NPR Tiny Desk Concerts - Season 2015
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts (2008 — present)
Seasons: 19,
episodes: 1786
Average rating:
7/10
10
Episodes
| # | Name | Release date | Timing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trey Anastasio The Phish star was in town to put on a huge show, but the songs here feel more personal than that. |
2015-01-05 | — |
| 2 | Daniel Lanois The producer presides over an all-instrumental, free-form trio with Brian Blade and Jim Wilson. |
2015-01-03 | — |
| 3 | Rubblebucket Even without its confetti cannon, the band brings a fun mix of brass and brash to the NPR offices. |
2015-01-20 | — |
| 4 | Bobby Bare Jr. The Nashville singer writes with acidic wit in lines worthy of his old mentor, Shel Silverstein. |
2015-01-27 | — |
| 5 | John Reilly & Friends Reilly sings and plays guitar alongside Tom Brosseau and Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark. |
2015-02-03 | — |
| 6 | Mucca Pazza With 23 members, the performance-art marching band is the biggest ever to play the Tiny Desk. |
2015-02-10 | — |
| 7 | Until The Ribbon Breaks The band strips down its electronic sound with the aid of a spaghetti strainer and a paint bucket. |
2015-02-17 | — |
| 8 | Zola Jesus With her huge voice and an assist on trombone, Nika Roza Danilova offers up a curious combination. |
2015-02-23 | — |
| 9 | Dan Deacon The Tiny Desk becomes a DJ booth for an office space dance party. |
2015-02-25 | — |
| 10 | Phox The Wisconsin band performs three of its warm, accessible songs in the NPR Music offices. |
2015-03-02 | — |
| 11 | Aurelio Aurelio weaves intricate layers of acoustic guitar to capture the feel of African and the Caribbean. |
2015-03-07 | — |
| 12 | Fantastic Negrito The singer beat out nearly 7,000 other submissions to win NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert Contest. |
2015-03-09 | — |
| 13 | Matt Haimovitz & Christopher O'Riley The duo plays visionary Beethoven, heartbreaking Janáček and Glass that unfolds like a lullaby. |
2015-03-14 | — |
| 14 | Punch Brothers Before the wide-ranging band plays, the audience sings "Happy Birthday" to mandolinist Chris Thile. |
2015-03-16 | — |
| 15 | Anonymous 4 With Bruce Molsky The a cappella quartet, with banjo and fiddle, offers popular songs from the Civil War era. |
2015-03-28 | — |
| 16 | Sylvan Esso Performed softly in the light of day, these three songs feel fresh and lovable. |
2015-03-20 | — |
| 17 | Death Cab For Cutie In a beautifully stark performance, the band plays two songs from Kintsugi and two older favorites. |
2015-04-06 | — |
| 18 | Beach Slang James Snyder's euphoric punk anthems become raw and uplifting confessionals in this acoustic set. |
2015-04-10 | — |
| 19 | Chadwick Stokes Stokes' songs feel familiar; they're old friends before you're done hearing them for the first time. |
2015-04-13 | — |
| 20 | Rosa Díaz The singer's lyrics reflect deeply felt emotions in this performance with cellist Daniel de Jesus. |
2015-04-17 | — |
| 21 | Jessie Ware The young English singer brings warmth to electronic music and a swooning quality to her own pop. |
2015-04-20 | — |
| 22 | DakhaBrakha The Ukrainian acoustic quartet's music encompasses sounds and rhythms from around the world. |
2015-04-25 | — |
| 23 | José González This soft-spoken Swedish singer left an imprint at the Tiny Desk that was gentle and long lasting. |
2015-04-29 | — |
| 24 | Diego El Cigala The singer has been called "the Sinatra of flamenco." His expressive style draws on jazz. |
2015-05-01 | — |
| 25 | Vijay Iyer Trio Iyer's working band transforms selections from throughout the pianist's deep and varied catalog. |
2015-05-04 | — |
| 26 | Eskmo Found objects are percussion instruments in the hands of a man who's part musician, part magician. |
2015-05-08 | — |
| 27 | Bellows These are enchanting songs, with the power to drift in your head for days. |
2015-05-11 | — |
| 28 | Camané A star in his native Portugal, Camané evokes melancholy with a silky baritone and elegant phrasing. |
2015-05-15 | — |
| 29 | Young Fathers Intense, hip-hop-infused poetry is reduced to just the essentials in this two-song, four-minute set. |
2015-05-19 | — |
| 30 | Jason Vieaux And Yolanda Kondonassis Watch the Grammy-winning guitarist and acclaimed harpist play music influenced by Africa and Asia. |
2015-05-22 | — |
| 31 | Madisen Ward And The Mama Bear The mother-son duo's songs are memorable and singable even days after you hear them. |
2015-05-26 | — |
| 32 | Frank Fairfield A young man with an old musical soul has a spellbinding voice and fluid fiddle playing. |
2015-05-29 | — |
| 33 | Genevieve See a singer with a powerful voice and extremely encouraging message. |
2015-06-01 | — |
| 34 | Anna & Elizabeth If you've never thought your tastes would lean to mountain music, breathe deep and soak it all in. |
2015-06-08 | — |
| 35 | The Prettiots The clever trio shares its love of everything from Law & Order to old-school girl groups. |
2015-06-15 | — |
| 36 | Strand Of Oaks Timothy Showalter's music is filled with bite and sometimes regret, but also a good deal of warmth. |
2015-06-19 | — |
| 37 | Hop Along Frances Quinlan's raspy voice whispers one moment, then lets loose a gut-punching howl the next. |
2015-06-22 | — |
| 38 | Oddisee The charismatic Brooklyn-via-D.C.-area rapper creates just the right amount of space in his music. |
2015-06-26 | — |
| 39 | And The Kids The trio's music is full of life, with dissonant sounds that still feel suited for singalongs. |
2015-06-30 | — |
| 40 | Christopher Paul Stelling Best witnessed live, Stelling's music is steeped in tradition yet filled with vitality and soul. |
2015-07-06 | — |
| 41 | Girlpool The charming duo performs three of the simple, direct songs from Before The World Was Big. |
2015-07-10 | — |
| 42 | Songhoy Blues See a Malian band that fuses African music with Western rock. |
2015-07-17 | — |
| 43 | Kate Tempest A celebrated English playwright and rapper deploys storytelling and poetry. |
2015-07-21 | — |
| 44 | Paul Weller See the beloved Britpop veteran perform songs from his new album, Saturns Pattern. |
2015-07-28 | — |
| 45 | Shamir The singer's disco-infused funk and soul gets stripped down to a lone voice with a guitar. |
2015-07-31 | — |
| 46 | SOAK Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson makes the most of a single voice and an acoustic guitar. |
2015-08-03 | — |
| 47 | Terence Blanchard Feat. The E-Collective The New Orleans trumpeter's funky new band creates dance music to ward off despair. |
2015-08-05 | — |
| 48 | Torres Mackenzie Scott's music channels Patti Smith and PJ Harvey while hinting at further growth. |
2015-08-10 | — |
| 49 | Restorations The Philly rock band's big-hearted songs are stripped down to a few guitars and a MiniKorg. |
2015-08-14 | — |
| 50 | Kacey Musgraves The country singer plays four songs from Pageant Material, plus the set-closing "Follow Your Arrow." |
2015-08-17 | — |
| 51 | Son Lux The trio blows up its sound by adding off-duty, civilian horn players from the U.S. Marine Band. |
2015-08-21 | — |
| 52 | Caroline Rose Rose plays music as if she's just met her new best friend: It's fresh, fun and enthusiastic. |
2015-08-24 | — |
| 53 | Eskimeaux There's lighthearted, almost childlike beauty in the way Gabrielle Smith puts words to song. |
2015-08-28 | — |
| 54 | Mitski Mitski's music is dark and even scary, but glimmers of beauty peek through. |
2015-08-31 | — |
| 55 | Happyness If you're a fan of dark, incredibly dry, wry humor, you've just found Happyness. |
2015-09-04 | — |
| 56 | Leon Bridges Bridges is easy to love and hard to resist, with purity in his voice that's untouched by modern pop. |
2015-09-08 | — |
| 57 | Sam Lee The singer found his voice by finding and preserving old British, Irish and Scottish folk songs. |
2015-09-11 | — |
| 58 | Watkins Family Hour With help from Fiona Apple, two Nickel Creek alums gather a band to perform old and new songs. |
2015-09-18 | — |
| 59 | Gina Chavez The Austin singer-songwriter performs with intense openness, directness and warmth. |
2015-09-22 | — |
| 60 | Joan Shelley As technology rules the day, here's a reminder that a single voice can carry deep emotion. |
2015-09-25 | — |
| 61 | The Internet The R&B band might just be the oddest thing to come from the hip-hop collective Odd Future. |
2015-09-29 | — |
| 62 | Lianne La Havas The singer is soulful yet playful, raw and vulnerable in a commanding kind of way. |
2015-10-02 | — |
| 63 | Deqn Sue She came so close to winning NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert Contest, we just had to see her play. |
2015-10-05 | — |
| 64 | Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah The trumpeter presents his emotionally charged, jazz-hybridized "stretch music" in performance. |
2015-10-09 | — |
| 65 | Andra Day Day's songs feel candid and vulnerable, but not understated. |
2015-10-13 | — |
| 66 | Oh Pep! The band's clever, thoughtful music fits in everywhere from Nashville to its hometown of Melbourne. |
2015-10-16 | — |
| 67 | Paolo Angeli The Sardinian guitarist has a whole toy shop aboard his instrument. |
2015-10-19 | — |
| 68 | Beauty Pill In Beauty Pill, life whirs with plunderphonic glee and riffs are funky from the inside out. |
2015-10-23 | — |
| 69 | The Suffers The 10-piece band can barely fit all its horns, guitars, percussion and energy behind one desk. |
2015-10-27 | — |
| 70 | Diane Coffee Conjuring David Bowie, Diane Coffee's Shaun Fleming swaggered and shimmied behind the Tiny Desk. |
2015-11-02 | — |
| 71 | Chris Stapleton With his wife Morgane, the country singer-songwriter sings patient, detailed songs of devotion. |
2015-11-05 | 15 min. |
| 72 | My bubba My bubba is a duo of women whose quirky, delicate, sweetly sung folk songs are a delight. |
2015-11-06 | — |
| 73 | Aurora At 19 and on the cusp of her first album, the Norwegian singer performs with a sense of discovery. |
2015-11-09 | — |
| 74 | Rahim AlHaj The oud player's wordless music tells powerful stories about life's blessedness and fragility. |
2015-11-13 | — |
| 75 | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats At the Tiny Desk, Rateliff's body-shaking Southern-style soul takes on a more laid-back sound. |
2015-11-17 | — |
| 76 | The Wild Reeds Great singers aren't easy to come by, so finding three in one band is something special. |
2015-11-20 | — |
| 77 | Youth Lagoon Trevor Powers' new songs are expansive and self-assured, a transition reflected in this performance. |
2015-11-23 | — |
| 78 | Teddy Abrams Hear a young conductor, composer and pianist play Beethoven and his own jazzy pieces. |
2015-11-30 | — |
| 79 | Protomartyr The Detroit band's loud, screeching, grousing rock can be profound, poetic and bewildering. |
2015-12-04 | — |
| 80 | The Oh Hellos The nine-piece band bursts with anthemic joy, even as its songs convey darkness and loneliness. |
2015-12-08 | — |
| 81 | Land Lines The Denver band's mysteriously swirling music is singular, new and adventurous. |
2015-12-11 | — |
| 82 | Shakey Graves When the singer breaks out his guitar and suitcase drum, a rush of adrenaline hits the room. |
2015-12-14 | — |
| 83 | Son Little A modernistic bluesman with a taste for electronics appears with just his acoustic guitar. |
2015-12-18 | — |
| 84 | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Watch the soul star perform "Silent Night" and two originals — one for Christmas, one for Hanukkah. |
2015-12-21 | — |
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