsh singer's set conveys loneliness and doubt with just two guitars and an inviting whisper.
10. Sofia Rei
Air Date: 2014-02-22
For about 20 minutes one sunny afternoon, Rei turned a desk into a small Latin American folk club.
11. Brass Bed
Air Date: 2014-02-24
See the band re-create some of its stellar studio effects with a pedal steel and some novelty mics.
12. Asaf Avidan
Air Date: 2014-03-02
Avidan has an album and no U.S. record label to put it out. But he's on a solo tour that's stunning.
13. Lowland Hum
Air Date: 2014-03-06
It's hard to convey the sound of two people in love, but Lowland Hum does that effortlessly.
14. Jake Bugg
Air Date: 2014-03-10
Watch the 20-year-old English singer-songwriter, who has worked with superproducer Rick Rubin.
15. Diane Cluck
Air Date: 2014-03-17
On record, Cluck's elastic voice and fingerpicking are impressive. Live, they jam the senses.
16. Joseph Calleja
Air Date: 2014-03-24
All the world's top opera houses want the young tenor with the old-school approach.
17. The Haden Triplets
Air Date: 2014-03-31
When the sisters cover classic country music together, the result is a treat and a trip in time.
18. The Both
Air Date: 2014-04-07
Singer-songwriters Aimee Mann and Ted Leo unite from opposite ends of the volume knob.
19. Tom Brosseau
Air Date: 2014-04-12
The North Dakota singer-songwriter possesses one of the most arresting voices in folk music today.
20. Courtney Barnett
Air Date: 2014-04-14
Barnett tells stories like your best friend, provided your best friend is a funny Australian poet.
21. Usman Riaz
Air Date: 2014-04-19
A young Pakistani musician treats the guitar as percussion — with surprisingly shimmering results.
22. Federico Aubele
Air Date: 2014-04-21
The Argentine singer uses his dark, husky voice to produce a specific effect in these three songs.
23. Quilt
Air Date: 2014-04-26
Interweaving harmonies and guitar lines set the tone for these soft, benevolent, dreamy songs.
24. Johnnyswim
Air Date: 2014-04-28
Impossibly telegenic and charming, the band mixes booming intensity with polish and sparkle.
25. Cian Nugent
Air Date: 2014-05-03
The Dublin guitarist runs through a ragtime jaunt, a basement-bar choogle and a sad-sack closer.
26. Public Service Broadcasting
Air Date: 2014-05-05
The duo's sample-laden instrumental music is entertainment as education for the head and feet alike.
27. Timber Timbre
Air Date: 2014-05-10
See the swamp-folk band play a characteristically eerie and mysterious set in the NPR Music offices.
28. Chvrches
Air Date: 2014-05-12
The Scottish synth-pop band turns up with a small arsenal of synthesizers to perform three songs.
29. Iestyn Davies
Air Date: 2014-05-17
See the countertenor and lutenist Thomas Dunford perform John Dowland's melancholy songs.
30. Ages And Ages
Air Date: 2014-05-20
The band makes the kind of music that can at least briefly restore your faith in humanity.
31. Yasmine Hamdan
Air Date: 2014-05-24
The Lebanese singer-songwriter is one of the most groundbreaking musicians in the Middle East.
32. Hozier
Air Date: 2014-05-27
Andrew Hozier-Byrne wraps his rich, vital, soulful voice around songs rooted in the blues.
33. Juana Molina
Air Date: 2014-05-31
Molina sounds as if she'd been raised by wolves and discovered the world of music on her own.
34. Simone Dinnerstein
Air Date: 2014-06-02
Watch the celebrated pianist make Bach's Two-part Inventions sing and zing.
35. Marian McLaughlin
Air Date: 2014-06-07
A quirky and wistful performer with a string section, McLaughlin makes music like few others.
36. Eliot Fisk And Paco Peña
Air Date: 2014-06-14
A classical virtuoso and an equally captivating flamenco player combine for a set of duets.
37. Rodney Crowell
Air Date: 2014-06-16
The country singer-songwriter performs with the ease and swagger of a man comfortable in his ways.
38. Mali Music
Air Date: 2014-06-21
The singer-songwriter and musician performs with unabashed positivity and an uplifting spirit.
39. Conor Oberst
Air Date: 2014-06-23
The Bright Eyes singer performs songs from Upside Down Mountain with help from members of Dawes.
40. Tracy Silverman
Air Date: 2014-06-28
See the innovative player create waves of sound with a six-string violin.
41. Lydia Loveless
Air Date: 2014-07-01
The 23-year-old singer-guitarist performs gritty, countrified blues-rock in the NPR Music offices.
42. The Foreign Exchange
Air Date: 2014-07-05
Watch the Tiny Desk turn into a church, comedy club and neo-soul spot.
43. Moon Hooch
Air Date: 2014-07-07
They call what they make "cave music" — but it's just as powerful at the Tiny Desk.
44. John Grant
Air Date: 2014-07-13
Grant's songs don't mess around, with lyrics that function as darts of retort and thought.
45. Holly Williams
Air Date: 2014-07-14
The singer has a magnificent way with phrasing, not to mention a remarkable country-music lineage.
46. Marisa Anderson
Air Date: 2014-07-19
The guitarist kicks up some dirt with a Rev. Gary Davis deconstruction and a Stratocaster hoedown.
47. Hamilton Leithauser
Air Date: 2014-07-21
In this three-song set, the Walkmen singer demonstrates that he's lost none of his vocal power.
48. Highasakite
Air Date: 2014-07-25
Watch an atmospheric Norwegian band with a yearning sound. Also: See a flugabone!
49. Saintseneca
Air Date: 2014-07-29
In the NPR offices, the Ohio band plays three alternately brooding and stomping songs from Dark Arc.
50. Quetzal
Air Date: 2014-08-02
The veteran East L.A. band's music penetrates the intellect even as it makes your hips sway.
51. The Family Crest
Air Date: 2014-08-04
The band's seven players are trained in classical and jazz, led by Liam McCormick's powerful voice.
52. Irene Diaz
Air Date: 2014-08-09
With Carolyn Cardoza, Diaz conjures a place where emotions run deep and beauty is unmistakable.
53. Bob Mould
Air Date: 2014-08-11
The former Hüsker Dü and Sugar frontman plugs in for a characteristically loud four-song set.
54. Ernest Ranglin
Air Date: 2014-08-16
Watch a talented, charming guitar legend make magic as his band Avila holds down the beat.
55. Pacifica Quartet
Air Date: 2014-08-18
Watch the group play selections from Shostakovich's cycle of introspective string quartets.
56. Rodrigo Amarante
Air Date: 2014-08-23
A veteran of Little Joy and Los Hermanos, Amarante makes warm, tender music as a solo artist.
57. Nickel Creek
Air Date: 2014-08-26
The band was made to sing and play around one microphone, so a Tiny Desk Concert seemed inevitable.
58. Sturgill Simpson
Air Date: 2014-08-30
The Kentucky native writes country songs about loneliness, failed dreams, drinking and drugs.
59. Trampled By Turtles
Air Date: 2014-09-03
Known for the speed of their playing, the Minnesotans are about more than just blistering bluegrass.
60. Jessica Lea Mayfield
Air Date: 2014-09-06
Mayfield's music has gotten more beguiling as she explores the many contrasts in her hypnotic sound.
61. Justin Townes Earle
Air Date: 2014-09-08
In advance of his new album Single Mothers, the singer performs two new songs and an old favorite.
62. Luluc
Air Date: 2014-09-15
Graceful singing and storytelling meet guitars and textures that help create an unforgettable aura.
63. Tweedy
Air Date: 2014-09-22
With his drummer son Spencer, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy performs songs from their new album, Sukierae.
64. Bio Ritmo
Air Date: 2014-09-29
The 10-piece salsa band built its career on dance floors, where it never fails to make people move.
65. Ryan Keberle & Catharsis
Air Date: 2014-10-04
The trombonist's working band established some nifty swing, assisted in absentia by Sufjan Stevens.
66. Jackson Browne
Air Date: 2014-10-06
Browne still writes songs with conviction, craftsmanship and careful attention to detail.
67. Raquel Sofia
Air Date: 2014-10-11
Sofia has spent most of her career 20 feet from stardom as a backup singer for Juanes and Shakira.
68. The Bots
Air Date: 2014-10-14
The band plays with a great rock-duo punch that recalls The White Stripes or JEFF The Brotherhood.
69. Ásgeir
Air Date: 2014-10-18
The Icelandic singer's voice is angelic and yearning, his songs simple and universal.
70. Anthony D'Amato
Air Date: 2014-10-20
D'Amato's music can feel Motown-y, garage-y and Springsteen-y, but he sounds sparer here.
71. Danish String Quartet
Air Date: 2014-10-25
Watch the young, versatile ensemble play folk music from around Denmark and beyond.
72. T-Pain
Air Date: 2014-10-29
We asked the King of Auto-Tune to grace the Tiny Desk without any embellishment or effects.
73. Banks
Air Date: 2014-10-30
Known for lavish electronic productions, Banks serves notice as a powerful singer in her own right.
74. Sun Ra Arkestra
Air Date: 2014-10-31
With costumes inspired by Egyptian symbolism and sci-fi, Ra's band plays a special Halloween set.
75. Making Movies
Air Date: 2014-11-08
A rousing band from Kansas City, Making Movies mixes languages and eras with infectious energy.
76. Roomful Of Teeth
Air Date: 2014-11-10
Watch the group sing new music with yelps, yodels and a few fine harmonies.
77. Davíd Garza
Air Date: 2014-11-15
The Austin singer-songwriter joins his stunning voice with that of touring partner Gaby Moreno.
78. J Mascis
Air Date: 2014-11-22
The Dinosaur Jr. frontman, one of the world's loudest musicians, performs unplugged and acoustic.
79. Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo
Air Date: 2014-11-24
Benatar and Giraldo play three classics: "We Live For Love," "We Belong" and "Promises In The Dark."
80. Sam Amidon & Bill Frisell
Air Date: 2014-12-01
Amidon weaves his compositions into traditional music, while Frisell adds atmospheric guitar.
81. Dublin Guitar Quartet
Air Date: 2014-12-04
Hear the Irish ensemble's fresh take on Philip Glass' propulsive yet intimate string quartets.
82. St. Paul And The Broken Bones
Air Date: 2014-12-06
The band's got heart and soul and flair, with a well-worn sound buoyed by strong, fresh songwriting.
83. Yusuf/Cat Stevens
Air Date: 2014-12-09
The singer performs two new songs, as well as "The First Cut Is the Deepest" and "Father and Son."
84. Lucinda Williams
Air Date: 2014-12-20
She came to the desk a little unsure, and left singing "West Memphis" with intensity and passion.
85. HMSTR
Air Date: 2014-12-24
Watch our favorite hamsters play their twee-as-all-get-out holiday pop-punk song, "Snow Day."
1. Trey Anastasio
Air Date: 2015-01-05
The Phish star was in town to put on a huge show, but the songs here feel more personal than that.
2. Daniel Lanois
Air Date: 2015-01-03
The producer presides over an all-instrumental, free-form trio with Brian Blade and Jim Wilson.
3. Rubblebucket
Air Date: 2015-01-20
Even without its confetti cannon, the band brings a fun mix of brass and brash to the NPR offices.
4. Bobby Bare Jr.
Air Date: 2015-01-27
The Nashville singer writes with acidic wit in lines worthy of his old mentor, Shel Silverstein.
5. John Reilly & Friends
Air Date: 2015-02-03
Reilly sings and plays guitar alongside Tom Brosseau and Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark.
6. Mucca Pazza
Air Date: 2015-02-10
With 23 members, the performance-art marching band is the biggest ever to play the Tiny Desk.
7. Until The Ribbon Breaks
Air Date: 2015-02-17
The band strips down its electronic sound with the aid of a spaghetti strainer and a paint bucket.
8. Zola Jesus
Air Date: 2015-02-23
With her huge voice and an assist on trombone, Nika Roza Danilova offers up a curious combination.
9. Dan Deacon
Air Date: 2015-02-25
The Tiny Desk becomes a DJ booth for an office space dance party.
10. Phox
Air Date: 2015-03-02
The Wisconsin band performs three of its warm, accessible songs in the NPR Music offices.
11. Aurelio
Air Date: 2015-03-07
Aurelio weaves intricate layers of acoustic guitar to capture the feel of African and the Caribbean.
12. Fantastic Negrito
Air Date: 2015-03-09
The singer beat out nearly 7,000 other submissions to win NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert Contest.
13. Matt Haimovitz & Christopher O'Riley
Air Date: 2015-03-14
The duo plays visionary Beethoven, heartbreaking Janáček and Glass that unfolds like a lullaby.
14. Punch Brothers
Air Date: 2015-03-16
Before the wide-ranging band plays, the audience sings "Happy Birthday" to mandolinist Chris Thile.
15. Anonymous 4 With Bruce Molsky
Air Date: 2015-03-28
The a cappella quartet, with banjo and fiddle, offers popular songs from the Civil War era.
16. Sylvan Esso
Air Date: 2015-03-20
Performed softly in the light of day, these three songs feel fresh and lovable.
17. Death Cab For Cutie
Air Date: 2015-04-06
In a beautifully stark performance, the band plays two songs from Kintsugi and two older favorites.
18. Beach Slang
Air Date: 2015-04-10
James Snyder's euphoric punk anthems become raw and uplifting confessionals in this acoustic set.
19. Chadwick Stokes
Air Date: 2015-04-13
Stokes' songs feel familiar; they're old friends before you're done hearing them for the first time.
20. Rosa Díaz
Air Date: 2015-04-17
The singer's lyrics reflect deeply felt emotions in this performance with cellist Daniel de Jesus.
21. Jessie Ware
Air Date: 2015-04-20
The young English singer brings warmth to electronic music and a swooning quality to her own pop.
22. DakhaBrakha
Air Date: 2015-04-25
The Ukrainian acoustic quartet's music encompasses sounds and rhythms from around the world.
23. José González
Air Date: 2015-04-29
This soft-spoken Swedish singer left an imprint at the Tiny Desk that was gentle and long lasting.
24. Diego El Cigala
Air Date: 2015-05-01
The singer has been called "the Sinatra of flamenco." His expressive style draws on jazz.
25. Vijay Iyer Trio
Air Date: 2015-05-04
Iyer's working band transforms selections from throughout the pianist's deep and varied catalog.
26. Eskmo
Air Date: 2015-05-08
Found objects are percussion instruments in the hands of a man who's part musician, part magician.
27. Bellows
Air Date: 2015-05-11
These are enchanting songs, with the power to drift in your head for days.
28. Camané
Air Date: 2015-05-15
A star in his native Portugal, Camané evokes melancholy with a silky baritone and elegant phrasing.
29. Young Fathers
Air Date: 2015-05-19
Intense, hip-hop-infused poetry is reduced to just the essentials in this two-song, four-minute set.
30. Jason Vieaux And Yolanda Kondonassis
Air Date: 2015-05-22
Watch the Grammy-winning guitarist and acclaimed harpist play music influenced by Africa and Asia.
31. Madisen Ward And The Mama Bear
Air Date: 2015-05-26
The mother-son duo's songs are memorable and singable even days after you hear them.
32. Frank Fairfield
Air Date: 2015-05-29
A young man with an old musical soul has a spellbinding voice and fluid fiddle playing.
33. Genevieve
Air Date: 2015-06-01
See a singer with a powerful voice and extremely encouraging message.
34. Anna & Elizabeth
Air Date: 2015-06-08
If you've never thought your tastes would lean to mountain music, breathe deep and soak it all in.
35. The Prettiots
Air Date: 2015-06-15
The clever trio shares its love of everything from Law & Order to old-school girl groups.
36. Strand Of Oaks
Air Date: 2015-06-19
Timothy Showalter's music is filled with bite and sometimes regret, but also a good deal of warmth.
37. Hop Along
Air Date: 2015-06-22
Frances Quinlan's raspy voice whispers one moment, then lets loose a gut-punching howl the next.
38. Oddisee
Air Date: 2015-06-26
The charismatic Brooklyn-via-D.C.-area rapper creates just the right amount of space in his music.
39. And The Kids
Air Date: 2015-06-30
The trio's music is full of life, with dissonant sounds that still feel suited for singalongs.
40. Christopher Paul Stelling
Air Date: 2015-07-06
Best witnessed live, Stelling's music is steeped in tradition yet filled with vitality and soul.
41. Girlpool
Air Date: 2015-07-10
The charming duo performs three of the simple, direct songs from Before The World Was Big.
42. Songhoy Blues
Air Date: 2015-07-17
See a Malian band that fuses African music with Western rock.
43. Kate Tempest
Air Date: 2015-07-21
A celebrated English playwright and rapper deploys storytelling and poetry.
44. Paul Weller
Air Date: 2015-07-28
See the beloved Britpop veteran perform songs from his new album, Saturns Pattern.
45. Shamir
Air Date: 2015-07-31
The singer's disco-infused funk and soul gets stripped down to a lone voice with a guitar.
46. SOAK
Air Date: 2015-08-03
Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson makes the most of a single voice and an acoustic guitar.
47. Terence Blanchard Feat. The E-Collective
Air Date: 2015-08-05
The New Orleans trumpeter's funky new band creates dance music to ward off despair.
48. Torres
Air Date: 2015-08-10
Mackenzie Scott's music channels Patti Smith and PJ Harvey while hinting at further growth.
49. Restorations
Air Date: 2015-08-14
The Philly rock band's big-hearted songs are stripped down to a few guitars and a MiniKorg.
50. Kacey Musgraves
Air Date: 2015-08-17
The country singer plays four songs from Pageant Material, plus the set-closing "Follow Your Arrow."
51. Son Lux
Air Date: 2015-08-21
The trio blows up its sound by adding off-duty, civilian horn players from the U.S. Marine Band.
52. Caroline Rose
Air Date: 2015-08-24
Rose plays music as if she's just met her new best friend: It's fresh, fun and enthusiastic.
53. Eskimeaux
Air Date: 2015-08-28
There's lighthearted, almost childlike beauty in the way Gabrielle Smith puts words to song.
54. Mitski
Air Date: 2015-08-31
Mitski's music is dark and even scary, but glimmers of beauty peek through.
55. Happyness
Air Date: 2015-09-04
If you're a fan of dark, incredibly dry, wry humor, you've just found Happyness.
56. Leon Bridges
Air Date: 2015-09-08
Bridges is easy to love and hard to resist, with purity in his voice that's untouched by modern pop.
57. Sam Lee
Air Date: 2015-09-11
The singer found his voice by finding and preserving old British, Irish and Scottish folk songs.
58. Watkins Family Hour
Air Date: 2015-09-18
With help from Fiona Apple, two Nickel Creek alums gather a band to perform old and new songs.
59. Gina Chavez
Air Date: 2015-09-22
The Austin singer-songwriter performs with intense openness, directness and warmth.
60. Joan Shelley
Air Date: 2015-09-25
As technology rules the day, here's a reminder that a single voice can carry deep emotion.
61. The Internet
Air Date: 2015-09-29
The R&B band might just be the oddest thing to come from the hip-hop collective Odd Future.
62. Lianne La Havas
Air Date: 2015-10-02
The singer is soulful yet playful, raw and vulnerable in a commanding kind of way.
63. Deqn Sue
Air Date: 2015-10-05
She came so close to winning NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert Contest, we just had to see her play.
64. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
Air Date: 2015-10-09
The trumpeter presents his emotionally charged, jazz-hybridized "stretch music" in performance.
65. Andra Day
Air Date: 2015-10-13
Day's songs feel candid and vulnerable, but not understated.
66. Oh Pep!
Air Date: 2015-10-16
The band's clever, thoughtful music fits in everywhere from Nashville to its hometown of Melbourne.
67. Paolo Angeli
Air Date: 2015-10-19
The Sardinian guitarist has a whole toy shop aboard his instrument.
68. Beauty Pill
Air Date: 2015-10-23
In Beauty Pill, life whirs with plunderphonic glee and riffs are funky from the inside out.
69. The Suffers
Air Date: 2015-10-27
The 10-piece band can barely fit all its horns, guitars, percussion and energy behind one desk.
70. Diane Coffee
Air Date: 2015-11-02
Conjuring David Bowie, Diane Coffee's Shaun Fleming swaggered and shimmied behind the Tiny Desk.
71. Chris Stapleton
Air Date: 2015-11-05
With his wife Morgane, the country singer-songwriter sings patient, detailed songs of devotion.
72. My bubba
Air Date: 2015-11-06
My bubba is a duo of women whose quirky, delicate, sweetly sung folk songs are a delight.
73. Aurora
Air Date: 2015-11-09
At 19 and on the cusp of her first album, the Norwegian singer performs with a sense of discovery.
74. Rahim AlHaj
Air Date: 2015-11-13
The oud player's wordless music tells powerful stories about life's blessedness and fragility.
75. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Air Date: 2015-11-17
At the Tiny Desk, Rateliff's body-shaking Southern-style soul takes on a more laid-back sound.
76. The Wild Reeds
Air Date: 2015-11-20
Great singers aren't easy to come by, so finding three in one band is something special.
77. Youth Lagoon
Air Date: 2015-11-23
Trevor Powers' new songs are expansive and self-assured, a transition reflected in this performance.
78. Teddy Abrams
Air Date: 2015-11-30
Hear a young conductor, composer and pianist play Beethoven and his own jazzy pieces.
79. Protomartyr
Air Date: 2015-12-04
The Detroit band's loud, screeching, grousing rock can be profound, poetic and bewildering.
80. The Oh Hellos
Air Date: 2015-12-08
The nine-piece band bursts with anthemic joy, even as its songs convey darkness and loneliness.
81. Land Lines
Air Date: 2015-12-11
The Denver band's mysteriously swirling music is singular, new and adventurous.
82. Shakey Graves
Air Date: 2015-12-14
When the singer breaks out his guitar and suitcase drum, a rush of adrenaline hits the room.
83. Son Little
Air Date: 2015-12-18
A modernistic bluesman with a taste for electronics appears with just his acoustic guitar.
84. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Air Date: 2015-12-21
Watch the soul star perform "Silent Night" and two originals — one for Christmas, one for Hanukkah.
1. Rapsody
Air Date: 2016-01-05
Watch the rapper perform three songs from Beauty And The Beast live at the NPR Music offices.
2. Mariachi Flor De Toloache
Air Date: 2016-01-08
While on tour with The Arcs, the powerhouse mariachi band performs live in the NPR Music offices.
3. Natalie Merchant
Air Date: 2016-01-12
The singer-songwriter gives a warmhearted performance of two new songs, an old favorite and a hymn.
4. Benny Sings
Air Date: 2016-01-15
The Dutch singer layers R&B, jazz and pop over hip-hop beats in his first-ever U.S. appearance.
5. River Whyless
Air Date: 2016-01-19
The North Carolina band fills its rootsy music with unexpected instruments and clever ideas.
6. Wolf Alice
Air Date: 2016-01-22
The band's music can be noisy and primal, but at the Tiny Desk it showed a different side.
7. The Arcs
Air Date: 2016-01-25
It's our 500th show at the Tiny Desk, featuring The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and his new band.
8. EL VY
Air Date: 2016-01-29
The National's Matt Berninger and Menomena's Brent Knopf team up in an intimate setting.
9. Car Seat Headrest
Air Date: 2016-02-08
Will Toledo is a wordsmith with a vision, as well as a DIY sound that's still finely crafted.
10. Chelsea Wolfe
Air Date: 2016-02-12
Wolfe takes three songs from the metallic Abyss and makes them howl by their lonesome.
11. Ben Folds
Air Date: 2016-02-16
Performing solo, Folds performs three songs from his new album and two old favorites.
12. Wilco
Air Date: 2016-02-23
Bands don't typically get to play the Tiny Desk more than once, but Wilco is a natural exception.
13. Brushy One String
Air Date: 2016-02-27
The word-of-mouth star's sound is made by one big fat E-string and a rich, powerful voice.
14. Lake Street Dive
Air Date: 2016-02-29
Performed live at the Tiny Desk, the band's songs often tilt toward soul or rock danceably.
15. Monsieur Periné
Air Date: 2016-03-04
The Colombian band channels an unlikely inspiration: 1920s-era, guitar-driven jazz from the U.S.
16. Julien Baker
Air Date: 2016-03-07
The young Tennessee singer performs three of her spare, sad, simple songs at the NPR Music offices.
17. Gaelynn Lea
Air Date: 2016-03-11
Watch the singer and violinist who stood out from 6,000-plus entries in NPR's Tiny Desk Contest.
18. Graham Nash
Air Date: 2016-03-14
In a short set that spans 50 years, the CSNY veteran's voice resonates and cuts to the core.
19. Tedeschi Trucks Band
Air Date: 2016-03-25
Singer-guitarist Susan Tedeschi and guitarist Derek Trucks celebrate the blues, jazz and much more.
20. Anthony Hamilton
Air Date: 2016-03-28
Hear the soul star and his band perform "Amen," plus three songs that have defined his career.
21. Ane Brun
Air Date: 2016-04-01
Watch Brun play three new songs, each of which speaks to newfound freedom and fresh opportunities.
22. PWR BTTM
Air Date: 2016-04-04
The duo has a keen sense of mischief and a gift for honest, punk-infused, tongue-in-cheek pop gems.
23. Mothers
Air Date: 2016-04-08
Mothers' members chose a few of their slowest, most languid songs to perform in the NPR offices.
24. Palehound
Air Date: 2016-04-11
Ellen Kempner and her band perform tense and evocative songs amid the silence of a rapt crowd.
25. Seratones
Air Date: 2016-04-15
The Louisiana band takes gospel into the garage, and what comes out is fiery rock 'n' roll.
26. Benjamin Clementine
Air Date: 2016-04-18
There are intimate moments of revelation in Clementine's immersive, breathtaking performance.
27. Julia Holter
Air Date: 2016-04-22
The most minute details become a grandiose spectacle in Holter's cosmic cabaret.
28. Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds
Air Date: 2016-04-25
The band's punchy horn section, bluesy vocals and harmonica solos instantly demand attention.
29. Peter Frampton
Air Date: 2016-04-27
Frampton brought some classic songs to the Tiny Desk. We couldn't help but sing along.
30. Florist
Air Date: 2016-04-29
Emily Sprague performs three delicate songs with help from members of New York's Epoch collective.
31. Eighth Blackbird
Air Date: 2016-05-02
Watch the sextet perform new music by David Lang, Bryce Dessner and Robert Honstein.
32. Monika
Air Date: 2016-05-06
When you hear Monika, life feels good: The singer's performances and presence are simply winning.
33. Lara St. John
Air Date: 2016-05-09
With her intrepid pianist in tow, the violinist performs rowdy tunes that will leave you breathless.
34. Daymé Arocena
Air Date: 2016-05-13
Arocena's voice combines Aretha Franklin's soul and the sabor of Cuban music queen Celia Cruz.
35. Steve Kimock
Air Date: 2016-05-16
The veteran jam-rock guitarist's dedication to his instrument is matched only by his imagination.
36. Andy Shauf
Air Date: 2016-05-20
The Saskatchewan singer-songwriter performs three quietly affecting songs in the NPR Music offices.
37. Robert Ellis
Air Date: 2016-05-23
Ellis plays thoughtfully stripped-down arrangements from his ambitious country record.
38. Carrie Rodriguez
Air Date: 2016-05-27
Watch the singer, guitarist and fiddler play three songs that reflect her many cultural influences.
39. Andrew Bird
Air Date: 2016-05-31
For this performance of three new songs, Bird comes with a stripped-down acoustic band.
40. Barry Douglas
Air Date: 2016-06-03
Watch the award-winning Irish pianist play traditional songs from the homeland.
41. Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop
Air Date: 2016-06-06
Iron & Wine's singer performs three songs with the charming, inventive singer Jesca Hoop.
42. Weaves
Air Date: 2016-06-10
The band's music is playful and quirky — sometimes loud, sometimes gentle and always a trip.
43. Chick Corea & Gary Burton
Air Date: 2016-06-13
The two highly decorated jazz legends could barely fit their instruments behind the Tiny Desk.
44. Alessio Bax
Air Date: 2016-06-17
For Father's Day, watch the pianist play lullabies to his daughter, who nearly steals the show.
45. Brandy Clark
Air Date: 2016-06-20
The country singer-songwriter has a rare gift for making any room feel warmly human.
46. Mashrou' Leila
Air Date: 2016-06-24
A rock band from Beirut performs songs that mix hedonism and hyper-literate lyrics.
47. Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran
Air Date: 2016-06-28
The saxophonist and pianist play three tunes that draw from their past while looking to the future.
48. Adia Victoria
Air Date: 2016-06-30
Performing at the NPR Music offices, Adia Victoria's voice is powerful and direct, with no artifice.
49. Los Hacheros
Air Date: 2016-07-05
Los Hacheros' members tap into the deep groove of Afro-Caribbean music that inspires modern salsa.
50. Valley Queen
Air Date: 2016-07-08
Valley Queen plays with nuance and depth, rooted in a California country sound.
51. Jane Bunnett
Air Date: 2016-07-12
The Canadian jazz multi-instrumentalist performs with some of the top young women musicians in Cuba.
52. Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band
Air Date: 2016-07-15
There's a point when a jam is just a jam, but when a jam becomes a journey... man.
53. Gregory Porter
Air Date: 2016-07-18
Porter's music can be serious and heartwarming, but it never loses its sense of wonder and delight.
54. John Congleton And The Nighty Nite
Air Date: 2016-07-22
The decorated producer seizes the spotlight with songs about how extraordinary it is to be ordinary.
55. Xenia Rubinos
Air Date: 2016-07-25
Rubinos uses her Afro-Caribbean roots as a jumping-off point for inventive, provocative songs.
56. Lucy Dacus
Air Date: 2016-07-29
The Virginia musician writes songs that can be thoughtful, playful and powerful.
57. Kevin Morby
Air Date: 2016-08-01
The singer, known for Woods and The Babies, performs carefully crafted songs with powerful lyrics.
58. Rachel Barton Pine
Air Date: 2016-08-05
Watch the genial violinist commune with nearly 300-year-old music for solo violin by J.S. Bach.
59. The Jayhawks
Air Date: 2016-08-08
The beloved band displays its signature country-tinged rock and close harmonies in four new songs.
60. René Marie
Air Date: 2016-08-12
Joined by her Experiment In Truth band, the jazz singer performs songs from Sound Of Red.
61. Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals
Air Date: 2016-08-15
Watch the invigorating, genre-busting bandleader, drummer, singer and rapper perform four songs.
62. Eddie Palmieri
Air Date: 2016-08-19
An icon for modern and Latin jazz, the veteran performer continues to break tradition and innovate.
63. Margaret Glaspy
Air Date: 2016-08-22
No overplaying, no frills, just great music and an artist who sounds thrilled to be playing it.
64. Nina Diaz
Air Date: 2016-08-26
As a solo artist on leave from Girl In A Coma, the singer finds new ways to sound ferocious.
65. Big Thief
Air Date: 2016-08-29
The band's songs exude muscular warmth, with lyrics that are both memorable and meaningful.
66. William Bell
Air Date: 2016-09-07
The 77-year-old blues and soul hitmaker returns to the spotlight with the aid of a 12-piece band.
67. The Secret Sisters
Air Date: 2016-09-12
The Alabama sibling duo's music can be hymn-like: plain but powerful, heartsick and hopeful.
68. Saul Williams
Air Date: 2016-09-16
You can feel the singer and poet's passion in every sharp, thoughtful, powerful, provocative word.
69. Corinne Bailey Rae
Air Date: 2016-09-19
The genre-defying English singer-songwriter performs material from her first album in six years.
70. Blue Man Group
Air Date: 2016-09-26
The world-famous entertainers retrofitted their instruments and confetti cannons to fit the desk.
71. Joshua Bell & Jeremy Denk
Air Date: 2016-09-30
Two A-list classical artists work up a sweat as they revel in the turbulent, tender music of Brahms.
72. Common At The White House
Air Date: 2016-10-04
The veteran rapper fronts an all-star band at the White House.
73. Haley Bonar
Air Date: 2016-10-11
The Minnesota singer-songwriter achieves a nifty balance of intimacy and impeccable polish.
74. RDGLDGRN
Air Date: 2016-10-14
A striking mix of rock, hip-hop, funk, go-go and Brazilian sounds, fused with energy and humor.
75. Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
Air Date: 2016-10-17
The two songwriters celebrate the romance and vitality of the modern railroad.
76. Blind Pilot
Air Date: 2016-10-21
The folk-pop band performs four songs from its shimmery new album, And Then Like Lions.
77. Drive-By Truckers
Air Date: 2016-10-24
The long-running rock band holds a mirror to the hard realities of America right now.
78. Joseph
Air Date: 2016-10-28
The trio strips anthemic songs down to the essentials: just sisterly harmonies and acoustic guitar.
79. The Westerlies
Air Date: 2016-11-02
The self-described "accidental brass quartet" swims comfortably in jazz, classical and pop music.
80. Ta-ku & Wafia
Air Date: 2016-11-07
The two Australians' chemistry is apparent the instant you hear their voices intertwined in song.
81. Adam Torres
Air Date: 2016-11-11
The Austin singer-songwriter showcases his high, lonesome voice and atmospheric storytelling.
82. John Paul White
Air Date: 2016-11-14
Formerly half of The Civil Wars, White returns to perform three songs from his solo debut, Beulah.
83. Attacca Quartet
Air Date: 2016-11-18
The young quartet navigates smoke rings, alligators and the stormy fluctuations of the 18th century.
84. Tegan And Sara
Air Date: 2016-11-21
The Canadian pop duo crafts acoustic versions of pop anthems like "Closer and "Boyfriend."
85. Margo Price
Air Date: 2016-11-28
On the morning after Election Day, Price sang three cathartic country songs loaded with new meaning.
86. Pinegrove
Air Date: 2016-12-02
Watch the New Jersey band squeeze four songs into a scrappy, warmhearted 13-minute set.
87. Ro James
Air Date: 2016-12-05
The R&B singer performs three funky, sexy, stripped-down songs from his debut album, Eldorado.
88. Alsarah & The Nubatones
Air Date: 2016-12-09
In the band's hands, East African music comes alive in a mix of tradition and contemporary sounds.
89. Gucci Mane
Air Date: 2016-12-12
The rapper has spent the year on an extended victory tour. Here are the spoils.
90. Derek Gripper
Air Date: 2016-12-16
The classically trained guitarist performs songs originally written for the kora.
91. The Oh Hellos
Air Date: 2016-12-19
The nine-piece band returns to the Tiny Desk to fill the air with fake snow and real joy.
1. Declan McKenna
Air Date: 2017-01-03
Hear the spirited young singer-songwriter take on religion, poverty and politics, armed with just a guitar and some unrelenting hooks.
2. Donny McCaslin
Air Date: 2017-01-09
Hear McCaslin, the saxophonist and bandleader whose group backed David Bowie on Blackstar, near the anniversary of that album's release. Selections include an instrumental take on Bowie's "Lazarus."
3. Lila Downs
Air Date: 2017-01-13
With a voice that borrows heavily from opera, Downs performs the kind of full-throated mariachi singing that would fit right in at Mexico City's Garibaldi Square — ground zero for mariachi.
4. Brent Cobb
Air Date: 2017-01-17
Cobb's words shimmer like a tall glass of sweet tea in the late-morning sun. Watch the country singer-songwriter perform four songs from his debut album.
5. BADBADNOTGOOD
Air Date: 2017-01-23
The jazz band, known for its soulful interpretations of songs by Nas and Ol' Dirty Bastard, plays its own new material live in the NPR Music offices.
6. Miramar
Air Date: 2017-01-27
Watch the Virginia band sweep the NPR crowd off its feet with a collection of exquisite boleros by Puerto Rican composer Sylvia Rexach.
7. Gallant
Air Date: 2017-01-30
The rising R&B star performs three falsetto-drenched highlights from his 2016 debut, Ology — including "Bourbon," which features a guest rap from Chance The Rapper collaborator Saba.
8. D.R.A.M.
Air Date: 2017-02-01
The rapper/singer storms the NPR Music offices, activating his signature smile and bouncing through five highlights from his catalog — including the smash single "Broccoli."
9. Run The Jewels
Air Date: 2017-02-06
Killer Mike and El-P continue to out-muse each other in a supergroup that somehow seems to get better, louder, and more pertinent since their start in 2013.
10. Esmé Patterson
Air Date: 2017-02-10
Esmé Patterson has dropped the banjos and folk from her previous project Paper Bird, and in their place are electric guitars and a backing band worth getting behind.
11. Agnes Obel
Air Date: 2017-02-15
Agnes Obel manipulated the Tiny Desk to better suit the deeply alluring and powerful music she brought to us.
12. Little Simz
Air Date: 2017-02-21
Little Simz has been compared to Lauryn Hill for her self-reflective wordplay. And though the British lyricist is a relative new-comer, her Tiny Desk performance was poised and confident.
13. Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Air Date: 2017-02-28
To celebrate Fat Tuesday, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band brought their euphoric horns to the Tiny Desk for a raucous, joyous set.
14. Ninet
Air Date: 2017-03-03
One of Israel's very popular artists may be walking a similar path to early-career Joan Jett — she brought that same intensity to the Tiny Desk.
15. Maren Morris
Air Date: 2017-03-06
One of the newest Grammy winners stops by the Tiny Desk to share her winking, sometimes tongue-in-cheek songs.
16. Tank And The Bangas
Air Date: 2017-03-10
Tank And The Bangas' victory lap around the Tiny Desk was momentous, celebratory and deeply touching, with a flair and alchemy of styles that could come from New Orleans.
17. Red Baraat's Holi Celebration
Air Date: 2017-03-13
The Brooklyn bhangra band come to the Tiny Desk in celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of color that welcomes the coming of spring.
18. Sampha
Air Date: 2017-03-21
A Tiny Desk Concert as intimate as it gets (that's saying something). Just Sampha, a piano and three heart-wrenching songs that seem to double as coping mechanisms.
19. Delicate Steve
Air Date: 2017-03-24
This fierce and lyrical guitar player writes playful instrumental music led by hooky vocals — but there is no voice, just the human-like twang of a glass slide on a guitar.
20. Overcoats
Air Date: 2017-03-27
Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell's vibrant vocal harmonies are set against an electronic backdrop that feels spacious and refreshing.
21. Noname
Air Date: 2017-04-03
The power of language to penetrate a difficult subject, and the power of performance to share that language, are the gifts Noname brought to the Tiny Desk.
22. Tash Sultana
Air Date: 2017-04-07
It's astonishing to watch Sultana's fluidity on her instrument, like a natural extension of her body. She also plays bass, saxophone, trumpet, flute and more, but kept it "simple" for the Tiny Desk.
23. Sinkane
Air Date: 2017-04-10
You can hear a great New York jazz band in the rhythms of Sinkane, but you can also hear the influence of Bob Marley and the hypnotic repetition of Sudanese desert sounds.
24. Ljova And The Kontraband
Air Date: 2017-04-14
Composer, arranger and viola player Ljova lead his Kontraband to the Tiny Desk for an eclectic swirl of Western classical, jazz, tango and Eastern European and Balkan folk music.
25. Chicano Batman
Air Date: 2017-04-17
Chicano Batman comes with a sound that perfectly captures dark lounges, quinceñera dances, car shows and backyard parties.
26. alt-J
Air Date: 2017-04-24
There's a self-imposed rule for Tiny Desk Concerts: No artist can visit twice unless there's something wholly different about what they're doing. alt-J was happy to oblige.
27. Antonio Lizana
Air Date: 2017-04-28
The traditions of flamenco and jazz are disparate, but in the hands of a few Spanish jazz musicians, these two worlds commingle and find common ground.
28. Avery*Sunshine
Air Date: 2017-05-01
The gospel-trained singer showcased why she counts Aretha Franklin and Smokey Robinson as fans.
29. Peter Silberman
Air Date: 2017-05-05
A strange condition hushed the life of Peter Silberman, resulting in what may be the quietest Tiny Desk Concert ever.
30. Aimee Mann
Air Date: 2017-05-08
"This song is called 'You Never Loved Me' — it's another cheery, optimistic number," says Aimee Mann, introducing the second of four songs in this Tiny Desk Concert.
31. Danilo Brito
Air Date: 2017-05-12
Danilo Brito and his band brought their dextrous expression of choro music to the Tiny Desk, a long-established musical style that has its roots in the streets and backyards of Brito's native Brazil.
32. Tim Darcy
Air Date: 2017-05-15
Tim Darcy of Montreal band Ought brings his mysterious solo work, from the album Saturday Night, to the Tiny Desk. The record he says, was his chance to “get back to my roots, in my own voice.”
33. Troker
Air Date: 2017-05-19
Mexico may not be known for its jazz, but the young lions of Troker are a promising hope to make the country and its capital city a destination.
34. Julia Jacklin
Air Date: 2017-05-22
A restrained, whisper-soft Tiny Desk concert from Australian singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin with songs taken from her debut album Don't Let The Kids Win.
35. Gabriel Garzón-Montano
Air Date: 2017-05-26
Gabriel Garzón-Montano spent three years writing and recording his beautiful, dense album Jardin -- but for his Tiny Desk visit, he stripped it all down to two elements, the piano and his voice.
36. Royal Thunder
Air Date: 2017-05-30
What happens when you ask a hard-rock band to unplug its thunder? It draws power from a raw, desperate vulnerability.
37. Nick Grant
Air Date: 2017-06-02
The Atlanta-based MC came through with the flu and coolly earned our praise. How sick is that?
38. Violents & Monica Martin
Air Date: 2017-06-05
While her band was on hiatus, Monica Martin joined Jeremy Larson's project Violents, yielding a lush record of electronic pop, translated into a quieted set at the Tiny Desk.
39. Perfume Genius
Air Date: 2017-06-12
The band's long-awaited performance at the Tiny Desk was both beautiful and, at times, intense, featuring three deeply personal songs by frontman Mike Hadreas.
40. Penguin Cafe
Air Date: 2017-06-16
Penguin Cafe folds in sounds from around the world and throughout music history — Africa, Kraftwerk, Brazil and Franz Schubert.
41. Tigers Jaw
Air Date: 2017-06-19
The duo strips down to acoustic guitar and keyboard for a strikingly intimate set, illuminating their close harmonies that tangle like garlands.
42. Holly Macve
Air Date: 2017-06-23
Backed by a suitably low-key band, Macve would sound subtly radiant just about anywhere, from your nearest country bar to the most dreamily lit stage in Twin Peaks.
43. Ravi Coltrane Quartet
Air Date: 2017-06-26
Artistic legacy, evolution and studied ease coalesced at this Tiny Desk Concert, with Coltrane offering four interpretations of his and others' works.
44. Helado Negro
Air Date: 2017-06-30
Helado Negro ditches his bank of electronics for alto and tenor saxophones, bringing his utterly unique style to a intense, perfectly balanced Tiny Desk Concert.
45. Chance The Rapper
Air Date: 2017-07-05
Chance The Rapper, fresh from a 23,000-strong, sold-out show the night before, brought a thoughtful and fresh take to his Tiny Desk concert.
46. Jay Som
Air Date: 2017-07-10
Melina Duterte may have played all the instruments on Jay Som's newest record, Everybody Works, but her touring band brought a rougher edge to those silky recordings.
47. Fragile Rock
Air Date: 2017-07-14
Fragile Rock is a band that relies on the boogie of The B-52s, the melancholy of The Smiths and the humor of Kermit the Frog. Oh, and they're all puppets.
48. Tuxedo
Air Date: 2017-07-17
Tuxedo, the unlikely-on-paper funk-soul duo of Mayer Hawthorne and Jake One, brought a left-of-center sonic approach and a sharp sense of style to their Tiny Desk Concert.
49. Rare Essence
Air Date: 2017-07-19
Rare Essence has been bringing go-go to the world since 1976 — the group brought that pedigree, and the genre's massive meld of funk, rhythm and blues and soul, to this raucous hometown Tiny Desk.
50. Albin Lee Meldau
Air Date: 2017-07-20
Albin Lee Meldau possesses a thunderous, deeply affecting voice, which he uses to tell some utterly dark, but demonstrably cathartic, tales.
51. The Shins
Air Date: 2017-07-24
James Mercer, the emotional and creative heart of The Shins, gives a moving performance at the Tiny Desk, with two new songs and a classic from the band's 2003 album Chutes Too Narrow.
52. Aldous Harding
Air Date: 2017-07-28
Intensity in songs often expresses itself as volume – a loud guitar, a scream, a piercing synth line. But in the case of Aldous Harding it's in the spaces, the pauses, and her unique delivery.
53. Diet Cig
Air Date: 2017-08-02
Diet Cig's songs crackle like Pop Rocks, but with a confrontational honesty and striking gravity — and on top of Bob Boilen's desk.
54. Maggie Rogers
Air Date: 2017-08-07
The rising pop star performs three of her best-known songs, including a sweet solo take on her career-making “Alaska.”
55. ALA.NI
Air Date: 2017-08-14
ALA.NI captures and conveys a reverent love of early-20th-century music, while injecting those sounds with charisma and charm well suited for any era.
56. DJ Premier & The Badder Band
Air Date: 2017-08-21
One of hip-hop's most revered producers brings his songs to life behind the Tiny Desk, with the help of a four-piece band.
57. Jason Isbell
Air Date: 2017-08-28
The Alabama singer-songwriter and his band perform three songs from The Nashville Sound, but their set includes a few surprises, too.
58. Jidenna
Air Date: 2017-09-05
The Nigerian-American MC and his band perform three reworked selections from Jidenna's impeccable debut album, The Chief.
59. Frances Cone
Air Date: 2017-09-08
The Brooklyn-based band crafts infectious pop music that builds dramatically before giving way to a quiet calm.
60. Bleachers
Air Date: 2017-09-12
Jack Antonoff re-arranged three songs from his band's latest album, Gone Now, for the Tiny Desk.
61. L.A. Salami
Air Date: 2017-09-13
The story songs and poetry of Lookman Adekunle Salami, who writes and records as L.A. Salami, recall the brilliant and epic ramblings of Bob Dylan.
62. Snail Mail
Air Date: 2017-09-15
Snail Mail's sleepy songs have a way of waking you up. Watch the band perform music from its quietly stunning Habit EP, plus a new song played solo by Lindsey Jordan.
63. SsingSsing
Air Date: 2017-09-21
It's safe to say this Korean, cross-dressing rock band looks and sounds like no one who's ever performed at the Tiny Desk.
64. Bomba Estereo
Air Date: 2017-09-22
Bomba Estereo is not known as a hushed band. Member Simon Mejia said this Tiny Desk performance was the group's quietest, a stripped-down treatment that illustrates the inherent quality of the music.
65. Steve Martin And The Steep Canyon Rangers
Air Date: 2017-09-25
It's hard to think of an artist who's brought more joy to more people, across more generations — and in more ways — than Steve Martin.
66. Chronixx
Air Date: 2017-09-27
The Jamaican reggae star proudly carries the torch of his country's roots reggae legends.
67. Dawg Yawp
Air Date: 2017-09-29
Welcome the world of Dawg Yawp, the musical concoction of Rob Keenan and Tyler Randall, where drones and toy pianos are likely to collide with heavy metal electronics and a well-placed melody.
68. Paramore
Air Date: 2017-10-02
Paramore captures the moment between rapture and its comedown. Watch the band rearrange songs from its sparkling pop album After Laughter.
69. Landlady
Air Date: 2017-10-06
Landlady's music is more than sonic exploration, it's an adventure. The songs can feel a bit drugged-out – a bit high and full of curiosity – but never overly intoxicated or out-of-touch.
70. Randy Newman
Air Date: 2017-10-10
Watch the six-time Grammy winner go solo behind the Tiny Desk.
71. Hanson
Air Date: 2017-10-16
Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson just celebrated their 25th anniversary as a band. To celebrate, watch them perform three of their post-“MMMBop” career highlights.
72. Thundercat
Air Date: 2017-10-18
Thundercat is willing and able to shape-shift to fit into just about any box you show him, but he won't stay in there for long.
73. The Perceptionists
Air Date: 2017-10-20
Watch hip-hop veterans Mr. Lif and Akrobatik team up behind the Tiny Desk.
74. Shabazz Palaces
Air Date: 2017-10-23
Hip-hop's otherworldly lot touches down on Bob Boilen's desk for some Afrofuturistic mind travel.
75. Japanese Breakfast
Air Date: 2017-10-25
For this Tiny Desk concert, Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner replaced her gauzy synths with a string quartet. The result is something to behold.
76. Natalia LaFourcade
Air Date: 2017-10-27
The Grammy-nominated singer's Tiny Desk is an ode to a magical time in Mexican popular music.
77. The Roots Feat. Bilal
Air Date: 2017-10-30
Yes, it happened. Black Thought, Questlove and the entire crew packed in behind the Tiny Desk to perform a new song called “It Ain't Fair.”
78. Gracie and Rachel
Air Date: 2017-11-01
Gracie And Rachel mix piano pop with darker, classic violin arrangements to make songs full of mystery and tension. They're joined in this Tiny Desk performance by percussionist Richard Watts.
79. Nate Smith + KINFOLK
Air Date: 2017-11-03
The drums take center stage at this Tiny Desk. Watch veteran jazz percussionist Nate Smith dazzle the NPR audience in a transfixing performance.
80. Wyclef Jean
Air Date: 2017-11-06
The hip-hop statesman walked through our doors greeting and charming anyone within arm's reach. Once in front of an audience, he was in attack mode, including a unique rendition of his signature hit.
81. Ani DiFranco
Air Date: 2017-11-08
With the help of a backing band that includes Ivan Neville and Jenny Scheinman, the iconic singer-songwriter plays three songs from across her tough and uncompromising career.
82. The Mynabirds
Air Date: 2017-11-10
Singer Laura Burhenn is joined by Jessica Lea Mayfield and the Umoja Choir for songs inspired by the political and cultural upheaval of 2016.
83. Aminé
Air Date: 2017-11-14
The Portland artist with the most mispronounced name in hip-hop puts on an unforgettable performance.
84. Now, Now
Air Date: 2017-11-15
The band has new tools in its arsenal, but even in a stripped-down Tiny Desk performance, its focus on tiny moments between people just outside of love is as sharp as ever.
85. Benjamin Booker
Air Date: 2017-11-17
Benjamin Booker has a deeply tender voice that, at times, can feel like a whisper But it always cuts to the heart.
86. Billy Corgan
Air Date: 2017-11-20
Billy Corgan, complicated frontman of The Smashing Pumpkins, has had a tumultuous decade-and-a-half. His visit to the Tiny Desk, with a string quartet backing him, was anything but.
87. Ledisi
Air Date: 2017-11-21
In person, the master R&B vocalist impresses not just with her exquisite artistry, but with her radiant spirit of contentment and grace. Just ask her makeup artist.
88. David Greilsammer
Air Date: 2017-11-24
With a knack for cunning juxtapositions, the adventurous pianist stitches together a baroque sonata, a slice of French serenity and a quirky portrait of a mysterious barn owl.
89. Phoebe Bridgers
Air Date: 2017-11-27
Her songs come laden with finely detailed observations about hypnotherapy, Jeffrey Dahmer and everything in between. They receive a languid, impeccably-phrased performance at the Tiny Desk.
90. Moses Sumney
Air Date: 2017-11-29
The Los-Angeles-based force of nature, one of the most inspired talents of today, shows off a spontaneous side at (and around) the Tiny Desk.
91. Walter Martin
Air Date: 2017-12-01
Best known for his role with The Walkmen, as a solo artist he makes unabashedly joyful, sweetly innocent and playful music. And only he would arrive with a barbershop quartet.
92. Ted Leo
Air Date: 2017-12-04
Leo's work has, more often than not through the decades, addressed an anxious world, growing and shifting with it and with its listeners. Seven years after his last solo album, he's turned inwards.
93. King Krule
Air Date: 2017-12-06
King Krule, the musical project of English singer, songwriter and rapper, Archy Marshall, brings its twisted, woozy tones to the Tiny Desk.
94. Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile
Air Date: 2017-12-08
The two singers, songwriters and guitarists bring out the adolescence in each other, poking jabs, goofing around and having fun at the Tiny Desk.
95. Tyler, The Creator
Air Date: 2017-12-11
Tyler, The Creator performs three songs from his latest album Flower Boy -- and pulls off (at least) two Tiny Desk firsts in the process, while maturing beyond his class-clown image (mostly).
96. Cigarettes After Sex
Air Date: 2017-12-13
This comes close to the quietest Tiny Desk Concert we've ever had. The music Cigarettes After Sex makes is incredibly hushed. It's a sound so minimal it barely exists.
97. This Is The Kit
Air Date: 2017-12-15
Effortless storytelling is at the heart of This Is The Kit. And the stories the band's only permanent member, Kate Stables, weaves are profound but sweet with a tone that quietly reels you in.
98. Hanson For The Holidays
Air Date: 2017-12-18
Frantic time-lapse set decoration. An intrusive snow machine. Ugly holiday sweaters. It's time to hunker down and soak up a raucous and reverent Christmas party, courtesy of Hanson.
1. Open Mike Eagle
Air Date: 2018-01-03
The indie rap denizen behind one of 2017's most inventive albums came to the nation's capital to represent all the Brick Body Kids who Still Daydream.
2. Lo Moon
Air Date: 2018-01-05
The LA band's signature sound is intimate and demonstrative, haunting yet uplifting, an old-fashioned rock beat under glimmering guitar and keys. And at the Tiny Desk, it was at ease.
3. The Weather Station
Air Date: 2018-01-08
One of the joys of listening to The Weather station is the tension and release in the group's enchanting music. It's what made the band's most recent album one of Bob Boilen's favorite of 2017.
4. Julien Baker
Air Date: 2018-01-10
Julien Baker's Turn Out The Lights brought her much-deserved critical acclaim and wider attention in 2017. Before its release we asked her to make a rare return to the Tiny Desk for something special.
5. Daniil Trifonov
Air Date: 2018-01-12
Watch the young Russian musician, who The Times of London calls “the most astounding pianist of our age,” play a smart, Chopin-focused concert on a grand piano, precisely wedged behind the Tiny Desk.
6. Artists From The 'Take Me To The River' Tour
Air Date: 2018-01-15
More than a dozen artists gather behind the Tiny Desk to celebrate Memphis soul in a joyful, triumphant performance.
7. AHI
Air Date: 2018-01-16
The Ontario-based singer has a gruff but sweet voice with openly honest words behind soulful tunes of hope.
8. The Lemon Twigs
Air Date: 2018-01-17
Brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario seem like they beamed into the Tiny Desk from the year 1971, untouched by the 21st century.
9. Amadou and Mariam
Air Date: 2018-01-19
The Malian musicians, who've been playing together for nearly 40 years, bring some of the most lyrical melodies and joyful sounds we've ever had at the Tiny Desk.
10. St. Vincent
Air Date: 2018-01-22
The singer performed at the Tiny Desk without a warmup or soundcheck, with just her acoustic guitar and un-amplified voice, letting the wordplay in her songs shine through.
11. George Clinton & The P-Funk All Stars
Air Date: 2018-01-24
George Clinton brought his family, both immediate and extended, to the Tiny Desk for a set of classic cosmic slop.
12. Barbara Hannigan
Air Date: 2018-01-26
Eavesdrop on a beautiful recital of German songs from fin de siècle Vienna, when music was transitioning from the swells of romanticism to the uncharted waters of modernism.
13. Jamila Woods
Air Date: 2018-01-29
In three songs celebrating black ancestry and self-love, Woods demonstrated just how adept she is at creating songs rich with philosophical meaning that also move and groove.
14. Alice Smith
Air Date: 2018-01-31
The beloved singer-songwriter premiered three new songs while turning NPR's headquarters into a Harlem speakeasy.
15. Vicente García
Air Date: 2018-02-02
This under-the-radar singer from the Dominican Republic is starting to turn some heads. You'll see why in this Tiny Desk performance.
16. Hurray For The Riff Raff
Air Date: 2018-02-05
The music of Hurray For The Riff Raff builds bridges, unites people and forms communities. It's a spirit singer Alynda Segarra and the rest of the band bring to this memorable Tiny Desk performance.
17. Ibeyi
Air Date: 2018-02-07
Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz never fail to mesmerize. Watch the twin sisters perform a four-song set at the Tiny Desk.
18. The Crossrhodes
Air Date: 2018-02-09
The Crossrhodes showed up to the Tiny Desk with game faces on, bringing with it a locally cultivated, globally appreciated energy.
19. Marlon Williams
Air Date: 2018-02-12
Marlon Williams has a heart-stopping voice, is in love with a good, traditional blues or country tune, and writes songs about vampires and horror films.
20. Nick Hakim
Air Date: 2018-02-14
The music of Nick Hakim occupies a space and time that feels out of this world, with songs that explore the quietude of inner thoughts.
21. Betsayda Machado y Parranda El Clavo
Air Date: 2018-02-16
The Afro-Venezuelan collective brings the boisterous parranda sound to the Tiny Desk.
22. Big Daddy Kane
Air Date: 2018-02-19
One of the greatest to ever bless the mic treated the Tiny Desk audience to an office block party.
23. August Greene (Common, Robert Glasper, Karriem Riggins)
Air Date: 2018-02-21
August Greene, Common's new trio with Robert Glasper and Karriem Riggins, brought some special guest vocalists to the Tiny Desk.
24. Vagabon
Air Date: 2018-02-23
Laetitia Tamko, the artist known as Vagabon, is a 25-year-old, Cameroon-born musician with a big, tenor voice just bursting with new musical ideas.
25. Lee Ann Womack
Air Date: 2018-02-26
The Nashville star brought some good old country music stories to the Tiny Desk.
26. Roy Ayers
Air Date: 2018-03-01
Watch the 77-year-old jazz-funk icon perform “Everybody Loves The Sunshine” (and more) at the Tiny Desk.
27. Anna Meredith
Air Date: 2018-03-02
Out of nearly 700 performances at the Tiny Desk over the past decade, this one by British composer Anna Meredith is one of the most exhilarating.
28. Big K.R.I.T.
Air Date: 2018-03-05
The Mississippi rapper paid homage to his grandmother and performed songs from his new album 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time.
29. Alex Clare
Air Date: 2018-03-07
Clare's songs ask listeners to probe their own emotions through the lens of life’s bigger pictures. His visit to Bob Boilen’s desk is the perfect setting to bask in the power of his voice.
30. Kuinka
Air Date: 2018-03-09
Each year we get thousands of submissions for our annual Tiny Desk contest. Seattle's Kuinka was one of last year's entrants. While they didn't win, we loved them so much we invited them to come play.
31. John Prine
Air Date: 2018-03-12
For more than 45 years, the legendary John Prine has written some of the most powerful lyrics in the American music canon. He brings some of his best to this unforgettable Tiny Desk performance.
32. Raul Midón
Air Date: 2018-03-15
Raul Midón brought nothing but a guitar and his voice to an extended Tiny Desk set of dense, breathtaking jazz and soul textures.
33. Cornelius
Air Date: 2018-03-19
Cornelius' Keigo Oyamada deconstructs and reassembles music like it's a neon cubist-pop sculpture. On a rare U.S. tour, the Japanese band brought its complex cool to the Tiny Desk.
34. Väsen
Air Date: 2018-03-23
The Swedish trio brought a 30-string sonic blast to the Tiny Desk, performing on 12-string guitar, viola and the nyckelharpa (a fiddle with keys — think 15th century keytar).
35. Jenny And The Mexicats
Air Date: 2018-03-26
Sometimes frenetic, sometimes slow and luxurious, the grooves the band creates are the perfect cushion for Jenny Ball's impassioned singing and engaging stage presence.
36. I'm With Her
Air Date: 2018-03-28
Aoife O'Donovan, Sarah Jarosz and Sara Watkins are bound by a love for bluegrass, chamber music, jazz, storytelling and singing.
37. Masta Ace
Air Date: 2018-03-30
The Juice Crew legend brought his biggest hit, "Born To Roll," and a heartfelt recollection of his personal journey to the Tiny Desk.
38. Robin Olson
Air Date: 2018-04-01
Hear the elusive avant-garde pianist debut a new piece, etched in shimmering chords and dark, lamenting octaves.
39. Dee Dee Bridgewater
Air Date: 2018-04-02
Bridgewater connects with her roots, her birthplace and the town she's loved all her life, with a set of songs from Memphis.
40. Dan Auerbach
Air Date: 2018-04-04
The guitarist and singer for The Black Keys and The Arcs brings his Easy Eye Sound Revue to the Tiny Desk, recalling a time and sound from the '60s when southern R&B, including Nashville, was a force.
41. Rhye
Air Date: 2018-04-09
See the band perform a rare evening Tiny Desk concert, illuminated by flickering lights
42. Lara Bello
Air Date: 2018-04-10
Flamenco, jazz and classical share the stage in this Tiny Desk from one of our favorite Spanish composers.
43. Tyler Childers
Air Date: 2018-04-11
Tyler Childers writes songs about hard lives and hard love with direct heart and a soulful Kentucky drawl.
44. Jorge Drexler
Air Date: 2018-04-13
The Uruguayan singer-songwriter is one of the finest lyricists operating today. Watch his stunning performance behind the Tiny Desk.
45. The Breeders
Air Date: 2018-04-16
The Breeders' dreamy scuzz sounds wiser and more frazzled at the Tiny Desk, featuring the same lineup behind the band's breakout, 1993 album Last Splash.
46. O.C.
Air Date: 2018-04-18
The veteran Brooklyn rapper was an underground star during hip-hop's golden era. At the Tiny Desk, O.C. made it clear that he hasn't lost his edge.
47. John Moreland
Air Date: 2018-04-20
When you hear John Moreland's sweet voice, it's hard to believe he spent years singing in punk, metal-core and hardcore bands. He plays acoustic guitar now, but his songs are still full of passion.
48. Logan Richardson
Air Date: 2018-04-23
Hear a triumphant fusion of jazz, rock and blues that moves with momentum and fresh anticipation. Logan Richardson plays with a lyrical intensity that is both focused and free.
49. Superorganism
Air Date: 2018-04-25
The multinational band of theatrically fun and talented musicians in Superorganism mix melody and mischievous with almost Seussian folly.
50. ÌFÉ
Air Date: 2018-04-27
ÌFÉ isn't playing anything new. In fact, the band takes on something quite old: ritual Afro-Caribbean music that takes a lifetime to absorb and master.
51. Bedouine
Air Date: 2018-04-30
Bedouine is Azniv Korkejian, a singer and guitarist who echoes sounds from the 1960's North American folk songwriters, but with vocal inflections closer to Leonard Cohen than to Joni Mitchell.
52. GZA & The Soul Rebels
Air Date: 2018-05-02
Most rap fans would name RZA as the head of the Wu-Tang Clan. But Wu purists know that GZA, or The Genius, is the crew's unspoken elder statesman.
53. Darlingside
Air Date: 2018-05-04
Even if the world came to an end, there's still beauty and hope in all of us and in song. That about sums up the wistful mystery that is the music of Darlingside.
54. Gordi
Air Date: 2018-05-07
In three songs from Reservoir, Gordi keeps her voice both unadorned and centered within warm, cool arrangements that include piano, guitar, pedal steel, a harmonium named Barbara, and more.
55. Bela Fleck And Abigail Washburn
Air Date: 2018-05-11
Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn are two American musical treasures. This husband-and-wife banjo duo write original tunes steeped in the roots of folk music.
56. Naia Izumi
Air Date: 2018-05-14
The winner of this year's Tiny Desk Contest makes his official debut behind the desk.
57. Khruangbin
Air Date: 2018-05-16
This trio from Houston, Texas makes trance-inducing music heavily inspired by 1960s and '70s funk and soul from, of all places, Thailand.
58. Partner
Air Date: 2018-05-18
The dream of the '90s is alive in this Canadian rock band.
59. The Band's Visit
Air Date: 2018-05-21
Tony Shalhoub, Katrina Lenk and the cast of the Tony-nominated play The Band's Visit marked the first Broadway performance at the Tiny Desk.
60. Juanes & Mon Laferte
Air Date: 2018-05-23
The Colombian pop star and Chilean rising star brought their duet tour to the Tiny Desk.
61. Ill Camille
Air Date: 2018-05-25
The Los Angeles rapper and Kendrick Lamar collaborator performed four songs from her excellent album, Heirloom.
62. Third Coast Percussion
Air Date: 2018-05-29
Watch the Chicago-based ensemble conjure otherworldly sounds from steel pipes, tuned cowbells and a bowl that sings.
63. Trouble Funk
Air Date: 2018-05-30
We squeezed 12 go-go musicians behind the Tiny Desk. Watch what ensued.
64. Tom Misch
Air Date: 2018-06-01
This 22-year-old Brit has soul for days.
65. Daniel Caesar
Air Date: 2018-06-04
Watch the R&B star-in-the-making perform three songs, including a guest appearance by H.E.R.
66. Grace VanderWaal
Air Date: 2018-06-06
The 14-year-old singer who signed to Columbia after winning America's Got Talent, dazzles the Tiny Desk with her breathtaking voice.
67. MILCK
Air Date: 2018-06-08
The one-woman riot who made headlines during the inaugural Women's March On Washington visits the Tiny Desk.
68. Jorja Smith
Air Date: 2018-06-11
Watch the rising U.K. star perform intimate renditions of "Blue Lights," "On My Mind" and "Teenage Fantasy" with a full band.
69. GoldLink
Air Date: 2018-06-13
The D.C. rapper brought quite the crew to his Tiny Desk performance.
70. Yissy García & Bandancha
Air Date: 2018-06-15
Come for one of Havana's most talented acts. Stay for García's incredible mohawk.
71. Khalid
Air Date: 2018-06-18
Watch the 20-year-old star perform acoustic versions of "Location," "Saved" and "Young Dumb & Broke."
72. The Messthetics
Air Date: 2018-06-20
The bassist and drummer from D.C.'s pioneering punk band Fugazi join guitarist Anthony Pirog for a set of thrilling, sometimes loud and frenetic instrumentals.
73. From The Top
Air Date: 2018-06-22
A handful of teenagers, and a 12-year-old violinist, from the radio show From the Top, give sparkling performances, proving there's a bright future for classical music.
74. Rakim
Air Date: 2018-06-25
Watch the New York rap icon perform "Paid In Full" and "Know The Ledge," as well as a new song for Marvel's Luke Cage, at the Tiny Desk.
75. Dave Matthews
Air Date: 2018-06-27
The star sheds his band for a warm, winning, utterly game, happily overstuffed five-song performance of songs from across his long career.
76. Golden Dawn Arkestra
Air Date: 2018-06-29
Join the "Children of the Sun" - or sit back and enjoy the spectacle - in this Tiny Desk experience.
77. PJ Morton
Air Date: 2018-07-02
New Orleans' native son brought his musical Gumbo — and a 10-piece orchestra — to the Tiny Desk for some well-seasoned soul and a lesson in creative freedom.
78. Frédéric Yonnet With Special Guest Dave Chappelle
Air Date: 2018-07-09
Yonnet is a magician on the harmonica. You'll see why he's performed with Stevie Wonder, Prince and Ed Sheeran.
79. Rev. Sekou And The Seal Breakers
Air Date: 2018-07-10
Rev. Sekou and the Seal Breakers gave one of the most rousing Tiny Desks we've ever had, opening with one question: "Do you want to get free?"
80. Mumu Fresh Feat. Black Thought & DJ Dummy
Air Date: 2018-07-11
Occasionally a new voice emerges so rich in experience that the only way to describe it is old soul.
81. The Midnight Hour
Air Date: 2018-07-18
A Tribe Called Quest's Ali Shaheed Muhammad and composer Adrian Younge brought their Luke Cage-inspired collaboration to the Tiny Desk.
82. Ólafur Arnalds
Air Date: 2018-07-19
The Icelandic composer is joined by two "ghost" pianists, making mysterious and memorable music at the Tiny Desk.
83. The King's Singers
Air Date: 2018-07-23
The storied vocal ensemble brings close harmony singing to a diverse set list that includes a Beatles tune and a bawdy madrigal from the 1500s.
84. Lalah Hathaway
Air Date: 2018-07-25
The veteran singer showcases her soaring powerfully expressive voice in a performance that bridges several generations of classic soul.
85. Flasher
Air Date: 2018-07-30
The precise serrations of Washington, D.C. band Flasher get softened for a visit to the Tiny Desk — their vocals, normally side-by-side rushing electric instruments, get the center stage treatment.
86. The Del McCoury Band
Air Date: 2018-08-01
Del McCoury has been performing, and updating, his take on bluegrass for some 60 years. At the Tiny Desk, he brought three traveling songs and some good yarns to share from his ample time on the road.
87. Haley Heynderickx
Air Date: 2018-08-03
One of our favorite new artists of 2018 visits the Tiny Desk.
88. Mac Miller
Air Date: 2018-08-06
Mac Miller reflects on his journey's peaks and valleys in a boisterous set of songs from Swimming, featuring special guest Thundercat on "What's the Use?"
89. DAWN
Air Date: 2018-08-10
DAWN has a breathless enthusiasm for shape-shifting pop music. She strips three songs to just the essentials, illuminating the impeccable songwriting behind her wild combination of sounds.
90. Tower Of Power
Air Date: 2018-08-13
Even from its beginnings in late-'60s Oakland, the band has always stood out. Fifty years later, its devotion to classic horn-driven soul remains unmatched, its passion and precision unchanged.
91. Erykah Badu
Air Date: 2018-08-15
The singer's performance at the Tiny Desk was an almost spiritual experience, leaving many at the NPR Music offices in awe.
92. Yo-Yo Ma
Air Date: 2018-08-17
Watch the 19-time Grammy winner return to his lifelong passion for J.S. Bach, playing music from the Cello Suites and offering advice on the art of incremental learning.
93. Camp Cope
Air Date: 2018-08-22
The Australian band uses tiny moments of introspection to illuminate life's bewildering, terrifying, isolating aspects — especially as they apply to women.
94. Dermot Kennedy
Air Date: 2018-08-24
Backed for the first time ever by members of the Howard Gospel Choir, the Irish singer-songwriter shows off a voice built to fill stadiums in more ways than one.
95. T.I.
Air Date: 2018-08-27
In the fifteen years since he released Trap Muzik, Tip Harris has reinvented himself a thousand times over. But the stories he recounts from that era make his Tiny Desk a memorable one.
96. Tech N9ne Feat. Krizz Kaliko
Air Date: 2018-08-29
Two of Kansas City's finest — and indie hip-hop's trailblazers — deliver a dose of Strange Music.
97. George Li
Air Date: 2018-08-31
Watch the young Harvard grad dispatch some of the most "knuckle-busting" piano repertoire with uncommon panache and precision.
98. Kalbells
Air Date: 2018-09-05
The band makes life-affirming music that singer Kalmia Traver created over the past few years, filled with the triumph of being cancer free.
99. Jupiter & Okwess
Air Date: 2018-09-07
Jupiter Bokondji and his band Okwess play music that feels both African and American, with Jupiter's early musical tastes inspired by The Jackson 5, James Brown and the sounds of Motown.
100. Hobo Johnson
Air Date: 2018-09-12
While this Sacramento, Calif. band didn't win this year's Tiny Desk contest, their video entry, for the song "Peach Scones," was among the more memorable we've ever seen.
101. GoGo Penguin
Air Date: 2018-09-14
This trio has become a reference point of their own for new school instrumentalists, a coveted achievement for any jazz group, though their appeal stretches far outside the jazz ecosystem.
102. Smif-N-Wessun
Air Date: 2018-09-17
Brooklyn-bred hip-hop duo Smif-N-Wessun – consisting of partners in rhyme, Steele and Tek – illuminated the Tiny Desk with their signature, 80-proof poetry: straight, no chaser.
103. Julie Byrne
Air Date: 2018-09-19
Julie Byrne's transporting music can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.
104. Anthony Roth Costanzo
Air Date: 2018-09-21
Watch the ambitious countertenor sing music that spans more than 250 years, connecting the dots between David Byrne, George Frideric Handel and Philip Glass.
105. Cécile McLorin Salvant
Air Date: 2018-09-25
The jazz singer, who used to be into radical feminist punk, now composes and sings beautiful jazz ballads.
106. Saba
Air Date: 2018-10-01
Before embarking on a tour of Australia and Asia, the Chicago native brought the squad that helped make Care For Me one of 2018's best — along with a very special guest.
107. Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles
Air Date: 2018-10-05
Henry and his band would have sounded right at home on Stax Records in the '70s — no small accomplishment. Watch them perform three funky, soulful jams.
108. Big Boi
Air Date: 2018-10-09
The OutKast star performs "So Fresh, So Clean," "The Way You Move" and his solo single "All Night" with the help of singer Sleepy Brown and an eight-member backing band.
109. Café Tacvba
Air Date: 2018-10-12
The pioneering Mexican band recreates the adventurous musical energy of their massive stadium shows behind Bob Boilen's desk.
110. Florence + the Machine
Air Date: 2018-10-16
"I'm sorry I'm shy," Florence Welch told the crowd of NPR family and friends gathered for her Tiny Desk performance. "If this was a big gig, I'd probably be climbing all over here and running around."
111. Alfredo Rodríguez
Air Date: 2018-10-18
The Cuban pianist thrilled the NPR office with an intense performance that was as melodic as it was rhythmic.
112. Chromeo
Air Date: 2018-10-19
The self-proclaimed "Funklordz" normally perform as a duo, but played with a live band for the first time at the Tiny Desk.
113. Cautious Clay
Air Date: 2018-10-24
The charismatic singer and saxophonist brought a group of longtime friends to play a warm, thoughtful and chill set at the Tiny Desk.
114. Jim James
Air Date: 2018-10-26
A single voice can send a powerful message - and that's just what Jim James did at the Tiny Desk, with just his voice and an acoustic guitar.
115. Liniker e os Caramelows
Air Date: 2018-10-29
Liniker e os Caramelows are from Brazil but steeped in the tradition of soul from here in the U.S. Watching this performance is to witness a spell being cast, note-by-note.
116. Nicholas Payton Trio
Air Date: 2018-11-02
After back-to-back performances in South Africa, Argentina, Chile and New York, Payton hit the Tiny Desk, where he dazzled the audience, simultaneously playing his trumpet and a Fender Rhodes.
117. Pedro The Lion
Air Date: 2018-11-05
No matter how dark or disastrous, there's always been an undercurrent of grace to the music of David Bazan. He returns to his Pedro the Lion moniker for this memorable Tiny Desk performance.
118. Half Waif
Air Date: 2018-11-08
The band's songs, stripped here to their essence, are particularly peaceful and calm — and sometimes chilling.
119. Bernie And The Believers Feat. Essence
Air Date: 2018-11-12
The story of Bernie and the Believers is the story of Bernie Dalton's diagnosis of Lou Gehrig's disease and compassionate friends making his dream come true and his songs come to life.
120. Boygenius
Air Date: 2018-11-16
Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers are all Tiny Desk alumae, but here they play together at NPR for the first time as boygenius, one of this year's best surprises.
121. dvsn
Air Date: 2018-11-19
The Toronto-based R&B duo bathed the Tiny Desk in vibrant blue, purple and orange light to make it feel more like a concert hall.
122. The Innocence Mission
Air Date: 2018-11-28
The Innocence Mission, ever the most careful cultivators of quiet, encouraged us to come closer, to discover the "thing beautiful enough" in the moment it's delivered.
123. Joey Alexander
Air Date: 2018-11-30
No one in the NPR offices could have imagined how remarkable this 15-year old pianist would be at the Tiny Desk.
124. Dirty Projectors
Air Date: 2018-12-04
The band takes its quirks of production, rhythm and rhyme and brilliantly arranges them to work behind the Tiny Desk.
125. Wu-Tang Clan
Air Date: 2018-12-05
The Clan celebrates its 25th anniversary with an old-school cipher at the Tiny Desk.
126. H.E.R.
Air Date: 2018-12-12
The singer stuns in her second appearance at the Tiny Desk, showcasing not only her vocal mastery, but her skills as a captivating multi-instrumentalist.
127. Harold López-Nussa Trio
Air Date: 2018-12-14
Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa, along with his brother Ruy on drums and bassist Gaston Joya, deliver a set of danceable jazz explorations rooted in Afro-Cuban musical traditions to the Tiny Desk.
128. Amy Grant
Air Date: 2018-12-17
Amy Grant maps her fabulous, four-decade career with some of her coziest and heartfelt Christmas songs, not to mention a delightful version of "Jingle Bells."
1. Miguel Zenón feat. Spektral Quartet
Air Date: 2019-01-04
The saxophonist is a big thinker whose mesmerizing compositions chronicle the music of his native Puerto Rico with the help of an adventurous jazz quartet.
2. Buddy
Air Date: 2019-01-09
The preacher's son from Compton brought his flair for the dramatic, and an air of rebellion, to the Tiny Desk.
3. Carolina Eyck and Clarice Jensen
Air Date: 2019-01-11
Carolina Eyck, the first artist to bring a theremin to the Tiny Desk, plays the air with the kind of lyrical phrasing and "fingered" articulation that takes a special kind of virtuosity.
4. Aaron Lee Tasjan
Air Date: 2019-01-15
Aaron Lee Tasjan arrived in an ascot and mustard-colored shirt, sporting red, round sunglasses and mutton chops. It was a fashionable nod to the psych-pop and rock sound he brought to the Tiny Desk.
5. Nate Wood - fOUR
Air Date: 2019-01-16
The multi-instrumentalist says he only wishes he had more limbs; but Wood still manages to simultaneously play a bass guitar, keys and drums, all while singing into a wearable microphone.
6. Stella Donnelly
Air Date: 2019-01-22
Watch the Australian singer-songwriter perform three new songs from her upcoming full-length debut, Beware of the Dogs.
7. Blood Orange
Air Date: 2019-01-29
This Blood Orange Tiny Desk is a beautifully conceived concert showing off the craft and care that has made Devonté Hynes a groundbreaking producer and songwriter.
8. Cat Power
Air Date: 2019-02-04
Chan Marshall and her band perform a brisk and beautifully orchestrated medley of Cat Power songs: "Wanderer," "Woman" and 2006's "The Moon."
9. Kurt Vile
Air Date: 2019-02-06
Kurt Vile and his musical mate, Rob Laakso casually lose themselves in complex guitar lines that are effortlessly beautiful and lyrical.
10. Lau Noah
Air Date: 2019-02-11
There's a magical aura that surrounds Lau Noah as she sits behind the Tiny Desk and unspools thought-provoking story-songs.
11. Mountain Man
Air Date: 2019-02-13
The voices of Amelia Meath, Molly Erin Sarlé and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig come together behind the Tiny Desk, with songs that conjure a simpler life: dogs, friends, moonlight or skinny dipping.
12. Scott Mulvahill
Air Date: 2019-02-18
Scott Mulvahill has been trying to win the Tiny Desk Contest for each of its four years. And while he's never won, we all loved him so much we had to invite him to play.
13. The Pedrito Martinez Group
Air Date: 2019-02-20
The Afro-Cuban percussionist mesmerizes with his almost otherworldly talent on congas.
14. Natalie Prass
Air Date: 2019-02-25
Decked out in matching, cobalt blue outfits, the singer and her band had a clear vision: If you want to overcome the times, find strength in numbers.
15. Zaytoven
Air Date: 2019-02-28
The Atlanta trap super-producer and son of a preacher man saved the day with a soulful Tiny Desk.
16. Phony Ppl
Air Date: 2019-03-04
The Brooklynites stand out for their inventive and seamless blend of jazz, R&B and hip-hop.
17. Meg Myers
Air Date: 2019-03-06
Myers replaces her album's roaring electric guitars and electronics with a pulsing string quartet, piano and brushed drums — and uncorks a cover of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill."
18. Leikeli47
Air Date: 2019-03-11
The artist came to the Tiny Desk masked up, as always, the better to catch a glimpse of her soul.
19. Kaia Kater
Air Date: 2019-03-13
Multi-hyphenate artist Kaia Kater uses the architecture of roots music, which she studied in West Virginia, to establish a simultaneous dialogue with both the present moment and her own past.
20. Nao
Air Date: 2019-03-18
The U.K.-based singer-songwriter takes the Tiny Desk on a cosmic journey through her Saturn return.
21. Alejandro Escovedo
Air Date: 2019-03-20
The veteran rocker and a backup band from Italy play songs from their album The Crossing, chronicling an American Dream of rock and roll and Beat poetry.
22. &More (Chill Moody & Donn T)
Air Date: 2019-03-25
Philadelphia Rapper Chill Moody and singer Donn T, along with their crew known as &More, were one of the standout entrants in last year's Tiny Desk Contest. They bring a message of hope and love.
23. Andrea Cruz
Air Date: 2019-03-27
The singer from Puerto Rico is part of a movement on the island that emphasizes largely acoustic instruments and a folk-based approach to interpreting life before and after the hurricane of 2017.
24. Weezer
Air Date: 2019-04-01
Performing unplugged, the band forgoes its usual meticulousness in favor of a shaggy, entirely acoustic mix of new songs and '90s-era deep cuts.
25. Courtney Marie Andrews
Air Date: 2019-04-03
It was a day when sunlight drenched the office and the songs of heart from Courtney Marie Andrews felt right at home.
26. Georgia Anne Muldrow
Air Date: 2019-04-08
The R&B singer from Los Angeles is all about showing and spreading love.
27. Karine Polwart Trio
Air Date: 2019-04-10
Scottish singer, songwriter and essayist Karine Polwart seldom comes stateside, eschewing air travel to reduce her carbon footprint. But on a rare, recent visit, she stopped in D.C. for a Tiny Desk.
28. Gary Clark Jr.
Air Date: 2019-04-16
These three songs, from Clark's incendiary new album This Land, roar with the assurance and force of a showman at the top of his game.
29. Theodore
Air Date: 2019-04-17
The music of Theodore is dark and transformative, with the kind of spare elegance you can hear in Sigur Rós or Pink Floyd.
30. The Calidore String Quartet
Air Date: 2019-04-22
The Calidore String Quartet confirms that the centuries-old formula — two violins, a viola and a cello — is still very much alive and evolving.
31. Better Oblivion Community Center
Air Date: 2019-04-24
Tiny Desk alums Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers surprised us all with their stunning collaboration this year as Better Oblivion Community Center. Together they radiate joy at the desk.
32. Toro Y Moi
Air Date: 2019-04-29
Toro y Moi loses the voice processing, synths and other heavy effects for a stripped-down acoustic set at the Tiny Desk.
33. Laraaji
Air Date: 2019-05-02
Laraaji is best known to some for his ambient work with Brian Eno in the late '70s. He brings his meditative calm to the Tiny Desk in this hypnotic performance.
34. Thou
Air Date: 2019-05-06
This is probably the quietest you'll ever hear the first metal band to play the Tiny Desk.
35. Ohmme
Air Date: 2019-05-09
These classically trained artists fill the NPR Music offices with shrieking, rhythmic noise that redefines what an electric guitar can do.
36. Magos Herrera and Brooklyn Rider
Air Date: 2019-05-15
Watch what happens when the smoky-voiced jazz singer from Mexico conspires with an adventuresome string quartet for songs steeped in Latin American traditions.
37. Ensemble Signal Plays Jonny Greenwood
Air Date: 2019-05-20
Watch members of the New York-based group give the world premiere video performances of two recent pieces by Radiohead guitarist and composer Jonny Greenwood.
38. Jeremy Dutcher
Air Date: 2019-05-22
There is no one making music like this 27-year-old, classically trained opera tenor and pianist. Watch and see why.
39. Lucky Daye
Air Date: 2019-05-28
Hailing from New Orleans with a love of sticky, bass-bumping funk, Lucky brought along a 10-person band, including a quartet of horns, to capture the full flavor of his debut album Painted.
40. LADAMA
Air Date: 2019-05-30
The group unites sounds from Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, with a dash of New York City thrown in.
41. Quinn Christopherson
Air Date: 2019-06-03
Quinn and his musical partner, guitarist and singer Nick Carpenter, arrived from the cool of Anchorage to the swelter of D.C. and performed with remarkable confidence and grace.
42. Tomberlin
Air Date: 2019-06-06
Tomberlin is the daughter of a Baptist pastor, grew up singing in the church and, since her teens, has questioned her own beliefs in God and faith. Her songs are delicate and vulnerable.
43. Sesame Street
Air Date: 2019-06-10
Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Elmo, Grover, Rosita, Count von Count, Abby Cadabby, Cookie Monster and other surprise guests gather at NPR's headquarters to celebrate 50 years of love, learning and joy.
44. Foxing
Air Date: 2019-06-12
Foxing is at the forefront of an emo revival, heavily influenced by late-'90s and early 2000s groups like Sunny Day Real Estate and American Football.
45. IDLES
Air Date: 2019-06-18
The British madmen brought fury, cathartic rage and deep thoughts to the Tiny Desk for one of the loudest, most raucous performances in memory.
46. Imogen Heap
Air Date: 2019-06-20
Imogen Heap takes us through her many musical talents, from her Frou Frou musical partner, Guy Sigsworth — and their first new song in 17 years — to an extraordinary performance with musical gloves.
47. Tasha Cobbs Leonard
Air Date: 2019-06-24
Tasha Cobbs Leonard is widely regarded as one of the best gospel singers performing today. Her set at the Tiny Desk moved many at the NPR offices to tears.
48. Betty Who
Air Date: 2019-06-26
Betty Who brings Roséwave, sun's-out pop to the Tiny Desk with all the usual studio production stripped away.
49. Be More Chill
Air Date: 2019-07-01
On Broadway, Be More Chill is a playful burst of frenetic energy and silly, stealthy sweetness. At the Tiny Desk, it holds onto that rowdy, generous spirit while stripping down the arrangements.
50. Saint Sister
Air Date: 2019-07-03
The group from Ireland makes music that mixes the organic with the electronic, starting with a large, 34-string lever harp.
51. Miya Folick
Air Date: 2019-07-05
Miya Folick was raised a Buddhist in Santa Ana, Calif., and is of Ukrainian and Japanese descent. She sings of conviction, not fiction.
52. American Football
Air Date: 2019-07-08
Who would've thought that American Football's fruitful reunion would not only include some of the emo band's best songs, but also a children's choir at the Tiny Desk?
53. Sting And Shaggy
Air Date: 2019-07-10
The two musical legends brought plenty of joy to the Tiny Desk, with an unexpected collaboration that works surprisingly well.
54. Erin Rae
Air Date: 2019-07-12
Every time she performs live, Erin Rae transforms her quiet storms into different hues of squalling introspection.
55. Priests
Air Date: 2019-07-19
The punk-infused art band from Washington, D.C. brings a kinder, gentler and sparer version of the group's music to the Tiny Desk.
56. Jacob Collier
Air Date: 2019-07-22
As the NPR staff gathered to watch his performance, Jacob Collier sprinted full bore down the hallway for his set, hardly able to contain his creative energy or enthusiasm.
57. Masego
Air Date: 2019-07-24
The spirit of Cab Calloway lives on in Masego, the singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist who surprised NPR's Tiny Desk audience with a zany sense of showmanship.
58. Tamino
Air Date: 2019-07-26
Tamino possesses one of the most remarkable and memorable voices to ever grace the Tiny Desk.
59. Lizzo
Air Date: 2019-07-29
Backed by a band assembled just for this occasion, the breakthrough pop icon performs three joyfully showy songs from Cuz I Love You.
60. Calexico And Iron & Wine
Air Date: 2019-08-01
The two bands just released Years to Burn, their first album together since 2005. Now, they've performed three songs — two new, one old — for Calexico's Tiny Desk debut.
61. iLe
Air Date: 2019-08-03
The Calle 13 veteran, fresh off her appearance at demonstrations in Puerto Rico, performs three songs that rage with revolutionary intensity.
62. Bas
Air Date: 2019-08-05
Bas came to the Tiny Desk to get it, and — in a breathless four-song set — he did exactly that.
63. David Crosby & The Lighthouse Band
Air Date: 2019-08-07
David Crosby, Becca Stevens, Michelle Willis and Michael League are The Lighthouse Band, and together they harmonized the heck out of the Tiny Desk.
64. Among Authors
Air Date: 2019-08-09
Among Authors' music isn't casual; there are songs within these songs, and they're not always catchy. They'll take you on a journey worth following.
65. half•alive
Air Date: 2019-08-12
How does half•alive, known for funky earworms and synchronized dancing, translate to such a cozy space? Have the dancers sit.
66. Kian Soltani
Air Date: 2019-08-16
Watch a young cellist on the rise, offering music of virtuosity, sweet lyricism and a little fire from his Persian roots.
67. Tobe Nwigwe
Air Date: 2019-08-19
The Houston-based rapper's mindful words are like a life hack for anyone seeking guidance, with pleas to look past inherent hardships and evil and to stay focused on life's ultimate prizes.
68. Nicole Bus
Air Date: 2019-08-21
Nicole Bus' sound is reminiscent of vintage R&B, yet still feels current and capable of transcending age and demographics.
69. Mandolin Orange
Air Date: 2019-08-23
Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz made everything seem so easy, with just a few acoustic instruments and a single microphone behind the Tiny Desk, performing songs full of joy and thoughtfulness.
70. 47SOUL
Air Date: 2019-08-26
47SOUL's message of equality is meant for the world. It's music without borders, mixing old and new, acoustic and electronic from a band formed in Amman Jordan, singing in Arabic and English.
71. Dan Tepfer
Air Date: 2019-08-29
The pianist and programmer has transformed the acoustic piano into his duet partner.
72. The-Dream
Air Date: 2019-08-30
The singer and mega-hit songwriter showcases three of his own tracks, including "I Luv Your Girl" and two songs from Ménage à Trois: Sextape Vol. 1, 2, 3.
73. A-WA
Air Date: 2019-09-03
The three Israeli sisters in A-WA mix Yemenite and Arabic traditions with splashes of reggae and hip-hop.
74. The Tallest Man On Earth (2019)
Air Date: 2019-09-06
The Tallest Man On Earth's second appearance at the Tiny Desk comes almost 10 years to the day after his first. He returns with a touch of grey and a beard, but no less intense or moving.
75. Damian 'Jr. Gong' Marley
Air Date: 2019-09-09
With eyes shut, Marley dug deep into the healing power of music with songs from his 2017 album Stony Hill.
76. Come From Away
Air Date: 2019-09-11
Sixteen performers from the Broadway cast crammed behind the Tiny Desk to sing songs and share stories about thousands of airline passengers who were stranded in Newfoundland after 9/11.
77. Rhiannon Giddens
Air Date: 2019-09-16
Giddens shares songs from her latest album, There is No Other, in an emotional and transfixing performance at the Tiny Desk.
78. Nilüfer Yanya
Air Date: 2019-09-18
There's a hush to the music of Nilüfer Yanya that made the Tiny Desk the perfect stage for her sound.
79. Y La Bamba
Air Date: 2019-09-20
Y La Bamba returns for its second Tiny Desk performance with a revised musical vision.
80. Rosanne Cash
Air Date: 2019-09-23
Roseanne Cash has been making great records for forty years, but she's never played or written better music than she's doing right now.
81. Ari Lennox
Air Date: 2019-09-25
The R&B singer performed songs from her debut full-length, Shea Butter Baby.
82. Josh Ritter With Amanda Shires And Jason Isbell
Air Date: 2019-09-27
In his second visit to the Tiny Desk, Josh Ritter had America on his mind. "We all have to fight against this notion that we're not all human beings."
83. Jonas Brothers
Air Date: 2019-09-30
The brothers and their backing band gave a playful performance of three tracks from their latest album, Happiness Begins.
84. Molly Sarlé
Air Date: 2019-10-04
After performing at the Tiny Desk as one third of the group Mountain Man, Molly Sarlé returns for a soul-stirring solo performance.
85. Sharon Van Etten
Air Date: 2019-10-07
Nearly a decade after her first appearance at the Tiny Desk, Sharon Van Etten returns with a full band and a bigger, bolder sound.
86. Charly Bliss
Air Date: 2019-10-09
The vibrancy of the band can feel childlike and candy-coated. But the group's songs are more about the pain of entering adulthood and leaving some of that sweetness behind.
87. Brittany Howard
Air Date: 2019-10-15
The Alabama Shakes singer and guitarist brought an eight-piece backing band to the Tiny Desk for a set of deeply personal and affecting songs.
88. Taylor Swift
Air Date: 2019-10-16
As she settled in for this stripped-down set, Taylor Swift looked out over the office. "I just decided to take this as an opportunity to show you guys how the songs sounded when I first wrote them."
89. Summer Walker
Air Date: 2019-10-18
One week after releasing a record-shattering studio debut, the Atlanta native brings a glowing R&B set to the Tiny Desk.
90. Jovino Santos Neto Trio
Air Date: 2019-10-21
Along with his trio, the pianist, multi-instrumentalist and composer cast a spell over the NPR Music offices in this joyful turn behind the Tiny Desk.
91. CHAI
Air Date: 2019-10-23
The group from Japan is on a mission to expand the conventional meaning of "cute." Their performance included synchronized dancing, pom-poms and matching pink uniforms, with a heavy, angular sound.
92. Rio Mira
Air Date: 2019-10-25
Rio Mira's music celebrates life along the river that separates Ecuador and Colombia: soft breezes, loving friends, the embrace of Africa and lots of festejando!
93. BJ The Chicago Kid
Air Date: 2019-11-06
The 34-year old R&B mainstay used his moment at the desk to fit in as many of his most cherished songs as possible — Nine songs in 17 minutes to be exact.
94. Dave
Air Date: 2019-11-08
The British rapper made a trip all the way from the UK just for this Tiny Desk performance and powered through a set that made the personal political.
95. Leslie Odom Jr.
Air Date: 2019-11-12
The Tony- and Grammy-winning singer, actor, author and Hamilton star performs three songs from Mr, his genre-bending new solo album.
96. Sunny War
Air Date: 2019-11-13
Sunny War has been homeless, busked on city streets and Venice Beach, left home feeling she was a burden to her mother, battled addiction and still found a way to bring joy to others thru her music.
97. KOKOKO!
Air Date: 2019-11-15
KOKOKO! are sonic warriors. They seized control of the Tiny Desk, shouting their arrival through a megaphone, while electronic sirens begin to blare.
98. Burna Boy
Air Date: 2019-11-18
The Nigerian singer and songwriter is one of the biggest African artists in the world and a pioneer of Afro-fusion, an inescapable sound this year.
99. Snarky Puppy
Air Date: 2019-11-20
The jazz, funk and gospel improv group brought jams and joy to the Tiny Desk.
100. Igor Levit
Air Date: 2019-11-22
The insightful pianist offers a Beethoven bonanza, ranging from the mesmerizing pulse of the popular "Moonlight" Sonata to flashes of wry humor and tender beauty.
101. Carly Rae Jepsen
Air Date: 2019-11-25
The singer brought a sparkling pop-disco vibe and a lot of swagger to the sun-filled Tiny Desk.
102. Mereba
Air Date: 2019-11-27
A nomadic storyteller with a cross-genre style ranging from folk to rap, Mereba slays the devil in her solo set behind the Desk.
103. Black Uhuru
Air Date: 2019-11-29
The influential reggae group, whose name means "black freedom," brought songs of solidarity and love to the Tiny Desk.
104. Freddie Gibbs And Madlib
Air Date: 2019-12-06
The enigmatic and reclusive producer Madlib joins hard-hitting emcee Freddie Gibbs for one of the most memorable Tiny Desks of the year.
105. Raveena
Air Date: 2019-12-09
"I just want you to know," Raveena told the NPR office, "that in this space that we're in, you're extremely, extremely loved."
106. Weyes Blood
Air Date: 2019-12-11
Watch the band perform a blissed-out, gently sweeping set featuring three songs from its latest album, Titanic Rising.
107. The Comet Is Coming
Air Date: 2019-12-13
The Comet is Coming is a force of nature. The British trio makes the kind of instrumental jazz that takes music lovers out of their comfort zone and into a musical realm they may never have explored.
108. Moonchild
Air Date: 2019-12-16
The LA-based trio makes an intricate blend of jazz, R&B and hip-hop. For their Tiny Desk set, they pulled out all the stops: flutes, flugelhorns, saxophones, keyboards, ukuleles and more.
109. Los Lobos
Air Date: 2019-12-18
When Los Lobos gathered behind the Tiny Desk, it felt like they were cramped in the back room of a family Christmas party, calling up tunes from the Latin holiday song book.
110. Balún
Air Date: 2019-12-20
It's impossible to not be drawn in by the visual specter of Balún as the band mixes traditional instruments and electronics, set against a rich tapestry of voices.
111. Spanglish Fly
Air Date: 2019-12-31
Spanglish Fly is one of the pioneers of the boogaloo revival scene happening on the East Coast. For about sixteen minutes, they turned the NPR Music offices into the hottest Latin dance club in D.C.
1. Daniel Norgren
Air Date: 2020-01-03
The Swedish singer sways and writhes as he and his band create a dream state calming enough to slow the day's hectic pace to a crawl. Take a seat on a comfy couch and have a listen.
2. Bridget Kibbey
Air Date: 2020-01-08
The irrepressible harpist proves that the instrument can be as tempestuous as a tango, as complex as a Bach fugue and sing as serenely as a church choir.
3. Brownout
Air Date: 2020-01-10
The Austin, Texas band brought old-school R&B horns, bongos and deep grooves to the Tiny Desk.
4. Jordan Rakei
Air Date: 2020-01-13
Despite some unexpected gear problems, the soulful R&B artist and his band locked-in and played a phenomenal set behind the Tiny Desk.
5. Joyce DiDonato
Air Date: 2020-01-15
Watch the celebrated opera star deconstruct old Italian love songs with her signature flair, backed by a crack jazz ensemble.
6. Yola
Air Date: 2020-01-17
The singer who once sang for Massive Attack and sampled by Iggy Azalea and The Chemical Brothers, is front-and-center at the Tiny Desk.
7. Max Richter
Air Date: 2020-01-22
The eclectic composer joins members of the ACME ensemble for some of his most affecting music, which moves the audience to tears.
8. J.S. Ondara
Air Date: 2020-01-24
After first trying to win our annual Tiny Desk Contest, the singer-songwriter from Nairobi decided to put out a record, got nominated for a Grammy and wound up here anyway
9. Koffee
Air Date: 2020-01-27
The fast-rising teenager from Jamaica just won a Grammy for Best Reggae Album, making her the first woman and youngest artist to ever win in the category.
10. Jimmy Eat World
Air Date: 2020-01-29
Jimmy Eat World showed up to the NPR Music office all smiles and no guitars. They borrowed a couple acoustics, a gong and a tambourine for a heartfelt set that included "The Middle."
11. Rising Appalachia
Air Date: 2020-01-31
The Atlanta-based band came to NPR in a van packed with a bodhrán (Irish drum), an ngoni (West African harp) a huge gourd, a cello, a baritone guitar and more.
12. SiR
Air Date: 2020-02-03
The R&B singer from Inglewood, CA made his performance a family affair, dedicating it to his late godson, with his mother and older brother on backup vocals.
13. Another Sky
Air Date: 2020-02-05
The strength of this London band is matching message with music. There's intensity and clear intention in their use of rock as an art.
14. Jonathan Scales Fourchestra
Air Date: 2020-02-07
Here's a first: Steelpans at the Tiny Desk. It's true. Nearly a thousand performances into the series and the instrument has never been featured, until now.
15. Baby Rose
Air Date: 2020-02-10
At 25, she mixes the bluesy melisma of Nina Simone and the deep register of Sarah Vaughan — two of her influences — with songwriting as devastating as her delivery.
16. Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron
Air Date: 2020-02-12
Phil Elverum shares his open wounds — of death, love and the loss of love — in close harmonies, accompanied only by electric and nylon-string guitars.
17. Laura Stevenson
Air Date: 2020-02-14
Backed by a small string section, Stevenson performed three songs that sounded so gorgeous, an actual marriage proposal broke out shortly after her set ended.
18. Snoh Aalegra
Air Date: 2020-02-18
The Iranian-Swedish singer draws her musical cues from Brandy and Sade while racking up a list of collaborators such as Vince Staples, James Fauntleroy and, most recently, Pharrell Williams.
19. Elisapie
Air Date: 2020-02-20
The Canadian singer-songwriter gives a deep, soulful performance against a sometimes moody backdrop of bass saxophone and bowed guitars.
20. Chris Dave and the Drumhedz
Air Date: 2020-02-21
Chris Dave, your favorite musician's favorite drummer, takes listeners on a journey through a virtual record store, picking up different genres along the way and putting them in your bag.
21. Jenny Lewis
Air Date: 2020-02-24
A consummate storyteller, going as far back to her days with her band Rilo Kiley, the words of Jenny Lewis comfort and inspire.
22. Indigo Sparke
Air Date: 2020-02-26
The Australian singer transforms the NPR Music offices with a voice that, at moments, comes as a whisper.
23. Cimafunk
Air Date: 2020-02-28
The band from Havana brings its intoxicating mix of Afro-Cuban dance music and 1970s funk-and-soul to the Tiny Desk.
24. Bob Weir and Wolf Bros
Air Date: 2020-03-02
Weir, along with Don Was and Jay Lane, play a set rich in Grateful Dead lore, including an emotional take on the sing-along, "Ripple."
25. Mellotron Variations
Air Date: 2020-03-03
Robby Grant, Pat Sansone (Wilco), Jonathan Kirkscey and John Medeski (Medeski, Martin & Wood) give an all-Mellotron performance, making music of magic and mystery.
26. Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science
Air Date: 2020-03-04
The veteran jazz drummer is joined by special guests that include producer and percussionist Kassa Overall and actor Malcolm Jamal Warner, for a potent and deeply moving set.
27. Taimane
Air Date: 2020-03-06
Within the first moments of Taimane's magical set, we hear her play fiery flamenco, a famous phrase from the opera Carmen, a touch of Bach and more than a nod to her Hawaiian homeland.
28. Coldplay
Air Date: 2020-03-09
A nine-piece choir joins the band for an inspired reworking of four Coldplay songs — and a surprise cover of Prince's "1999."
29. Kirill Gerstein
Air Date: 2020-03-11
Watch the award-winning pianist play a hit by Chopin, a premiere by Thomas Adès and a cherished song by Gershwin dressed in a virtuosic arrangement.
30. Chika
Air Date: 2020-03-13
The 23-year old rapper from Alabama went for a stripped-down set anchored by a Peruvian cajón.
31. Harry Styles
Air Date: 2020-03-16
The former One Direction singer gave a charming performance of "Watermelon Sugar," "Adore You" and other cuts from his latest album, Fine Line.
32. Rex Orange County
Air Date: 2020-03-18
Watch the low-key British pop star perform "Sunflower," "Loving Is Easy" and more at the Tiny Desk.
33. Arthur Moon
Air Date: 2020-03-20
The New York band (yes, band) is reminiscent of Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson and Dirty Projectors. Watch the five-piece play three songs at the Tiny Desk.
34. The Black Crowes
Air Date: 2020-03-23
Chris and Rich Robinson revisit songs from their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker.
35. Soccer Mommy: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-03-24
The New Normal includes some Tiny Desk concerts without the Tiny Desk. Sophie Allison, aka Soccer Mommy, performed a short set while quarantining in her Nashville home during the coronavirus crisis.
36. Margo Price: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-03-26
One of Nashville's most talented couples took to their attic for a three-song set, including an unrecorded song that speaks to what so many of us our feeling right now.
37. Tarriona 'Tank' Ball (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-03-27
"Don't go out to the cookout." The leader of Tank and the Bangas spreads pure joy from her living room in New Orleans.
38. Allen Stone
Air Date: 2020-03-30
The soul singer demonstrated a commitment to the Tiny Desk that we rarely, if ever, see.
39. Michael McDonald: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-04-01
No joke: The Doobie Brother took to his studio to record a special quarantine concert for Tiny Desk fans.
40. Jesca Hoop
Air Date: 2020-04-03
Jesca Hoop last appeared at the Tiny Desk as a duet with Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) in the spring of 2016. They sang songs from their collaborative record Love Letters For Fire. This time around, Jesca Hoop came to the Tiny Desk with just her guitars, her lovely voice, and brilliant poetic songs.
41. Ben Gibbard Pays Tribute to Adam Schlesinger: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-04-04
The Death Cab For Cutie frontman performs a new song and pays tribute to Fountains of Wayne songwriter Adam Schlesinger in this quarantine concert.
42. The Lumineers
Air Date: 2020-04-06
Ho hey! Look who turned up at the Tiny Desk. Watch The Lumineers play a four-song set for the smallest crowd in ages.
43. King Princess: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-04-08
From her "quarantine shed" in Hawaii, King Princess performs three songs from Cheap Queen in ways we never would have imagined.
44. The Roots' Black Thought: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-04-09
Watch one of the greatest emcees in hip-hop history perform three new songs in quarantine.
45. Tribute to John Prine, feat. Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff, more
Air Date: 2020-04-11
From Margo Price to Nathaniel Rateliff, watch five artists perform their favorite John Prine tunes from their homes (and bathtubs) in honor of one of the greatest songwriters of any generation.
46. Tōth
Air Date: 2020-04-13
Alex Toth, who played the Tiny Desk back in 2015 as a member of Rubblebucket returns front and center with his own band, Tōth.
47. Kevin Morby and Waxahatchee: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-04-14
From Kevin Morby's tiny desk in Kansas City, Kevin Morby and Waxahatchee duet.
48. Angelica Garcia
Air Date: 2020-04-15
With a great deal of "Salva-Mex-American" pride, Angelica Garcia performs three songs from her album, Cha Cha Palace at the Tiny Des
49. Laura Marling: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-04-16
Laura Marling delivers an intimate performance of songs from her just-released record Song For Our Daughter in her living room
50. Lang Lang (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-04-17
Watch the superstar pianist at home in Shanghai, China, play a soothing Chopin Nocturne and Bach you can dance t
51. The Free Nationals And Anderson .Paak
Air Date: 2020-04-20
The Free Nationals and Anderson .Paak make their triumphant return to the Tiny Desk along with some other special guests.
52. Nick Hakim: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-04-22
Nick Hakim premieres new music from a dark corner of his bedroom in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
53. The Pop Ups (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-04-23
For "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day," The Pop Ups save the earth from an asteroid, explain sound waves through a sing-a-long and a keytar, and encourage us all to invent and create.
54. Fogerty's Factory - John Fogerty + Family: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-04-24
John Fogerty plays three Creedence Clearwater Revival classics with some help from his family for his Tiny Desk home concert.
55. Mahan Esfahani
Air Date: 2020-04-27
The harpsichord is alive and well. Watch Mahan Esfahani give the first solo harpsichord recital at the Tiny Desk, playing music that spans over 250 years.
56. Rodrigo y Gabriela: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-04-28
Rodrigo y Gabriela play a relaxed Tiny Desk home concert from their studio in Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
57. Daughter of Swords
Air Date: 2020-04-29
Alexandra Sauser-Monnig returns to the Tiny Desk with her band Daughter of Swords, showcasing new music as well as songs from 2019's gorgeous Dawnbreaker album.
58. Jeru the Damaja: Tiny Desk Home Concert
Air Date: 2020-04-30
Jeru The Damaja, the '90s emcee, shares a medley of classics for his Tiny Desk home concert.
59. Buck Curran: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-05-01
The American guitarist met Adele Pappalardo years ago while touring Italy. They perform droning psych-folk songs together from their Bergamo home.
60. Jon Batiste
Air Date: 2020-05-04
Jon Batiste premieres new songs and takes us through some of the many sides of his rich musical history at the Tiny Desk.
61. Lianne La Havas: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-05-05
Lianne La Havas plays a Tiny Desk from her cozy London space. Her set includes two songs from her upcoming, self-titled album
62. MILCK: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-05-07
MILCK performs two recent singles, along with an unreleased track in a deeply moving Tiny Desk set from her home in Los Angeles.
63. Braxton Cook: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-05-08
Braxton Cook has supported artists at the Tiny Desk on three separate occasions. This time around, he takes center seat, so to speak, from the comfort of his sunny New Jersey home.
64. Augustin Hadelich
Air Date: 2020-05-11
Grammy-winning fiddler Augustin Hadelich brings one of the finest violins in the world to the Tiny Desk.
65. Frances Quinlan
Air Date: 2020-05-13
The frontwoman of the indie-rock band Hop Along made her second appearance at the Tiny Desk, this time performing songs from her debut solo album.
66. Ashley McBryde: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-05-14
The country singer performed four songs from her latest album, Never Will, including one of our top 25 songs of 2019.
67. Alex Isley: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-05-15
The R&B singer, whose music appeared on Season 4 of Insecure, performs four songs for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
68. Raul Midón: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-05-16
The jazz singer and guitarist has multiple Grammy nominations to his name. He performed five songs for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
69. Lankum
Air Date: 2020-05-18
The award-winning Irish quartet performs three songs from its latest album, The Livelong Day, at the Tiny Desk.
70. Sylvan Esso (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-05-21
Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn perform three songs from their couch for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
71. Buddy and Kent Jamz: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-05-22
The two rappers perform tracks from their joint mixtape Janktape Vol. 1 for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
72. Clem Snide with Scott Avett: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-05-23
Clem Snide and Scott Avett play spiritually searching songs from Forever Just Beyond while maintaining social distancing for their Tiny Desk (home) concert.
73. Wire
Air Date: 2020-05-27
More than 40 years after forming, the British post-punk pioneers finally visited the Tiny Desk.
74. Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-05-28
Watch the Americana star perform four songs in quarantine from her home in Ireland.
75. D Smoke: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-05-29
Watch D Smoke perform a riveting Tiny Desk (home) concert.
76. Lara Downes (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-05-30
Watch the pianist reimagine old spirituals and songs of freedom that continue to resonate in new ways.
77. Hadestown
Air Date: 2020-06-01
The cast and musicians of the hit Broadway musical Hadestown pack into the Tiny Desk for a truly glorious performance of its greatest songs.
78. Sa-Roc: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-06-04
The Washington D.C. rapper and Rhymesayers signee debuts two songs from her upcoming album, The Sharecropper's Daughter.
79. Baby Rose: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-06-10
One of our favorite new artists of 2019 shares a new song as part of her Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
80. KIRBY: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-06-11
You've heard this Mississippi songwriter multiple times on HBO's Insecure this season. Now watch her perform live as part of our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
81. PJ (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-06-12
The Los Angeles songwriter shines on the soundtrack of HBO's Insecure. Watch her perform three songs as part of our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
82. Alicia Keys
Air Date: 2020-06-15
The pop superstar premiered a new song, "Gramercy Park," and revisited a classic during her Tiny Desk performance.
83. HAIM: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-06-17
Although sisters Este, Danielle and Alana are self-quarantining in separate residences, their Tiny Desk set from home is a reminder that California is a state of mind.
84. Little Dragon: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-06-18
The Swedish funk foursome perform songs from its latest album, New Me, Same Us, plus an old favorite for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
85. Benny the Butcher: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-06-19
Benny The Butcher, one third of Griselda, performs a short set in his living room, with help from BSF labelmates Rick Hyde and Heem.
86. Hamilton Leithauser & Family (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-06-21
The Walkmen frontman gathers his children and a few haystacks for a special Father's Day edition of Tiny Desk.
87. Sudan Archives
Air Date: 2020-06-22
Sudan Archives draws inspiration from Irish and African traditional music. Watch her channel both in this Tiny Desk concert.
88. Madame Gandhi: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-06-24
Watch the drummer and activist perform three songs for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
89. M. Ward: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-06-25
The acclaimed guitarist (and masculine half of She & Him) performed seven songs in his Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
90. BEAM: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-06-26
The Miami-based reggae singer brings a green screen to his Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
91. Coreyah: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-06-30
The Seoul-based sextet performs music that blends Korean traditional music with modern sounds.
92. Malawi Mouse Boys: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-01
This Southeast African band deserves your attention. Watch a very special remote Tiny Desk concert.
93. Fabiano Do Nascimento: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-02
The Brazilian-born guitarist performs a peace-inducing concert from his home in Los Angeles.
94. Trupa Trupa: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-03
The Polish rock band performed a Tiny Desk quarantine concert in Gdańsk basement.
95. Dirty Projectors: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-06
The indie rock band performs four songs while quarantining in five separate homes.
96. Chicano Batman: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-07
The Alt.Latino favorite comes together virtually to perform a handful of songs from the band's latest album, Invisible People.
97. Roddy Ricch: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-08
The chart-topping rapper and songwriter performs a Tiny Desk quarantine concert at West Coast Customs in Los Angeles.
98. Jacob Collier: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-09
Watch four different Jacob Colliers perform simultaneously in the same studio in this unprecedented Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
99. Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-13
This Tiny Desk quarantine concert features a guest appearance from guitarist John Mayer.
100. Benny Sings: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-14
The Dutch singer brings us into his home studio for this Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
101. Diana Gordon: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-15
The singer-songwriter channels Whitney Houston, Alanis Morissette and The Cranberries' Dolores O'Riordan in her Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
102. Lenny Kravitz: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-20
The bohemian rock icon performs a Tiny Desk quarantine concert from his home in the Bahamas.
103. Tom Adams: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-21
The singer and songwriter plays four new songs from his home in Cornwall, accompanied by a modular synthesizer and fronted by Adams' gifted falsetto.
104. Nilüfer Yanya: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-22
After performing for us last year, Nilüfer Yanya rejoins the Tiny Desk team from afar, performing three works from her last album and debuting a new song.
105. Lucinda Williams: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-27
Lucinda Williams and her guitar mate, Stuart Mathis, set up shop for a Tiny Desk home concert at Thirty Tigers' headquarters in Nashville.
106. Thao Nguyen: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-28
Thao is joined by two cellists in this remarkable set for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
107. Lyric Jones: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-07-29
The Boston-born, Los Angeles-based rapper does it all in this performance for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
108. John Legend: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-08-03
This four-song set for Tiny Desk's quarantine series is utter joy.
109. Kate Davis: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-08-04
One of our favorite indie rock lyricists performs a four-song concert for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
110. Melanie Faye: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-08-05
Melanie Faye stole the show during Masego's Tiny Desk concert, so we invited her to perform her own quarantine concert.
111. Moses Sumney: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-08-10
The singer-songwriter performed music from his new album, græ, from his home in North Carolina.
112. Becca Mancari: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-08-11
The Nashville-based rock musician recorded a five-song set for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
113. Víkingur Ólafsson: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-08-12
Watch the rising young pianist, in a final performance from his Berlin home, make the case for two seemingly disparate French composers born nearly 200 years apart.
114. Flatbush Zombies: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-08-13
Watch the hip-hop group perform a stripped-down set from a house in Los Angeles for Tiny Desk's quarantine series.
115. Norah Jones: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-08-17
The platinum-selling, low-key superstar performs a solo set at her piano for Tiny Desk's quarantine series.
116. Buscabulla: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-08-18
This Tiny Desk quarantine concert takes place in a large car, looking out on the Caribbean Sea.
117. Lila Iké: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-08-19
The rising reggae star performs a four-song Tiny Desk quarantine concert from Jamaica.
118. Courtney Marie Andrews: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-08-20
One of the shining lights of Americana music recorded a Tiny Desk concert at her home in Nashville.
119. Tame Impala: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-08-24
Kevin Parker brings his "Tame Impala Soundsystem" to life in a Tiny Desk from Australia.
120. Yola: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-08-25
The soulful British singer invites us into her temporary backyard in Nashville for a Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
121. Billie Eilish: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-08-26
Billie Eilish used some of her signature video magic to perform in front of the Tiny Desk from the comfort of her own home.
122. Tiwa Savage: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-08-31
To mark the release of her newest album, Tiwa Savage and her band, The Alternative Sound, returned to Lagos for a lovely set in a beautiful setting.
123. Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer And Chris Thile (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-01
The quartet, known colloquially as Goat Rodeo, jammed out from four different homes in this Tiny Desk quarantine performance.
124. Anat Cohen & Marcello Gonçalves: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-02
The Israeli clarinetist and Brazilian guitarist recorded this Tiny Desk quarantine performance in Rio de Janeiro.
125. Burt Bacharach & Daniel Tashian: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-03
Burt Bacharach, one of pop's historic melody makers, is still performing at age 92, as you'll see in this Tiny Desk quarantine concert with lyricist Daniel Tashian.
126. Protoje: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-08
The reggae star performs a four-song set from the hills outside Kingston.
127. Bill Callahan: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-09
Bill Callahan has a deep pocket of stories to tell. Standing outside his home, he performs a few of them with guitarist Matt Kinsey and trumpet player Derek Phelps.
128. Phoebe Bridgers: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-10
Phoebe Bridgers performs her Tiny Desk quarantine concert in a virtual Oval Office, with help of dozens of fans.
129. Declan McKenna (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-14
The 21-year-old McKenna performs a four-song quarantine concert with a full band.
130. Arlo Parks: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-15
Watch the young London pop artist perform four songs for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
131. Nubya Garcia (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-16
One of the British jazz scene's rising stars performs a quarantine concert on the River Thames.
132. BTS: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-21
The most popular band in the world performs three songs with a live band for Tiny Desk's quarantine series.
133. Oddisee: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-22
The rapper convened a live band for his five-song Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
134. Conway the Machine: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-23
The Griselda MC takes over a Queens diner to perform a quarantine concert for Tiny Desk.
135. Brandy Clark: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-24
The Nashville songwriter performs four songs from her picturesque loft apartment, including fan favorite "Hold My Hand."
136. Bright Eyes: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-28
Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott perform songs from their latest album, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, for our quarantine series.
137. The Good Ones: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-29
The Rwandan duo perform a concert from a hilltop farm for one of our tiniest Tiny Desks.
138. Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-09-30
Americana's most famous couple perform a Tiny Desk quarantine set in their barn, backed by gorgeous stain-glassed windows.
139. Jhené Aiko: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-01
One of R&B's biggest stars performs an eight-song medley for her Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
140. Linda Diaz, 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Winner: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-05
Watch Linda Diaz's Tiny Desk concert, recorded atop New York City's Javits Center.
141. Little Big Town: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-06
Little Big Town, one of the biggest bands in country music, perform a Tiny Desk quarantine show, and they bring the hits.
142. Angel Olsen: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-07
The singer-songwriter performs four songs on her porch in Asheville, N.C., for Tiny Desk's quarantine series.
143. The Flaming Lips: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-09
Wayne Coyne has been preparing for this era of social distancing for 10 years. Watch The Flaming Lips perform in bubbles for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
144. Lido Pimienta: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-13
The Polaris Music Prize winner kicks off our week-long Tiny Desk celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.
145. Carlos Vives: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-14
Colombian actor and singer Carlos Vives has been performing Latin American hits for almost 30 years. His Tiny Desk (home) concert is part of our Hispanic Heritage Month extravaganza.
146. Bebel Gilberto: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-15
Two members of Brazilian musical royalty unite for a special Tiny Desk quarantine performance (and a heck of a view).
147. Ozuna: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-16
Global superstar Ozuna performs five songs in quarantine for Tiny Desk.
148. Gracie And Rachel: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-19
The pop-meet-classical duo perform a quarantine concert from their New York City apartment.
149. Kingfish: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-20
The blues prodigy performs a special Tiny Desk show at the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Miss.
150. Leo Kottke And Mike Gordon: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-21
Phish bassist Mike Gordon and guitarist Leo Kottke perform a magical Tiny Desk quarantine show, with a little help from Phish drummer Jon Fishman.
151. Spillage Village: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-23
Let the Atlanta hip-hop collective take you to church in its Tiny Desk quarantine video.
152. Katie Pruitt: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-26
The Nashville singer-songwriter delivers an empowering performance in this Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
153. GroundUP Family Dinner: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-27
Gregory Porter, Brad Mehldau and Chris Potter all appear in this 18-musician Tiny Desk quarantine concert, organized by Snarky Puppy's Michael League.
154. Ty Dolla $ign: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-28
The R&B superstar assembled some frequent collaborators — including Skrillex — for a six-song quarantine concert.
155. Sad13: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-10-30
Dressed as devils from their own homes, Sadie Dupuis and her virtual band explore the wild textures of her sweet-and-sour pop songs.
156. Polo G: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-11-04
The platinum-certified Chicago-born emcee performs three songs on a basketball court for his Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
157. Tiana Major9: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-11-06
The ascending R&B talent brings us into her South London home for a four-song quarantine concert.
158. Mickey Guyton: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-11-09
Country music's breakout star of 2020 performs three songs for her Tiny Desk quarantine concert, including "Black Like Me."
159. Shirley Collins: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-11-10
British folk singer Shirley Collins is a living legend. Watch her perform five songs for her Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
160. Tigran Hamasyan: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-11-11
The award-winning pianist performs three solo songs from his home in Armenia.
161. Copland House: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-11-13
A trio of musicians gather at Aaron Copland's longtime home. Watch them play the iconic American composer's music at his own piano and beside his own writing desk.
162. Michael Kiwanuka: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-11-16
The 2020 Mercury Prize winner performs five songs in a London flat for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
163. Owen Pallett: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-11-17
The talented Canadian composer and songwriter creates an ensemble in their bedroom for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
164. Adrianne Lenker: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-11-18
The leader of Big Thief performs five songs from a camper in Joshua Tree for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
165. KEM: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-11-23
The R&B veteran performs three songs from his latest album for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
166. Don Bryant: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-11-24
The soul legend isn't letting quarantine slow him down.
167. Mulatto: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-11-25
The Rap Game champion and self-proclaimed "Queen Of Da Souf" performs three songs for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
168. Mac Ayres: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-11-30
The Long Island R&B singer premieres a new song during his Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
169. Julia Bullock: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-12-01
From her home in Germany, the provocative American soprano delivers songs of introspection and freedom from Franz Schubert's mountaintop epiphany to Billy Taylor's wish for equality and justice.
170. PJ Morton: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-12-02
Watch the Grammy-nominated artist perform three songs from his album The Gospel According To PJ.
171. Dua Lipa: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-12-04
The defining disco diva of 2020 performs four songs from her album Future Nostalgia for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
172. Black Pumas: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-12-07
The Austin-based rock band is nominated for the album and record of the year at next year's Grammys. See why in this Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
173. Chloe x Halle: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-12-08
The most exciting sister act in contemporary pop performs five songs for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
174. Hayley Williams: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-12-09
From the moment we pan out of a literal tiny desk diorama, a jolt of energy leaps from Paramore's Hayley Williams. Her home band includes Julien Baker and Becca Mancari.
175. Ashley Ray: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-12-11
The Nashville singer-songwriter performs music from her celebrated album, Pauline, for Tiny Desk's quarantine series.
176. Jonathan Biss: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-12-14
To mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, pianist Jonathan Biss explores the solitary side of the composer in extraordinary music written after Beethoven became deaf.
177. Borromeo String Quartet: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-12-15
Members of the celebrated Borromeo String Quartet – playing it safe with masks – unlock the sillier side of Beethoven in music he wrote late in life.
178. Jan Vogler And Alessio Bax: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-12-16
Join cellist Jan Vogler and pianist Alessio Bax at the "doctor's office," where they make the case for Beethoven as the liberator of the cello by playing music from his cello sonatas.
179. Cory Henry: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2020-12-21
The former Snarky Puppy keyboardist and bandleader performs a special holiday Tiny Desk for our quarantine series.
1. Sevdaliza (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-01-05
The Iranian-Dutch singer and producer performs four songs during her Tiny Desk quarantine set.
2. Active Child (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-01-06
Patrick Grossi's heavenly voice is backed by a stunning view of the San Gabriel mountains in this Tiny Desk quarantine video.
3. Jazmine Sullivan (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-01-08
The R&B star celebrates her new album, Heaux Tales, with a Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
4. mxmtoon (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-01-15
The YouTube star performs five songs in her Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
5. TH1RT3EN (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-01-18
Pharoahe Monch's fed-up rock band performs four songs for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
6. Gabriel Garzón-Montano (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-01-19
An eight-piece backing band, dressed almost entirely in white, helps Garzón-Montano bring the music of his latest album, Agüita, to life.
7. PUP (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-01-21
The Canadian punk band might have generated a noise complaint with this Tiny Desk quarantine performance.
8. Max Richter (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-01-22
Watch the composer, in a bucolic southern England setting, play six of his most tranquil, yet probing pieces.
9. Future Islands (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-01-25
The Baltimore rock band became stars thanks to a stunning performance on The Late Show With David Letterman. Watch Sam Herring and co. perform four songs for Tiny Desk's quarantine series.
10. Sevana (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-01-26
The rising Jamaican soul singer and Protoje co-sign performed four songs for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
11. Lous And The Yakuza (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-01-27
Watch the Congolese refugee's Tiny Desk quarantine concert, filmed in a Paris bar.
12. Miley Cyrus (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-01-28
The provocative pop star covers Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You" and performs two cuts from Plastic Hearts for her Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
13. Muzz (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-01-29
The rock group featuring Paul Banks of Interpol performed a Tiny Desk quarantine set from a theater in New York's Hudson Valley.
14. JLCO Septet with Wynton Marsalis (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-02-02
The political is personal for the nine-time Grammy winner. Watch him lead the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet through three songs from his Democracy! Suite.
15. Immanuel Wilkins (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-02-03
The jazz saxophonist and his quartet perform three songs that speak directly to the struggle and triumph of the Black experience for Tiny Desk's Black History Month celebration.
16. Melanie Charles (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-02-04
The rising jazz flutist blends Afrofuturistic jazz and Haitian folk in a transfixing Tiny Desk quarantine concert for our Black History Month celebration.
17. GIVĒON (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-02-09
The rising R&B star performs three songs as part of Tiny Desk's celebration of Black History Month.
18. Meshell Ndegeocello (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-02-10
Filmed in stark black and white, Ndegeocello takes us on an intense trip across her catalog. Watch the R&B auteur's contribution to Tiny Desk's Black History Month celebration.
19. KeiyaA (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-02-11
One of 2020's breakout artists performs four songs as part of Tiny Desk's Black History Month celebration.
20. Rick Ross (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-02-16
Miami's biggest boss performs six songs with a live band in this Tiny Desk quarantine concert, part of our Black History Month celebration.
21. 2 Chainz (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-02-17
The Atlanta rap star brings us into his nail salon for a Tiny Desk quarantine concert, part of our Black History Month celebration.
22. Rae Khalil (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-02-18
The rapper, singer and songwriter performs four songs as part of Tiny Desk's Black History Month celebration.
23. Bartees Strange (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-02-22
The budding indie rock star performs four songs for his quarantined Tiny Desk, part of our Black History Month celebration.
24. Sampa The Great (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-02-23
The poet, rapper and singer-songwriter joins us from Zambia for a visually stunning quarantine concert, part of Tiny Desk's Black History Month celebration.
25. Davido (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-02-24
The Afrobeats star performs four songs from his home in Nigeria for Tiny Desk's Black History Month celebration.
26. Kirk Franklin (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-02-25
The gospel trailblazer and his powerhouse choir close out Tiny Desk's Black History Month celebration with a moving performance from his studio in Arlington, Texas.
27. Jack Harlow (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-03-03
The rapper behind last year's hit "WHATS POPPIN" performs six songs from his debut album for Tiny Desk's quarantine series.
28. Ólafur Arnalds (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-03-04
The Icelandic composer and pianist takes us inside his Reykjavik studio for his Tiny Desk quarantine set.
29. Fleet Foxes (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-03-09
Watch Fleet Foxes singer Robin Pecknold perform alone at a very tiny desk.
30. Coming 2 America, Sounds Of Zamunda (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-03-10
Six artists representing four countries in Africa perform a megamix of selections from Rhythms of Zamunda: Music Inspired By Coming 2 America.
31. Black Coffee (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-03-11
The South African house star brings three electronic tracks to life with the help of live percussion, keys and guest vocalists in this Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
32. Xavier Omär (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-03-15
Xavier Omär and his cohorts play a charismatic and vocally rich Tiny Desk home concert at a coffee shop in San Antonio.
33. Justin Bieber (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-03-17
Watch the pop superstar and his band perform four songs from the forthcoming Justice, including a world premiere of "Peaches."
34. Sting (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-03-22
The one and only Sting returns to Tiny Desk, and this time he's brought Beninese pop star Shirazee.
35. Liam Bailey (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-03-23
The British singer-songwriter performs three songs from his latest album, Ekundayo, in this Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
36. Buck Meek (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-03-25
The Big Thief guitarist and vocalist performs a solo Tiny Desk home concert from the back of his Land Cruiser in Topanga Canyon, California.
37. Kacy & Clayton And Marlon Williams (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-03-29
Across hemispheres, despite a nearly 8,000-mile separation, the Saskatoon, Canada duo of cousins Kacy & Clayton and New Zealand's Marlon Williams manage to create harmony and intimacy.
38. Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: Steady Holiday
Air Date: 2021-04-05
In our first of four Tiny Desk Meets SXSW concerts, Dre Babinski delivers an absolutely charming performance.
39. Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: Yasser Tejeda And Palotré
Air Date: 2021-04-06
Watch the Dominican-born guitarist get groovy with his band in this special Tiny Desk Meets SXSW performance.
40. Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: DUCKWRTH
Air Date: 2021-04-07
The funky and flamboyant R&B singer debuts two new songs in this Tiny Desk Meets SXSW concert.
41. Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: Clipping
Air Date: 2021-04-08
Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes brought the tiniest desks possible to their SXSW video.
42. Nathaniel Rateliff (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-04-12
The Americana star performs a Tiny Desk from an empty Mercury Café in Denver.
43. Demi Lovato (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-04-14
Recorded on a sunny spring day in her Los Angeles backyard, Demi Lovato sings "Tell Me You Love Me" and two songs from Dancing With The Devil... The Art Of Starting Over.
44. CARM (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-04-15
The co-founder of yMusic and Bon Iver collaborator performs a quarantine concert from Eau Claire, Wisc.
45. Rina Sawayama (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-04-19
The Japanese British pop star performs three tracks from her 2020 debut album, SAWAYAMA.
46. C. Tangana (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-04-20
The Spanish superstar performed one of the most ambitious, and yet simple, Tiny Desks we've seen in quarantine.
47. Butcher Brown (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-04-21
The Richmond, Va., band floats between jazz, hip-hop, funk and soul. Watch the group's rooftop Tiny Desk performance.
48. Tiny Desk Meets AFROPUNK: ChocQuibTown
Air Date: 2021-04-25
The Colombian hip-hop trio was part of a four-act showcase that highlighted outstanding Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean musicians.
49. Shelley FKA DRAM (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-04-26
The artist formerly known as D.R.A.M. returns to the Tiny Desk with a new look, a vocally flawless performance, and the premiere of a brand new song.
50. Lake Street Dive (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-04-27
The pop group took to the biggest little stage in New York City to record its Tiny Desk quarantine set.
51. Son Lux (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-04-28
The band is still quarantined in houses around the country, but you wouldn't know it from this video.
52. Rod Wave (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-04-29
The ascending rap singer performs four songs, including "Street Runner" and "Rags2Riches," in his Tiny Desk quarantine set.
53. Tiny Desk Meets AFROPUNK: NENNY
Air Date: 2021-05-01
The 18-year-old Portuguese rapper and songwriter dazzles in this collaboration between Tiny Desk and AFROPUNK.
54. Tiny Desk Meets AFROPUNK: Luedji Luna
Air Date: 2021-05-02
The Brazilian singer uses her Tiny Desk platform to discuss individual and systemic forms of anti-Blackness.
55. Tiny Desk Meets AFROPUNK: Calma Carmona
Air Date: 2021-05-03
The Puerto Rican singer performed three songs for this special Tiny Desk collaboration with AFROPUNK.
56. Cande y Paulo (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-05-05
The Argentine duo performs a haunting and captivating set of covers, including songs by Leonard Cohen and Feist.
57. Negativland (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-05-06
The champions of sound collage and subverters of culture bring thoughtful fun to their Tiny Desk quarantine set.
58. Moses Boyd (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-05-07
The U.K. jazz drummer and producer helms a Tiny Desk from Church Studios in North London.
59. Ani DiFranco (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-05-10
Ani DiFranco delivers a beautiful and powerful performance from her home and studio, Big Blue in New Orleans.
60. Sara Watkins (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-05-13
The Nickel Creek fiddler makes a magical return to Tiny Desk. Watch Sara Watkins and her band perform five songs in quarantine
61. Palberta (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-05-18
The members of this indie rock trio all sing and play each other's instruments. Watch Palberta perform from a Philly basement in this quarantine concert.
62. Kathleen Edwards (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-05-19
The beloved songwriter performs tunes from her 2020 album, Total Freedom, in this quarantine set.
63. Laurie Anderson (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-05-20
The avant-garde figurehead performs music from Big Science, including "O Superman," for her Tiny Desk quarantine set.
64. Mdou Moctar (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-05-24
The African guitarist assembled a band in Niger for this special Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
65. Deep Sea Diver (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-05-25
The Twin Peaks red room is "home" for this critically acclaimed indie rock band's Tiny Desk quarantine concert.
66. Brothers Osborne (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-05-26
John and T.J. Osborne turn up the intensity in a Tiny Desk quarantine set that features music from the duo's 2020 album, Skeletons.
67. Karol G (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-05-27
The reggaeton superstar performs three songs during her quarantine concert, which features a guest appearance by fellow Colombiano Camilo.
68. Fat Joe (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-06-01
The Latino hip-hop legend plays a medley of hits from his nearly 30-year catalog.
69. Buzzy Lee (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-06-02
Sasha Spielberg, a.k.a. Buzzy Lee, performed a playful and passionate Tiny Desk (home) concert from her childhood bathroom.
70. The Hold Steady (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-06-03
For their first-ever full-band Tiny Desk appearance, The Hold Steady squeezed behind a cramped backstage corner of the Brooklyn Bowl.
71. Tom Jones (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-06-07
Tom Jones performs songs from his new album, Surrounded By Time for the first time in his triumphant return to the Tiny Desk.
72. Rostam (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-06-08
Rostam and his band perform acoustic-driven versions of two songs from Changephobia, plus "In a River."
73. Merry Clayton (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-06-09
One of rock's most important backup singers, Merry Clayton performs a relaxed but purposeful Tiny Desk home concert.
74. Joseph Keckler (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-06-14
The classically trained singer, performance artist and writer turns his Tiny Desk (home) concert into a showcase of his dynamism as a performer.
75. Men I Trust (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-06-16
Smooth vibes abound in this quarantine concert, recorded in a cottage near the Montreal band's home.
76. Pino Palladino + Blake Mills (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-06-17
The prolific bassist and two-time Grammy-nominated producer and guitarist come together to distill the sonic creativity of their album, Notes With Attachments.
77. Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-06-21
With chemistry and camaraderie in abundance, Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, and Jon Randall extend an honorary invitation into their world.
78. Liz Phair (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-06-23
Watch Liz Phair perform songs from her new album, Soberish, as well as a classic from Exile In Guyville.
79. Mahani Teave (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-06-24
Tiny Desk heads to Easter Island in the South Pacific for sublime performances by pianist Mahani Teave and a heartwarming story.
80. Carrtoons, Kaelin Ellis, Kiefer and The Kount (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-06-28
To celebrate 50 years of NPR, we asked beatmakers Carrtoons, Kaelin Ellis, Kiefer, and The Kount to recreate some of the iconic themes from our news programs.
81. From The Top (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-06-30
If young folks are our future, then classical music looks blazingly bright with these extraordinary performances by teenage musicians from across the country.
82. Sleater-Kinney (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-07-01
Watch Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker perform four songs with a full band.
83. Dry Cleaning (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-07-06
The post-punk band recontextualizes its established robust sound for a relatively subdued Tiny Desk performance from World of Echo, a record store in East London.
84. Black Motion (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-07-08
The South African production duo's Tiny Desk (home) concert, recorded at the former residence of Nelson Mandela, feels like a spiritual sound bath.
85. JAMBINAI (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-07-09
Watch a larger-than-life Tiny Desk concert from this South Korean rock ensemble.
86. Bleachers (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-07-12
From a sun-drenched spot outside Electric Lady Studios, Jack Antonoff and company perform intimate revisions of songs from their forthcoming album, Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night.
87. Lucy Dacus (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-07-15
From her alma mater in Richmond, Va., Lucy Dacus plays songs from her latest album, Home Video.
88. The Weather Station (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-07-20
The Canadian band led by Tamara Lindeman plays four songs from their latest album, Ignorance somewhere in the woods of Mulmur in Southern Ontario.
89. Maple Glider (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-07-21
The Australian singer-songwriter performs four songs from her album To Enjoy Is the Only Thing.
90. Vince Staples (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-07-23
Vince Staples brings the sound of his new self-titled album to life for his Tiny Desk (home) concert.
91. Young Thug (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-07-27
From the lush gardens of The Houdini estate in Los Angeles, the influential Atlanta rapper premiers songs from his forthcoming album, Punk.
92. Anna B Savage (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-07-28
Alone amidst the mist and moss near her new home on Ireland's western coast, Savage performs three songs that cohere around the theme of emerging from the darkness of a toxic relationship.
93. Shame (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-07-30
The South London band, backed by a compendium of violins, horns and more, plays songs from its latest album, Drunk Tank Pink.
94. Dinosaur Jr. (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-08-03
From an empty Shea Theater in Turners Falls, Mass., the trio plays songs from their new album, Sweep It Into Space, along with two towering classics.
95. Hiatus Kaiyote (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-08-04
Very chill aliens, chickens and monsters join the Australian R&B group during its Tiny Desk set from Melbourne.
96. Ben Howard (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-08-09
Watch Ben Howard play songs from his latest album, Collections from the Whiteout as well as the premiere of a new tune.
97. Flock of Dimes: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-08-10
Backed by members of Sylvan Esso, Mountain Man, Bon Iver and more, Flock of Dimes' Jenn Wasner performs three songs from her new album, Head of Roses.
98. The Isley Brothers (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-08-18
Ronald and Ernie Isley broadcast from their St. Louis, Mo. studio to share four classics from the Isley Brothers' legendary catalog.
99. Joy Oladokun (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-08-20
Watch the folk-soul singer-songwriter perform four songs from her new album, in defense of my own happiness.
100. Migos (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-08-25
The trap superstars perform three songs at Gallery Dept. in Los Angeles for this pandemic edition of Tiny Desk.
101. Little Simz (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-08-31
The London rapper performs songs from her new album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert from a living room dropped inside a void.
102. The Staves (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-09-01
The three sisters play songs from their latest album, Good Woman, from the house they grew up in.
103. Rico Nasty: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-09-03
One of the DMV's most formidable forces bounces around her varied discography for her Tiny Desk home concert.
104. Yebba: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-09-08
The Memphis singer-songwriter reworks songs from her debut album, Dawn, from a room inside Electric Lady Studios
105. Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Royal Voices of Life (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-09-09
Pastor T.L. Barrett comes to this Tiny Desk (home) concert from his spiritual home, the Chicago church he has pastored for over 40 years.
106. Royce da 5'9": Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-09-10
The formidable lyricist celebrates eight years of sobriety with this Tiny Desk home concert from his studio near Detroit.
107. J Balvin: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-09-16
The reggaetón superstar kicks off our "El Tiny" takeover of the Tiny Desk (home) concert series.
108. Diamante Eléctrico: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-09-17
The Colombian indie rock band performs a colorful and funky four-song set from their home country's capital, Bogotá.
109. maye: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-09-22
The pop singer premieres new music with family and friends for her "El Tiny" home concert.
110. Silvana Estrada: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-09-27
The Mexican singer returns to the instrument workshop that started it all, performing a stunning set from her parent's home in Veracruz, Mexico.
111. Eme Alfonso: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-09-29
The Cuban vocalist and her parents perform a three-song set from Havana for this stop of our "El Tiny" tour of Latin music.
112. Sech: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-10-04
The Panamanian singer celebrates reggaetón with an El Tiny performance set in a library.
113. Prince Royce: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-10-06
The Dominican-American superstar plays his "El Tiny" concert from a barbershop in The Bronx.
114. YEИDRY: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-10-08
The Dominican-Italian singer performs an "El Tiny" concert from Soho Beach House in Miami.
115. Nicki Nicole: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-10-13
Nicki Nicole's Tiny Desk home concert is representative of her artistry writ large, as an artist born in 2000 but with a connection to sounds and styles beyond her years.
116. Camila Cabello: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-10-15
Pop sensation Camila Cabello brings her famous hits back home, backing powerful vocals with Cuban congueros and Mexican mariachi.
117. Cha Wa: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-10-18
From Preservation Hall in New Orleans, the rhythmically fueled group broadcasts a powerful performance for a not-so Tiny crowd.
118. Yasmin Williams: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-10-19
For her Tiny Desk (home) concert, Yasmin Williams keeps the background sparse to foreground her inventive playing.
119. Jagged Little Pill: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-10-21
The cast of Jagged Little Pill celebrates their return to Broadway with a Tiny Desk (home) performance of songs from the iconic Alanis Morissette album of the same name.
120. Circuit des Yeux: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-10-25
In Circuit des Yeux's Tiny Desk (home) concert — recorded at Chicago's historic May Chapel — Haley Fohr's operatic, four-octave vibrato contains a wondrous terror, but also an illumination of being.
121. Ed Sheeran: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-10-26
Ed Sheeran performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert surrounded by bookshelves and a host of world-class musicians.
122. Neffy: 2021 Tiny Desk Contest Winner
Air Date: 2021-10-27
It felt good to be at the Tiny Desk, if only for one night. Tiny Desk Contest winner Neffy plays her winning song, "Wait Up," plus three more in the first Tiny Desk concert since March 2020.
123. The War on Drugs: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-11-01
In their Tiny Desk (home) concert, The War On Drugs gather in their packed studio in Burbank, CA to let us in on the fun and intricate inner workings of their craft.
124. Joss Favela: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-11-03
The torchbearer for Mexican Regional music plays a Tiny Desk home concert from his ranch in Sinaloa.
125. Tems: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-11-04
Adorning hues that recall the title of her latest EP, If Orange Was a Place, the Nigerian singer performs a Tiny Desk home concert from an elegant performance space in Lagos.
126. William Prince: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-11-08
From his home in Winnipeg, the folk singer emanates thoughtful messages of redemption and love.
127. Ya Tseen: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-11-09
From the Sheet'ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi community house, the Southeast Alaskan artist uses a combination of electronic and acoustic elements to fuel his Tiny Desk home concert.
128. Raye Zaragoza: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-11-10
The Akimel Oʼotham folk singer performs four songs for her Tiny Desk (home) concert.
129. Company: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-11-15
After a 20-month hiatus, the cast of the musical comedy celebrates its return with a Tiny Desk (home) concert.
130. Sloppy Jane: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-11-17
The 11-piece band crammed into a coffee shop in Queens, New York, to play three of the most tangible songs from their album, Madison.
131. Wet Leg: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-12-01
Rhian Teasdale, Hester Chambers, and their band perform a playfully wistful Tiny Desk (home) concert from a creative arts space on the Isle of Wight.
132. Olivia Rodrigo: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-12-07
From the DMV, the pop star and her band take on new arrangements of songs from her debut album, SOUR.
133. Arooj Aftab: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-12-08
Watch the Pakistan-born singer and her masterful band perform songs of love and loss in a decrepit, yet generously resonant, convent in Brooklyn.
134. Mick Jenkins: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-12-10
Backed by a four-piece band, the Chicago-bred MC plays a Tiny Desk home concert that simmers with soul.
135. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-12-13
14 years after their last collaboration, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are back at Sound Emporium, where they recorded their new album Raise The Roof.
136. Insecure Takeover Part 2: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-12-17
From Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen in Inglewood, California, our second and final Insecure Tiny Desk takeover is a total Los Angeles affair. The spot where B.K. Habermehl, Nnena, and TeaMarrr gather is also co-owned by series creator and star, Issa Rae. Our first collaboration with Insecure was an experiment just a few weeks into the Tiny Desk (home) experiment last year. We took what we learned and decided to run it back. Hilltop was featured on the show and the addition of L.A.'s own 1500 or Nothin' as the backing band made the refinement complete.
137. Jonathan McReynolds and Mali Music: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2021-12-20
The two Grammy Award-winning gospel artists come together for an unapologetic expression of faith and gratefulness in this holiday Tiny Desk home concert.
1. Turnstile (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-01-05
At the drummer's house in Baltimore, Turnstile's high-energy hardcore is surrounded by stuffed animals, presumably pogoing and windmilling in your imagination.
2. esperanza spalding (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-01-07
spalding and the Loving presences play a spirit-nourishing Tiny Desk home concert featuring selections from her Songwrights Apothecary Lab, (S.A.L.) project.
3. Mon Laferte (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-01-12
The Chilean vocalist and her orchestra's combination of Mexican folkloric and European chamber music make for a musical and visual treat.
4. Cordae (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-01-14
The DMV-bred emcee's Tiny Desk home concert is a charismatic combo of fan favorites and cuts from his new album, From a Birds Eye View.
5. Jake Xerxes Fussell (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-01-25
From a cozy home in Pittsboro, N.C., the singer and guitarist breathes new life into old, obscure folk songs.
6. ADG7: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2022
Air Date: 2022-01-27
What happens when a pop band takes inspiration from Korea's sacred, shamanic ritual music? Watch to find out.
7. Bedouin Burger: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2022
Air Date: 2022-01-27
The Middle Eastern duo's music marries traditional Arab sounds of magam, religious songs of ancient Syria, jazz, and slick pop hooks.
8. Suistamon Sähkö: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2022
Air Date: 2022-01-27
You simply have to watch this band to believe it — especially the transfixing accordion.
9. Son Rompe Pera: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2022
Air Date: 2022-01-28
Skater vibes, literally. Watch the Mexico City band perform its blend of garage, marimba and cumbia.
10. Northern Cree: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2022
Air Date: 2022-01-28
The Canadian powwow and round dance act perform a meditative set for globalFEST.
11. Kombilesa Mí: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2022
Air Date: 2022-01-28
Hailing from the first free Black town in the Americas, Kombilesa Mí fuses the traditional sounds of Colombia with urban pop.
12. Tufan Derince: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2022
Air Date: 2022-01-29
Ever heard the elektro bağlama? You're about to, in this electronic update on Turkish folk music.
13. Kiran Ahluwalia: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2022
Air Date: 2022-01-29
Indian tradition meets blues, rock and jazz in this brilliant globalFEST performance.
14. Al Bilali Soudan: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2022
Air Date: 2022-01-29
The Timbuktu group bring Tamasheq music from their living room to yours.
15. Amber Mark (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-01-31
In celebration of her stunning debut album, Three Dimensions Deep, the singer-songwriter and producer plays a deeply intimate Tiny Desk home concert.
16. Tori Amos (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-02-02
From her state-of-the-art home studio, the beloved singer-songwriter plays selections from her 2021 album, Ocean to Ocean, as well as a fan favorite.
17. Fatoumata Diawara (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-02-03
The esteemed Malian singer, songwriter, and actress delivers a riveting performance of songs from her Grammy-nominated album, Fenfo.
18. El DeBarge (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-02-04
The torchbearer for the DeBarge family plays a few of his R&B standards from a cozy home studio.
19. Catherine Russell (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-02-11
The celebrated jazz singer performs a selection of popular early jazz standards at the GB Juke Joint Studio.
20. Anthony Roth Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-02-15
Opera and cabaret comingle when two odd bedfellows bring music by Philip Glass, The Bangles, Peter Gabriel and Christoph Willibald Gluck to a "tiny apartment" in Manhattan.
21. Too Short (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-02-17
The Oakland rapper delivers a dynamic, funk-laden performance that showcases his extensive contributions to West Coast hip-hop.
22. Buffalo Nichols (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-02-22
The blues singer plays a solo Tiny Desk home concert from a spare, dimly lit Austin office building.
23. Patti LaBelle (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-02-23
From a backstage corner of a concert hall in Austin, Texas, the Godmother of Soul performs hits from across the many chapters of her fabulous career.
24. Pastor Shirley Caesar (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-02-25
The "First Lady of Gospel Music" delivers a sampling of her vast music ministry in this Tiny Desk home Concert.
25. Fireboy DML (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-03-03
The Nigerian singer-songwriter delivers "Afro-life" in a three-song Tiny Desk home concert.
26. Patricia Kopatchinskaja (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-03-08
A fearless risk-taker who makes warhorses sound freshly minted, Kopatchinskaja, from her Vienna apartment, sets fire to Beethoven and offers rarely heard American music.
27. Abdullah Ibrahim (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-03-09
This performance by the celebrated South African pianist and NEA Jazz Master reflects on the past and helps clarify the present.
28. Camilo (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-03-11
In this sweet performance, the Colombian singer-songwriter lets the world view his fairytale life in full bloom.
29. Bonobo (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-03-15
The artist and DJ performs a set that hits like a series of quietly arresting lullabies in a Nashville warehouse with a full band, featuring Jordan Rakei and Hundred Waters' Nicole Miglis.
30. Daniel Hope (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-03-17
Watch violinist Daniel Hope play Beethoven from the composer's own birth house in Bonn, Germany.
31. Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: Yard Act
Air Date: 2022-03-21
The Leeds band perform a wry and compelling five-song set from a club's green room.
32. Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: KAINA
Air Date: 2022-03-22
The Chicago singer channels casita-born energy into a performance alongside a crew of close collaborators.
33. Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: Pom Pom Squad
Air Date: 2022-03-23
Led by Mia Berrin's bitterly romantic songwriting, the band performs songs that bring a much-needed dose of silliness to self-serious grunge and punk.
34. Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: Maxo Kream
Air Date: 2022-03-24
Backed by a live band, the Houston rapper performs a set that highlights the incredibly complex puzzle of his life.
35. Madi Diaz (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-03-28
In her Tiny Desk (home) concert, Madi Diaz's music has never sounded richer or more radiant.
36. Los Rivera Destino (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-03-30
The comedic Puerto Rican trio delivers a visual and lyrical treat of a performance.
37. Maren Morris (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-04-04
In this four-song set, the country artist delivers her songs with clear-eyed passion.
38. Leif Ove Andsnes (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-04-08
Hear the award-winning pianist offer two sides of Mozart's genius from inside the composer's own home in Vienna.
39. The Linda Lindas (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-04-11
After going viral just a year ago, the teen punk band returns to "blow the roof off" the library.
40. Brittany Davis (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-04-13
The Seattle musician and their hard-hitting band fuse rock, soul, hip-hop, pop and R&B for songs that teem with insights about identity, injustice and power.
41. mehro (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-04-14
Watch an intimate, stunning performance from the California singer-songwriter who embraces well-worn emotions with grace and beauty.
42. Samora Pinderhughes (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-04-15
Samora Pinderhughes delivers a vulnerable and intimate performance from his exhibition "The Healing Project."
43. Currensy (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-04-20
The New Orleans rapper gives a performance that features three key elements that make him who he is: cars, weed and, of course, music.
44. S. Carey (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-04-21
The artist performs four songs surrounded by household appliances and a handful of his closest collaborators.
45. Feid (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-04-22
The Colombian artist utilizes his full 15-minute set to depict an artistic and intentional musical image of his home and its rich sonic diversity.
46. A Strange Loop (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-04-26
The cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical cram into a booth at a New York institution for this whirlwind of a performance.
47. Roger Eno (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-04-27
Gentle music from the bucolic English countryside pervades this tranquil Tiny Desk (home) concert by Roger Eno, with a special appearance by his two daughters.
48. Thee Sinseers (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-05-02
The California band The Sinseers play a passionate and retro four-song set in this Tiny Desk (home) concert.
49. Ron Carter (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-05-04
Watch the legendary jazz bassist and members of his trio perform from The Blue Note's prestigious stage.
50. Little Shop of Horrors (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-05-06
Composer Alan Menken joins the cast of the off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary.
51. Aoife O'Donovan (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-05-09
The singer-songwriter assembled her band at a New Hampshire bookstore for a set of warm folk-pop songs.
52. ARC Ensemble (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-05-11
Musicians from Canada's Royal Conservatory in Toronto introduce the spirited and overlooked music of Ukrainian composer Dmitri Klebanov.
53. Buffy Sainte-Marie (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-05-12
Buffy Sainte-Marie has always been a wandering soul with a fierce sense of direction. Watch her and her touring band perform four songs from across her long, innovative career.
54. Fontaines D.C. (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-05-17
Irish post-punk band Fontaines D.C. delivers a four-song set from Chicago's Irish American Heritage Center.
55. IDK (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-05-18
The rapper gives a captivating, cool performance from his Los Angeles home for an audience of neighbors and friends.
56. pH-1, Mndsgn and Audrey Nuna: AAPI Heritage Month Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-05-20
The Tiny Desk is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month withperformances from pH-1, Mndsgn and Audrey Nuna.
57. Ada Lea (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-05-24
In her Tiny Desk (home) concert, Ada Lea performs four sharply detailed and dreamy songs.
58. Svaneborg Kardyb (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-05-25
The Danish jazz duo perform an untraditional four-song set from the countryside in Djursland, Denmark.
59. Alisa Amador: 2022 Tiny Desk Contest Winner
Air Date: 2022-05-31
This year's Tiny Desk Contest winner performed the first Tiny Desk concert with an audience in over 800 days. It was a joyful, moving set from a captivating artist.
60. Adekunle Gold (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-06-02
AG is ready for takeoff. Watch a live set from the Nigerian singer-songwriter and his band inside a faux airport terminal in Los Angeles.
61. James Francies (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-06-03
James Francies delivers a poignant and powerful Tiny Desk (home) concert.
62. Naira Marley (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-06-08
The celebrated Afrobeat star performs an upbeat Tiny Desk (home) concert including several songs from his debut album.
63. FKA twigs (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-06-10
In the hallowed halls of London's St. Matthias Church, the innovative musician performs a cathartic set, including her new song "killer."
64. Larry June (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-06-16
Larry June is the indie-rap hustle personified. Though the Bay Area emcee has a prodigious output, his (home) concert reflects the comfortable, laid-back tone of his records.
65. Ravyn Lenae
Air Date: 2022-06-22
The genre-melding R&B artist Ravyn Lenae brings a funky, futuristic set to the Tiny Desk.
66. Maverick City Music
Air Date: 2022-06-23
The contemporary worship music collective performs behind the Tiny Desk, featuring a special appearance by gospel legend Kirk Franklin.
67. Monica (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-06-24
Monica delivers a vibrant vocal masterclass in this Tiny Desk (home) concert that spans decades.
68. J'Nai Bridges (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-06-27
The Grammy Award-winning opera singer performs a classical, jazz and gospel influenced set.
69. Denzel Curry
Air Date: 2022-06-29
From the moment the versatile emcee arrived at the Tiny Desk, the vibes were right. Watch a six-song set from Curry and a 10-piece live band.
70. Usher
Air Date: 2022-06-30
The R&B goliath caps off our Black Music Month celebration, highlighting a catalog chock-full of hits spanning 25 years.
71. Essential Voices USA
Air Date: 2022-07-01
Watch a world premiere performance of choral songs built on texts from important Washington women, from Kamala Harris and Condoleezza Rice to Eleanor Roosevelt, Elena Kagan and Abigail Adams.
72. Maylee Todd (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-07-06
Maylee Todd's sci-fi performance includes an appearance from the first digital avatar to perform a Tiny Desk concert.
73. FKJ (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-07-07
This performance from the French producer and multi-instrumentalist has all the shivers of ASMR with all the emotive joy of a warehouse electronic fête.
74. Belle and Sebastian
Air Date: 2022-07-08
The band from Glasgow gives a charming, magnificent performance of songs from its new album, plus a classic tune from If You're Feeling Sinister.
75. Animal Collective (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-07-12
The band Animal Collective performs a transfixing, unpredictable concert at MASS MoCA.
76. Curse Of Lono (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-07-14
The band, led by singer and songwriter Felix Bechtolsheimer, performs dark but beautiful songs from its evocative 2022 album People In Cars.
77. Ludovico Einaudi
Air Date: 2022-07-15
The Italian pianist and composer brings his emotional and reflective music to the Tiny Desk.
78. Mivos Quartet
Air Date: 2022-07-19
The Mivos Quartet offers a new, colorful piece by Henry Threadgill and music by Robert Honstein inspired by the shimmering light at the Arctic Circle.
79. Big Thief (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-07-20
The band plays a comfortable, playful set — including an unreleased song — from a house in Connecticut.
80. Pigeon Pit
Air Date: 2022-07-28
The folk-punk unit performs hopeful, shout-alongable songs about seeking freedom in the face of tyranny, exhaustion and everyday nonsense.
81. Madison Cunningham
Air Date: 2022-08-03
The singer-songwriter performs a selection of tracks from her forthcoming album, Revealer, that are alive with new sensations.
82. Regina Spektor
Air Date: 2022-08-05
Spektor performs songs filled with truth and whimsy from her astonishing new record, plus some old favorites.
83. DOMi & JD BECK
Air Date: 2022-08-10
The jazz duo known for dazzling, brilliant live performances delivered at the Tiny Desk, with a set of songs from its debut album.
84. SFJAZZ Collective (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-08-11
The talented cohort of jazz artists perform a selection of songs that reflect on isolation, social upheaval and hope.
85. Andrew Bird and Iron & Wine
Air Date: 2022-08-12
The two Tiny Desk veterans bring a spirit of serious fun to each other's songs.
86. ADG7
Air Date: 2022-08-19
The nine-piece band filled the room with joy and a sound that's unique in Tiny Desk history, mixing shamanistic ritual sounds with Korean folk songs.
87. Endea Owens and The Cookout
Air Date: 2022-08-29
The bassist and her band The Cookout perform a joyful, head-bobbing set of masterful jazz.
88. Isaiah J. Thompson Quartet
Air Date: 2022-08-31
Isaiah J. Thompson's compositions combine jazz's past and present to paint a beautiful portrait of its future.
89. SIX The Musical
Air Date: 2022-09-01
The Queens of the musical SIX reign over the Tiny Desk, enrapturing the audience of NPR staffers assembled.
90. Juilliard Jazz Ensemble
Air Date: 2022-09-02
The ensemble, composed of current students in Juilliard's jazz studies program, gives a performance that embodies a spirit of community and collaboration.
91. Randall Goosby
Air Date: 2022-09-06
The young rising violin star not only makes his instrument sing, he offers music by composers of color.
92. JID
Air Date: 2022-09-08
The East Atlanta emcee brings a serious attention to detail to this stripped-down performance of tracks from his new album plus some earlier career-defining songs.
93. Angélique Kidjo
Air Date: 2022-09-12
The inspiring Angélique Kidjo graces the Tiny Desk for our 1,000th concert.
94. Allison Russell
Air Date: 2022-09-14
Russell and her talented band embody healing community; watch a performance of songs from her astounding, unclassifiable album Outside Child.
95. Omar Apollo
Air Date: 2022-09-15
To kick off our Latinx Heritage Month celebration, Omar Apollo brings a mariachi band and a communal spirit to the Tiny Desk.
96. Carin León (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-09-19
A four song performance from the Mexican Regional artist captures a society in transition.
97. Girl Ultra
Air Date: 2022-09-21
The music of Mariana de Miguel is always changing — and her intimate, simmering El Tiny performance is an effortless flash of all she's capable of.
98. Trueno (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-09-27
The Argentinian rapper performs a set that feels like a meditation on the music and communities that have shaped him.
99. Jessie Reyez
Air Date: 2022-09-30
The Colombian-Canadian singer rearranges tracks from her new album and performs them with the assuredness of a true reina harnessing her vulnerability on stage.
100. Susana Baca (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-10-05
The Peruvian musician gives an intimate El Tiny performance befitting her status as a curator of folklore and culture of the highest order.
101. Carla Morrison
Air Date: 2022-10-07
The Mexican singer-songwriter gives a mesmerizing and emotional El Tiny performance.
102. Tokischa
Air Date: 2022-10-12
The Dominican musician reworks her songs in a melange of Latin American and Caribbean genres, subverting expectations and foregrounding unfiltered expression.
103. Farruko
Air Date: 2022-10-14
At his Tiny Desk concert, the rapper Farruko adapts his signature flow for a far more intimate setting.
104. Joyce Wrice
Air Date: 2022-10-18
Clad in white and backed by a six-piece band in all black, the effervescent R&B powerhouse delivered a set designed to make it difficult for anyone within earshot to keep still.
105. Leyla McCalla
Air Date: 2022-10-20
Drawing from her new album Breaking the Thermometer, Leyla McCalla and her band explore the weight of memory in songs deeply immersed in the rhythms, sounds and history of Haiti.
106. The Crossing
Air Date: 2022-10-24
Hear what's been called "America's most astonishing choir" sing brand new music by Shara Nova that looks at how we handle difficult emotions.
107. S.G. Goodman
Air Date: 2022-10-26
In Goodman's songs, music is a route to both survival and transcendence. Watch her perform three powerful tracks that confront grief and stump for understanding.
108. Symba
Air Date: 2022-10-28
The Bay Area rapper balances high-octane wordplay with crisp scene-setting in his Tiny Desk performance.
109. King Princess
Air Date: 2022-11-02
With her self-assuredness on full display, King Princess performs three stripped-down songs that mix love, lust and playful self-deprecation.
110. NoSo
Air Date: 2022-11-04
The former Tiny Desk Contest entrant performs three sentimental, compassionate songs from their debut album.
111. Lizzy McAlpine
Air Date: 2022-11-08
Lizzy McAlpine produces a quiet, cinematic set with just a few guitars and expressive vocal harmonies.
112. Ezra Collective
Air Date: 2022-11-10
The London-based group brought intensity and energy to its long-awaited set behind the Tiny Desk.
113. The Lion King
Air Date: 2022-11-11
The cast and musicians of The Lion King on Broadway spent their day off behind the Tiny Desk to celebrate the show's 25th anniversary.
114. Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Air Date: 2022-11-15
Watch the rising young cellist transform a Bob Marley classic, explore brand new preludes and unspool a weepy Welsh ballad.
115. Horace Andy (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-11-18
Horace Andy performs in his signature raspy, gruff tenor from the living room of producer Adrian Sherwood.
116. Santigold
Air Date: 2022-11-21
Santigold performs her genre-straddling R&B and electro-pop in a set that returns to her DIY, punk roots.
117. beabadoobee
Air Date: 2022-11-29
The songwriter's grungy dream-pop sound and sweet, sincere voice are perfectly suited to the Tiny Desk.
118. The A's
Air Date: 2022-12-01
The duo, featuring Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath and Daughter of Swords' Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, gives a playful, fun-filled performance of sublime songs.
119. RM of BTS (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2022-12-02
The K-pop superstar and BTS member performs a set of solo material in front of a very impressive replica of the Tiny Desk.
120. Stromae
Air Date: 2022-12-05
The Belgian superstar's Tiny Desk is a portrait of a world-class showman at the height of his powers.
121. Alex G
Air Date: 2022-12-07
The cult-beloved Philly singer-songwriter plays a handful of stripped-down songs from across his vast discography, including songs from this year's God Save The Animals.
122. Eliane Elias
Air Date: 2022-12-09
One of the most respected names in Latin jazz gives a commanding performance behind the Tiny Desk.
123. The Mavericks
Air Date: 2022-12-12
The band is beloved for its live shows and masterful at bringing new fans into its fold — and its Tiny Desk gives us all a good idea of how it weaves that magic.
124. Westside Boogie
Air Date: 2022-12-14
The Compton poet's vulnerable music required minimal adjustment to fit into our space.
1. The Smile
Air Date: 2023-01-03
The band creates a surreal atmosphere at the Tiny Desk, reimagining the sonically adventurous sounds of A Light for Attracting Attention.
2. Jake Blount
Air Date: 2023-01-06
The young proponent of traditional music brought a talented band, his astonishing imagination and a selection of what he calls "Black folk music from the future" to the Tiny Desk.
3. dodie
Air Date: 2023-01-10
The English singer-songwriter and her band give a cathartic, playful performance at the Tiny Desk.
4. Marc-André Hamelin
Air Date: 2023-01-12
Watch the pianist, who's been called "a performer of near-superhuman prowess," play a smart set that spans six centuries.
5. Soccer Mommy
Air Date: 2023-01-18
Sophie Allison and crew finally, after a three-year delay, make their Tiny Desk debut in a lovingly performed set.
6. Dakh Daughters: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST 2023
Air Date: 2023-01-24
For the third year, Tiny Desk concerts team up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival — Tiny Desk meets globalFEST.
7. Khadija El Warzazia's Bnat el Houariyat & Esraa Warda: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST 2023
Air Date: 2023-01-24
For the third year, Tiny Desk concerts team up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival — Tiny Desk meets globalFEST.
8. Cui Jian: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2023
Air Date: 2023-01-24
For the third year, Tiny Desk concerts team up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival — Tiny Desk meets globalFEST.
9. Septeto Santiaguero: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2023
Air Date: 2023-01-25
For the third year, Tiny Desk concerts team up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival — Tiny Desk meets globalFEST.
10. Bia Ferreira: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2023
Air Date: 2023-01-25
For the third year, Tiny Desk concerts team up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival — Tiny Desk meets globalFEST.
11. Moonlight Benjamin: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2023
Air Date: 2023-01-25
For the third year, Tiny Desk concerts team up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival — Tiny Desk meets globalFEST.
12. Taraf de Caliu: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2023
Air Date: 2023-01-26
For the third year, Tiny Desk concerts team up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival — Tiny Desk meets globalFEST.
13. Noura Mint Seymali: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2023
Air Date: 2023-01-26
For the third year, Tiny Desk concerts team up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival — Tiny Desk meets globalFEST.
14. Justin Adams & Mauro Durante: Tiny Desk meets globalFEST 2023
Air Date: 2023-01-26
For the third year, Tiny Desk concerts team up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival — Tiny Desk meets globalFEST.
15. Hermanos Gutiérrez
Air Date: 2023-01-31
The brothers' Tiny Desk performance is the perfect, slow-burning introduction to their music.
16. Lady Wray
Air Date: 2023-02-01
NPR Music's Tiny Desk series kicks off a celebration of Black History Month with this stunning performance from Lady Wray.
17. Indigo Girls
Air Date: 2023-02-07
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have been offering life lessons to their fervent fans for nearly four decades; here, they play a set of stone-cold classics, including "Closer to Fine."
18. Lee Fields
Air Date: 2023-02-10
NPR Music's Tiny Desk series continues a celebration of Black History Month with this set from Lee Fields.
19. Kenny Beats
Air Date: 2023-02-13
One of the most sought after producers in music brings a trio of familiar voices to the Tiny Desk.
20. Fousheé
Air Date: 2023-02-15
Britanny Fousheé is not an artist who can be boxed in. In her Tiny Desk set, she flexes her eclectic artistry and vocal — and emotional — range.
21. Theo Croker
Air Date: 2023-02-17
The trumpeter brings his unmistakably chill attitude and determination to expand the sound of jazz to this stripped-down Tiny Desk set.
22. Tamela Mann
Air Date: 2023-02-20
It's impossible to tell the history of Black people in America without the gospel, and Tamela Mann represented at NPR headquarters.
23. Ab-Soul
Air Date: 2023-02-23
Ab-Soul's career is a prime example of how rap has grown over the past 50 years. For his Tiny Desk set, he hand-picked a live band and gave a display of raw honesty and next-level lyricism.
24. Charley Crockett
Air Date: 2023-02-24
In his vintage Stetson, the Texas troubadour performed a set of songs that find new meaning in familiar country, folk and blues forms.
25. Omah Lay
Air Date: 2023-02-28
The singer and songwriter made a special trip from Nigeria to the Tiny Desk for a performance of his Afro-fusion hits.
26. Antonio Sánchez & Bad Hombre
Air Date: 2023-03-02
Sánchez observes the world with a drummer's sensibilities. Here, he and his pals in Bad Hombre explore the rhythm of language in a set of tracks from Sánchez's latest album.
27. Jorge Glem and Sam Reider
Air Date: 2023-03-06
Two musical cultures come together to create something that didn't exist before in this Tiny Desk performance.
28. Mama's Broke
Air Date: 2023-03-08
The duo performs a set of dark yet hopeful songs filled with haunting harmonies and unique rhythms.
29. Selina Moon
Air Date: 2023-03-09
The singer-songwriter has impressed us with her Tiny Desk Contest entries over the last few years; at the Desk, she brought confidence, a sense of belonging and a brilliant set of songs.
30. Andrew Combs
Air Date: 2023-03-15
Watch the restless singer-songwriter in a set of penetrating new tunes, capped with a breathtaking love song.
31. Bono and The Edge
Air Date: 2023-03-17
It's hard to overstate the kindness and good-natured humor the U2 singer and guitarist brought to this set, where they performed reimagined songs from All That You Can't Leave Behind.
32. Tye Tribbett
Air Date: 2023-03-20
Tye Tribbett brings his high energy praise music to the Tiny Desk in a set of six inspiring songs.
33. Ingrid Andress
Air Date: 2023-03-22
Andress writes songs that have a way of digging up clear-headed truths; here, she performs three tracks from across her catalog.
34. The Bad Ends (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2023-03-24
This magical, four-song set is an Athens, Ga., insider's dream.
35. The Beths
Air Date: 2023-03-28
The New Zealand band writes sparkling indie pop underpinned by empathy. At the Tiny Desk, you can hear that support and camaraderie in the band's stripped-down arrangements and dry banter.
36. Durand Bernarr
Air Date: 2023-03-31
Before his eclectic, high-energy performance, the singer and showman told the Tiny Desk team: "I'm not meant to be understood; I'm meant to be experienced."
37. Kassa Overall
Air Date: 2023-04-05
The drummer, singer and producer gives a virtuosic display of musicianship, lyricism and artistic innovation at the Tiny Desk.
38. Trina
Air Date: 2023-04-07
The rap icon treated fans to an epic set featuring the best of her sprawling discography.
39. Fred again..
Air Date: 2023-04-10
The electronic producer and songwriter moves seamlessly in this jam-packed Tiny Desk.
40. RAYE
Air Date: 2023-04-12
A long time coming, the South London-bred singer-songwriter performs at the Desk with the confidence of a veteran vocal powerhouse.
41. Claudia Acuña
Air Date: 2023-04-17
The Chilean jazz vocalist makes a lasting impression at the Tiny Desk.
42. Lara Downes
Air Date: 2023-04-21
With a piano draped in spring flowers, Lara Downes plays a smart set of music, new and old, that offers the power of renewal.
43. Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet
Air Date: 2023-04-26
With a who's who of forward-thinking guitarists, Bill Orcutt brings his ecstatic minimalism to the Tiny Desk.
44. Cuco
Air Date: 2023-04-28
Slow-rolling through four tracks, Cuco seamlessly blends the soul of chicano ballads and the smooth energy of soft rock.
45. Kenny Garrett and Sounds From The Ancestors
Air Date: 2023-05-02
The distinguished saxophonist pushes the boundaries of modern jazz in his expressive Tiny Desk performance.
46. caroline
Air Date: 2023-05-03
The minimalist English octet stresses a communal spirit in its Tiny Desk performance.
47. Sid Siriam
Air Date: 2023-05-10
The India-born, California-raised musician melds Carnatic music, R&B and soul in his Tiny Desk set.
48. Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily
Air Date: 2023-05-12
In its Tiny Desk performance, the trio makes music strictly for the moment — creating a shared language in real time.
49. Karol G
Air Date: 2023-05-15
The Colombian singer and global superstar shines brighter than ever in this surprising Tiny Desk performance from last May.
50. Lewis Capaldi
Air Date: 2023-05-17
If you didn't know anything about Capaldi before this Tiny Desk, the self-deprecating humor mixed in between gut-wrenching ballads will quickly catch you up to speed.
51. Kimberley Akimbo
Air Date: 2023-05-19
The Broadway cast, band and composer assemble behind the Tiny Desk to share four songs from the touching new musical, which is nominated for eight Tony Awards.
52. Anna Tivel
Air Date: 2023-05-22
In her Tiny Desk, Tivel's empathy elevates her folk-based, jazz-touched compositions from mere stories to secular prayers.
53. Jay Park (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2023-05-26
The singer and rapper displays the subtle breadth of his music in this Tiny Desk (home) concert.
54. Little Moon: 2023 Tiny Desk Contest Winner
Air Date: 2023-05-30
2023's Tiny Desk Contest unique, winning band performs a range of emotional and creative songs.
55. NIKI
Air Date: 2023-05-31
The Indonesian artist Nicole Zefanya brings a tiny toy piano and sleek songs to this Tiny Desk debut.
56. Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Air Date: 2023-06-02
The band's Tiny Desk performance featured songs that leaned right into its incalculability.
57. Charlie Wilson
Air Date: 2023-06-05
The old-school funk and R&B artist tells a tale of "two Charlies" in his Tiny Desk performance.
58. Babyface
Air Date: 2023-06-09
The singer, songwriter and producer brought his timeless love songs to the Tiny Desk.
59. Tank
Air Date: 2023-06-14
The veteran R&B scholar turns NPR's modest venue into "the big, nasty Desk" in his performance.
60. Adam Blackstone
Air Date: 2023-06-16
The producer, songwriter and musical director to the stars performed a multi-genre celebration of Black music.
61. Ambré
Air Date: 2023-06-20
Everything in this Tiny Desk performance is unapologetically New Orleans.
62. Amaarae
Air Date: 2023-06-22
The artist's Tiny Desk proves how far the sounds of West Africa have influenced the U.S. and, more implicitly, just how much the music defies catch-all labels like 'Afrobeats.'
63. MUNA
Air Date: 2023-06-23
At the Tiny Desk, the pop trio preached the importance of joyful revolution.
64. Wild Up
Air Date: 2023-06-26
The 14-piece Los Angeles-based ensemble's performance of music by Julius Eastman is nothing less than an exuberant house party unto itself.
65. Brandee Younger
Air Date: 2023-06-28
In her stunning Tiny Desk, the artist demonstrates her ability to showcase all sides of the harp, from an instrument in classical music to contemporary pop.
66. Juvenile
Air Date: 2023-06-30
The viral tweets were real — it's finally here: one of the most rambunctious experiences at the Tiny Desk.
67. Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita, SUBA Trio
Air Date: 2023-07-05
With members hailing from Cuba, Senegal and Venezuela, this Tiny Desk is a truly international musical experience.
68. Meridian Brothers
Air Date: 2023-07-07
The eccentric, fictional salsa band pulls the Tiny Desk audience into the realm of the imaginary.
69. Lisa O'Neill
Air Date: 2023-07-11
The Irish singer brings a plaintive, pensive atmosphere to the Tiny Desk.
70. MARO
Air Date: 2023-07-13
The Portuguese guitarist brings listeners into her journey of heartbreak.
71. Alice Sara Ott
Air Date: 2023-07-14
The widely acclaimed pianist serves up nearly 200-year-old music by Chopin mixed with a contemporary work that looks back in time.
72. GWAR
Air Date: 2023-07-17
For nearly four decades, the band has terrorized planet Earth with its raucous stage shows, raunchy metal songs and grotesque satire. GWAR finally came to destroy the Tiny Desk, once and for all.
73. Sparks
Air Date: 2023-07-18
The duo bring their twisted musical sense of humor, honed for over 50 years, to the Tiny Desk.
74. Cypress Hill
Air Date: 2023-07-20
The pioneering hip-hop group rolled into NPR headquarters with a horn section to play five funky tracks.
75. Kany Garcia
Air Date: 2023-07-24
The Puerto Rican vocalist brings her distinctive songs of desire and longing to the Tiny Desk.
76. Peter One
Air Date: 2023-07-27
Shifting from English to French to Guro, Peter One brings his passion-filled songs about his storied past to the Tiny Desk.
77. Obongjayar
Air Date: 2023-08-02
The Nigerian-born, London-based artist gave us everything at his Tiny Desk.
78. Gregorio Uribe
Air Date: 2023-08-04
In the hands of Colombian musician, the accordion is both a melodic and rhythmic wonder.
79. Action Bronson
Air Date: 2023-08-08
The artist, whose world encompasses rap, clothing, fitness, food and more, performs funky, reinterpreted highlights from his discography in his Tiny Desk.
80. Little Dragon
Air Date: 2023-08-11
The boundary-pushing dance pop group delivers a performance awash in upbeat and optimistic melody.
81. Post Malone
Air Date: 2023-08-15
One of the world's biggest stars performs a few of the world's biggest songs at the Tiny Desk.
82. Omar Montes
Air Date: 2023-08-17
The Spanish artist dances along the border of tradition and modernity in his Tiny Desk performance.
83. Sarah Cahill
Air Date: 2023-08-18
The intrepid champion of new music turns her attention to female composers, offering a sampler of works by women across four centuries, including a favorite of Louis XIV and an Ethiopian nun.
84. Yahritza y Su Esencia
Air Date: 2023-08-24
The family trio belt out songs of lost love and longing in their Tiny Desk performance.
85. Christian McBride's New Jawn
Air Date: 2023-08-30
This unpredictable, funky set showcases the distinctive creative interplay between each player's personality.
86. Speedy Ortiz
Air Date: 2023-08-31
The clever rock band delivers a performance 10 years in the making.
87. Chlöe
Air Date: 2023-09-05
In her Tiny Desk performance, the singer filled the room with a stunning vocal performance, her positive spirit and light radiating throughout the entire room.
88. Anne Akiko Meyers
Air Date: 2023-09-07
The thoughtful violinist makes a set of contemplative music, including a piece by Philip Glass, sing sweetly on her $16 million instrument.
89. Hiromi
Air Date: 2023-09-08
The Japanese composer delivers a highly energetic and joyful Tiny Desk set.
90. Indigo De Souza
Air Date: 2023-09-13
The singer-songwriter's vocals soar in this beautifully simple Tiny Desk performance.
91. Tiny Desk Korea: V of BTS
Air Date: 2023-09-14
The K-pop superstar and BTS member performs three love songs from his new album.
92. Rawayana
Air Date: 2023-09-19
The Venezuelan group brings its infectious energy and beach-infused sound to the Tiny Desk.
93. Wicked
Air Date: 2023-09-21
Broadway stars Alyssa Fox and McKenzie Kurtz defy gravity, accompanied by composer Stephen Schwartz to celebrate 20 years of Wicked.
94. J Noa
Air Date: 2023-09-22
J Noa came to the Tiny Desk to show the world what a girl from her barrio is capable of.
95. DannyLux
Air Date: 2023-09-27
The Chicano singer brings a grounded sense of reflection to the Tiny Desk.
96. Sam Smith
Air Date: 2023-09-29
The singer's Tiny Desk performance is a joy to behold.
97. Alex Cuba
Air Date: 2023-10-04
Alex Cuba weaves evocative imagery into musical arrangements that conjure his native country.
98. Villano Antillano
Air Date: 2023-10-06
Antillano shows why she's one of the most exciting voices in Latin trap and reggaeton right now.
99. Caroline Polachek
Air Date: 2023-10-10
Haters may say it's AutoTune, but when Caroline Polachek sings live, it's clear that the impressive range and control you're hearing is all her.
100. Ivy Queen
Air Date: 2023-10-11
"La Caballota" herself gives a performance for the girls.
101. Becky G
Air Date: 2023-10-13
The stripped down sound of some of Becky G's biggest hits offered a rare view of her artistry.
102. Smokey Robinson
Air Date: 2023-10-16
If there was ever an artist the word "legend" applies to, it would be Smokey Robinson.
103. Maluma
Air Date: 2023-10-20
The Colombian superestrella brought his mesmerizing vocals and a few proud tears to the Tiny Desk.
104. Jordan Ward
Air Date: 2023-10-23
The R&B singer performs a set of his most beloved musical moments.
105. Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman
Air Date: 2023-10-24
The two artists perform a set of music full of yearning, joy and history.
106. Nile Rodgers & CHIC
Air Date: 2023-10-26
As the ringleader of the CHIC experience, Rodgers crams a lifetime's worth of nightlife into every strum of his guitar.
107. Shakti
Air Date: 2023-10-30
The Indian jazz fusion band stops by the Tiny Desk for a historical performance.
108. Arlo Parks
Air Date: 2023-11-01
The British singer-songwriter articulates relatable emotions in ways a mere layman couldn't imagine.
109. Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher
Air Date: 2023-11-03
In our very first tap dancing Tiny Desk, the artists created an experience so unexpectedly fresh and suffused with joy, it moved some to tears and others to cheer for more.
110. Emerson String Quartet
Air Date: 2023-11-06
In one of its very final performances ever, the durable and beloved string quartet says farewell with music by Beethoven, Walker and Ravel.
111. Samia
Air Date: 2023-11-08
Samia's set provides a stunning showcase for her charisma, vocal talent and deftly detailed lyricism.
112. Noname
Air Date: 2023-11-10
The Chicago-bred emcee-activist performs some revolutionary raps from her third album Sundial.
113. Hayden Pedigo
Air Date: 2023-11-13
At the Tiny Desk, the guitarist plays quiet, gentle melodies inspired by his Texas panhandle home.
114. Marta Pereira da Costa
Air Date: 2023-11-15
The renowned Portuguese guitarist bridges centuries of history with immaculate playing.
115. PJ Harvey
Air Date: 2023-11-17
In her Tiny Desk performance, the artist lives on her own artistic plane — inviting listeners to take their time to fully join her.
116. Shucked
Air Date: 2023-11-20
Songwriting team Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally take us on a musical journey from Nashville to Broadway with their musical, Shucked.
117. William Prince
Air Date: 2023-11-22
The singer-songwriter performs songs that swoon at the wonders of love, but also deep partnership.
118. Tiny Desk Korea: Tomorrow X Together
Air Date: 2023-11-27
The standout group of K-pop's fourth generation is in their element in this Tiny Desk Korea performance.
119. Sampha
Air Date: 2023-11-29
The artist returns to the Tiny Desk for a full circle moment of a performance.
120. Aja Monet
Air Date: 2023-12-01
The Tiny Desk blooms with the stanzas, sounds and legacy of jazz poetry.
121. Philip Selway
Air Date: 2023-12-04
The Radiohead drummer performs three songs with a mix of deep warmth and wry, self-effacing modesty.
122. The LeeVees
Air Date: 2023-12-07
Bob Boilen's favorite Hanukkah tradition graces the Tiny Desk for fun-filled songs about latkes and gelt.
123. Olivia Rodrigo
Air Date: 2023-12-11
The singer-songwriter brings a handful of searing cuts from her sophomore album, GUTS, to the Tiny Desk.
124. Laufey
Air Date: 2023-12-13
The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter brings her modern jazz-pop love songs to the Tiny Desk.
125. Alvvays
Air Date: 2023-12-15
The band's recreation of its billowy, shoegaze-y sound lights up the Tiny Desk.
126. Scarface
Air Date: 2023-12-18
The rapper's performance radiates with his decadeslong passion as an emcee and producer.
127. Louis Cato
Air Date: 2023-12-20
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert bandleader believes that live music builds community. At the Tiny Desk, Cato captivates.
128. Sweeney Todd
Air Date: 2023-12-22
Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford lead the Broadway cast, complete with Tiny Desk-sized orchestrations by Stephen Sondhiem's longtime collaborator, Jonathan Tunick.
1. Sunny Jain's Wild Wild East
Air Date: 2024-01-05
Sunny Jain's music promotes the idea of not just crossing boundaries but obliterating them all together.
2. Kevin Kaarl
Air Date: 2024-01-08
The Chihuahuan artist transfigures traditional Sinaloan instrumentation into folky new styles.
3. The Good Ones
Air Date: 2024-01-10
The Rwandan group's determination to spread its musical message is an inspiration.
4. yMusic
Air Date: 2024-01-12
The band's unique sound, driven by its peculiar blend of trumpet, winds and strings, seems like a compelling soundtrack for an age when music genres are becoming increasingly arbitrary.
5. The Japanese House
Air Date: 2024-01-18
The U.K. singer-songwriter recasts four of her electro-pop songs in fresh arrangements.
6. Hania Rani
Air Date: 2024-01-22
The Polish pianist and composer blurs the lines of ambient, classical and house in this performance.
7. BLK ODYSSY
Air Date: 2024-01-24
An 18-minute flex that proves the artist is the modern personification of funk.
8. Thee Sacred Souls
Air Date: 2024-01-26
The San Diego-based trio made its mark at the Tiny Desk with satin vocals and vintage melodies.
9. Katie Von Schleicher
Air Date: 2024-01-29
With an eight-piece band, the singer-songwriter brings her wry charm to the Tiny Desk.
10. Timo Andres
Air Date: 2024-01-31
To mark Philip Glass' 87th birthday, the astute pianist Timo Andres stops by to play a contrasting pair of the composer's popular etudes.
11. Joshua Redman
Air Date: 2024-02-02
Joshua Redman illustrates why he is one of today's best saxophonists.
12. Carrtoons
Air Date: 2024-02-05
Ben Carr, who performs as Carrtoons, keeps the producer-led Tiny Desk tradition alive in this set.
13. Berhana
Air Date: 2024-02-07
The Atlanta singer pays homage to his roots with Ethiopian jazz pianist Kibrom Birhane and members of the Ethio Cali band.
14. Tinashe
Air Date: 2024-02-09
Tinashe's Tiny Desk performance proves her artistry has never been one-dimensional.
15. Cinder Well
Air Date: 2024-02-16
The California-raised, Ireland-based songwriter performs a set of folk songs that wind around the passage of time.
16. Irreversible Entanglements
Air Date: 2024-02-19
The free jazz band with a punk ethos runs through six songs without breaks.
17. Jeezy
Air Date: 2024-02-21
The Atlanta superstar focuses on the early chapters of his career in his Tiny Desk.
18. Kelela
Air Date: 2024-02-23
The artist brings a distinctive, creative vision to her Tiny Desk performance.
19. Butcher Brown
Air Date: 2024-02-28
The Richmond, Va. band brings its signature hot and funky "solar music" to the Desk.
20. Wednesday
Air Date: 2024-03-01
"I learned how to play guitar watching Tiny Desk concerts," lead singer Karly Hartzman says. The Asheville rock band translates its noisy, country-influenced sound to a quieter setting.
21. Squirrel Flower
Air Date: 2024-03-06
The Chicago-based indie rocker plays stripped back versions of her thundering rock songs.
22. 311
Air Date: 2024-03-11
What better way to spend March 11 than with 311 bringing love and nostalgia to the Tiny Desk.
23. Jennifer Koh and Missy Mazzoli
Air Date: 2024-03-13
Two adventurous musicians trace the history of their fruitful collaboration in a set of pieces both ferocious and beautiful.
24. Justin Timberlake
Air Date: 2024-03-15
The artist, who just dropped his new album Everything I Thought It Was, comes to the Tiny Desk with a set that leans heavily on his early solo catalog.
25. Chappell Roan
Air Date: 2024-03-21
The utterly commanding artist takes the Tiny Desk stage with a magnetic performance and a towering wig.
26. Soul Glo
Air Date: 2024-03-22
For the first time, a hardcore punk band graces the Tiny Desk — and ignites a mosh pit in the office.
27. Big Sean
Air Date: 2024-03-27
The respected lyricist and hip-hop hitmaker comes to the Desk for one of the longest set lists in Tiny Desk history.
28. Víkingur Ólafsson
Air Date: 2024-03-28
The thoughtful pianist from Iceland plays a set of gentle pieces — from Bach to Bartók — evoking nostalgic memories of his childhood.
29. Thandiswa Mazwai x globalFEST 2024
Air Date: 2024-04-01
One of post-apartheid South Africa's most influential musicians comes to the Tiny Desk.
30. Tarta Relena x globalFEST 2024
Air Date: 2024-04-03
The Spanish duo's timeless, poetic songs evoke images of lyricists and vocalists from centuries past.
31. El Laberinto del Coco x globalFEST 2024
Air Date: 2024-04-05
A five-song set from a genre-bending collective built around the folklore and rhythmic styles of bomba.
32. Linda May Han Oh
Air Date: 2024-04-08
In this Tiny Desk, Oh presents a mix of cuts from her 2023 release, The Glass Hours, and new works.
33. Yaya Bey
Air Date: 2024-04-10
The New York-bred singer-songwriter creates a sense of closeness with her audience in this soul-stirring set.
34. Fujii Kaze
Air Date: 2024-04-11
NPR unveils the very first performance for Tiny Desk Concerts JAPAN, featuring talented Japanese singer and pianist Fujii Kaze.
35. Sleater-Kinney
Air Date: 2024-04-15
At the Desk, Sleater-Kinney was all business — as wiry and vital as ever.
36. Hauschka
Air Date: 2024-04-17
It's hard to spot everything Hauschka deployed for this mostly improvised set, from pink putty to strings stuffed with tin foil.
37. Lise Davidsen
Air Date: 2024-04-19
The Norwegian soprano, with plenty of horsepower, unleashes a high C, and much subtle singing, in a thrilling set.
38. Hot Chip
Air Date: 2024-04-22
The electro-pop group performs some of its enduring classics at the Tiny Desk.
39. Ne-Yo
Air Date: 2024-04-26
Forever the showman, the R&B star and songwriter brings some of his biggest hits to the Tiny Desk.
40. Tiny Desk Premiere: Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
Air Date: 2024-04-29
The country and bluegrass music legend performs an excellent set with a finale fit for church.
41. WILLOW
Air Date: 2024-05-01
The artist plays new songs from her forthcoming album, empathogen, as well as throwback hits at the Tiny Desk.
42. Otoboke Beaver
Air Date: 2024-05-03
The outrageously fun Japanese punk band speeds and screams through its catalog.
43. Kiefer
Air Date: 2024-05-06
With decades clocked behind the piano and a strong catalog, Kiefer Shackelford is primed for this moment.
44. Yasser Tejeda
Air Date: 2024-05-08
The gifted guitarist combines traditional Dominican music with jazz and rock in his performance.
45. Luciana Souza
Air Date: 2024-05-10
The Brazilian jazz singer and Trio Corrente perform selections from their Grammy-nominated album Cometa.
46. Gary Bartz
Air Date: 2024-05-13
The 83-year-old NEA Jazz Master turns the Tiny Desk into a place of musical worship.
47. Tiny Desk Premiere: Ana Tijoux
Air Date: 2024-05-15
At the Tiny Desk, the French-born Chilean rapper features tracks from across her catalog rich with cultural commentary and political critique.
48. The Staves
Air Date: 2024-05-17
The Tiny Desk setting perfectly illuminates the power of The Staves' sisterly harmonies.
49. Bob James
Air Date: 2024-05-20
The jazz pianist performs a decades-spanning set, including a new, improvised version of "Nautilus" with DJ Jazzy Jeff and Talib Kweli.
50. Nelly Furtado
Air Date: 2024-05-24
Nelly Furtado's Tiny Desk performance felt like a victory lap — a greatest-hits reel and a homecoming all at once.
51. The Philharmonik
Air Date: 2024-05-27
The 2024 Tiny Desk Contest winner — the multi-genre artist The Philharmonik — performs a celebratory set.
52. Sean Paul
Air Date: 2024-05-31
The Jamaican superstar Sean Paul’s Tiny Desk set is all gas and no breaks.
53. Tems
Air Date: 2024-06-03
The Nigerian singer-songwriter performs standout songs from her forthcoming album, Born in the Wild.
54. Lakecia Benjamin
Air Date: 2024-06-05
The alto saxophonist burst into her Tiny Desk Concert like a meteor breaching the atmosphere.
55. Tierra Whack
Air Date: 2024-06-07
The Philly rapper gave playful, grade school shenanigans in her Tiny Desk featuring a surprise guest.
56. Chaka Khan
Air Date: 2024-06-10
The “Queen of Funk” graces the Tiny Desk with a set list to groove to.
57. Kierra Sheard
Air Date: 2024-06-14
The Gospel singer brings her faith to the Tiny Desk with a stirring medley of her greatest hits.
58. Meshell Ndgeocello
Air Date: 2024-06-18
The Grammy-winning artist brings powerful cuts from her forthcoming album, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin, as well as fan favorites, to this performance.
59. Brittney Spencer
Air Date: 2024-06-21
The boundary-pushing singer-songwriter brings her country sensibility to the Tiny Desk.
60. Flo Milli
Air Date: 2024-06-26
The Tiny Desk has humbled many artists, but Flo Milli strutted into NPR HQ for this set with the unwavering confidence of an OG.
61. SWV
Air Date: 2024-06-28
We conclude 2024’s Black Music Month celebration at the Tiny Desk with the catalyst for the all-female lineup.
62. Tiny Desk Premiere: Silvia Pérez Cruz
Air Date: 2024-07-01
The Spanish singer performs her brilliantly distinct songs at the Tiny Desk.
63. Laura Jane Grace & the Mississippi Medicals
Air Date: 2024-07-03
The artist crams more than two decades of music, from solo material to Against Me! cuts, into her performance.
64. María José Llergo
Air Date: 2024-07-08
Llergo's performance brings the spirit of a Spanish music scene built on tradition but exploding with new energy to the Tiny Desk.
65. Julius Rodriguez
Air Date: 2024-07-10
The New York-bred and Los Angeles- based pianist and multi-instrumentalist has been regarded as a young master in the jazz world.
66. The Wiz
Air Date: 2024-07-12
The cast of the newest Broadway revival turns NPR headquarters into Emerald City.
67. Nathy Peluso
Air Date: 2024-07-15
The Spanish artist brought all of her genre-bending, vocal powerhouse energy to her Tiny Desk concert.
68. Phish
Air Date: 2024-07-17
The beloved jam band plays a handful of classics and new tracks at the Desk.
69. Álvaro Díaz
Air Date: 2024-07-19
The Puerto Rican rapper brought a relaxed energy and community feel to his performance.
70. Norah Jones
Air Date: 2024-07-22
The singer-songwriter makes her long-awaited appearance at the Tiny Desk with a collection of light, breezy tracks.
71. Feist
Air Date: 2024-07-24
The singer-songwriter showcases new and old material in her long-awaited Tiny Desk debut.
72. Ryan Leslie
Air Date: 2024-07-26
The singer-songwriter and entrepreneur adapts his big, synth-heavy sound for his performance.
73. Tiny Desk Premiere: Shae Universe
Air Date: 2024-07-29
Shae Universe takes us on a journey of love in all its forms in this concert: lust, romance and self-love.
74. Kehlani
Air Date: 2024-07-31
Kehlani’s Tiny Desk invites viewers on a ride through several of their biggest hits.
75. The LOX
Air Date: 2024-08-02
After 30 years in the game, the rap trio brings a fresh, new sound to the Desk.
76. Alana Springsteen
Air Date: 2024-08-05
Springsteen showed up ready to make it count, with a carefully arranged set list and an incredible band.
77. Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding (Home) Concert
Air Date: 2024-08-07
The musical icons perform new songs from their forthcoming album, Milton + esperanza, in a rare video performance.
78. Devo
Air Date: 2024-08-09
The group brings its playfully subversive style to the Tiny Desk.
79. Chucho Valdés
Air Date: 2024-08-12
The Cuban pianist brings his legendary blend of jazz, classical and Cuban tradition.
80. Sierra Ferrell
Air Date: 2024-08-14
Sierra Ferrell is the May Queen of American roots music — no matter what month it is.
81. Keyon Harrold
Air Date: 2024-08-16
The artist brings his musical family together across jazz, R&B and hip-hop to the Tiny Desk.
82. Katy Kirby
Air Date: 2024-08-19
The singer-songwriter’s clear voice and distinctive lyrical imagery shine in this dynamic performance.
83. Maxwell
Air Date: 2024-08-23
The soul singer seduces the Tiny Desk audience with his tender songs of love and heartbreak.
84. Lainey Wilson
Air Date: 2024-08-27
The whole deeply charming set announced Wilson as a star with staying power.
85. Pygmy Lush
Air Date: 2024-08-30
This Tiny Desk is the atmospheric folk band’s first live performance in seven years.
86. Mdou Moctar
Air Date: 2024-09-10
There’s a righteous fury to Mdou Moctar’s music, but also a reminder the good fight is always worth fighting.
87. Remi Wolf
Air Date: 2024-09-12
Remi Wolf may be a superhero who isn’t entirely aware of her powers.
88. Juanes
Air Date: 2024-09-16
The Colombian superstar brought his intensely personal songs, which didn’t lose their power of speaking to heart.
89. Danny Ocean
Air Date: 2024-09-18
The Venezuelan artist’s performance reflects his ability to make universal music about love without losing sight of larger human struggles.
90. Daniel, Me Estás Matando
Air Date: 2024-09-20
The Mexican band brings its signature “Boleroglam” to the Tiny Desk.
91. OKAN
Air Date: 2024-09-24
The group’s Afro-Cuban sounds honor tradition while stretching the boundaries of how it's expressed.
92. Ivan Cornejo
Air Date: 2024-09-26
Whether in a stadium of 75,000 or behind a desk in an office building, Ivan Cornejo sings two notes and the heart quiets.
93. Fabiola Méndez
Air Date: 2024-09-30
The Puerto Rican artist brings joy to the Tiny Desk with her signature cuatro.
94. Rita Payés
Air Date: 2024-10-02
The artist performs a variety of Spanish jazz that’s contemporary and nimble in its delivery, yet leans heavily on tradition.
95. Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso
Air Date: 2024-10-04
Argentina is a country notorious for unabashed expression and Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso take nothing for granted when it comes to showing up as they are.
96. Eladio Carrión
Air Date: 2024-10-06
The Kansas-born, Puerto Rico-raised artist blends English language hip-hop and Latin trap seamlessly in this performance.
97. The Marías
Air Date: 2024-10-09
The indie band brings its authenticity and bedroom pop style to the Tiny Desk’s slightly bigger space.
98. Sheila E.
Air Date: 2024-10-11
One of the world’s most recognized drummers glides easily from genre to genre in this performance.
99. John Holiday
Air Date: 2024-10-16
The countertenor’s sparkling personality shines brightly in a wide ranging set that includes jazz, classical and spirituals.
100. Audrey Nuna
Air Date: 2024-10-18
The artist’s setlist perfectly encapsulates how much musical ground she’s able to cover.
101. Kamasi Washington
Air Date: 2024-10-21
The Grammy-nominated saxophonist brought the house down with his reflective, danceable ballads.
102. The Baylor Project
Air Date: 2024-10-23
The musical and life partners’ playfulness and love for each other is on full display in this performance.
103. Dua Lipa
Air Date: 2024-10-25
The pop superstar finally graced the actual Tiny Desk with joyous music, at a time when we could all use it.
104. Sylo
Air Date: 2024-10-28
The Toronto-based R&B artist’s voice is light and airy, but cozy. In reimaginations of his songs, Sylo reflects his quick growth as an artist.
105. Chelsea Wolfe
Air Date: 2024-10-30
Wolfe strips down her colossal sound to its barest, most intimate elements, revealing the profound beauty within.
106. Sheer Mag
Air Date: 2024-11-01
The Philly band, a force for good in rock and roll, runs through a career-spanning set with a little help from some bagpipes.
107. LaRussell
Air Date: 2024-11-04
The Vallejo, Calif., rapper brings his famous backyard vibes to the Tiny Desk.
108. Elmiene
Air Date: 2024-11-11
The British singer-songwriter performs his charismatic, '90s R&B-inspired love songs.
109. Yunchan Lim
Air Date: 2024-11-13
The youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition makes our trusty upright piano sound like a 9-foot grand in music by Liszt and Tchaikovsky.
110. Durand Jones
Air Date: 2024-11-15
The artist sings fervently of hope, joy and perseverance backed by a group of impressive gospel singers.
111. The Magnetic Fields
Air Date: 2024-11-20
The band performs more than half a dozen songs across the beloved 69 Love Songs.
112. Wyatt Flores
Air Date: 2024-11-22
The young country artist solidifies himself as a rising star in this captivating performance.
113. Teedra Moses
Air Date: 2024-11-25
The artist celebrates the 20th anniversary of her landmark debut album Complex Simplicity.
114. TV On The Radio
Air Date: 2024-11-27
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes, the band plays a breathtaking and career-spanning set.
115. Rosie Tucker
Air Date: 2024-12-02
The indie rocker brings their catchy songs full of big ideas to the Tiny Desk.
116. Old Crow Medicine Show
Air Date: 2024-12-04
The band performs its revved-up take on roots music at the Tiny Desk.
117. Doechii
Air Date: 2024-12-06
The Grammy-nominated rapper moved throughout her Tiny Desk with purpose — knowing exactly what she wanted and how to achieve it.
118. Stereophonic
Air Date: 2024-12-09
119. Billie Eilish
Air Date: 2024-12-12
120. Waxahatchee
Air Date: 2024-12-16
121. Yo Gabba GabbaLand!
Air Date: 2024-12-18
122. Sabrina Carpenter
Air Date: 2024-12-20
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2008-04-22
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