The Best Episodes of NPR Tiny Desk Concerts Season 9

On the morning after Election Day, Price sang three cathartic country songs loaded with new meaning.

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Watch the rapper perform three songs from Beauty And The Beast live at the NPR Music offices.

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While on tour with The Arcs, the powerhouse mariachi band performs live in the NPR Music offices.

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The singer-songwriter gives a warmhearted performance of two new songs, an old favorite and a hymn.

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The Dutch singer layers R&B, jazz and pop over hip-hop beats in his first-ever U.S. appearance.

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The North Carolina band fills its rootsy music with unexpected instruments and clever ideas.

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The band's music can be noisy and primal, but at the Tiny Desk it showed a different side.

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It's our 500th show at the Tiny Desk, featuring The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and his new band.

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The National's Matt Berninger and Menomena's Brent Knopf team up in an intimate setting.

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Will Toledo is a wordsmith with a vision, as well as a DIY sound that's still finely crafted.

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Wolfe takes three songs from the metallic Abyss and makes them howl by their lonesome.

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Performing solo, Folds performs three songs from his new album and two old favorites.

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Bands don't typically get to play the Tiny Desk more than once, but Wilco is a natural exception.

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The word-of-mouth star's sound is made by one big fat E-string and a rich, powerful voice.

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Performed live at the Tiny Desk, the band's songs often tilt toward soul or rock danceably.

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The Colombian band channels an unlikely inspiration: 1920s-era, guitar-driven jazz from the U.S.

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The young Tennessee singer performs three of her spare, sad, simple songs at the NPR Music offices.

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Watch the singer and violinist who stood out from 6,000-plus entries in NPR's Tiny Desk Contest.

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In a short set that spans 50 years, the CSNY veteran's voice resonates and cuts to the core.

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Singer-guitarist Susan Tedeschi and guitarist Derek Trucks celebrate the blues, jazz and much more.

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Hear the soul star and his band perform "Amen," plus three songs that have defined his career.

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Watch Brun play three new songs, each of which speaks to newfound freedom and fresh opportunities.

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The duo has a keen sense of mischief and a gift for honest, punk-infused, tongue-in-cheek pop gems.

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Mothers' members chose a few of their slowest, most languid songs to perform in the NPR offices.

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Ellen Kempner and her band perform tense and evocative songs amid the silence of a rapt crowd.

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