https://www.spin.com Music News, Album Reviews, Concert Photos, MP3s, Videos and More Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:23:49 +0000 en-US https://assets.spin.com/wp-content/themes/spin/assets/images/spin-logo_feed.png https://www.spin.com 125 40 Music News, Album Reviews, Concert Photos, MP3s, Videos and More hourly 1 https://www.spin.com/2019/08/calexico-and-iron-wine-tiny-desk-concert/ https://www.spin.com/2019/08/calexico-and-iron-wine-tiny-desk-concert/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2019 18:14:00 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=337210 Calexico and Iron & Wine are the latest guests at NPR Music's storied Tiny Desk. Joey Burns, John Convertino, and Sam Beam just released a new album called Years to Burn as the follow-up to their 2005 collaboration In The Reins; for their Tiny Desk concert, they did two songs from the new record ("Father Mountain" and "Midnight Sun") and one from… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2019/08/calexico-and-iron-wine-tiny-desk-concert/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2019/07/american-football-tiny-desk-concert/ https://www.spin.com/2019/07/american-football-tiny-desk-concert/#respond Mon, 08 Jul 2019 14:24:17 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=333422 American Football brought their particular brand of Midwestern sadness to the East Coast as the latest performers in NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series. The band did three songs—"Every Wave To Ever Rise," "Uncomfortably Numb," and "Heir Apparent"—all of which appeared on their new album, American Football (LP3). Ditching the features for the first two tracks (Elizabeth Powell and Paramore's Hayley Williams, respectively),… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2019/07/american-football-tiny-desk-concert/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2019/05/jonny-greenwood-tiny-desk-concert-npr-radiohead-watch/ https://www.spin.com/2019/05/jonny-greenwood-tiny-desk-concert-npr-radiohead-watch/#respond Mon, 20 May 2019 13:32:34 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=327659 Jonny Greenwood were performed by the New-York-based new music group Ensemble Signal as part of a new Tiny Desk concert for NPR. The first piece was Three Miniatures from Water, for piano, violin, bass, and tanpura (an Indian classical music instrument). In a statement provided to NPR, Greenwood, who was not in attendance at the taping,… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2019/05/jonny-greenwood-tiny-desk-concert-npr-radiohead-watch/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2019/05/laraaji-npr-tiny-desk-concert/ https://www.spin.com/2019/05/laraaji-npr-tiny-desk-concert/#respond Thu, 02 May 2019 15:48:02 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=326134 Laraaji is the latest artist to participate in NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert series. Over the course of a fifteen-minute performance, Laraaji and Arji "OceAnanda" Cakouros use chimes, shakers, mbira, and Laraaji's trademark zither to conjure up a gorgeous tapestry of radiant, meditative sound. Ecstatic chants and recitations are interspersed throughout (education! elevation!]]> https://www.spin.com/2019/05/laraaji-npr-tiny-desk-concert/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2019/02/zaytoven-tiny-desk-concert/ https://www.spin.com/2019/02/zaytoven-tiny-desk-concert/#respond Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:19:21 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=320160 Zaytoven is one of the greatest living hip hop producers, let this new Tiny Desk Concert clear that right up. In celebration of Future's recent album The WIZRD, NPR Music invited both Future and Zaytoven to perform their of three of their classic collaborations. The two have been friends and musical… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2019/02/zaytoven-tiny-desk-concert/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2019/02/cat-power-tiny-desk-concert/ https://www.spin.com/2019/02/cat-power-tiny-desk-concert/#respond Mon, 04 Feb 2019 17:03:44 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=317653 Cat Power stopped by NPR Music's Tiny Desk for a performance of two recent tracks and one old favorite. Starting things off with "Wanderer," from her 2018 album of the same name, Power (A.K.A. Chan Marshall) set a subdued, subtly powerful tone for the concert. "Wanderer" was followed by a seamless transition into "Woman," the original version… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2019/02/cat-power-tiny-desk-concert/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2019/01/watch-blood-oranges-tiny-desk-concert/ https://www.spin.com/2019/01/watch-blood-oranges-tiny-desk-concert/#respond Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:42:35 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=317105 Blood Orange, otherwise known as Dev Hynes, was the latest guest on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert video series. Hynes' set was richly collaborative, opening with him accompanying his backing singers and spoken word artist Ashlee Haze on piano for a performance of "By Ourselves" from Freetown Sound. The bulk of his set, however, were tracks… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2019/01/watch-blood-oranges-tiny-desk-concert/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2018/12/dirty-projectors-tiny-desk-video/ https://www.spin.com/2018/12/dirty-projectors-tiny-desk-video/#respond Tue, 04 Dec 2018 15:23:22 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=311941 Tiny Desk concert series this morning, with Dirty Projectors as featured performers. David Longstreth and his team of Dirty Projectors regulars (Felicia Douglas, Kristin Slipp, Maia Friedman, Nat Baldwin, and Mike Johnson) performed three cuts from their most recent album, Lamp Lit Prose. The… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2018/12/dirty-projectors-tiny-desk-video/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2018/08/t-i-tiny-desk-concert-watch-rubber-band-man/ https://www.spin.com/2018/08/t-i-tiny-desk-concert-watch-rubber-band-man/#respond Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:00:48 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=302282 T.I. is the latest guest of NPR's Tiny Desk concert series. On it, the rapper lightly narrates the story of his come-up across a short medley of hits from his career, backed largely by high-school-age brass and string players from the young artists non-profit Atlanta Music Project. He performed "Rubber Band Man," "What You Know" and "Live Your Life." "This… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2018/08/t-i-tiny-desk-concert-watch-rubber-band-man/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2018/04/breeders-tiny-desk-concert-video/ https://www.spin.com/2018/04/breeders-tiny-desk-concert-video/#respond Mon, 16 Apr 2018 13:42:34 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=286073 The Breeders stopped by the NPR office for an intimate Tiny Desk Concert and played a couple songs ("Metagoth" and "All Nerve") off their fantastic new album All Nerve. The band—comprised of the Last Splash-era lineup of the Deal sisters, Josephine Wiggs, and Jim Macpherson—closed out the set with "Off You," from Title TK. The band… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2018/04/breeders-tiny-desk-concert-video/feed/ 0