NPR Music & Concerts

The bluegrass virtuoso brings back the spirit of Tiny Desk's early days: fewer microphones to capture "the way these instruments are meant to sound."

It's always summer somewhere. Annie DiRusso and her band offer a five-song pageant full of clever costuming, synchronized dance moves and even a few behind-the-back guitar riffs.

The French electronic duo turns distressed dreams into symphonies plucked from cotton candy clouds. Yet to see Air's members perform live, everything looks so effortless.

Brandi Carlile has a way of making any performance feel like a tête-à-tête, a deep emotional exchange between friends that just happens to take place in a crowd.

In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime."

The very first K-pop band to play behind the Tiny Desk gives us a decade-long, catalog-spanning medley.

Robert Plant's voice has only gotten better with age. In this beautiful set, Plant and his band cover Low, Moby Grape, Martha Scanlan and interpret traditional songs.

At the Tiny Desk, our small office crowd joins the thousands who have been inside of these power ballads and felt something real.

Prepare your face to assume and remain in the stank position. It's about to get funky.

Jarvis Cocker croons, coos and dances his way through this career-spanning Tiny Desk with Pulp.