Season 2013

07‏/01‏/2013

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

14‏/01‏/2013

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

28‏/01‏/2013

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

04‏/02‏/2013

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

11‏/02‏/2013

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

18‏/02‏/2013

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

25‏/02‏/2013

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

04‏/03‏/2013

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

11‏/03‏/2013

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

08‏/04‏/2013

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

15‏/04‏/2013

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

22‏/04‏/2013

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

29‏/04‏/2013

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

06‏/05‏/2013

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

13‏/05‏/2013

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

20‏/05‏/2013

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

29‏/05‏/2013

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

03‏/06‏/2013

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

10‏/06‏/2013

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

15‏/06‏/2013

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

17‏/06‏/2013

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

24‏/06‏/2013

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

29‏/06‏/2013

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

01‏/07‏/2013

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

06‏/07‏/2013

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

08‏/07‏/2013

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

13‏/07‏/2013

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

15‏/07‏/2013

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

20‏/07‏/2013

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

22‏/07‏/2013

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

27‏/07‏/2013

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

29‏/07‏/2013

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

03‏/08‏/2013 · 14 د

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

10‏/08‏/2013

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

12‏/08‏/2013

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

17‏/08‏/2013

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

19‏/08‏/2013

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

26‏/08‏/2013

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

31‏/08‏/2013

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

04‏/09‏/2013

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

07‏/09‏/2013

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

10‏/09‏/2013

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

14‏/09‏/2013

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

16‏/09‏/2013

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

21‏/09‏/2013

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

28‏/09‏/2013

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

30‏/09‏/2013

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

05‏/10‏/2013

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

07‏/10‏/2013

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

12‏/10‏/2013

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