Aired: 1/5/2015
The Phish star was in town to put on a huge show, but the songs here feel more personal than that.
Aired: 1/3/2015
The producer presides over an all-instrumental, free-form trio with Brian Blade and Jim Wilson.
Aired: 1/20/2015
Even without its confetti cannon, the band brings a fun mix of brass and brash to the NPR offices.
Aired: 1/27/2015
The Nashville singer writes with acidic wit in lines worthy of his old mentor, Shel Silverstein.
Aired: 2/3/2015
Reilly sings and plays guitar alongside Tom Brosseau and Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark.
Aired: 2/10/2015
With 23 members, the performance-art marching band is the biggest ever to play the Tiny Desk.
Aired: 2/17/2015
The band strips down its electronic sound with the aid of a spaghetti strainer and a paint bucket.
Aired: 2/23/2015
With her huge voice and an assist on trombone, Nika Roza Danilova offers up a curious combination.
Aired: 2/25/2015
The Tiny Desk becomes a DJ booth for an office space dance party.
Aired: 3/2/2015
The Wisconsin band performs three of its warm, accessible songs in the NPR Music offices.
Aired: 3/7/2015
Aurelio weaves intricate layers of acoustic guitar to capture the feel of African and the Caribbean.
Aired: 3/9/2015
The singer beat out nearly 7,000 other submissions to win NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert Contest.
Aired: 3/14/2015
The duo plays visionary Beethoven, heartbreaking Janáček and Glass that unfolds like a lullaby.
Aired: 3/16/2015
Before the wide-ranging band plays, the audience sings "Happy Birthday" to mandolinist Chris Thile.
Aired: 3/28/2015
The a cappella quartet, with banjo and fiddle, offers popular songs from the Civil War era.
Aired: 3/20/2015
Performed softly in the light of day, these three songs feel fresh and lovable.
Aired: 4/6/2015
In a beautifully stark performance, the band plays two songs from Kintsugi and two older favorites.
Aired: 4/10/2015
James Snyder's euphoric punk anthems become raw and uplifting confessionals in this acoustic set.
Aired: 4/13/2015
Stokes' songs feel familiar; they're old friends before you're done hearing them for the first time.
Aired: 4/17/2015
The singer's lyrics reflect deeply felt emotions in this performance with cellist Daniel de Jesus.
Aired: 4/20/2015
The young English singer brings warmth to electronic music and a swooning quality to her own pop.
Aired: 4/25/2015
The Ukrainian acoustic quartet's music encompasses sounds and rhythms from around the world.
Aired: 4/29/2015
This soft-spoken Swedish singer left an imprint at the Tiny Desk that was gentle and long lasting.
Aired: 5/1/2015
The singer has been called "the Sinatra of flamenco." His expressive style draws on jazz.
Aired: 5/4/2015
Iyer's working band transforms selections from throughout the pianist's deep and varied catalog.
Aired: 5/8/2015
Found objects are percussion instruments in the hands of a man who's part musician, part magician.
Aired: 5/11/2015
These are enchanting songs, with the power to drift in your head for days.
Aired: 5/15/2015
A star in his native Portugal, Camané evokes melancholy with a silky baritone and elegant phrasing.
Aired: 5/19/2015
Intense, hip-hop-infused poetry is reduced to just the essentials in this two-song, four-minute set.
Aired: 5/22/2015
Watch the Grammy-winning guitarist and acclaimed harpist play music influenced by Africa and Asia.
Aired: 5/26/2015
The mother-son duo's songs are memorable and singable even days after you hear them.
Aired: 5/29/2015
A young man with an old musical soul has a spellbinding voice and fluid fiddle playing.
Aired: 6/1/2015
See a singer with a powerful voice and extremely encouraging message.
Aired: 6/8/2015
If you've never thought your tastes would lean to mountain music, breathe deep and soak it all in.
Aired: 6/15/2015
The clever trio shares its love of everything from Law & Order to old-school girl groups.
Aired: 6/19/2015
Timothy Showalter's music is filled with bite and sometimes regret, but also a good deal of warmth.
Aired: 6/22/2015
Frances Quinlan's raspy voice whispers one moment, then lets loose a gut-punching howl the next.
Aired: 6/26/2015
The charismatic Brooklyn-via-D.C.-area rapper creates just the right amount of space in his music.
Aired: 6/30/2015
The trio's music is full of life, with dissonant sounds that still feel suited for singalongs.
Aired: 7/6/2015
Best witnessed live, Stelling's music is steeped in tradition yet filled with vitality and soul.
Aired: 7/10/2015
The charming duo performs three of the simple, direct songs from Before The World Was Big.
Aired: 7/17/2015
See a Malian band that fuses African music with Western rock.
Aired: 7/21/2015
A celebrated English playwright and rapper deploys storytelling and poetry.
Aired: 7/28/2015
See the beloved Britpop veteran perform songs from his new album, Saturns Pattern.
Aired: 7/31/2015
The singer's disco-infused funk and soul gets stripped down to a lone voice with a guitar.
Aired: 8/3/2015
Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson makes the most of a single voice and an acoustic guitar.
Aired: 8/5/2015
The New Orleans trumpeter's funky new band creates dance music to ward off despair.
Aired: 8/10/2015
Mackenzie Scott's music channels Patti Smith and PJ Harvey while hinting at further growth.
Aired: 8/14/2015
The Philly rock band's big-hearted songs are stripped down to a few guitars and a MiniKorg.
Aired: 8/17/2015
The country singer plays four songs from Pageant Material, plus the set-closing "Follow Your Arrow."
Aired: 8/21/2015
The trio blows up its sound by adding off-duty, civilian horn players from the U.S. Marine Band.
Aired: 8/24/2015
Rose plays music as if she's just met her new best friend: It's fresh, fun and enthusiastic.
Aired: 8/28/2015
There's lighthearted, almost childlike beauty in the way Gabrielle Smith puts words to song.
Aired: 8/31/2015
Mitski's music is dark and even scary, but glimmers of beauty peek through.
Aired: 9/4/2015
If you're a fan of dark, incredibly dry, wry humor, you've just found Happyness.
Aired: 9/8/2015
Bridges is easy to love and hard to resist, with purity in his voice that's untouched by modern pop.
Aired: 9/11/2015
The singer found his voice by finding and preserving old British, Irish and Scottish folk songs.
Aired: 9/18/2015
With help from Fiona Apple, two Nickel Creek alums gather a band to perform old and new songs.
Aired: 9/22/2015
The Austin singer-songwriter performs with intense openness, directness and warmth.
Aired: 9/25/2015
As technology rules the day, here's a reminder that a single voice can carry deep emotion.
Aired: 9/29/2015
The R&B band might just be the oddest thing to come from the hip-hop collective Odd Future.
Aired: 10/2/2015
The singer is soulful yet playful, raw and vulnerable in a commanding kind of way.
Aired: 10/5/2015
She came so close to winning NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert Contest, we just had to see her play.
Aired: 10/9/2015
The trumpeter presents his emotionally charged, jazz-hybridized "stretch music" in performance.
Aired: 10/13/2015
Day's songs feel candid and vulnerable, but not understated.
Aired: 10/16/2015
The band's clever, thoughtful music fits in everywhere from Nashville to its hometown of Melbourne.
Aired: 10/19/2015
The Sardinian guitarist has a whole toy shop aboard his instrument.
Aired: 10/23/2015
In Beauty Pill, life whirs with plunderphonic glee and riffs are funky from the inside out.
Aired: 10/27/2015
The 10-piece band can barely fit all its horns, guitars, percussion and energy behind one desk.
Aired: 11/2/2015
Conjuring David Bowie, Diane Coffee's Shaun Fleming swaggered and shimmied behind the Tiny Desk.
Aired: 11/5/2015
With his wife Morgane, the country singer-songwriter sings patient, detailed songs of devotion.
Aired: 11/6/2015
My bubba is a duo of women whose quirky, delicate, sweetly sung folk songs are a delight.
Aired: 11/9/2015
At 19 and on the cusp of her first album, the Norwegian singer performs with a sense of discovery.
Aired: 11/13/2015
The oud player's wordless music tells powerful stories about life's blessedness and fragility.
Aired: 11/17/2015
At the Tiny Desk, Rateliff's body-shaking Southern-style soul takes on a more laid-back sound.
Aired: 11/20/2015
Great singers aren't easy to come by, so finding three in one band is something special.
Aired: 11/23/2015
Trevor Powers' new songs are expansive and self-assured, a transition reflected in this performance.
Aired: 11/30/2015
Hear a young conductor, composer and pianist play Beethoven and his own jazzy pieces.
Aired: 12/4/2015
The Detroit band's loud, screeching, grousing rock can be profound, poetic and bewildering.
Aired: 12/8/2015
The nine-piece band bursts with anthemic joy, even as its songs convey darkness and loneliness.
Aired: 12/11/2015
The Denver band's mysteriously swirling music is singular, new and adventurous.
Aired: 12/14/2015
When the singer breaks out his guitar and suitcase drum, a rush of adrenaline hits the room.
Aired: 12/18/2015
A modernistic bluesman with a taste for electronics appears with just his acoustic guitar.
Aired: 12/21/2015
Watch the soul star perform "Silent Night" and two originals — one for Christmas, one for Hanukkah.
