Seasons & episodes
S7 · E38Mali Music 2014-06-21
The singer-songwriter and musician performs with unabashed positivity and an uplifting spirit.
S7 · E39Conor Oberst 2014-06-23
The Bright Eyes singer performs songs from Upside Down Mountain with help from members of Dawes.
S7 · E40Tracy Silverman 2014-06-28
See the innovative player create waves of sound with a six-string violin.
S7 · E41Lydia Loveless 2014-07-01
The 23-year-old singer-guitarist performs gritty, countrified blues-rock in the NPR Music offices.
S7 · E42The Foreign Exchange 2014-07-05
Watch the Tiny Desk turn into a church, comedy club and neo-soul spot.
S7 · E43Moon Hooch 2014-07-07
They call what they make "cave music" — but it's just as powerful at the Tiny Desk.
S7 · E44John Grant 2014-07-13
Grant's songs don't mess around, with lyrics that function as darts of retort and thought.
S7 · E45Holly Williams 2014-07-14
The singer has a magnificent way with phrasing, not to mention a remarkable country-music lineage.
S7 · E46Marisa Anderson 2014-07-19
The guitarist kicks up some dirt with a Rev. Gary Davis deconstruction and a Stratocaster hoedown.
S7 · E47Hamilton Leithauser 2014-07-21
In this three-song set, the Walkmen singer demonstrates that he's lost none of his vocal power.
S7 · E48Highasakite 2014-07-25
Watch an atmospheric Norwegian band with a yearning sound. Also: See a flugabone!
S7 · E49Saintseneca 2014-07-29
In the NPR offices, the Ohio band plays three alternately brooding and stomping songs from Dark Arc.
S7 · E50Quetzal 2014-08-02
The veteran East L.A. band's music penetrates the intellect even as it makes your hips sway.
S7 · E51The Family Crest 2014-08-04
The band's seven players are trained in classical and jazz, led by Liam McCormick's powerful voice.
S7 · E52Irene Diaz 2014-08-09
With Carolyn Cardoza, Diaz conjures a place where emotions run deep and beauty is unmistakable.
S7 · E53Bob Mould 2014-08-11
The former Hüsker Dü and Sugar frontman plugs in for a characteristically loud four-song set.
S7 · E54Ernest Ranglin 2014-08-16
Watch a talented, charming guitar legend make magic as his band Avila holds down the beat.
S7 · E55Pacifica Quartet 2014-08-18
Watch the group play selections from Shostakovich's cycle of introspective string quartets.
S7 · E56Rodrigo Amarante 2014-08-23
A veteran of Little Joy and Los Hermanos, Amarante makes warm, tender music as a solo artist.
S7 · E57Nickel Creek 2014-08-26
The band was made to sing and play around one microphone, so a Tiny Desk Concert seemed inevitable.
S7 · E58Sturgill Simpson 2014-08-30 · 15 min
The Kentucky native writes country songs about loneliness, failed dreams, drinking and drugs.
S7 · E59Trampled By Turtles 2014-09-03
Known for the speed of their playing, the Minnesotans are about more than just blistering bluegrass.
S7 · E60Jessica Lea Mayfield 2014-09-06
Mayfield's music has gotten more beguiling as she explores the many contrasts in her hypnotic sound.
S7 · E61Justin Townes Earle 2014-09-08
In advance of his new album Single Mothers, the singer performs two new songs and an old favorite.