Shakey Graves: Tiny Desk Concert
When Alejandro Rose-Garcia, a.k.a. Shakey Graves, breaks out his guitar and suitcase kick-drum/hi-hat, a palpable rush of swooning adrenaline hits the room.
Concerts
The Ladybugs Do Disney
Lead singers Martina DaSilva and Kate Davis immediately recall an era when intricate vocal harmonies were more common in jazz. Appropriately, they take on the music of classic Walt Disney films.
Land Lines: Tiny Desk Concert
The Denver band's mysteriously swirling music isn't jazz or rock, classical or electronica. Instead, it's something singular, new and adventurous.
A Jazz Piano Christmas 2015
Kenny Barron, Fred Hersch, Carmen Staaf and Joey Alexander — a roster whose ages span more than 60 years — play solo renditions of their holiday favorites at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Play One For Hanukkah
While the Festival Of Lights is still in full swing, watch Jones perform "8 Days (Of Hanukkah)" as part of a special, holiday-themed Tiny Desk show.
A New Music Journey From The U.S. To Havana
A misunderstanding morphed into an exciting idea: Take 10 American composers to Cuba. Hear their Havana concert.
T-Pain: Giving Us Something We Can Feel
The audacious early-adopter weathered a storm of "Auto-Tune sucks" moral panic to emerge as a true artist, a mirror for our culture and a creative force.
The Oh Hellos: Tiny Desk Concert
The nine-piece band brings anthemic joy to the Tiny Desk, with buoyant songs whose underpinnings could still be dark and lonely.
Protomartyr: Tiny Desk Concert
The Detroit band's loud, screeching, grousing rock can be profound, poetic and bewildering. Singer Joe Casey barely moves throughout this performance, which only adds to the intensity.
Wayne Horvitz: The Pianist And The Poet
In Seattle, he books a club, teaches college and high-school kids, and leads a lot of different bands. So it makes sense that his new project was inspired by the locally born writer Richard Hugo.