Music Videos

Theodore

April 17, 2019 • The music of Theodore is dark and transformative, with the kind of spare elegance you can hear in Sigur Rós or Pink Floyd.

Cate Le Bon Comes 'Home To You'

April 16, 2019 • The Welsh singer uses a luminous wash of avant-pop to explore one community's search for belonging and a sense of place.

Gary Clark Jr.

April 16, 2019 • These three songs, from Clark's incendiary new album This Land, roar with the assurance and force of a showman at the top of his game.

Watch BTS Further Its Quest For World Domination On The 'SNL' Stage

April 14, 2019 • The multilingual boy-band juggernaut, SNL's first musical guest from South Korea, performed kinetically choreographed renditions of "Boy With Luv" and "MIC Drop."

Karine Polwart Trio

April 10, 2019 • Scottish singer, songwriter and essayist Karine Polwart seldom comes stateside, eschewing air travel to reduce her carbon footprint. But on a rare, recent visit, she stopped in D.C. for a Tiny Desk.

Georgia Anne Muldrow

April 8, 2019 • The R&B singer from Los Angeles is all about showing and spreading love.

Courtney Marie Andrews

April 3, 2019 • It was a day when sunlight drenched the office and the songs of heart from Courtney Marie Andrews felt right at home.

Weezer

April 1, 2019 • Performing unplugged, the band forgoes its usual meticulousness in favor of a shaggy, entirely acoustic mix of new songs and '90s-era deep cuts.

Andrea Cruz

March 27, 2019 • The singer from Puerto Rico is part of a movement on the island that emphasizes largely acoustic instruments and a folk-based approach to interpreting life before and after the hurricane of 2017.

Jesse Mac Cormack's 'Give A Chance' And The Ordeal Of Living

March 26, 2019 • Jesse Mac Cormack's song "Give a Chance," follows humans making their way across the ordeals of life — with rope as a metaphor — towards that proverbial light that everyone tries to have in them.

&More (Chill Moody & Donn T)

March 25, 2019 • Philadelphia Rapper Chill Moody and singer Donn T, along with their crew known as &More, were one of the standout entrants in last year's Tiny Desk Contest. They bring a message of hope and love.

Tiny Desk Family Hour: Leikeli47

March 22, 2019 • The charismatic, genre-smashing masked rapper closes NPR Music's big night with intensity, joy and free-wheeling fervor.

Tiny Desk Family Hour: Amanda Palmer

March 21, 2019 • The intense singer-songwriter performed "The Ride" on a grand piano.

Tiny Desk Family Hour: Fragile Rock

March 20, 2019 • Fragile Rock's rowdy emo songs are performed by bickering puppets. Onstage at a church in Austin, the band savages the patriarchy in "Smile More."

Tiny Desk Family Hour: Gina Chavez

March 20, 2019 • In this performance of "The Sweet Sound Of Your Name," a song of devotion from 2014, the Austin singer-songwriter finds magic in the intimacy of a communal setting.

Slingshot Scenes: 10 Must-Watch Music Videos From Philadelphia

XPN

March 20, 2019 • Philadelphia's musicians wouldn't be able to take center stage without an equally robust community of directors and videographers to imaginatively document the work.

Alejandro Escovedo

March 20, 2019 • The veteran rocker and a backup band from Italy play songs from their album The Crossing, chronicling an American Dream of rock and roll and Beat poetry.

Tiny Desk Family Hour: Wyclef Jean

March 18, 2019 • The former Fugees star brought an electric guitar and a young protégé.

Nao

March 18, 2019 • The U.K.-based singer-songwriter takes the Tiny Desk on a cosmic journey through her Saturn return.

Tiny Desk Family Hour: Mountain Man

March 16, 2019 • We couldn't pick just one song from the trio's appearance at the Tiny Desk Family hour. So we went with three.

Tiny Desk Family Hour: John Paul White

March 15, 2019 • The former Civil Wars star performed a new song that even makes his kids cry.