Tyler Childers performs a Tiny Desk Concert on March 8, 2018 (Eslah Attar/NPR).
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April 11, 2018
Tyler Childers writes songs about hard lives and hard love with direct heart and a soulful Kentucky drawl.
The Nate Smith Band performs a Tiny Desk Concert on Sept. 14, 2017. (Christina Ascani/NPR)
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November 3, 2017
The drums take center stage at this Tiny Desk. Watch veteran jazz percussionist Nate Smith dazzle the NPR audience in a transfixing performance.
Jason Isbell performs a Tiny Desk Concert on June 30, 2017. (Claire Harbage/NPR)
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August 28, 2017
The Alabama singer-songwriter and his band perform three songs from The Nashville Sound , but their set includes a few surprises, too.
ALA.NI performs a Tiny Desk Concert on June 20, 2017. (Photo: Liam James Doyle/NPR)
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August 14, 2017
ALA.NI captures and conveys a reverent love of early-20th-century music, while injecting those sounds with charisma and charm well suited for any era.
Maggie Rogers performs a Tiny Desk concert at NPR headquarters.
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August 7, 2017
The rising pop star performs three of her best-known songs, including a sweet solo take on her career-making "Alaska."
Aldous Harding performs a Tiny Desk Concert on June 6, 2017. (Claire Harbage/NPR)
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July 28, 2017
Intensity in songs often expresses itself as volume – a loud guitar, a scream, a piercing synth line. But in the case of Aldous Harding it's in the spaces, the pauses, and her unique delivery.
James Mercer of The Shins performs a Tiny Desk Concert on June 19, 2017. (Liam James Doyle/NPR)
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July 24, 2017
James Mercer, the emotional and creative heart of The Shins, gives a moving performance at the Tiny Desk, with two new songs and a classic from the band's 2003 album Chutes Too Narrow.
Albin Lee Meldau performs a Tiny Desk Concert on June 12, 2017. (Claire Harbage/NPR)
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July 20, 2017
Albin Lee Meldau possesses a thunderous, deeply affecting voice, which he uses to tell some utterly dark, but demonstrably cathartic, tales.
Rare Essence performs a Tiny Desk Concert on June 9, 2017. (Liam James Doyle/NPR)
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July 19, 2017
Rare Essence has been bringing go-go to the world since 1976 — the group brought that pedigree, and the genre's massive meld of funk, rhythm and blues and soul, to this raucous hometown Tiny Desk.
Tuxedo performs a Tiny Desk Concert on May 20th, 2017. (Claire Harbage/NPR)
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July 17, 2017
Tuxedo, the unlikely-on-paper funk-soul duo of Mayer Hawthorne and Jake One, brought a left-of-center sonic approach and a sharp sense of style to their Tiny Desk Concert.