Seasons & episodes
S6 · E34Jim Guthrie 2013-08-10
Guthrie and his band drove 18 hours round-trip from Ontario to perform three songs for NPR Music.
S6 · E35Alpine 2013-08-12
The Australian sextet crafts busily impeccable, harmony-intensive pop music with a danceable sway.
S6 · E36Mother Falcon 2013-08-17
The 17-member chamber-rock collective uses its size in the service of great, snappy, stirring songs.
S6 · E37The Front Bottoms 2013-08-19
The community that's formed around The Front Bottoms speaks to the band's passion and compassion.
S6 · E38Buika 2013-08-26
Concha Buika's voice comes from Africa and the past. Watch her perform in the NPR Music offices.
S6 · E39Steve Gunn 2013-08-31
Watch Gunn's trio perform a set of hypnotic long-form jams that are perfect for taking it easy.
S6 · E40Baths 2013-09-04
Watch Baths' Will Wiesenfeld perform mysterious, textured electronic music in the NPR offices.
S6 · E41Bombino 2013-09-07
For our 300th Tiny Desk Concert, we showcase a Tuareg guitarist's fierce, hypnotic, alluring jams.
S6 · E42The 1975 2013-09-10
Performing solo, singer Matthew Healy doesn't hesitate to transform both his songs and himself.
S6 · E43Arturo O'Farrill 2013-09-14
With an eye on both the past and the future, O'Farrill has jazz and Afro-Cuban music in his DNA.
S6 · E44Shovels & Rope 2013-09-16
The husband-and-wife duo mixes rowdy folk-rock and rootsy ballads, with the help of a canine friend.
S6 · E45The Cristina Pato Trio 2013-09-21
A Galician bagpiper and her trio take Celtic sounds in an entirely wild and wonderful direction.
S6 · E46Hem 2013-09-28
Hem makes a homey, fireside kind of music, with songs that feel as if they've always been there.
S6 · E47Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi 2013-09-30
The Zimbabwean legend performs songs from the mournful but celebratory Sarawoga for NPR Music.
S6 · E48Lawrence Brownlee 2013-10-05
The operatic tenor, acclaimed for his Rossini, circles back to his roots as a singer of spirituals.
S6 · E49Superchunk 2013-10-07
Watch the venerable band translate its electric sound to acoustic instruments in an intimate way.
S6 · E50Valerie June 2013-10-12
Short of seeing her live and in person, this is the best way to encounter June's heartfelt sound.
S6 · E51Okkervil River 2013-10-15
The band performs three songs from a record inspired by the childhood of singer Will Sheff.
S6 · E52Matt Ulery's Loom 2013-10-19
The bassist composes beautiful, unpretentious music for an unusual jazz band with accordion.
S6 · E53Daughter 2013-10-21
Pretty and melancholy, the Londoners' music conjures a perfect mix of gloom, desire and hostility.
S6 · E54Typhoon 2013-10-26
The dozen members of this Portland, Ore. band crammed behind the Tiny Desk for a transcendent set.
S6 · E55San Fermin 2013-10-28
The orchestral folk-pop band's little song-worlds burst with ambition, talent and extreme joy.
S6 · E56Neko Case 2013-10-31
Watch a Halloween Tiny Desk Concert in which Case performs with Kelly Hogan and Eric Bachmann.
S6 · E57Ashley Monroe 2013-11-03
This three-song set in the NPR Music offices captures a nice cross-section of Monroe's appeal.