Seasons & episodes
S8 · E49Restorations 2015-08-14
The Philly rock band's big-hearted songs are stripped down to a few guitars and a MiniKorg.
S8 · E50Kacey Musgraves 2015-08-17
The country singer plays four songs from Pageant Material, plus the set-closing "Follow Your Arrow."
S8 · E51Son Lux 2015-08-21
The trio blows up its sound by adding off-duty, civilian horn players from the U.S. Marine Band.
S8 · E52Caroline Rose 2015-08-24
Rose plays music as if she's just met her new best friend: It's fresh, fun and enthusiastic.
S8 · E53Eskimeaux 2015-08-28
There's lighthearted, almost childlike beauty in the way Gabrielle Smith puts words to song.
S8 · E54Mitski 2015-08-31
Mitski's music is dark and even scary, but glimmers of beauty peek through.
S8 · E55Happyness 2015-09-04
If you're a fan of dark, incredibly dry, wry humor, you've just found Happyness.
S8 · E56Leon Bridges 2015-09-08
Bridges is easy to love and hard to resist, with purity in his voice that's untouched by modern pop.
S8 · E57Sam Lee 2015-09-11
The singer found his voice by finding and preserving old British, Irish and Scottish folk songs.
S8 · E58Watkins Family Hour 2015-09-18
With help from Fiona Apple, two Nickel Creek alums gather a band to perform old and new songs.
S8 · E59Gina Chavez 2015-09-22
The Austin singer-songwriter performs with intense openness, directness and warmth.
S8 · E60Joan Shelley 2015-09-25
As technology rules the day, here's a reminder that a single voice can carry deep emotion.
S8 · E61The Internet 2015-09-29
The R&B band might just be the oddest thing to come from the hip-hop collective Odd Future.
S8 · E62Lianne La Havas 2015-10-02
The singer is soulful yet playful, raw and vulnerable in a commanding kind of way.
S8 · E63Deqn Sue 2015-10-05
She came so close to winning NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert Contest, we just had to see her play.
S8 · E64Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah 2015-10-09
The trumpeter presents his emotionally charged, jazz-hybridized "stretch music" in performance.
S8 · E65Andra Day 2015-10-13
Day's songs feel candid and vulnerable, but not understated.
S8 · E66Oh Pep! 2015-10-16
The band's clever, thoughtful music fits in everywhere from Nashville to its hometown of Melbourne.
S8 · E67Paolo Angeli 2015-10-19
The Sardinian guitarist has a whole toy shop aboard his instrument.
S8 · E68Beauty Pill 2015-10-23
In Beauty Pill, life whirs with plunderphonic glee and riffs are funky from the inside out.
S8 · E69The Suffers 2015-10-27
The 10-piece band can barely fit all its horns, guitars, percussion and energy behind one desk.
S8 · E70Diane Coffee 2015-11-02
Conjuring David Bowie, Diane Coffee's Shaun Fleming swaggered and shimmied behind the Tiny Desk.
S8 · E71Chris Stapleton 2015-11-05 · 15 min
With his wife Morgane, the country singer-songwriter sings patient, detailed songs of devotion.
S8 · E72My bubba 2015-11-06
My bubba is a duo of women whose quirky, delicate, sweetly sung folk songs are a delight.