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The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 8

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The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 8

May 14, 2020 • While our judges search for the 2020 Tiny Desk Contest winner, we're sharing even more entries we love. This week's selection includes songs perfect for reflection, daydreaming and solo dance parties.

The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 7

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The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 7

May 7, 2020 • The 2020 Tiny Desk Contest closed for entries on April 27. As our judges comb through entries to find a winner, we're sharing some of the best entries we saw in the Contest's final weeks.

Tiny Desk Contest 2020: Entries That Help Us Feel Connected

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Tiny Desk Contest 2020: Entries That Help Us Feel Connected

April 30, 2020 • The 2020 Tiny Desk Contest closed for entries on April 27. As we comb through entries to find our winner, we're sharing songs that help us feel connected in this time of isolation and uncertainty.

The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 6

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The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 6

April 23, 2020 • This week's entries include a call for justice, an urge to reconcile our differences and an invitation to dance. If you want to send us your song, don't delay: There's less than a week left to enter.

Tiny Desk Contest: Celebrating Creative 2020 Entries Filmed In Quarantine

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Tiny Desk Contest: Celebrating Creative 2020 Entries Filmed In Quarantine

April 16, 2020 • We're impressed by the ingenuity we've seen from Contest entrants making great music under less-than-ideal circumstances. If you have a song you'd like us to hear, you can enter until April 27.

The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 5

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The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 5

April 9, 2020 • This week, our favorite entries bring you raucous guitars, resilience, contemplation and lots of houseplants. There's still time to enter; send us your video by April 27.

The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 4

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The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 4

March 26, 2020 • We extended our deadline: You now have until until 11:59 p.m. ET on April 27 to enter the Contest. Our favorites this week include a groovy protest song, a folksy breath of fresh air and more.

The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 3

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The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 3

March 12, 2020 • This week's entries include comforting songs for trying times, narrative guitar shredding and more. And if you're an unsigned artist who planned to perform at SXSW, the Contest wants to hear from you!

The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 2

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The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 2

March 5, 2020 • Our favorite Tiny Desk Contest entries this week include a playful jazz track, a tender love song, an empathetic look at city life and more.

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The Tiny Desk Contest Playlist

March 5, 2020 • Stream tracks from our Tiny Desk Contest winners, plus artists who have entered the Contest and later performed behind Bob Boilen's desk.

The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 1

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The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 1

February 27, 2020 • Throughout the next few months, we'll be sharing some of the many Contest entries that have caught our attention. This week, we're celebrating inspired hip-hop, power-stance-worthy pop and more.

Tiny Desk Concerts From Our 5 Tiny Desk Contest Winners

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Tiny Desk Concerts From Our 5 Tiny Desk Contest Winners

February 20, 2020 • These five artists make music that is singular enough to stand out among the thousands of others who enter the Contest each year with high hopes of playing at the Desk.

Top Shelf: 2019 Tiny Desk Contest Entries Our Judges Loved

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Top Shelf: 2019 Tiny Desk Contest Entries Our Judges Loved

May 22, 2019 • An incredibly strong pool of artists entered this year's Tiny Desk Contest. And though there's just one winner, there were so many more entries our judges loved.

Watch The Tiny Desk Contest Entries Public Radio Loves

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Watch The Tiny Desk Contest Entries Public Radio Loves

May 9, 2019 • Each year, we receive entries from all 50 states, thanks in part to encouragement from NPR Member stations across the country. So we asked some stations to tell us about the entries they love.

Celebrating The Animal Friends Of The 2019 Tiny Desk Contest

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Celebrating The Animal Friends Of The 2019 Tiny Desk Contest

May 6, 2019 • From howling dogs to purring cats, the Tiny Desk Contest team has heard it all. Now we're asking you: Who's your favorite pet from this year's entries?