NPR Tiny Desk Concerts Season 6
January. 07,2013 NRGenre：
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Intimate musical performances, recorded live at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen.
Episode 68 : Preservation Hall Jazz Band
December. 21,2013
The hot and historic New Orleans band brings a tuba-wielding Santa and some original holiday cheer.
Episode 67 : La Santa Cecilia
December. 16,2013
The video here provides just a hint of the L.A. band's dynamic live shows, albeit a spectacular one.
Episode 66 : Christine Salem
December. 14,2013
Salem sings work songs and chants from the maloya tradition on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Episode 65 : Dessa
December. 09,2013
The whip-smart rapper, singer, poet and songwriter performs three tracks from Parts of Speech.
Episode 64 : Sarah Jarosz
December. 07,2013
Jarosz and her small backing band craft a careful mix of technical proficiency and poppy warmth.
Episode 63 : The Dismemberment Plan
December. 02,2013
The band exudes playfulness and wry charm throughout these three songs from Uncanney Valley.
Episode 62 : Kronos Quartet
November. 25,2013
The intrepid champions of new music bring a lullaby, rare blues and a work by Bryce Dessner to NPR.
Episode 61 : Waxahatchee
November. 23,2013
This is Katie Crutchfield as Waxahatchee, playing intimate music for an intimate setting.
Episode 60 : John Legend
November. 16,2013
The soul singer retains the easygoing grace of a performer fit for any stage — even a tiny one.
Episode 59 : Debashish Bhattacharya
November. 12,2013
Bhattacharya draws on North Indian classical music, but blues also pours out of his stunning work.
Episode 58 : Gary Burton
November. 09,2013
The jazz vibraphone pioneer is 70 now, but that hasn't slowed his flying four-mallet technique.
Episode 57 : Ashley Monroe
November. 03,2013
This three-song set in the NPR Music offices captures a nice cross-section of Monroe's appeal.
Episode 56 : Neko Case
October. 31,2013
Watch a Halloween Tiny Desk Concert in which Case performs with Kelly Hogan and Eric Bachmann.
Episode 55 : San Fermin
October. 28,2013
The orchestral folk-pop band's little song-worlds burst with ambition, talent and extreme joy.
Episode 54 : Typhoon
October. 26,2013
The dozen members of this Portland, Ore. band crammed behind the Tiny Desk for a transcendent set.
Episode 53 : Daughter
October. 21,2013
Pretty and melancholy, the Londoners' music conjures a perfect mix of gloom, desire and hostility.
Episode 52 : Matt Ulery's Loom
October. 19,2013
The bassist composes beautiful, unpretentious music for an unusual jazz band with accordion.
Episode 51 : Okkervil River
October. 15,2013
The band performs three songs from a record inspired by the childhood of singer Will Sheff.
Episode 50 : Valerie June
October. 12,2013
Short of seeing her live and in person, this is the best way to encounter June's heartfelt sound.
Episode 49 : Superchunk
October. 07,2013
Watch the venerable band translate its electric sound to acoustic instruments in an intimate way.
Episode 48 : Lawrence Brownlee
October. 05,2013
The operatic tenor, acclaimed for his Rossini, circles back to his roots as a singer of spirituals.
Episode 47 : Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi
September. 30,2013
The Zimbabwean legend performs songs from the mournful but celebratory Sarawoga for NPR Music.
Episode 46 : Hem
September. 28,2013
Hem makes a homey, fireside kind of music, with songs that feel as if they've always been there.
Episode 45 : The Cristina Pato Trio
September. 21,2013
A Galician bagpiper and her trio take Celtic sounds in an entirely wild and wonderful direction.
Episode 44 : Shovels & Rope
September. 16,2013
The husband-and-wife duo mixes rowdy folk-rock and rootsy ballads, with the help of a canine friend.
Episode 43 : Arturo O'Farrill
September. 14,2013
With an eye on both the past and the future, O'Farrill has jazz and Afro-Cuban music in his DNA.
Episode 42 : The 1975
September. 10,2013
Performing solo, singer Matthew Healy doesn't hesitate to transform both his songs and himself.
Episode 41 : Bombino
September. 07,2013
For our 300th Tiny Desk Concert, we showcase a Tuareg guitarist's fierce, hypnotic, alluring jams.
Episode 40 : Baths
September. 04,2013
Watch Baths' Will Wiesenfeld perform mysterious, textured electronic music in the NPR offices.
Episode 39 : Steve Gunn
August. 31,2013
Watch Gunn's trio perform a set of hypnotic long-form jams that are perfect for taking it easy.
Episode 38 : Buika
August. 26,2013
Concha Buika's voice comes from Africa and the past. Watch her perform in the NPR Music offices.
Episode 37 : The Front Bottoms
August. 19,2013
The community that's formed around The Front Bottoms speaks to the band's passion and compassion.
Episode 36 : Mother Falcon
August. 17,2013
The 17-member chamber-rock collective uses its size in the service of great, snappy, stirring songs.
Episode 35 : Alpine
August. 12,2013
The Australian sextet crafts busily impeccable, harmony-intensive pop music with a danceable sway.
Episode 34 : Jim Guthrie
August. 10,2013
Guthrie and his band drove 18 hours round-trip from Ontario to perform three songs for NPR Music.
Episode 33 : Keaton Henson
August. 03,2013
Henson's voice is so fragile and hushed, if you were 10 feet away from him you'd barely hear a peep.
Episode 32 : Dana Falconberry
July. 29,2013
Watch Falconberry and five bandmates perform three delicate songs from her recent album Leelanau.
Episode 31 : Time For Three
July. 27,2013
Hear the "classically trained garage band" perform with staggering technique and contagious energy.
Episode 30 : Guards
July. 22,2013
Hear three sturdy pop songs from In Guards We Trust, performed live at the NPR Music offices.
Episode 29 : Cheyenne Mize
July. 20,2013
The singer, instrumentalist and music therapist plays slinky, forceful songs at NPR Music.
Episode 28 : Alice Russell
July. 15,2013
When the British singer performs, her emotionally fiery music just gets hotter and grittier.
Episode 27 : Frank Turner
July. 13,2013
Two men with unplugged instruments convey the bawdy rowdiness of a full band.
Episode 26 : Skinny Lister
July. 08,2013
The rowdy English folk-punk band brings its barely controlled mayhem to the NPR Music offices.
Episode 25 : Cheick Hamala Diabate
July. 06,2013
The Malian musician and his band craft melodies and rhythms that cut across age and ethnicity.
Episode 24 : Laura Mvula
July. 01,2013
The U.K. singer performs some of her most intimate material in a short set at the NPR Music offices.
Episode 23 : Maya Beiser
June. 29,2013
A brilliant cellist with a stunning command of her instrument, Beiser performs at the NPR offices.
Episode 22 : Patty Griffin
June. 24,2013
Watch the singer-songwriter and her band perform three songs from her fine new album, American Kid.
Episode 21 : Billy Bragg
June. 17,2013
One of the world's finest folksingers channels the spirit of Woody Guthrie at the NPR Music offices.
Episode 20 : NO BS! Brass Band
June. 15,2013
An 11-piece brass band turns up the funk and flies the flag high for its native Richmond, Va.
Episode 19 : The National
June. 10,2013
Watch the band perform acoustic arrangements of four songs from its new album, Trouble Will Find Me.
Episode 18 : OK Go
June. 03,2013
OK Go helps us transport the Tiny Desk from NPR Music's old headquarters to our new facility.
Episode 17 : Imani Winds
May. 29,2013
Imani Winds' members shrink Igor Stravinsky down to size in a quintet take on The Rite of Spring.
Episode 16 : Mohammad Reza Shajarian
May. 20,2013
The 73-year-old Iranian icon unleashes torrents of swooping, soaring sound that elicit goosebumps.
Episode 15 : Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale
May. 13,2013
The veteran country players mix corny humor, musical merrymaking and timeless vocal harmonies.
Episode 14 : Nicola Benedetti
May. 06,2013
Watch the violinist spin out music by John Williams and Bach in sweet, soulful tendrils of sound.
Episode 13 : Father Figures
April. 29,2013
Zany, brainy and danceable, these guys' music mixes rock and jazz like King Crimson at its fiercest.
Episode 12 : Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu
April. 22,2013
The duo's quietly energetic performance hangs over the the NPR Music offices like a soft mist.
Episode 11 : Yo La Tengo
April. 15,2013
To coincide with the release of the band's 13th album, Fade, Yo La Tengo performs an acoustic set.
Episode 10 : Efterklang
April. 08,2013
The Danish band ransacks the NPR Music offices looking for sound-making material and new ideas.
Episode 9 : Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill
March. 11,2013
Watch one of the best fiddlers on the planet and a subtle guitar master work their magic.
Episode 8 : The Lone Bellow
March. 04,2013
The fast-rising Brooklyn trio sings beautiful, heartfelt, impeccably harmonized folk-pop songs.
Episode 7 : Mary Halvorson Quintet
February. 25,2013
The guitarist brings a decidedly non-standard approach to jazz's standard practices.
Episode 6 : Night Beds
February. 18,2013
Winston Yellen's arresting voice propels a lighthearted but deeply affecting set at the NPR office.
Episode 5 : The xx
February. 11,2013
In The xx's songs, all the calm chilliness in the world can't quite contain an exposed heart.
Episode 4 : Cantus
February. 04,2013
The a cappella ensemble sings widely divergent songs from American, European and Sufi traditions.
Episode 3 : Of Montreal
January. 28,2013
Frontman Kevin Barnes uses the intimacy of the NPR Music offices to try out some quiet new material.
Episode 2 : Black Prairie
January. 14,2013
With members of The Decemberists, the band lends a snappy, lilting quality to songs of alienation.
Episode 1 : Lucius
January. 07,2013
One minute, Lucius sounds like a '60s girl group; the next might conjure images of Emmylou Harris.
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