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There are many mysteries in Nelly Furtado‘s 21-minute Tiny Desk Concert: How far forward did NPR have to move its Tiny Desk to accommodate Furtado and her retinue of eight? Why doesn’t Furtado open her eyes when she sings? And why wouldn’t she want to look and see how cool …

Ne-Yo performed his own hits, singles he penned for artists like Rihanna and Beyoncé, and debuted a new song during the R&B singer’s Tiny Desk concert that NPR Music shared Friday. The hitmaker and his eight-person backing band kicked off the 23-minute set with a trio of his 2000s tracks …

Snow white makeup, pink prom dress, lipstick-stained teeth, blue eye shadow, and a messy, massive orange wig. That’s a drag queen for you! On Thursday, Chappell Roan delivered a campy, early-Lady-Gaga-esque performance of some of the standouts from her debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess on …

Justin Timberlake’s promotional tour in support of new album Everything I Thought It Was, out today, included a Tiny Desk Concert, where the singer nearly set a record for most musicians crammed into one of the NPR sessions. Timberlake and his band of 14 musicians and backup vocalists crammed into …

As Jeezy noted before playing “And Then What” during his NPR Tiny Desk debut, he goes by a lot of names. There’s Jizzle, which he started going by around 2010. There’s also Bling (favored by the Fort Lauderdale crowd) and the two-for-one deal of Snow and Jeezy the Snowman. The …

Good jokes — and good union support — helped a public radio reporter get his job back after he was fired over clips from his stand-up set posted on social media. As Vice reports, Jad Sleiman emerged largely victorious from an arbitration dispute with the Philadelphia NPR member, WHYY. The …

Tomorrow X Together performed three songs as part of an international edition of NPR‘s Tiny Desk series. The clip marks a collaboration between NPR and LG U+, a Korean telecommunications and media company, and sees TXT giving an intimate performance in a library-like space. The group — Yeonjun, Soobin, Beomgyu, …

One thing about Chlöe is that she knows how to get sexy. On Tuesday, NPR released her Tiny Desk performance as the musician jazzified her songs and showed off her vocal prowess. The R&B star opened her performance with “Surprise,” offering an acoustic rendition of the track before asking the …

Kany García is the latest Latina star to bring her musical prowess to NPR‘s Tiny Desk concert series. On Monday, NPR released a video of the Puerto Rican musician’s performance as she sang fan-favorites from her latest albums. The singer-songwriter opened her performance with the sweet “Para Siempre” before she …

Gwar know their own legend. When the self-professed Scumdogs of the Universe dipped through NPR for a Tiny Desk Concert recently, frontman Blöthar the Berserker admitted, “Let’s face it, Gwar’s a little bit lowbrow … sub-brow maybe.” But nevertheless, they performed a four-song, 20-minute set of their special brand of …