Season 2013
68 episodes · Jan 7, 2013
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S6E1Lucius
Jan 7, 2013One minute, Lucius sounds like a '60s girl group; the next might conjure images of Emmylou Harris.
S6E2Black Prairie
Jan 14, 2013With members of The Decemberists, the band lends a snappy, lilting quality to songs of alienation.
S6E3Of Montreal
Jan 28, 2013Frontman Kevin Barnes uses the intimacy of the NPR Music offices to try out some quiet new material.
S6E4Cantus
Feb 4, 2013The a cappella ensemble sings widely divergent songs from American, European and Sufi traditions.
S6E5The xx
Feb 11, 2013In The xx's songs, all the calm chilliness in the world can't quite contain an exposed heart.
S6E6Night Beds
Feb 18, 2013Winston Yellen's arresting voice propels a lighthearted but deeply affecting set at the NPR office.
S6E7Mary Halvorson Quintet
Feb 25, 2013The guitarist brings a decidedly non-standard approach to jazz's standard practices.
S6E8The Lone Bellow
Mar 4, 2013The fast-rising Brooklyn trio sings beautiful, heartfelt, impeccably harmonized folk-pop songs.
S6E9Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill
Mar 11, 2013Watch one of the best fiddlers on the planet and a subtle guitar master work their magic.
S6E10Efterklang
Apr 8, 2013The Danish band ransacks the NPR Music offices looking for sound-making material and new ideas.
S6E11Yo La Tengo
Apr 15, 2013To coincide with the release of the band's 13th album, Fade, Yo La Tengo performs an acoustic set.
S6E12Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu
Apr 22, 2013The duo's quietly energetic performance hangs over the the NPR Music offices like a soft mist.
S6E13Father Figures
Apr 29, 2013Zany, brainy and danceable, these guys' music mixes rock and jazz like King Crimson at its fiercest.
S6E14Nicola Benedetti
May 6, 2013Watch the violinist spin out music by John Williams and Bach in sweet, soulful tendrils of sound.
S6E15Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale
May 13, 2013The veteran country players mix corny humor, musical merrymaking and timeless vocal harmonies.
S6E16Mohammad Reza Shajarian
May 20, 2013The 73-year-old Iranian icon unleashes torrents of swooping, soaring sound that elicit goosebumps.
S6E17Imani Winds
May 29, 2013Imani Winds' members shrink Igor Stravinsky down to size in a quintet take on The Rite of Spring.
S6E18OK Go
Jun 3, 2013OK Go helps us transport the Tiny Desk from NPR Music's old headquarters to our new facility.
S6E19The National
Jun 10, 2013Watch the band perform acoustic arrangements of four songs from its new album, Trouble Will Find Me.
S6E20NO BS! Brass Band
Jun 15, 2013An 11-piece brass band turns up the funk and flies the flag high for its native Richmond, Va.
S6E21Billy Bragg
Jun 17, 2013One of the world's finest folksingers channels the spirit of Woody Guthrie at the NPR Music offices.
S6E22Patty Griffin
Jun 24, 2013Watch the singer-songwriter and her band perform three songs from her fine new album, American Kid.
S6E23Maya Beiser
Jun 29, 2013A brilliant cellist with a stunning command of her instrument, Beiser performs at the NPR offices.
S6E24Laura Mvula
Jul 1, 2013The U.K. singer performs some of her most intimate material in a short set at the NPR Music offices.
S6E25Cheick Hamala Diabate
Jul 6, 2013The Malian musician and his band craft melodies and rhythms that cut across age and ethnicity.
S6E26Skinny Lister
Jul 8, 2013The rowdy English folk-punk band brings its barely controlled mayhem to the NPR Music offices.
S6E27Frank Turner
Jul 13, 2013Two men with unplugged instruments convey the bawdy rowdiness of a full band.
S6E28Alice Russell
Jul 15, 2013When the British singer performs, her emotionally fiery music just gets hotter and grittier.
S6E29Cheyenne Mize
Jul 20, 2013The singer, instrumentalist and music therapist plays slinky, forceful songs at NPR Music.
S6E30Guards
Jul 22, 2013Hear three sturdy pop songs from In Guards We Trust, performed live at the NPR Music offices.
S6E31Time For Three
Jul 27, 2013Hear the "classically trained garage band" perform with staggering technique and contagious energy.
S6E32Dana Falconberry
Jul 29, 2013Watch Falconberry and five bandmates perform three delicate songs from her recent album Leelanau.
S6E33Keaton Henson
Aug 3, 201314mHenson's voice is so fragile and hushed, if you were 10 feet away from him you'd barely hear a peep.
S6E34Jim Guthrie
Aug 10, 2013Guthrie and his band drove 18 hours round-trip from Ontario to perform three songs for NPR Music.
S6E35Alpine
Aug 12, 2013The Australian sextet crafts busily impeccable, harmony-intensive pop music with a danceable sway.
S6E36Mother Falcon
Aug 17, 2013The 17-member chamber-rock collective uses its size in the service of great, snappy, stirring songs.
S6E37The Front Bottoms
Aug 19, 2013The community that's formed around The Front Bottoms speaks to the band's passion and compassion.
S6E38Buika
Aug 26, 2013Concha Buika's voice comes from Africa and the past. Watch her perform in the NPR Music offices.
S6E39Steve Gunn
Aug 31, 2013Watch Gunn's trio perform a set of hypnotic long-form jams that are perfect for taking it easy.
S6E40Baths
Sep 4, 2013Watch Baths' Will Wiesenfeld perform mysterious, textured electronic music in the NPR offices.
S6E41Bombino
Sep 7, 2013For our 300th Tiny Desk Concert, we showcase a Tuareg guitarist's fierce, hypnotic, alluring jams.
S6E42The 1975
Sep 10, 2013Performing solo, singer Matthew Healy doesn't hesitate to transform both his songs and himself.
S6E43Arturo O'Farrill
Sep 14, 2013With an eye on both the past and the future, O'Farrill has jazz and Afro-Cuban music in his DNA.
S6E44Shovels & Rope
Sep 16, 2013The husband-and-wife duo mixes rowdy folk-rock and rootsy ballads, with the help of a canine friend.
S6E45The Cristina Pato Trio
Sep 21, 2013A Galician bagpiper and her trio take Celtic sounds in an entirely wild and wonderful direction.
S6E46Hem
Sep 28, 2013Hem makes a homey, fireside kind of music, with songs that feel as if they've always been there.
S6E47Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi
Sep 30, 2013The Zimbabwean legend performs songs from the mournful but celebratory Sarawoga for NPR Music.
S6E48Lawrence Brownlee
Oct 5, 2013The operatic tenor, acclaimed for his Rossini, circles back to his roots as a singer of spirituals.
S6E49Superchunk
Oct 7, 2013Watch the venerable band translate its electric sound to acoustic instruments in an intimate way.
S6E50Valerie June
Oct 12, 2013Short of seeing her live and in person, this is the best way to encounter June's heartfelt sound.
S6E51Okkervil River
Oct 15, 2013The band performs three songs from a record inspired by the childhood of singer Will Sheff.
S6E52Matt Ulery's Loom
Oct 19, 2013The bassist composes beautiful, unpretentious music for an unusual jazz band with accordion.
S6E53Daughter
Oct 21, 2013Pretty and melancholy, the Londoners' music conjures a perfect mix of gloom, desire and hostility.
S6E54Typhoon
Oct 26, 2013The dozen members of this Portland, Ore. band crammed behind the Tiny Desk for a transcendent set.
S6E55San Fermin
Oct 28, 2013The orchestral folk-pop band's little song-worlds burst with ambition, talent and extreme joy.
S6E56Neko Case
Oct 31, 2013Watch a Halloween Tiny Desk Concert in which Case performs with Kelly Hogan and Eric Bachmann.
S6E57Ashley Monroe
Nov 3, 2013This three-song set in the NPR Music offices captures a nice cross-section of Monroe's appeal.
S6E58Gary Burton
Nov 9, 2013The jazz vibraphone pioneer is 70 now, but that hasn't slowed his flying four-mallet technique.
S6E59Debashish Bhattacharya
Nov 12, 2013Bhattacharya draws on North Indian classical music, but blues also pours out of his stunning work.
S6E60John Legend
Nov 16, 2013The soul singer retains the easygoing grace of a performer fit for any stage — even a tiny one.
S6E61Waxahatchee
Nov 23, 2013This is Katie Crutchfield as Waxahatchee, playing intimate music for an intimate setting.
S6E62Kronos Quartet
Nov 25, 2013The intrepid champions of new music bring a lullaby, rare blues and a work by Bryce Dessner to NPR.
S6E63The Dismemberment Plan
Dec 2, 2013The band exudes playfulness and wry charm throughout these three songs from Uncanney Valley.
S6E64Sarah Jarosz
Dec 7, 2013Jarosz and her small backing band craft a careful mix of technical proficiency and poppy warmth.
S6E65Dessa
Dec 9, 2013The whip-smart rapper, singer, poet and songwriter performs three tracks from Parts of Speech.
S6E66Christine Salem
Dec 14, 2013Salem sings work songs and chants from the maloya tradition on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
S6E67La Santa Cecilia
Dec 16, 2013The video here provides just a hint of the L.A. band's dynamic live shows, albeit a spectacular one.
S6E68Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Dec 21, 2013The hot and historic New Orleans band brings a tuba-wielding Santa and some original holiday cheer.