It was a banner year at the Tiny Desk. We published more than 120 concerts in 2024, featuring superstars from around the globe, beloved legacy artists playing their hits, and emerging artists who used ...
It's always summer somewhere. Annie DiRusso and her band offer a five-song pageant full of clever costuming, synchronized ...
The Baylor Project felt the same way about their own Tiny Desk Concert. “I purposely stayed after [the show] for a while and took my time like I did when I was first coming on the music scene,” says ...
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 ...
We all have a favorite Tiny Desk concert. We asked NPR photographers to share their favorite pictures (again!) and their thoughts about photographing Tiny Desk concerts in 2024. I remember watching ...
Sabrina Carpenter debuted new takes on some of her biggest hits with a little help from an 11-piece band — including a string quartet. The singer performed six songs in one of her signature baby blue ...
All reporters at NPR, including me, are very pleased when our stories generate a lot of public interest, when they get seen and heard on air and online by thousands and sometimes millions of readers ...
The pot lid didn't sound the way we wanted. "What about our Webby?" I suggested. The award statue's metallic spring had just the right amount of wobble — a ride cymbal with a drip like Dalí. What ...
The famed Frenchman brings all his elegance and colorful playing to music by Ravel, Brahms and Villa-Lobos. When Jean-Yves Thibaudet visited NPR to play a Tiny Desk, everything about him was stylish.