Seasons & episodes
S11 · E88Mac Miller 2018-08-06
Mac Miller reflects on his journey's peaks and valleys in a boisterous set of songs from Swimming, featuring special guest Thundercat on "What's the Use?"
S11 · E89DAWN 2018-08-10
DAWN has a breathless enthusiasm for shape-shifting pop music. She strips three songs to just the essentials, illuminating the impeccable songwriting behind her wild combination of sounds.
S11 · E90Tower Of Power 2018-08-13
Even from its beginnings in late-'60s Oakland, the band has always stood out. Fifty years later, its devotion to classic horn-driven soul remains unmatched, its passion and precision unchanged.
S11 · E91Erykah Badu 2018-08-15
The singer's performance at the Tiny Desk was an almost spiritual experience, leaving many at the NPR Music offices in awe.
S11 · E92Yo-Yo Ma 2018-08-17
Watch the 19-time Grammy winner return to his lifelong passion for J.S. Bach, playing music from the Cello Suites and offering advice on the art of incremental learning.
S11 · E93Camp Cope 2018-08-22
The Australian band uses tiny moments of introspection to illuminate life's bewildering, terrifying, isolating aspects — especially as they apply to women.
S11 · E94Dermot Kennedy 2018-08-24
Backed for the first time ever by members of the Howard Gospel Choir, the Irish singer-songwriter shows off a voice built to fill stadiums in more ways than one.
S11 · E95T.I. 2018-08-27
In the fifteen years since he released Trap Muzik, Tip Harris has reinvented himself a thousand times over. But the stories he recounts from that era make his Tiny Desk a memorable one.
S11 · E96Tech N9ne Feat. Krizz Kaliko 2018-08-29
Two of Kansas City's finest — and indie hip-hop's trailblazers — deliver a dose of Strange Music.
S11 · E97George Li 2018-08-31
Watch the young Harvard grad dispatch some of the most "knuckle-busting" piano repertoire with uncommon panache and precision.
S11 · E98Kalbells 2018-09-05
The band makes life-affirming music that singer Kalmia Traver created over the past few years, filled with the triumph of being cancer free.
S11 · E99Jupiter & Okwess 2018-09-07
Jupiter Bokondji and his band Okwess play music that feels both African and American, with Jupiter's early musical tastes inspired by The Jackson 5, James Brown and the sounds of Motown.
S11 · E100Hobo Johnson 2018-09-12
While this Sacramento, Calif. band didn't win this year's Tiny Desk contest, their video entry, for the song "Peach Scones," was among the more memorable we've ever seen.
S11 · E101GoGo Penguin 2018-09-14
This trio has become a reference point of their own for new school instrumentalists, a coveted achievement for any jazz group, though their appeal stretches far outside the jazz ecosystem.
S11 · E102Smif-N-Wessun 2018-09-17
Brooklyn-bred hip-hop duo Smif-N-Wessun – consisting of partners in rhyme, Steele and Tek – illuminated the Tiny Desk with their signature, 80-proof poetry: straight, no chaser.
S11 · E103Julie Byrne 2018-09-19
Julie Byrne's transporting music can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.
S11 · E104Anthony Roth Costanzo 2018-09-21
Watch the ambitious countertenor sing music that spans more than 250 years, connecting the dots between David Byrne, George Frideric Handel and Philip Glass.
S11 · E105Cécile McLorin Salvant 2018-09-25
The jazz singer, who used to be into radical feminist punk, now composes and sings beautiful jazz ballads.
S11 · E106Saba 2018-10-01
Before embarking on a tour of Australia and Asia, the Chicago native brought the squad that helped make Care For Me one of 2018's best — along with a very special guest.
S11 · E107Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles 2018-10-05
Henry and his band would have sounded right at home on Stax Records in the '70s — no small accomplishment. Watch them perform three funky, soulful jams.
S11 · E108Big Boi 2018-10-09
The OutKast star performs "So Fresh, So Clean," "The Way You Move" and his solo single "All Night" with the help of singer Sleepy Brown and an eight-member backing band.
S11 · E109Café Tacvba 2018-10-12
The pioneering Mexican band recreates the adventurous musical energy of their massive stadium shows behind Bob Boilen's desk.
S11 · E110Florence + the Machine 2018-10-16
"I'm sorry I'm shy," Florence Welch told the crowd of NPR family and friends gathered for her Tiny Desk performance. "If this was a big gig, I'd probably be climbing all over here and running around."
S11 · E111Alfredo Rodríguez 2018-10-18
The Cuban pianist thrilled the NPR office with an intense performance that was as melodic as it was rhythmic.