Tiny Desk Concerts - Video
Summary: Tiny Desk Concerts from NPR's All Songs Considered features your favorite musicians performing at Bob Boilen's desk in the NPR Music office. Watch videos from Passion Pit, The xx, Wilco, Adele, Phoenix, Tinariwen, tUnE-yArDs and many more.
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A celebrated English playwright and rapper connects with her audiences through storytelling and poetry.
See a Malian band that fuses African music with Western rock. Their album Music in Exile was co-produced by Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad perform three of the simple, direct, charmingly stripped-down songs from their new album, Before The World Was Big.
Best witnessed live, Stelling's music is steeped in tradition yet filled with vitality, immediacy and soul — all the reasons worth discovering someone new.
The fun, colorful trio plays music that's full of life, with dissonant sounds that still feel suited for singing along.
The charismatic Brooklyn-via-D.C.-area rapper creates just the right amount of space in his music. Here, he performs three songs live in the NPR Music offices.
Frances Quinlan's voice whispers with a rasp that feels small one moment, then lets loose a gut-punching howl the next. But at the Tiny Desk, it's all about Hop Along's urgent arrangements.
Timothy Showalter's music is filled with bite and sometimes regret, but also a good deal of warmth.
The three women in The Prettiots share their love of everything from Law & Order to old-school girl groups like the Shangri-Las.
If you've never thought your tastes would lean to mountain music, breathe deep and soak it all in.
See a singer with a powerful voice and extremely encouraging message — words to be not just sung but shouted from the rooftops.
A young man with an old musical soul has a spellbinding voice, fluid fiddle playing and and warm-toned banjo picking.
The mother-son duo's songs are memorable and singable even days after you hear them. This short set is a perfect introduction to a one-of-a-kind duo.
Watch two master musicians combine the sounds of harp and guitar into a singular, evocative instrument in music influenced by Africa and Asia.
The Scottish group's intense, electronics-driven, hip-hop-infused poetry is reduced to just the barest essentials in this set, which spans two songs and just four minutes.
