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Tiny Desk Concerts from NPR Music feature your favorite musicians performing at All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's desk in the NPR office. Hear Wilco, Adele, Passion Pit, Tinariwen, Miguel, The xx and many more. This is the audio version of the podcast. A video version is also available.More from Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio »

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Anthony Roth Costanzo

Anthony Roth Costanzo performs a Tiny Desk Concert on Aug. 10, 2018 (Morgan Noelle Smith/NPR). Morgan Noelle Smith/NPR hide caption

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Anthony Roth Costanzo

Watch the ambitious countertenor sing music that spans more than 250 years, connecting the dots between David Byrne, George Frideric Handel and Philip Glass.

Anthony Roth Costanzo

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Julie Byrne

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Julie Byrne

Julie Byrne's transporting music can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Julie Byrne

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Smif-N-Wessun

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Smif-N-Wessun

Brooklyn-bred hip-hop duo Smif-N-Wessun – consisting of partners in rhyme, Steele and Tek – illuminated the Tiny Desk with their signature, 80-proof poetry: straight, no chaser.

Smif-N-Wessun

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GoGo Penguin

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GoGo Penguin

This trio has become a reference point of their own for new school instrumentalists, a coveted achievement for any jazz group, though their appeal stretches far outside the jazz ecosystem.

GoGo Penguin

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Hobo Johnson and The Lovemakers

Hobo Johnson and The Lovemakers perform a Tiny Desk Concert on Sept. 4, 2018 (John Poole/NPR). John Poole/NPR hide caption

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Hobo Johnson and The Lovemakers

While this Sacramento, Calif. band didn't win this year's Tiny Desk contest, their video entry, for the song "Peach Scones," was among the more memorable we've ever seen.

Hobo Johnson and The Lovemakers

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Jupiter & Okwess

Jupiter and Okwess perform a Tiny Desk Concert on July 20, 2018 (Samantha Clark/NPR). Samantha Clark/NPR hide caption

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Jupiter & Okwess

Jupiter Bokondji and his band Okwess play music that feels both African and American, with Jupiter's early musical tastes inspired by The Jackson 5, James Brown and the sounds of Motown.

Jupiter & Okwess

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Kalbells

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Kalbells

The band makes life-affirming music that singer Kalmia Traver created over the past few years, filled with the triumph of being cancer free.

Kalbells

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George Li

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George Li

Watch the young Harvard grad dispatch some of the most "knuckle-busting" piano repertoire with uncommon panache and precision.

George Li

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Tech N9ne Feat. Krizz Kaliko: Tiny Desk Concert

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Tech N9ne Feat. Krizz Kaliko: Tiny Desk Concert

Two of Kansas City's finest — and indie hip-hop's trailblazers — deliver a dose of Strange Music.

Tech N9ne Feat. Krizz Kaliko: Tiny Desk Concert

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T.I.

T.I. performs a Tiny Desk Concert on July 13, 2018 (Eslah Attar/NPR). Eslah Attar/NPR hide caption

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T.I.

In the fifteen years since he released Trap Muzik, Tip Harris has reinvented himself a thousand times over. But the stories he recounts from that era make his Tiny Desk a memorable one.

T.I.

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