Tiny Desk

Intimate concerts, recorded live at NPR Music headquarters.

How NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series gave BET its flowers for Black Music Month

The popular music program set out this June on a mission to honor an entity that has been a constant ...
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Foo Fighters Cram Their Stadium Rock Hits Into NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk’ Studio: ‘It’s An Honor To Be Here’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “It’s an honor to be here,” singer/guitarist Dave Grohl said after the group ripped through the new album shredder “Spit Shine” as ...
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Watch: Brandi Carlile plays new music on NPR's 'Tiny Desk Concert'

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brandi Carlile arrives on the red carpet for the 97th annual Academy Awards in March. She performed on NPR's "Tiny Desk Concert" ...
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Ed Sheeran and NPR's Tiny Desk team up in intimate livestream concert on YouTube timed with 'Play' album release

Hours after album release, listeners worldwide will experience Sheeran's newest music from NPR's offices—live on YouTube September 12 at noon ET September 9, 2025 Washington, D.C. — On September 12, ...
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Turnstile Did The First-Ever Stage Dive At An NPR Tiny Desk Concert

NPR Tiny Desk Concerts are usually a space for artists to take it down a notch. Instead of that, though, Turnstile went ahead and did the first-ever Tiny Desk stage dive. The performance, which was ...
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The Beaches Bring ‘No Hard Feelings’ to NPR Tiny Desk

The Beaches checked their hard feelings at the door for their NPR Tiny Desk debut. The band appeared on the long-running performance series to perform tracks from their latest studio album No Hard ...
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Watch: Billy Strings Makes NPR ‘Tiny Desk’ Debut, 12 Years After Submitting Audition Tape

At long last, Billy Strings has taken his talents to NPR’s Tiny Desk. The maestro and his band, Alex Hargreaves (fiddle), Billy Failing (banjo, vocals), Royal Masat (bass, vocals), and Jarrod Walker ...
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Bow Wow’s NPR Tiny Desk performance to air on BET on June 28

Bow Wow’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert Premieres June 28 Bow Wow is set to take center stage in one of […] The post Bow Wow’s NPR ...
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Seventeen Serenade the Tiny Desk Crowd With 30-Minute Show

The boys of Seventeen were all giggles and smiles as they delivered stripped-back performances of their high-throttle songs while visiting NPR HQ for Tiny Desk on Monday. Backed by a full band, five ...
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Inside the unlikely origins of NPR's Tiny Desk concerts

All reporters at NPR, including me, are very pleased when our stories generate a lot of public interest, when they get seen and heard on air and online by thousands and sometimes millions of readers ...
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Alessia Cara Creatively Solves NPR Tiny Desk Rejections

Remember in Curb Your Enthusiasm when Larry David gets so mad about being banned from Mocha Joe’s that he opens a coffee shop called Latte Larry’s next door to spite him? Well, pop singer Alessia Cara ...