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Lucius

S06 E01 • Monday, Jan 7, 2013 • Jan 7

One minute, Lucius sounds like a '60s girl group; the next might conjure images of Emmylou Harris.

Black Prairie

S06 E02 • Monday, Jan 14, 2013 • Jan 14

With members of The Decemberists, the band lends a snappy, lilting quality to songs of alienation.

Of Montreal

S06 E03 • Monday, Jan 28, 2013 • Jan 28

Frontman Kevin Barnes uses the intimacy of the NPR Music offices to try out some quiet new material.

Cantus

S06 E04 • Monday, Feb 4, 2013 • Feb 4

The a cappella ensemble sings widely divergent songs from American, European and Sufi traditions.

The xx

S06 E05 • Monday, Feb 11, 2013 • Feb 11

In The xx's songs, all the calm chilliness in the world can't quite contain an exposed heart.

Night Beds

S06 E06 • Monday, Feb 18, 2013 • Feb 18

Winston Yellen's arresting voice propels a lighthearted but deeply affecting set at the NPR office.

Mary Halvorson Quintet

S06 E07 • Monday, Feb 25, 2013 • Feb 25

The guitarist brings a decidedly non-standard approach to jazz's standard practices.

The Lone Bellow

S06 E08 • Monday, Mar 4, 2013 • Mar 4

The fast-rising Brooklyn trio sings beautiful, heartfelt, impeccably harmonized folk-pop songs.

Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill

S06 E09 • Monday, Mar 11, 2013 • Mar 11

Watch one of the best fiddlers on the planet and a subtle guitar master work their magic.

Efterklang

S06 E10 • Monday, Apr 8, 2013 • Apr 8

The Danish band ransacks the NPR Music offices looking for sound-making material and new ideas.

Yo La Tengo

S06 E11 • Monday, Apr 15, 2013 • Apr 15

To coincide with the release of the band's 13th album, Fade, Yo La Tengo performs an acoustic set.

Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu

S06 E12 • Monday, Apr 22, 2013 • Apr 22

The duo's quietly energetic performance hangs over the the NPR Music offices like a soft mist.

Father Figures

S06 E13 • Monday, Apr 29, 2013 • Apr 29

Zany, brainy and danceable, these guys' music mixes rock and jazz like King Crimson at its fiercest.

Nicola Benedetti

S06 E14 • Monday, May 6, 2013 • May 6

Watch the violinist spin out music by John Williams and Bach in sweet, soulful tendrils of sound.

Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale

S06 E15 • Monday, May 13, 2013 • May 13

The veteran country players mix corny humor, musical merrymaking and timeless vocal harmonies.

Mohammad Reza Shajarian

S06 E16 • Monday, May 20, 2013 • May 20

The 73-year-old Iranian icon unleashes torrents of swooping, soaring sound that elicit goosebumps.

Imani Winds

S06 E17 • Wednesday, May 29, 2013 • May 29

Imani Winds' members shrink Igor Stravinsky down to size in a quintet take on The Rite of Spring.

OK Go

S06 E18 • Monday, Jun 3, 2013 • Jun 3

OK Go helps us transport the Tiny Desk from NPR Music's old headquarters to our new facility.

The National

S06 E19 • Monday, Jun 10, 2013 • Jun 10

Watch the band perform acoustic arrangements of four songs from its new album, Trouble Will Find Me.

NO BS! Brass Band

S06 E20 • Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 • Jun 15

An 11-piece brass band turns up the funk and flies the flag high for its native Richmond, Va.

Billy Bragg

S06 E21 • Monday, Jun 17, 2013 • Jun 17

One of the world's finest folksingers channels the spirit of Woody Guthrie at the NPR Music offices.

Patty Griffin

S06 E22 • Monday, Jun 24, 2013 • Jun 24

Watch the singer-songwriter and her band perform three songs from her fine new album, American Kid.

Maya Beiser

S06 E23 • Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 • Jun 29

A brilliant cellist with a stunning command of her instrument, Beiser performs at the NPR offices.

Laura Mvula

S06 E24 • Monday, Jul 1, 2013 • Jul 1

The U.K. singer performs some of her most intimate material in a short set at the NPR Music offices.

Cheick Hamala Diabate

S06 E25 • Saturday, Jul 6, 2013 • Jul 6

The Malian musician and his band craft melodies and rhythms that cut across age and ethnicity.

Skinny Lister

S06 E26 • Monday, Jul 8, 2013 • Jul 8

The rowdy English folk-punk band brings its barely controlled mayhem to the NPR Music offices.

Frank Turner

S06 E27 • Saturday, Jul 13, 2013 • Jul 13

Two men with unplugged instruments convey the bawdy rowdiness of a full band.

Alice Russell

S06 E28 • Monday, Jul 15, 2013 • Jul 15

When the British singer performs, her emotionally fiery music just gets hotter and grittier.

Cheyenne Mize

S06 E29 • Saturday, Jul 20, 2013 • Jul 20

The singer, instrumentalist and music therapist plays slinky, forceful songs at NPR Music.

Guards

S06 E30 • Monday, Jul 22, 2013 • Jul 22

Hear three sturdy pop songs from In Guards We Trust, performed live at the NPR Music offices.

Time For Three

S06 E31 • Saturday, Jul 27, 2013 • Jul 27

Hear the "classically trained garage band" perform with staggering technique and contagious energy.

Dana Falconberry

S06 E32 • Monday, Jul 29, 2013 • Jul 29

Watch Falconberry and five bandmates perform three delicate songs from her recent album Leelanau.

Keaton Henson

S06 E33 • Saturday, Aug 3, 2013 • Aug 3 • 14m

Henson's voice is so fragile and hushed, if you were 10 feet away from him you'd barely hear a peep.

Jim Guthrie

S06 E34 • Saturday, Aug 10, 2013 • Aug 10

Guthrie and his band drove 18 hours round-trip from Ontario to perform three songs for NPR Music.

Alpine

S06 E35 • Monday, Aug 12, 2013 • Aug 12

The Australian sextet crafts busily impeccable, harmony-intensive pop music with a danceable sway.

Mother Falcon

S06 E36 • Saturday, Aug 17, 2013 • Aug 17

The 17-member chamber-rock collective uses its size in the service of great, snappy, stirring songs.

The Front Bottoms

S06 E37 • Monday, Aug 19, 2013 • Aug 19

The community that's formed around The Front Bottoms speaks to the band's passion and compassion.

Buika

S06 E38 • Monday, Aug 26, 2013 • Aug 26

Concha Buika's voice comes from Africa and the past. Watch her perform in the NPR Music offices.

Steve Gunn

S06 E39 • Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 • Aug 31

Watch Gunn's trio perform a set of hypnotic long-form jams that are perfect for taking it easy.

Baths

S06 E40 • Wednesday, Sep 4, 2013 • Sep 4

Watch Baths' Will Wiesenfeld perform mysterious, textured electronic music in the NPR offices.

Bombino

S06 E41 • Saturday, Sep 7, 2013 • Sep 7

For our 300th Tiny Desk Concert, we showcase a Tuareg guitarist's fierce, hypnotic, alluring jams.

The 1975

S06 E42 • Tuesday, Sep 10, 2013 • Sep 10

Performing solo, singer Matthew Healy doesn't hesitate to transform both his songs and himself.

Arturo O'Farrill

S06 E43 • Saturday, Sep 14, 2013 • Sep 14

With an eye on both the past and the future, O'Farrill has jazz and Afro-Cuban music in his DNA.

Shovels & Rope

S06 E44 • Monday, Sep 16, 2013 • Sep 16

The husband-and-wife duo mixes rowdy folk-rock and rootsy ballads, with the help of a canine friend.

The Cristina Pato Trio

S06 E45 • Saturday, Sep 21, 2013 • Sep 21

A Galician bagpiper and her trio take Celtic sounds in an entirely wild and wonderful direction.

Hem

S06 E46 • Saturday, Sep 28, 2013 • Sep 28

Hem makes a homey, fireside kind of music, with songs that feel as if they've always been there.

Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi

S06 E47 • Monday, Sep 30, 2013 • Sep 30

The Zimbabwean legend performs songs from the mournful but celebratory Sarawoga for NPR Music.

Lawrence Brownlee

S06 E48 • Saturday, Oct 5, 2013 • Oct 5

The operatic tenor, acclaimed for his Rossini, circles back to his roots as a singer of spirituals.

Superchunk

S06 E49 • Monday, Oct 7, 2013 • Oct 7

Watch the venerable band translate its electric sound to acoustic instruments in an intimate way.

Valerie June

S06 E50 • Saturday, Oct 12, 2013 • Oct 12

Short of seeing her live and in person, this is the best way to encounter June's heartfelt sound.

NPR Tiny Desk Concerts

Season 2013

2013 • 68 Episodes

Activity from Friends

Lucius

S06 E01 • Monday, Jan 7, 2013 • Jan 7

One minute, Lucius sounds like a '60s girl group; the next might conjure images of Emmylou Harris.

Black Prairie

S06 E02 • Monday, Jan 14, 2013 • Jan 14

With members of The Decemberists, the band lends a snappy, lilting quality to songs of alienation.

Of Montreal

S06 E03 • Monday, Jan 28, 2013 • Jan 28

Frontman Kevin Barnes uses the intimacy of the NPR Music offices to try out some quiet new material.

Cantus

S06 E04 • Monday, Feb 4, 2013 • Feb 4

The a cappella ensemble sings widely divergent songs from American, European and Sufi traditions.

The xx

S06 E05 • Monday, Feb 11, 2013 • Feb 11

In The xx's songs, all the calm chilliness in the world can't quite contain an exposed heart.

Night Beds

S06 E06 • Monday, Feb 18, 2013 • Feb 18

Winston Yellen's arresting voice propels a lighthearted but deeply affecting set at the NPR office.

Mary Halvorson Quintet

S06 E07 • Monday, Feb 25, 2013 • Feb 25

The guitarist brings a decidedly non-standard approach to jazz's standard practices.

The Lone Bellow

S06 E08 • Monday, Mar 4, 2013 • Mar 4

The fast-rising Brooklyn trio sings beautiful, heartfelt, impeccably harmonized folk-pop songs.

Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill

S06 E09 • Monday, Mar 11, 2013 • Mar 11

Watch one of the best fiddlers on the planet and a subtle guitar master work their magic.

Efterklang

S06 E10 • Monday, Apr 8, 2013 • Apr 8

The Danish band ransacks the NPR Music offices looking for sound-making material and new ideas.

Yo La Tengo

S06 E11 • Monday, Apr 15, 2013 • Apr 15

To coincide with the release of the band's 13th album, Fade, Yo La Tengo performs an acoustic set.

Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu

S06 E12 • Monday, Apr 22, 2013 • Apr 22

The duo's quietly energetic performance hangs over the the NPR Music offices like a soft mist.

Father Figures

S06 E13 • Monday, Apr 29, 2013 • Apr 29

Zany, brainy and danceable, these guys' music mixes rock and jazz like King Crimson at its fiercest.

Nicola Benedetti

S06 E14 • Monday, May 6, 2013 • May 6

Watch the violinist spin out music by John Williams and Bach in sweet, soulful tendrils of sound.

Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale

S06 E15 • Monday, May 13, 2013 • May 13

The veteran country players mix corny humor, musical merrymaking and timeless vocal harmonies.

Mohammad Reza Shajarian

S06 E16 • Monday, May 20, 2013 • May 20

The 73-year-old Iranian icon unleashes torrents of swooping, soaring sound that elicit goosebumps.

Imani Winds

S06 E17 • Wednesday, May 29, 2013 • May 29

Imani Winds' members shrink Igor Stravinsky down to size in a quintet take on The Rite of Spring.

OK Go

S06 E18 • Monday, Jun 3, 2013 • Jun 3

OK Go helps us transport the Tiny Desk from NPR Music's old headquarters to our new facility.

The National

S06 E19 • Monday, Jun 10, 2013 • Jun 10

Watch the band perform acoustic arrangements of four songs from its new album, Trouble Will Find Me.

NO BS! Brass Band

S06 E20 • Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 • Jun 15

An 11-piece brass band turns up the funk and flies the flag high for its native Richmond, Va.

Billy Bragg

S06 E21 • Monday, Jun 17, 2013 • Jun 17

One of the world's finest folksingers channels the spirit of Woody Guthrie at the NPR Music offices.

Patty Griffin

S06 E22 • Monday, Jun 24, 2013 • Jun 24

Watch the singer-songwriter and her band perform three songs from her fine new album, American Kid.

Maya Beiser

S06 E23 • Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 • Jun 29

A brilliant cellist with a stunning command of her instrument, Beiser performs at the NPR offices.

Laura Mvula

S06 E24 • Monday, Jul 1, 2013 • Jul 1

The U.K. singer performs some of her most intimate material in a short set at the NPR Music offices.

Cheick Hamala Diabate

S06 E25 • Saturday, Jul 6, 2013 • Jul 6

The Malian musician and his band craft melodies and rhythms that cut across age and ethnicity.

Skinny Lister

S06 E26 • Monday, Jul 8, 2013 • Jul 8

The rowdy English folk-punk band brings its barely controlled mayhem to the NPR Music offices.

Frank Turner

S06 E27 • Saturday, Jul 13, 2013 • Jul 13

Two men with unplugged instruments convey the bawdy rowdiness of a full band.

Alice Russell

S06 E28 • Monday, Jul 15, 2013 • Jul 15

When the British singer performs, her emotionally fiery music just gets hotter and grittier.

Cheyenne Mize

S06 E29 • Saturday, Jul 20, 2013 • Jul 20

The singer, instrumentalist and music therapist plays slinky, forceful songs at NPR Music.

Guards

S06 E30 • Monday, Jul 22, 2013 • Jul 22

Hear three sturdy pop songs from In Guards We Trust, performed live at the NPR Music offices.

Time For Three

S06 E31 • Saturday, Jul 27, 2013 • Jul 27

Hear the "classically trained garage band" perform with staggering technique and contagious energy.

Dana Falconberry

S06 E32 • Monday, Jul 29, 2013 • Jul 29

Watch Falconberry and five bandmates perform three delicate songs from her recent album Leelanau.

Keaton Henson

S06 E33 • Saturday, Aug 3, 2013 • Aug 3 • 14m

Henson's voice is so fragile and hushed, if you were 10 feet away from him you'd barely hear a peep.

Jim Guthrie

S06 E34 • Saturday, Aug 10, 2013 • Aug 10

Guthrie and his band drove 18 hours round-trip from Ontario to perform three songs for NPR Music.

Alpine

S06 E35 • Monday, Aug 12, 2013 • Aug 12

The Australian sextet crafts busily impeccable, harmony-intensive pop music with a danceable sway.

Mother Falcon

S06 E36 • Saturday, Aug 17, 2013 • Aug 17

The 17-member chamber-rock collective uses its size in the service of great, snappy, stirring songs.

The Front Bottoms

S06 E37 • Monday, Aug 19, 2013 • Aug 19

The community that's formed around The Front Bottoms speaks to the band's passion and compassion.

Buika

S06 E38 • Monday, Aug 26, 2013 • Aug 26

Concha Buika's voice comes from Africa and the past. Watch her perform in the NPR Music offices.

Steve Gunn

S06 E39 • Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 • Aug 31

Watch Gunn's trio perform a set of hypnotic long-form jams that are perfect for taking it easy.

Baths

S06 E40 • Wednesday, Sep 4, 2013 • Sep 4

Watch Baths' Will Wiesenfeld perform mysterious, textured electronic music in the NPR offices.

Bombino

S06 E41 • Saturday, Sep 7, 2013 • Sep 7

For our 300th Tiny Desk Concert, we showcase a Tuareg guitarist's fierce, hypnotic, alluring jams.

The 1975

S06 E42 • Tuesday, Sep 10, 2013 • Sep 10

Performing solo, singer Matthew Healy doesn't hesitate to transform both his songs and himself.

Arturo O'Farrill

S06 E43 • Saturday, Sep 14, 2013 • Sep 14

With an eye on both the past and the future, O'Farrill has jazz and Afro-Cuban music in his DNA.

Shovels & Rope

S06 E44 • Monday, Sep 16, 2013 • Sep 16

The husband-and-wife duo mixes rowdy folk-rock and rootsy ballads, with the help of a canine friend.

The Cristina Pato Trio

S06 E45 • Saturday, Sep 21, 2013 • Sep 21

A Galician bagpiper and her trio take Celtic sounds in an entirely wild and wonderful direction.

Hem

S06 E46 • Saturday, Sep 28, 2013 • Sep 28

Hem makes a homey, fireside kind of music, with songs that feel as if they've always been there.

Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi

S06 E47 • Monday, Sep 30, 2013 • Sep 30

The Zimbabwean legend performs songs from the mournful but celebratory Sarawoga for NPR Music.

Lawrence Brownlee

S06 E48 • Saturday, Oct 5, 2013 • Oct 5

The operatic tenor, acclaimed for his Rossini, circles back to his roots as a singer of spirituals.

Superchunk

S06 E49 • Monday, Oct 7, 2013 • Oct 7

Watch the venerable band translate its electric sound to acoustic instruments in an intimate way.

Valerie June

S06 E50 • Saturday, Oct 12, 2013 • Oct 12

Short of seeing her live and in person, this is the best way to encounter June's heartfelt sound.

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Lucius

S06 E01 • Monday, Jan 7, 2013 • Jan 7

One minute, Lucius sounds like a '60s girl group; the next might conjure images of Emmylou Harris.

Black Prairie

S06 E02 • Monday, Jan 14, 2013 • Jan 14

With members of The Decemberists, the band lends a snappy, lilting quality to songs of alienation.

Of Montreal

S06 E03 • Monday, Jan 28, 2013 • Jan 28

Frontman Kevin Barnes uses the intimacy of the NPR Music offices to try out some quiet new material.

Cantus

S06 E04 • Monday, Feb 4, 2013 • Feb 4

The a cappella ensemble sings widely divergent songs from American, European and Sufi traditions.

The xx

S06 E05 • Monday, Feb 11, 2013 • Feb 11

In The xx's songs, all the calm chilliness in the world can't quite contain an exposed heart.

Night Beds

S06 E06 • Monday, Feb 18, 2013 • Feb 18

Winston Yellen's arresting voice propels a lighthearted but deeply affecting set at the NPR office.

Mary Halvorson Quintet

S06 E07 • Monday, Feb 25, 2013 • Feb 25

The guitarist brings a decidedly non-standard approach to jazz's standard practices.

The Lone Bellow

S06 E08 • Monday, Mar 4, 2013 • Mar 4

The fast-rising Brooklyn trio sings beautiful, heartfelt, impeccably harmonized folk-pop songs.

Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill

S06 E09 • Monday, Mar 11, 2013 • Mar 11

Watch one of the best fiddlers on the planet and a subtle guitar master work their magic.

Efterklang

S06 E10 • Monday, Apr 8, 2013 • Apr 8

The Danish band ransacks the NPR Music offices looking for sound-making material and new ideas.

Yo La Tengo

S06 E11 • Monday, Apr 15, 2013 • Apr 15

To coincide with the release of the band's 13th album, Fade, Yo La Tengo performs an acoustic set.

Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu

S06 E12 • Monday, Apr 22, 2013 • Apr 22

The duo's quietly energetic performance hangs over the the NPR Music offices like a soft mist.

Father Figures

S06 E13 • Monday, Apr 29, 2013 • Apr 29

Zany, brainy and danceable, these guys' music mixes rock and jazz like King Crimson at its fiercest.

Nicola Benedetti

S06 E14 • Monday, May 6, 2013 • May 6

Watch the violinist spin out music by John Williams and Bach in sweet, soulful tendrils of sound.

Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale

S06 E15 • Monday, May 13, 2013 • May 13

The veteran country players mix corny humor, musical merrymaking and timeless vocal harmonies.

Mohammad Reza Shajarian

S06 E16 • Monday, May 20, 2013 • May 20

The 73-year-old Iranian icon unleashes torrents of swooping, soaring sound that elicit goosebumps.

Imani Winds

S06 E17 • Wednesday, May 29, 2013 • May 29

Imani Winds' members shrink Igor Stravinsky down to size in a quintet take on The Rite of Spring.

OK Go

S06 E18 • Monday, Jun 3, 2013 • Jun 3

OK Go helps us transport the Tiny Desk from NPR Music's old headquarters to our new facility.

The National

S06 E19 • Monday, Jun 10, 2013 • Jun 10

Watch the band perform acoustic arrangements of four songs from its new album, Trouble Will Find Me.

NO BS! Brass Band

S06 E20 • Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 • Jun 15

An 11-piece brass band turns up the funk and flies the flag high for its native Richmond, Va.

Billy Bragg

S06 E21 • Monday, Jun 17, 2013 • Jun 17

One of the world's finest folksingers channels the spirit of Woody Guthrie at the NPR Music offices.

Patty Griffin

S06 E22 • Monday, Jun 24, 2013 • Jun 24

Watch the singer-songwriter and her band perform three songs from her fine new album, American Kid.

Maya Beiser

S06 E23 • Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 • Jun 29

A brilliant cellist with a stunning command of her instrument, Beiser performs at the NPR offices.

Laura Mvula

S06 E24 • Monday, Jul 1, 2013 • Jul 1

The U.K. singer performs some of her most intimate material in a short set at the NPR Music offices.

Cheick Hamala Diabate

S06 E25 • Saturday, Jul 6, 2013 • Jul 6

The Malian musician and his band craft melodies and rhythms that cut across age and ethnicity.

Skinny Lister

S06 E26 • Monday, Jul 8, 2013 • Jul 8

The rowdy English folk-punk band brings its barely controlled mayhem to the NPR Music offices.

Frank Turner

S06 E27 • Saturday, Jul 13, 2013 • Jul 13

Two men with unplugged instruments convey the bawdy rowdiness of a full band.

Alice Russell

S06 E28 • Monday, Jul 15, 2013 • Jul 15

When the British singer performs, her emotionally fiery music just gets hotter and grittier.

Cheyenne Mize

S06 E29 • Saturday, Jul 20, 2013 • Jul 20

The singer, instrumentalist and music therapist plays slinky, forceful songs at NPR Music.

Guards

S06 E30 • Monday, Jul 22, 2013 • Jul 22

Hear three sturdy pop songs from In Guards We Trust, performed live at the NPR Music offices.

Time For Three

S06 E31 • Saturday, Jul 27, 2013 • Jul 27

Hear the "classically trained garage band" perform with staggering technique and contagious energy.

Dana Falconberry

S06 E32 • Monday, Jul 29, 2013 • Jul 29

Watch Falconberry and five bandmates perform three delicate songs from her recent album Leelanau.

Keaton Henson

S06 E33 • Saturday, Aug 3, 2013 • Aug 3 • 14m

Henson's voice is so fragile and hushed, if you were 10 feet away from him you'd barely hear a peep.

Jim Guthrie

S06 E34 • Saturday, Aug 10, 2013 • Aug 10

Guthrie and his band drove 18 hours round-trip from Ontario to perform three songs for NPR Music.

Alpine

S06 E35 • Monday, Aug 12, 2013 • Aug 12

The Australian sextet crafts busily impeccable, harmony-intensive pop music with a danceable sway.

Mother Falcon

S06 E36 • Saturday, Aug 17, 2013 • Aug 17

The 17-member chamber-rock collective uses its size in the service of great, snappy, stirring songs.

The Front Bottoms

S06 E37 • Monday, Aug 19, 2013 • Aug 19

The community that's formed around The Front Bottoms speaks to the band's passion and compassion.

Buika

S06 E38 • Monday, Aug 26, 2013 • Aug 26

Concha Buika's voice comes from Africa and the past. Watch her perform in the NPR Music offices.

Steve Gunn

S06 E39 • Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 • Aug 31

Watch Gunn's trio perform a set of hypnotic long-form jams that are perfect for taking it easy.

Baths

S06 E40 • Wednesday, Sep 4, 2013 • Sep 4

Watch Baths' Will Wiesenfeld perform mysterious, textured electronic music in the NPR offices.

Bombino

S06 E41 • Saturday, Sep 7, 2013 • Sep 7

For our 300th Tiny Desk Concert, we showcase a Tuareg guitarist's fierce, hypnotic, alluring jams.

The 1975

S06 E42 • Tuesday, Sep 10, 2013 • Sep 10

Performing solo, singer Matthew Healy doesn't hesitate to transform both his songs and himself.

Arturo O'Farrill

S06 E43 • Saturday, Sep 14, 2013 • Sep 14

With an eye on both the past and the future, O'Farrill has jazz and Afro-Cuban music in his DNA.

Shovels & Rope

S06 E44 • Monday, Sep 16, 2013 • Sep 16

The husband-and-wife duo mixes rowdy folk-rock and rootsy ballads, with the help of a canine friend.

The Cristina Pato Trio

S06 E45 • Saturday, Sep 21, 2013 • Sep 21

A Galician bagpiper and her trio take Celtic sounds in an entirely wild and wonderful direction.

Hem

S06 E46 • Saturday, Sep 28, 2013 • Sep 28

Hem makes a homey, fireside kind of music, with songs that feel as if they've always been there.

Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi

S06 E47 • Monday, Sep 30, 2013 • Sep 30

The Zimbabwean legend performs songs from the mournful but celebratory Sarawoga for NPR Music.

Lawrence Brownlee

S06 E48 • Saturday, Oct 5, 2013 • Oct 5

The operatic tenor, acclaimed for his Rossini, circles back to his roots as a singer of spirituals.

Superchunk

S06 E49 • Monday, Oct 7, 2013 • Oct 7

Watch the venerable band translate its electric sound to acoustic instruments in an intimate way.

Valerie June

S06 E50 • Saturday, Oct 12, 2013 • Oct 12

Short of seeing her live and in person, this is the best way to encounter June's heartfelt sound.

NPR Tiny Desk Concerts

Season 2013

2013 • 68 Episodes

Activity from Friends

Lucius

S06 E01 • Monday, Jan 7, 2013 • Jan 7

One minute, Lucius sounds like a '60s girl group; the next might conjure images of Emmylou Harris.

Black Prairie

S06 E02 • Monday, Jan 14, 2013 • Jan 14

With members of The Decemberists, the band lends a snappy, lilting quality to songs of alienation.

Of Montreal

S06 E03 • Monday, Jan 28, 2013 • Jan 28

Frontman Kevin Barnes uses the intimacy of the NPR Music offices to try out some quiet new material.

Cantus

S06 E04 • Monday, Feb 4, 2013 • Feb 4

The a cappella ensemble sings widely divergent songs from American, European and Sufi traditions.

The xx

S06 E05 • Monday, Feb 11, 2013 • Feb 11

In The xx's songs, all the calm chilliness in the world can't quite contain an exposed heart.

Night Beds

S06 E06 • Monday, Feb 18, 2013 • Feb 18

Winston Yellen's arresting voice propels a lighthearted but deeply affecting set at the NPR office.

Mary Halvorson Quintet

S06 E07 • Monday, Feb 25, 2013 • Feb 25

The guitarist brings a decidedly non-standard approach to jazz's standard practices.

The Lone Bellow

S06 E08 • Monday, Mar 4, 2013 • Mar 4

The fast-rising Brooklyn trio sings beautiful, heartfelt, impeccably harmonized folk-pop songs.

Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill

S06 E09 • Monday, Mar 11, 2013 • Mar 11

Watch one of the best fiddlers on the planet and a subtle guitar master work their magic.

Efterklang

S06 E10 • Monday, Apr 8, 2013 • Apr 8

The Danish band ransacks the NPR Music offices looking for sound-making material and new ideas.

Yo La Tengo

S06 E11 • Monday, Apr 15, 2013 • Apr 15

To coincide with the release of the band's 13th album, Fade, Yo La Tengo performs an acoustic set.

Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu

S06 E12 • Monday, Apr 22, 2013 • Apr 22

The duo's quietly energetic performance hangs over the the NPR Music offices like a soft mist.

Father Figures

S06 E13 • Monday, Apr 29, 2013 • Apr 29

Zany, brainy and danceable, these guys' music mixes rock and jazz like King Crimson at its fiercest.

Nicola Benedetti

S06 E14 • Monday, May 6, 2013 • May 6

Watch the violinist spin out music by John Williams and Bach in sweet, soulful tendrils of sound.

Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale

S06 E15 • Monday, May 13, 2013 • May 13

The veteran country players mix corny humor, musical merrymaking and timeless vocal harmonies.

Mohammad Reza Shajarian

S06 E16 • Monday, May 20, 2013 • May 20

The 73-year-old Iranian icon unleashes torrents of swooping, soaring sound that elicit goosebumps.

Imani Winds

S06 E17 • Wednesday, May 29, 2013 • May 29

Imani Winds' members shrink Igor Stravinsky down to size in a quintet take on The Rite of Spring.

OK Go

S06 E18 • Monday, Jun 3, 2013 • Jun 3

OK Go helps us transport the Tiny Desk from NPR Music's old headquarters to our new facility.

The National

S06 E19 • Monday, Jun 10, 2013 • Jun 10

Watch the band perform acoustic arrangements of four songs from its new album, Trouble Will Find Me.

NO BS! Brass Band

S06 E20 • Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 • Jun 15

An 11-piece brass band turns up the funk and flies the flag high for its native Richmond, Va.

Billy Bragg

S06 E21 • Monday, Jun 17, 2013 • Jun 17

One of the world's finest folksingers channels the spirit of Woody Guthrie at the NPR Music offices.

Patty Griffin

S06 E22 • Monday, Jun 24, 2013 • Jun 24

Watch the singer-songwriter and her band perform three songs from her fine new album, American Kid.

Maya Beiser

S06 E23 • Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 • Jun 29

A brilliant cellist with a stunning command of her instrument, Beiser performs at the NPR offices.

Laura Mvula

S06 E24 • Monday, Jul 1, 2013 • Jul 1

The U.K. singer performs some of her most intimate material in a short set at the NPR Music offices.

Cheick Hamala Diabate

S06 E25 • Saturday, Jul 6, 2013 • Jul 6

The Malian musician and his band craft melodies and rhythms that cut across age and ethnicity.

Skinny Lister

S06 E26 • Monday, Jul 8, 2013 • Jul 8

The rowdy English folk-punk band brings its barely controlled mayhem to the NPR Music offices.

Frank Turner

S06 E27 • Saturday, Jul 13, 2013 • Jul 13

Two men with unplugged instruments convey the bawdy rowdiness of a full band.

Alice Russell

S06 E28 • Monday, Jul 15, 2013 • Jul 15

When the British singer performs, her emotionally fiery music just gets hotter and grittier.

Cheyenne Mize

S06 E29 • Saturday, Jul 20, 2013 • Jul 20

The singer, instrumentalist and music therapist plays slinky, forceful songs at NPR Music.

Guards

S06 E30 • Monday, Jul 22, 2013 • Jul 22

Hear three sturdy pop songs from In Guards We Trust, performed live at the NPR Music offices.

Time For Three

S06 E31 • Saturday, Jul 27, 2013 • Jul 27

Hear the "classically trained garage band" perform with staggering technique and contagious energy.

Dana Falconberry

S06 E32 • Monday, Jul 29, 2013 • Jul 29

Watch Falconberry and five bandmates perform three delicate songs from her recent album Leelanau.

Keaton Henson

S06 E33 • Saturday, Aug 3, 2013 • Aug 3 • 14m

Henson's voice is so fragile and hushed, if you were 10 feet away from him you'd barely hear a peep.

Jim Guthrie

S06 E34 • Saturday, Aug 10, 2013 • Aug 10

Guthrie and his band drove 18 hours round-trip from Ontario to perform three songs for NPR Music.

Alpine

S06 E35 • Monday, Aug 12, 2013 • Aug 12

The Australian sextet crafts busily impeccable, harmony-intensive pop music with a danceable sway.

Mother Falcon

S06 E36 • Saturday, Aug 17, 2013 • Aug 17

The 17-member chamber-rock collective uses its size in the service of great, snappy, stirring songs.

The Front Bottoms

S06 E37 • Monday, Aug 19, 2013 • Aug 19

The community that's formed around The Front Bottoms speaks to the band's passion and compassion.

Buika

S06 E38 • Monday, Aug 26, 2013 • Aug 26

Concha Buika's voice comes from Africa and the past. Watch her perform in the NPR Music offices.

Steve Gunn

S06 E39 • Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 • Aug 31

Watch Gunn's trio perform a set of hypnotic long-form jams that are perfect for taking it easy.

Baths

S06 E40 • Wednesday, Sep 4, 2013 • Sep 4

Watch Baths' Will Wiesenfeld perform mysterious, textured electronic music in the NPR offices.

Bombino

S06 E41 • Saturday, Sep 7, 2013 • Sep 7

For our 300th Tiny Desk Concert, we showcase a Tuareg guitarist's fierce, hypnotic, alluring jams.

The 1975

S06 E42 • Tuesday, Sep 10, 2013 • Sep 10

Performing solo, singer Matthew Healy doesn't hesitate to transform both his songs and himself.

Arturo O'Farrill

S06 E43 • Saturday, Sep 14, 2013 • Sep 14

With an eye on both the past and the future, O'Farrill has jazz and Afro-Cuban music in his DNA.

Shovels & Rope

S06 E44 • Monday, Sep 16, 2013 • Sep 16

The husband-and-wife duo mixes rowdy folk-rock and rootsy ballads, with the help of a canine friend.

The Cristina Pato Trio

S06 E45 • Saturday, Sep 21, 2013 • Sep 21

A Galician bagpiper and her trio take Celtic sounds in an entirely wild and wonderful direction.

Hem

S06 E46 • Saturday, Sep 28, 2013 • Sep 28

Hem makes a homey, fireside kind of music, with songs that feel as if they've always been there.

Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi

S06 E47 • Monday, Sep 30, 2013 • Sep 30

The Zimbabwean legend performs songs from the mournful but celebratory Sarawoga for NPR Music.

Lawrence Brownlee

S06 E48 • Saturday, Oct 5, 2013 • Oct 5

The operatic tenor, acclaimed for his Rossini, circles back to his roots as a singer of spirituals.

Superchunk

S06 E49 • Monday, Oct 7, 2013 • Oct 7

Watch the venerable band translate its electric sound to acoustic instruments in an intimate way.

Valerie June

S06 E50 • Saturday, Oct 12, 2013 • Oct 12

Short of seeing her live and in person, this is the best way to encounter June's heartfelt sound.