The Beaches checked their hard feelings at the door for their NPR Tiny Desk debut. The band appeared on the long-running performance series to perform tracks from their latest studio album No Hard Feelings, including “Lesbian of the Year,” “Can I Call You in the Morning?” and “Last Girls at …
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The bowing sounds of a string quartet open Faye Webster‘s Tiny Desk Concert. On Friday, NPR released the video for the musician’s visit to the beloved live performance series as she serenaded the room with a breezy, four-song set. Webster opened her performance with a jazzy, flowing rendition of “In …
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MJ Lenderman stopped by the NPR offices to deliver an unplugged and chilled-out performance for the Tiny Desk concert series. The celebrated Asheville, North Carolina musician and his backing band, the Wind, played four songs, three of which were from his excellent 2024 album, Manning Fireworks (which landed at Number …
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Sabrina Carpenter wants to know if NPR is hiring! The pop star packed her sultry, country-tinged Tiny Desk performance Friday with sweet storytimes of the songs on Short ‘n Sweet as she joked about the radio station’s “working environment.” “NPR, I’ve been watching this show… everyone says this, whatever. You …
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Waxahatchee returned to NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series for the first time since 2013, this time performing songs from her Grammy-nominated sixth album, Tigers Blood. “I rolled out of the tour van … I sort of didn’t really know what I was doing at all. My amp broke in the …
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Billie Eilish’s long-awaited Tiny Desk concert has arrived as NPR Music shared the singer’s stripped-down cubicle performance on Thursday. “Wow. This is nerve-wracking,” Eilish told lucky NPR employees between songs. “Tiny Desk. This is so cool, I’ve wanted to do this my whole life, so I’m a little shaky. I’m …
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Doechii continues to tie up 2024 with a bang as the latest star of NPR’s Tiny Desk Series, where she and an apparent ensemble of exclusively Black women in complementary cornrows tore through their set. They kicked things off calmly with “Boom Bap,” a sarcastic single from her debut mixtape …
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The Magnetic Fields were able to get through eight of their 69 Love Songs during a performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series. The special performance allowed Stephin Merritt and co. to offer stripped-down takes on some of the songs they’ve been playing around North America this year as they …
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Dua Lipa is reimaging the pop perfection of Radical Optimism for NPR‘s Tiny Desk. On Friday, NPR Music shared the British star’s special performance of a handful of songs from her most recent album. Lipa opened her set by performing a stripped-back version ofRadical Optimism single “Training Season,” backed by …
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NPR has welcomed the Marías to Tiny Desk for their long-awaited debut on the live performance series. With Maria Zardoya at their helm, the group ran through a four-track set list that spanned six years of releases, from their early EP series Superclean through their latest full-length album, Submarine. The …
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