Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio

The story of Bernie and the Believers is the story of Bernie Dalton's diagnosis of Lou Gehrig's disease and compassionate friends making his dream come true and his songs come to life.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The band's songs, stripped here to their essence, are particularly peaceful and calm — and sometimes chilling.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

No matter how dark or disastrous, there's always been an undercurrent of grace to the music of David Bazan. He returns to his Pedro the Lion moniker for this memorable Tiny Desk performance.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

After back-to-back performances in South Africa, Argentina, Chile and New York, Payton hit the Tiny Desk, where he dazzled the audience, simultaneously playing his trumpet and a Fender Rhodes.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Liniker e os Caramelows are from Brazil but steeped in the tradition of soul from here in the U.S. Watching this performance is to witness a spell being cast, note-by-note.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

A single voice can send a powerful message - and that's just what Jim James did at the Tiny Desk, with just his voice and an acoustic guitar.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The charismatic singer and saxophonist brought a group of longtime friends to play a warm, thoughtful and chill set at the Tiny Desk.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The self-proclaimed "Funklordz" normally perform as a duo, but played with a live band for the first time at the Tiny Desk.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The Cuban pianist thrilled the NPR office with an intense performance that was as melodic as it was rhythmic.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

"I'm sorry I'm shy," Florence Welch told the crowd of NPR family and friends gathered for her Tiny Desk performance. "If this was a big gig, I'd probably be climbing all over here and running around."Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The pioneering Mexican band recreates the adventurous musical energy of their massive stadium shows behind Bob Boilen's desk.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The OutKast star performs "So Fresh, So Clean," "The Way You Move" and his solo single "All Night" with the help of singer Sleepy Brown and an eight-member backing band.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Henry and his band would have sounded right at home on Stax Records in the '70s — no small accomplishment. Watch them perform three funky, soulful jams.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Before embarking on a tour of Australia and Asia, the Chicago native brought the squad that helped make Care For Me one of 2018's best — along with a very special guest.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The jazz singer, who used to be into radical feminist punk, now composes and sings beautiful jazz ballads.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Watch the ambitious countertenor sing music that spans more than 250 years, connecting the dots between David Byrne, George Frideric Handel and Philip Glass.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Julie Byrne's transporting music can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Brooklyn-bred hip-hop duo Smif-N-Wessun – consisting of partners in rhyme, Steele and Tek – illuminated the Tiny Desk with their signature, 80-proof poetry: straight, no chaser.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

This trio has become a reference point of their own for new school instrumentalists, a coveted achievement for any jazz group, though their appeal stretches far outside the jazz ecosystem.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

While this Sacramento, Calif. band didn't win this year's Tiny Desk contest, their video entry, for the song "Peach Scones," was among the more memorable we've ever seen.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy