January 26, 2026 • Salvatore Geloso embodies the spirit of New Orleans through and through. His band inaugurates the ...

In 2025, we crammed rap and rock legends, instrumental virtuosos, Broadway musicals and, well, puppets and robots behind a desk in the NPR Music office. Never forget: Tiny Desk has the range. "Is this ...

August 26, 2020 • Billie Eilish used some of her signature video magic to perform in front of the Tiny Desk from the comfort of her own home.

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 ...

This week, we celebrate the Tiny Desk Contest community with concerts by some of our favorite entrants over the years. Before I started working on the Tiny Desk Contest, I had already seen and fallen ...

Ok, you know this is going to be a good one: De La Soul plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

This Black Music Month, Tiny Desk honors the anniversaries of landmark albums that have shaped the course of music and culture. Bay Area ambassador E-40 moves with the energy of an up-and-coming emcee ...

This week, we celebrate the Tiny Desk Contest community with concerts by some of our favorite entrants over the years. We receive thousands of submissions for the Tiny Desk Contest. And every year, ...

This Black Music Month, Tiny Desk honors the anniversaries of landmark albums that have shaped the course of music and culture. When Amerie arrived at the Tiny Desk, her enthusiastic energy and bright ...

There's often a moment during a Tiny Desk concert when an artist realizes that playing in an office was either the right or wrong thing to do. After starting the set with "Takin' It to the Streets," ...

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 ...

Which Tiny Desk made an audio engineer question everything? Which one made a producer want to cry? Touch grass? Look back on the year in Tiny... In 2025, we crammed rap and rock legends, instrumental ...