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Silvana Estrada: Tiny Desk Concert

October 15, 2025 • Silvana Estrada's powerful, yet elegant voice finds a way to bend wounds to her will and become whole.

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Lido Pimienta: Tiny Desk Concert

September 19, 2025 • Every aspect of a Lido Pimienta performance is intensely intentional. Her turn behind the Tiny Desk is, as expected, rich with symbolism and musical beauty.

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World Cafe

Owen Pallett Is A Home-Recording Wizard

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November 27, 2020 • In this session, what you're going to hear are solo performances — just Pallett, using effects and looping to create layers of sound.

Owen Pallett On World Cafe

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Owen Pallett: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

November 17, 2020 • The talented Canadian composer and songwriter creates an ensemble in their bedroom for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.

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Music Lists

NPR Music's 25 Favorite Albums Of 2014 (So Far)

June 30, 2014 • A selection of 25 deep, joyful, rewarding albums from every genre, out of every corner of the world, from the first six months months of 2014, picked by NPR Music.

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Owen Pallett: The Consummate Musician, In Conflict

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Music Interviews

Owen Pallett: The Consummate Musician, In Conflict

May 27, 2014 • Last year, Owen Pallett played on Arcade Fire's Reflektor and picked up an Oscar nomination for his score for Her. The songwriter explains the tensions at work on his highly personal new solo album.

Owen Pallett: The Consummate Musician, In Conflict

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First Listen: Owen Pallett, 'In Conflict'

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First Listen

First Listen: Owen Pallett, 'In Conflict'

May 18, 2014 • If there's any conflict at all throughout these 13 tracks, it's purely an internal one for Pallett, a legit composer who also possesses the instincts to craft brilliant pop songs.

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Best Music Of 2013

NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2013

December 10, 2013 • These albums might be strange bedfellows, but that's how we listen. This is the music that shook us up, sucked us in, commanded our respect and kept us dancing this year. Get in there.

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