Sudan Archives is a truly singular artist, inspired by Irish and African music, especially Sudanese music. The first time I saw her was in a crowd of people at Cheer Up Charlies during SXSW in March ...

In 2025, we crammed rap and rock legends, instrumental virtuosos, Broadway musicals and, well, puppets and robots behind a desk in the NPR Music office. Never forget: Tiny Desk has the range. "Is this ...

Scott Brocato spoke with two of NPR'S ten judges, Anamarie Sayre, co-host of Alt.Latino and the curator/producer for Tiny ...

Surrounded by family in the band and in the audience, John Fogerty bookends solo material with the rock and roll staples of ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concerts are a way for recording artists to promoted their latest project. For Faye Webster, she has quite the discography to pick through, so during her Tiny Desk Concert ...

The 2026 Tiny Desk Contest, our annual search for the next great undiscovered artist, is now officially open for entries.

Stephan Jenkins told me that he regularly watches Tiny Desk concerts, so when it came time for Third Eye Blind to play one of its own, the band took the opportunity seriously. Leading up to the show, ...

Amerie joined NPR for a soulful “Tiny Desk” concert celebrating hits from her albums All I Have and Touch. Backed by the Backyard Band, she performed fan-favorites including “1 Thing” and “Why Don’t ...

There's often a moment during a Tiny Desk concert when an artist realizes that playing in an office was either the right or wrong thing to do. After starting the set with "Takin' It to the Streets," ...

Which Tiny Desk made an audio engineer question everything? Which one made a producer want to cry? Touch grass? Look back on the year in Tiny... In 2025, we crammed rap and rock legends, instrumental ...