Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds: Tiny Desk Concert
The New York band's punchy horn section, bluesy vocals and uniquely transformative harmonica solos instantly demand attention.
Concerts
Everybody Has A Prince Story (Or Should). Here Are Ours
These stories are good for sharing any day, but they must be shared today, in honor of The Purple One's passing.
Julia Holter: Tiny Desk Concert
The most minute details suddenly become a grandiose spectacle in Julia Holter's cosmic cabaret. Her new arrangements at the NPR Music offices unravel amid moments of both quiet and bombast.
The Legacy Of The Benny Goodman Quartet
The small group that made a bespectacled white clarinetist a star happened to be of jazz's first racially integrated bands. Wendell Pierce and four young clarinetists tell the story live on stage.
Benjamin Clementine: Tiny Desk Concert
There are intimate moments of revelation in Clementine's immersive, breathtaking performance, recorded live in the NPR Music offices.
Seratones: Tiny Desk Concert
The Louisiana band takes gospel into the garage, and what comes out is fiery rock 'n' roll. Watch Seratones perform three songs in the NPR Music offices.
Palehound: Tiny Desk Concert
Ellen Kempner and her band perform three tense and evocative songs from last year's Dry Food, set amid the pin-drop silence of a rapt crowd.
Mothers: Tiny Desk Concert
Mothers' members chose a few of their slowest, most languid and fragile songs to perform in the NPR Music offices.
Jymie Merritt: The Beat Goes Deep
The Philadelphia bassist, soon to be 90, played with Blakey, Morgan and Roach. But in all that, he also developed his own rhythmic and harmonic concept. Appropriately, it's called Forerunner.
Ray LaMontagne On World Cafe
Hear LaMontagne perform his new album, Ouroboros, in full, backed by members of My Morning Jacket.