Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio
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Tiny 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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Oct 15, 2018 • 21min
Café Tacvba
The pioneering Mexican band recreates the adventurous musical energy of their massive stadium shows behind Bob Boilen's desk.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 10, 2018 • 13min
Big Boi
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.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 5, 2018 • 23min
Cory Henry
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.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 1, 2018 • 15min
Saba
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.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Sep 25, 2018 • 18min
Cécile McLorin Salvant
The jazz singer, who used to be into radical feminist punk, now composes and sings beautiful jazz ballads.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Sep 21, 2018 • 18min
Anthony Roth Costanzo
Watch the ambitious countertenor sing music that spans more than 250 years, connecting the dots between David Byrne, George Frideric Handel and Philip Glass.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Sep 19, 2018 • 15min
Julie Byrne
Julie Byrne's transporting music can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Sep 17, 2018 • 14min
Smif-N-Wessun
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.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Sep 17, 2018 • 18min
GoGo Penguin
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.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Sep 13, 2018 • 15min
Hobo Johnson and The Lovemakers
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.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
