Seasons & episodes
S6 · E25Cheick Hamala Diabate 2013-07-06
The Malian musician and his band craft melodies and rhythms that cut across age and ethnicity.
S6 · E26Skinny Lister 2013-07-08
The rowdy English folk-punk band brings its barely controlled mayhem to the NPR Music offices.
S6 · E27Frank Turner 2013-07-13
Two men with unplugged instruments convey the bawdy rowdiness of a full band.
S6 · E28Alice Russell 2013-07-15
When the British singer performs, her emotionally fiery music just gets hotter and grittier.
S6 · E29Cheyenne Mize 2013-07-20
The singer, instrumentalist and music therapist plays slinky, forceful songs at NPR Music.
S6 · E30Guards 2013-07-22
Hear three sturdy pop songs from In Guards We Trust, performed live at the NPR Music offices.
S6 · E31Time For Three 2013-07-27
Hear the "classically trained garage band" perform with staggering technique and contagious energy.
S6 · E32Dana Falconberry 2013-07-29
Watch Falconberry and five bandmates perform three delicate songs from her recent album Leelanau.
S6 · E33Keaton Henson 2013-08-03
Henson's voice is so fragile and hushed, if you were 10 feet away from him you'd barely hear a peep.
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.