Japanese Breakfast: Tiny Desk Concert
For this Tiny Desk concert, Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner replaced her gauzy synths with a string quartet. The result is something to behold.
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Jackie Shane, A Force Of Nature Who Disappeared, Has A Story All Her Own
The performances of this trailblazing transgender singer — once radically visible, now long hidden — have been likened to tornadoes. A new box set is a document of a career that never followed rules.
High Above Ohio With The Ambient Americana Of High Aura'd
John Kolodij sketches a future past with rugged Americana smoked in tea leaves, sheer drones wrapped in muslin cloth. Watch a video for "Black Grasshopper."
Hear Two Versions Of Kevin Morby's New Single, 'Baltimore'
The City Music singer will donate all proceeds from his new song to Baltimore's Believe In Music education program.
New Music From Tiny Desk Contest Winner Gaelynn Lea, 'Bound By A Thread'
Hear a stunning new song from our 2016 Tiny Desk Contest winner, Gaelynn Lea.
First Watch: Sego, 'Whatever Forever'
The music of Sego is frenetic and immediate. In a new video for the band's song "Whatever Forever," the group considers complacency in the anesthetized frenzy of day-to-day living.
Blue Note All-Stars' Debut Album Paints A Portrait Of Contemporary Jazz
Robert Glasper, Kendrick Scott, Ambrose Akinmusire and a handful of other Blue Note stars join forces on a new album called Our Point of View.
Watch Tank And The Bangas' Joyful Performance At The Pickathon Music Festival
Fresh on the heels of winning the NPR Music Tiny Desk Contest, the seven-piece group wowed the Oregon festival crowd with a mix of funk, hip-hop, rock and jazz.
New Mix: Tune-Yards, Parquet Courts' A. Savage, Balmorhea, More
Hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton share Tune-Yards' latest thrill ride, plus a whole lot of guitar noise from Parquet Courts' Andrew Savage, Balmorhea and more.
Haley Heynderickx Searches For Meaning In Life, With 'Oom Sha La La'
Sometimes simplicity and chaos can work perfectly together, as they do in this new song and video from Haley Heynderickx, about the struggle to find meaning in every day life.