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Jay Som Live

Jay Som Live

“I’ll be your old broken TV, your stuttering baby, your puppy when nobody’s home.” Rising indie pop star Jay Som charms NPR Music. She played The Bus Song, Baybee, Lipstick Stains (all from her new album Everybody Works) and I Think You’re Alright.

Chance the Rapper Live

Chance the Rapper Live

(PG-13: Language) Chance the Rapper finally got around to visiting NPR Music’s office. He performed Juke Jam from his latest album, recited a poem that he wrote just for this set, and finished with a cover of Stevie Wonder’s They Won’t Go When I Go.

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Aimee Mann: Tiny Desk Concert

Aimee Mann: Tiny Desk Concert

“This song is called ‘You Never Loved Me’ — it’s another extremely cheerful, optimistic number,” Aimee Mann offers up four tracks from her album Mental Illness on NPR’s consistently excellent concert series, accompanied by Jonathan Coulton, Paul Bryan & Jamie Edwards.

alt-J: Tiny Desk Concert

alt-J: Tiny Desk Concert

5 years after their first appearance on NPR music’s excellent concert series, alt-J returns to their offices to perform with a string trio. The set list includes 3WW and In Cold Blood, from their upcoming album RELAXER, as well as Warm Foothills, and Taro.

Sinkane Live

Sinkane Live

NPR Music recently hosted Ahmed Galleb aka Sinkane. Ahmed and his band draw from free jazz, psych rock and Sudanese pop to create chill and uplifting hippie music. Watch them perform tracks from his recently released album, Life & Livin’ It.

Tank and the Bangas Live

Tank and the Bangas Live

2017 Tiny Desk Contest winner Tank and the Bangas effortlessly combine smooth jazz, spoken word, hip hop, R&B, love and humor. Watch them play one of the best Tiny Desk sets we’ve ever seen. If they don’t blow up globally, there truly is no justice in this world.

BADBADNOTGOOD Live

BADBADNOTGOOD Live

Toronto-based jazz quartet BADBADNOTGOOD proved that they’re more than just about doing hip hop covers with their 2016 album IV, which sees them inevitably slithering their way into soul and funk. They dropped by Tiny Desk Concert to play three tracks from IV.

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The Stories Behind Alicia Keys’ Hits

The Stories Behind Alicia Keys’ Hits

Singer and songwriter Alicia Keys spoke with NPR Music about how she got into music, her songwriting process and more. Keys reveals that she’s still not sure how she comes up with her songs, and that it wasn’t easy for her to collaborate at first.

Blue Man Group Live

Blue Man Group Live

“Performance art” sounds like marketing speak – it seems both pretentious and useless. Yet there may be no better term for the Blue Man Group, whose music is just half of an entertaining celebration of creativity and craftsmanship. More on the video’s description.

Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran Live

Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran Live

The prolific saxophonist Charles Lloyd and pianist and composer Jason Moran dropped by NPR Music to regale us with their enthralling avant-garde jazz. They played Charles’ Hagar’s Lullaby, Prayer, and a collab entitled Sand Rhythm.

Weaves Live

Weaves Live

(PG-13: Language) Indie rock band Weaves at NPR Music’s NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert. The Toronto-based quartet sounds like a suburban teenagers’ first band – pop beats, even rhymes, cute and raw. Except, you know, they’re actually good.

The Blind Woman Who Saw Rain

The Blind Woman Who Saw Rain

After suffering a stroke, Milena Channing was left blind. But then she started seeing raindrops, steam and other things in motion. Her rare condition is unfortunate proof that our vision is compartmentalized. More at NPR.

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NPR: How T-shirts Are Made

NPR: How T-shirts Are Made

NPR’s Planet Money made a series of short videos to show us the technology, the places and most importantly the people that make mass-produced t-shirts. You can watch the whole series on NPR, Vimeo and YouTube.

NPR: Recycling Bottles

NPR: Recycling Bottles

NPR’s Planet Money visited a recycling plant and a bottle manufacturing facility in to see how used bottles are recycled. They found out that it takes less energy to turn recycled glass into bottles than if raw materials were used.

Become a Noun

Become a Noun

NPR’s Adam Cole and Robert Krulwich take us on a literary and historical tour as they sing a song about eponyms and whether or not it is a good or bad thing to become a noun. Go forth and Google.

Blast from the Past

Blast from the Past

NPR pays tribute to the Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavor and one of the most amazing accomplishments of man – the Space Shuttle program. You’ll be missed, space trucks.

NPR Valentines

NPR Valentines

Any fan of public radio who acknowledges Valentine’s Day ought to get a kick out of these expressions of love, courtesy of the NPR. Fun, nerdy fun for someone’s inbox. (Thanks Tyler!)

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