Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio
420 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsTiny Desk Concerts from NPR Music feature your favorite musicians performing at All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's desk in the NPR office. Hear Wilco, Adele, Passion Pit, Tinariwen, Miguel, The xx and many more. This is the audio version of the podcast. A video version is also available.
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Episodes
Dan Auerbach
April 04, 2018 19:08The 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.
Dan Auerbach
April 04, 2018 19:08The 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.
Dee Dee Bridgewater
April 02, 2018 20:42 - 14 minutesBridgewater connects with her roots, her birthplace and the town she's loved all her life, with a set of songs from Memphis.
Masta Ace
April 02, 2018 20:19 - 17 minutesThe Juice Crew legend brought his biggest hit, "Born To Roll," and a heartfelt recollection of his personal journey to the Tiny Desk.
I'm With Her
March 28, 2018 13:01 - 14 minutesAoife O'Donovan, Sarah Jarosz and Sara Watkins are bound by a love for bluegrass, chamber music, jazz, storytelling and singing.
Jenny and the Mexicats
March 26, 2018 13:39 - 14 minutesSometimes frenetic, sometimes slow and luxurious, the grooves the band creates are the perfect cushion for Jenny Ball's impassioned singing and engaging stage presence.
Väsen
March 23, 2018 14:46 - 15 minutesThe Swedish trio brought a 30-string sonic blast to the Tiny Desk, performing on 12-string guitar, vioala and the nyckelharpa (a fiddle with keys — think 15th century keytar).
Cornelius
March 19, 2018 13:49 - 15 minutesCornelius' 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.
John Prine
March 12, 2018 17:41 - 15 minutesFor 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.
Kuinka
March 09, 2018 14:35 - 12 minutesEach 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.
Alex Clare
March 08, 2018 18:38 - 18 minutesClare'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.
Big K.R.I.T.
March 05, 2018 14:13 - 16 minutesThe Mississippi rapper paid homage to his grandmother and performed songs from his new album 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time.
Anna Meredith
March 02, 2018 13:52 - 19 minutesOut 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.
Roy Ayers
March 01, 2018 15:32 - 24 minutesWatch the 77-year-old jazz-funk icon perform "Everybody Loves The Sunshine" (and more) at the Tiny Desk.
Lee Ann Womack
February 27, 2018 14:05 - 14 minutesThe Nashville star brought some good old country music stories to the Tiny Desk.
Vagabon
February 23, 2018 15:36 - 9 minutesLaetitia 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.
August Greene
February 22, 2018 16:09 - 36 minutesAugust Greene, Common's new trio with Robert Glasper and Karriem Riggins, brought some special guest vocalists to the Tiny Desk.
Big Daddy Kane
February 22, 2018 14:32 - 19 minutesOne of the greatest to ever bless the mic treated the Tiny Desk audience to an office block party.
Betsayda Machado and Parranda El Clavo
February 16, 2018 12:17 - 14 minutesThe Afro-Venezuelan collective brings the boisterous parranda sound to the Tiny Desk.
Nick Hakim
February 14, 2018 15:53 - 14 minutesThe music of Nick Hakim occupies a space and time that feels out of this world, with songs that explore the quietude of inner thoughts.
Marlon Williams
February 13, 2018 21:03 - 17 minutesMarlon 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.
The Crossrhodes
February 09, 2018 14:27 - 19 minutesThe Crossrhodes showed up to the Tiny Desk with game faces on, bringing with it a locally cultivated, globally appreciated energy.
Ibeyi
February 07, 2018 14:12 - 17 minutesLisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz never fail to mesmerize. Watch the twin sisters perform a four-song set at the Tiny Desk.
Hurray For The Riff Raff
February 05, 2018 14:21 - 18 minutesThe 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.
Vicente García
February 02, 2018 14:10 - 11 minutesThis under-the-radar singer from the Dominican Republic is starting to turn some heads. You'll see why in this Tiny Desk performance.
Alice Smith
January 31, 2018 14:23 - 14 minutesThe beloved singer-songwriter premiered three new songs while turning NPR's headquarters into a Harlem speakeasy.
Jamila Woods
January 29, 2018 14:06 - 12 minutesIn 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.
Barbara Hannigan
January 26, 2018 15:03 - 17 minutesEavesdrop 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.
George Clinton & The P-Funk All Stars
January 24, 2018 14:23 - 13 minutesGeorge Clinton brought his family, both immediate and extended, to the Tiny Desk for a set of classic cosmic slop.
St. Vincent
January 22, 2018 16:46 - 12 minutesThe 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.
Amadou and Mariam
January 19, 2018 14:15 - 11 minutesThe 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.
The Lemon Twigs
January 17, 2018 13:39 - 10 minutesBrothers Brian and Michael D'Addario seem like they beamed into the Tiny Desk from the year 1971, untouched by the 21st century.
The Artists from the "Take Me to the River" Tour
January 16, 2018 14:11 - 15 minutesMore than a dozen artists gather behind the Tiny Desk to celebrate Memphis soul in a joyful, triumphant performance.
AHI
January 16, 2018 14:11 - 11 minutesThe Ontario-based singer has a gruff but sweet voice with openly honest words behind soulful tunes of hope.
Julien Baker
January 10, 2018 13:57 - 15 minutesJulien 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.
The Weather Station
January 08, 2018 18:51 - 13 minutesOne 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.
Lo Moon
January 05, 2018 14:14 - 15 minutesThe 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.
Open Mike Eagle
January 03, 2018 13:58 - 12 minutesThe 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.
Hanson Holiday Tiny Desk Concert
December 18, 2017 14:23 - 13 minutesFrantic 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.
This is the Kit
December 18, 2017 14:21 - 12 minutesEffortless 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.
Cigarettes After Sex
December 13, 2017 13:49 - 15 minutesThis 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.
Tyler, The Creator
December 11, 2017 14:06 - 19 minutesTyler, The Creator performs songs from his latest album Flower Boy.
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile
December 08, 2017 14:25 - 20 minutesThe two singers, songwriters and guitarists bring out the adolescence in each other, poking jabs, goofing around and having fun at the Tiny Desk.
King Krule
December 06, 2017 17:00 - 17 minutesKing Krule, the musical project of English singer, songwriter and rapper, Archy Marshall, brings its twisted, woozy tones to the Tiny Desk.
Ted Leo
December 04, 2017 14:21 - 13 minutesLeo'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.
Walter Martin
December 01, 2017 17:23 - 16 minutesBest 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.
Moses Sumney
November 29, 2017 14:01 - 20 minutesThe 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.
Phoebe Bridgers
November 27, 2017 15:06 - 12 minutesHer 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.
Ledisi
November 27, 2017 14:22 - 19 minutesIn 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.
David Greilsammer
November 27, 2017 14:21 - 13 minutesWith 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.