Seasons & episodes
S7 · E25Cian Nugent 2014-05-03
The Dublin guitarist runs through a ragtime jaunt, a basement-bar choogle and a sad-sack closer.
S7 · E26Public Service Broadcasting 2014-05-05
The duo's sample-laden instrumental music is entertainment as education for the head and feet alike.
S7 · E27Timber Timbre 2014-05-10
See the swamp-folk band play a characteristically eerie and mysterious set in the NPR Music offices.
S7 · E28Chvrches 2014-05-12
The Scottish synth-pop band turns up with a small arsenal of synthesizers to perform three songs.
S7 · E29Iestyn Davies 2014-05-17
See the countertenor and lutenist Thomas Dunford perform John Dowland's melancholy songs.
S7 · E30Ages And Ages 2014-05-20
The band makes the kind of music that can at least briefly restore your faith in humanity.
S7 · E31Yasmine Hamdan 2014-05-24
The Lebanese singer-songwriter is one of the most groundbreaking musicians in the Middle East.
S7 · E32Hozier 2014-05-27 · 15 min
Andrew Hozier-Byrne wraps his rich, vital, soulful voice around songs rooted in the blues.
S7 · E33Juana Molina 2014-05-31
Molina sounds as if she'd been raised by wolves and discovered the world of music on her own.
S7 · E34Simone Dinnerstein 2014-06-02
Watch the celebrated pianist make Bach's Two-part Inventions sing and zing.
S7 · E35Marian McLaughlin 2014-06-07
A quirky and wistful performer with a string section, McLaughlin makes music like few others.
S7 · E36Eliot Fisk And Paco Peña 2014-06-14
A classical virtuoso and an equally captivating flamenco player combine for a set of duets.
S7 · E37Rodney Crowell 2014-06-16
The country singer-songwriter performs with the ease and swagger of a man comfortable in his ways.
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!