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Elle Mannion | January 31, 2025 If you want it, Faye Webster’s Tiny Desk can offer an escape. Featuring her longtime band and a string quartet, Webster guides us through a swooning and sweeping set culled from her quickly growing catalog. Webster’s Underdressed at the Symphony was inspired by just that: Buying last-minute tickets to the symphony orchestra in her hometown of Atlanta and finding the experience otherworldly. She performs “But Not Kiss” and the title track from that album. Webster is a gentle but captivating performer in this space, at times grooving with her locked-in band. But she also [See More…]

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@MinorStrut ‘OK 01’ Semi Acoustic Tiny Desk @nprmusic submission @NPR #originalmusic #shorts 0 (0)

#tinydeskconcert #nprmusic #tinydeskcontest #tinydesk #minorstrut #shorts #shortysvideo NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concerts is a popular video series featuring live, intimate music performances by diverse artists, from major stars to up-and-coming musicians, recorded in the small workspace of Bob Boilen’s NPR office in Washington, D.C.brought to you by SloppBoxx.Com.

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California’s Waiting – JP Williams Twilight Review #nprmusic #tinydesk #singersongwriter 0 (0)

This is our submission for the NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2025! Thanks so much for watching. Recorded “LIVE” at Kitson Art gallery, Tunkhannock, PA. #npr #tinydeskcontest #singersongwriter #jpwtr #california #acoustic #live #tinydesk #music Vacation, getaway, fantasy? Call it what you will, but I believe it’s easy to relate! Please visit my website: http://www.JP-Williams.com NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concerts is a popular video series featuring live, intimate music performances by diverse artists, from major stars to up-and-coming musicians, recorded in the small workspace of Bob Boilen’s NPR office in Washington, D.C.brought to you by SloppBoxx.Com.

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MJ Lenderman: Tiny Desk Concert 0 (0)

Elle Mannion | January 29, 2025 MJ Lenderman’s music is a little sad, sometimes funny and almost always comforting. He’s already played the Tiny Desk with the indie rock band Wednesday, but after a stellar 2024 — a memorable feature on Waxahatchee’s “Right Back To It” and his own solo album, Manning Fireworks — it was time to bring him in for his own set. His band, normally called MJ Lenderman and The Wind, told us that when they play their songs stripped back like this, they refer to themselves as MJ Lenderman and The Breeze. The fiddle-forward “Rip Torn” [See More…]

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Joe Smooth ‘Promised Land’ | The Making Of A House Anthem 0 (0)

To celebrate 40 years of house music we joined Joe Smooth at ARC Music Festival, Chicago to recount the story behind his house anthem ‘Promised Land’. An undeniable house music gem, Joe talks us through the track’s inspiration and legacy, alongside how it put him on the radar of influential figures including Nelson Mandela, Andy Warhol, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Electronic music history is rich with unforgettable and timeless classics. In our series, DJ Mag explores the tales behind some of the world’s favourite dance tracks, told by the people that made them. Watch more from the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxGQNM_MbRMj0o92dwsw61tI7fZme2HNT&si=kesFqrYErup28X0m Find [See More…]

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The Red Clay Strays: Tiny Desk Concert 0 (0)

Ann Powers | January 17, 2025 The Red Clay Strays is a big band with a future that keeps expanding. In the past few years the Mobile, Ala.-born five-piece has rocketed from club gigs to major stages like Colorado’s Red Rocks and Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on the strength of its joyful interplay and soaring Southern rock sound. It wasn’t a given that the Strays could rein in the grandeur that its fanbase relishes to fit the modest Tiny Desk. But this easy rolling set shows what’s made these longtime road dogs one of the fastest-rising ensembles in any genre right [See More…]

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Machel Montano: Tiny Desk Concert 0 (0)

Nikki Birch | January 13, 2025 The first law of soca music, according to Machel Montano, is: “it’s dancing time all the time.” And in his Tiny Desk Concert, the “King of Soca” provides irrefutable evidence to support that statement. Montano’s performance is the first to bring soca, the high energy dance music of the Caribbean, to the Tiny Desk. The genre was born in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s when calypso artist Lord Shorty (who later chose the name Ras Shorty I) added traditional Indian percussion instruments and rhythms to calypso music — itself a fusion that [See More…]

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Barbara Tucker ‘Beautiful People’ | The Making Of A House Anthem 0 (0)

30 years on from its release on the iconic Strictly Rhythm, Barbara Tucker shares the story behind one of house music’s most loved vocal hits, ‘Beautiful People’. Written by Tucker, alongside India and Lem Springsteen, the track was produced by Louie Vega and Kenny Dope. Vega used the vocal loop for his Hardrive project, culminating in ‘Deep Inside’ in ’93. Here, Tucker explains how she came to meet “Little Louie” Vega in New York during the ‘80s, the inspiration behind the lyrics, and the whirlwind of filming Top Of The Pops performances and music videos. Electronic music history is rich [See More…]