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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 …

Canadian indie rock favorites and certified Grammy nominees (!) Alvvays rocked up to NPR to perform a set of buzzing, beatific tunes for the latest episode of Tiny Desk. The band performed four tracks, all of which appeared on their excellent 2022 album, Blue Rev. The set opened with standout …

The Olivia Rodrigo, who just spilled her most embarrassing, jealous, and regretfully heartbreaking secrets in the NPR Tiny Desk office, feels lightyears away from the version of herself who stripped down songs from Sour at the DMV in 2021. The singer and songwriter‘s appearance marks her first proper performance on …

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, …

Nile Rodgers and Chic brought the “maximum funkocity” to NRP’s Tiny Desk, delivering a half-hour set of classics from both the Chic catalogue and songs co-written by Rodgers himself. The set opened with Chic’s “Le Freak,” and from there went on to feature Diana Ross’ “I’m Coming Out, Sister Sledge’s …

NPR’s Tiny Desk concert space is on Becky G‘s list for a potential new work office. When she stopped by the made her debut on the performance series, she noticed that it has everything she could possibly need: plenty of space and an audience captivated by her music and cheering …

Caroline Polachek is ending the Desire, I Want to Turn Into You era in style. On Tuesday, the signer joined NPR for a Tiny Desk rendition of some of the album’s standouts, shortly after sharing the poignant inspiration for the album’s final single, “I Believe.” Backed by her band, the …

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 …