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Mohammad Reza Shajarian: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Mohammad Reza Shajarian: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: May 20, 2013
Description: Every Tiny Desk Concert provides its own particular thrill, but it's not every d...

Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: May 15, 2013
Description: There's something endearing, old-timey and almost vaudevillian about Buddy Mille...

Gregory Porter: NPR Music Field Recording

Title: Gregory Porter: NPR Music Field Recording
Date posted: May 14, 2013
Description: Subway entertainers are a mixed bag, but in the arts mecca of New York City, the...

Cayucas: NPR Music Field Recording

Title: Cayucas: NPR Music Field Recording
Date posted: May 9, 2013
Description: If you've ever been poolside on a hot day, you know what it's like to have your ...

Nicola Benedetti: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Nicola Benedetti: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: May 6, 2013
Description: You might never tell by her youth or her warm and approachable demeanor, but 26-...

Father Figures: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Father Figures: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Apr 29, 2013
Description: In a small, packed Washington, D.C., living room late one December night, I hear...

Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Apr 25, 2013
Description: You don't really listen to an Omar Sosa concert so much as experience it. The Cu...

Brainstorm, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row

Title: Brainstorm, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row
Date posted: Apr 10, 2013
Description: There was a "fire in the belly" feel when Brainstorm took the stage at TenOak in...

Youth Lagoon, Live in Concert: NPR Music's SXSW 2013 Showcase

Title: Youth Lagoon, Live in Concert: NPR Music's SXSW 2013 Showcase
Date posted: Apr 10, 2013
Description: A studio wizard still in his early 20s, Youth Lagoon's Trevor Powers makes music...

Le1f, Live in Concert: NPR Music's SXSW 2013 Showcase

Title: Le1f, Live in Concert: NPR Music's SXSW 2013 Showcase
Date posted: Apr 9, 2013
Description: Backed by only a DJ, New York rapper Le1f and his three-foot blond braids proved...

Cafe Tacvba, Live in Concert: NPR Music's SXSW 2013 Showcase

Title: Cafe Tacvba, Live in Concert: NPR Music's SXSW 2013 Showcase
Date posted: Apr 9, 2013
Description: A playful, electronics-infused Mexican rock band, Café Tacvba found itself in a...

Blaudzun, SXSW 2013: NPR Front Row

Title: Blaudzun, SXSW 2013: NPR Front Row
Date posted: Apr 9, 2013
Description: The Dutch band Blaudzun had its work cut out for it at the SXSW Music Festival, ...

Efterklang: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Efterklang: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Apr 9, 2013
Description: Bands with big ideas work well at the Tiny Desk. Efterklang is a Danish group wh...

Ivan and Alyosha, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row

Title: Ivan and Alyosha, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row
Date posted: Apr 5, 2013
Description: Playing a free concert comes with risks. Sure, more people will show up, but the...

Josh Ritter, In Concert: NPR Music Presents

Title: Josh Ritter, In Concert: NPR Music Presents
Date posted: Apr 4, 2013
Description: Ritter's new album, The Beast in Its Tracks, is by any definition a breakup reco...

Gashcat, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row

Title: Gashcat, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row
Date posted: Apr 4, 2013
Description: Shortly before the fabulously chaotic rock band Gashcat took the tiny stage at t...

Chvrches, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row

Title: Chvrches, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row
Date posted: Apr 4, 2013
Description: Chvrches' bass-heavy pop sounds will be the soundtrack to many a barbecue this s...

Molotov, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row

Title: Molotov, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row
Date posted: Apr 4, 2013
Description: Politics and rock en Español go hand in hand, and Mexico City's Molotov is a fl...

Waxahatchee, Live in Concert: NPR Music's SXSW 2013 Showcase

Title: Waxahatchee, Live in Concert: NPR Music's SXSW 2013 Showcase
Date posted: Apr 4, 2013
Description: If Katie Crutchfield ever becomes a solo star, it's hard to imagine how the Waxa...

Bajofondo, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row

Title: Bajofondo, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row
Date posted: Apr 4, 2013
Description: With eight accomplished musicians from Argentina and Uruguay, and a sound rooted...

Metz, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row

Title: Metz, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row
Date posted: Apr 3, 2013
Description: It was a cool, clear night in Austin, Texas, as the 2013 South by Southwest musi...

Ducktails, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row

Title: Ducktails, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row
Date posted: Apr 3, 2013
Description: Ducktails started out as a solo side project for Real Estate's Matt Mondanile, b...

Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Mar 27, 2013
Description: You're about to watch one of the best fiddlers on the planet and a subtle guitar...

Telekinesis, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row

Title: Telekinesis, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row
Date posted: Mar 21, 2013
Description: You don't often see drums set up right near the lip of a stage, but not every ba...

Surfer Blood, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row

Title: Surfer Blood, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row
Date posted: Mar 20, 2013
Description: Surfer Blood's live sets are more about charm than spectacle: While the band's m...

Sinkane, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row

Title: Sinkane, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row
Date posted: Mar 20, 2013
Description: There's a saunter to the music of Sinkane that feels breezy and a bit mysterious...

Action Bronson, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row

Title: Action Bronson, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row
Date posted: Mar 18, 2013
Description: Arian Asllani, who records and performs as Action Bronson, is a hulking figure o...

Luella and The Sun, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row

Title: Luella and The Sun, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row
Date posted: Mar 18, 2013
Description: Nashville's Luella and the Sun approach the blues and gospel-soul as if these tr...

Haim, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row

Title: Haim, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row
Date posted: Mar 18, 2013
Description: "I'm schvitzing," says Este Haim. She's just two songs into a blistering set for...

Chance The Rapper, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row

Title: Chance The Rapper, SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row
Date posted: Mar 16, 2013
Description: It's hard to kill it when your show is at 3:30 on a Thursday afternoon, especial...

Alt-J, Live in Concert: NPR Music's SXSW 2013 Showcase

Title: Alt-J, Live in Concert: NPR Music's SXSW 2013 Showcase
Date posted: Mar 15, 2013
Description: Alt-J's Joe Newman has a funny way of singing — especially for the uninitiated...

Youth Lagoon, Live in Concert: NPR Music's SXSW 2013 Showcase

Title: Youth Lagoon, Live in Concert: NPR Music's SXSW 2013 Showcase
Date posted: Mar 15, 2013
Description: A studio wizard still in his early 20s, Youth Lagoon's Trevor Powers makes music...

The Lone Bellow: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: The Lone Bellow: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Mar 4, 2013
Description: After hearing The Lone Bellow's self-titled debut, I couldn't wait to play it fo...

Mary Halvorson Quintet: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Mary Halvorson Quintet: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Feb 28, 2013
Description: Today, when you see a saxophonist and a trumpeter in front of a jazz group, it's...

Night Beds: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Night Beds: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Feb 25, 2013
Description: Winston Yellen didn't start singing until he was 18 — he's 23 now — but he's...

Cantus: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Cantus: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Feb 19, 2013
Description: Is there some kind of weird vocal vortex in Minnesota? The state turns out so ma...

Ebene Quartet: NPR Music Field Recording

Title: Ebene Quartet: NPR Music Field Recording
Date posted: Feb 15, 2013
Description: The Paris-based Quatuor Ebene — the "Ebony Quartet" — has risen fast in the ...

The xx: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: The xx: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Feb 11, 2013
Description: It's easy to think of The xx as a fashionable band: Its members have a sleek all...

Of Montreal: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Of Montreal: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Jan 31, 2013
Description: About halfway into Of Montreal's Tiny Desk Concert in the NPR Music offices, I s...

David Byrne and St. Vincent Live in Concert | NPR MUSIC LIVE

Title: David Byrne and St. Vincent Live in Concert | NPR MUSIC LIVE
Date posted: Jan 28, 2013
Description: Last year's collaboration between St. Vincent (Annie Clarke) and David Bryne was...

Mount Eerie: NPR Music Field Recording

Title: Mount Eerie: NPR Music Field Recording
Date posted: Jan 28, 2013
Description: "We just played an absurd concert to nobody," Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum says, a...

Black Prairie: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Black Prairie: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Jan 17, 2013
Description: The charming roots-folk band Black Prairie got its start as an outlet for The De...

Hot Chip In Concert | NPR MUSIC LIVE

Title: Hot Chip In Concert | NPR MUSIC LIVE
Date posted: Jan 7, 2013
Description: FULL CONCERT AUDIO: http://www.npr.org/event/music/156633214/hot-chip-in-concert...

Lucius: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Lucius: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Jan 7, 2013
Description: We brought Lucius to the Tiny Desk because I fell in love with one joyous, catch...

Miguel: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Miguel: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Dec 31, 2012
Description: Miguel turned up in the NPR Music offices early one morning, after playing a sho...

The Polyphonic Spree: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: The Polyphonic Spree: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Dec 21, 2012
Description: This year marks the 10th anniversary for The Polyphonic Spree's annual holiday m...

Alt-J: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Alt-J: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Dec 17, 2012
Description: There's mystery in the music of Alt-J: The band's songs are wrapped in enigmatic...

Lyle Lovett: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Lyle Lovett: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Dec 10, 2012
Description: For all of Lyle Lovett's considerable artistic gifts — a distinctive voice, ea...

Daniel Bachman: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Daniel Bachman: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Dec 10, 2012
Description: For an early-twentysomething, Daniel Bachman has roots buried deep. His approach...

Anais Mitchell: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Title: Anais Mitchell: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Date posted: Dec 7, 2012
Description: Her voice is soft and sweet, her guitar work deft and evocative, but Anaïs Mitc...

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