#tiny desk contest

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

The winner of NPR’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest is the Bay Area’s own Ruby Ibarra.

A research scientist and fiercely poetic lyricist raised in San Lorenzo, Ibarra raps in English alongside the Filipino languages of Tagalog and Bisaya. Her Tiny Desk Contest-winning track, “Bakunawa,” was inspired by the dragon-like serpent of Philippine mythology.

[kalasangan]

A good year for our diaspora cousins, and it's not even June.

It's been a good week; damn.

[octoberconstellation]

how am i ever gonna listen to all of the music

[coryseyler]

We did this fun thing where I stole the Teen Idle band to play a song together late night in our local anti-establishment cafe

[nailahcarrie]

thought I'd share my 2025 Tiny Desk Contest submission on here ✨

[nonesuchrecords]

Yasmin Williams, whose NPR Tiny Desk Concert premiered earlier this month, shared a few words with NPR.org about how "losing" the Tiny Desk Contest some years ago helped launch her music career. "Please understand that you only really lose if you don't try," she concludes. "Keep pushing, y'all! Stay true to yourself, don't lose your integrity and know that, even when something feels like a loss, it can reveal itself to be the thing that changes your life for the better." You can read what she had to say here.

[gainesvillelivemusic]

Jernie performs Cruel at The Alchemy Club

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[danibarberry]

Wavelength by Dining Dead - 2024 Tiny Desk Submission

[jackdroppersandthebestintentions]

Here's the band's NPR Tiny Desk Contest submission for 2024.

We made it for ourselves, but we thought of you.

[applebees4prez]

snl wishes they could be this funny prepared, let alone off the cuff. nobody has perfected the art of comedic timing like zac oyama has but also, nobody could work with other comedians well as these guys do.

[cecesagittarius]

Rebloging with the lyrics, just in case any hard of hearing or auditory processing struggle friends want them

Dog Run- Peter Barnes Martin

When the rain stops pouring

And the winds are slower

Birds are singing in

Sighs and murmurs

The scent of flowers fill my lungs

Makes me want to go and run (I see the)

Gate is open

Leave this fence behind

We'll seek, a meadow

I've seen in my mind

I, won't stop

The path is clear, I know what I will find

Don't it feel like, the start of something new

Young shoots are here again

Can't you see now, each storm has its time

Far away from this moment

Don't it feel like, the cycle's at its start

Breaking out of this old dog run

Darkness seemed to

Grow more everyday

Stuck, inside

Waiting through endless night

But now

I feel light

How, could I

Doubt we'd come to life

Don't we all feel, low and broken down

Alone even with our friends

Can't you see now, each storm has its time

Far away from this moment

Don't you see now, the cycles at its start

Breaking out of this old dog run

(Two, three, four)

~Guitar Solo~

Don't we all need, a song to hum along

A voice we hear when ours is gone

Can't you see now, the storm has had its time

But hope is back and now we mend

Don't you see now, the cycles at its start

Breaking out of this old dog

Breaking out of this old dog

Breaking out of this old dog run

My brother is super cool and talented. You should check out his tiny desk concert submission

[pronouncingitwang]

Rules: List 15 bands/artists and name just (1) song of theirs that you love.

tagged by @canonicallyanxious 3 whopping months ago... hi sarah ily! listening to your playlist as i'm writing this

picking my 15 favorite artists was too hard so instead i'm just listing artists i like whose music i've seen performed live (not necessarily by them), loosely ordered by how much i heart them. i picked either the song that got me into them or the one i think is My Actual Favorite. i can't contribute a spreadsheet but i'm adding my favorite lyric moment from each also

Mitski: Bag of Bones (And I hope you leave right before the sun comes up / So I can watch it alone)

Will Wood: ...well, better than the alternative (And when we find out what’s wrong with me / Could you tell me how, could you tell me how and if I’m still pretty?)

Lucy Dacus: Strange Torpedo (And I'm more surprised every time you're alive / When I check for your breath in the morning)

MIKA: Lola (People always make me crazy / Love me lots, don’t love me maybe / What’s the point of singing silly love songs?)

Lady Lamb: You Are the Apple (I still need your teeth 'round my organs / I still need your teeth 'round my organs)

Dave Malloy: Natalya from Preludes (Your dark unknowable depression / Your fantastic spiraling black void / Isn't it pathetic? / Isn't it a choice?)

Sufjan Stevens: Come On! Feel the Illinoise! (Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition / Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream) (Even in his heart, the Devil has to know the water level / Are you writing from the heart? / Are you writing from the heart?)

Kishi Bashi: Bright Whites (Cufflinks and hands in wrong places and faces / And creepy little movies made me weep, made me weep, made me weep)

Samia: Charm You (Couldn't we believe it was the hand of God / Making water boogie to a Kesha song)

Daisy the Great: The Record Player Song (Sometimes, I think all I'm ever doing is / trying to convince myself I'm alive)

The Magnetic Fields: Andrew in Drag (A pity she does not exist, a shame he's not a fag / The only girl I ever loved was Andrew in drag)

Anais Mitchell: Of a Friday Night (I'll be a good time gambler / I'll be a restless wife / I'll be a midnight writer / Out in the quarter on a Friday night)

Orla Gartland: More Like You (I heard it from a woman on the internet / She told me to eat well and try to love myself)

Remi Wolf: Liz (Troubling, troubling, troubling calls / Catch me vaping orange juice outside of the mall)

The Happy Fits: So Alright, Cool, Whatever (I wanna be with you, I wanna be with you / I wanna be barely hanging on!)

too eepy to tag people, but if you're seeing this, have at it, and i will listen to at least the first five songs i prommy unless you don't want me to

[therepressions]

NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2025 ~ Trust Your Doors

The Repressions’ song “Trust Your Doors” is the official entry for NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest 2025! This is a song about the difficulty of making changes, for even the best changes to our lives are not easy. This contest features independent artists and is a lovely showcase of songwriting, and desks! A new tiny Repressions desk and all of the previous customized tiny desks can be seen in between…

[goodjohnjr]

Wish Queen - Among The Stars ~ 2022 NPR Tiny Desk Contest Submission

Wish Queen – Among The Stars ~ 2022 NPR Tiny Desk Contest Submission What Is It? Wish Queen – Among The Stars ~ 2022 NPR Tiny Desk Contest Submission by Wish Queen: Wish Queen – Among The Stars ~ 2022 NPR Tiny Desk Contest Submission Description: Live recording filmed March 6, 2022, at the Hildebrandt Artist Collective Vocals: Grace SullivanAcoustic Guitar: Alfred HoodElectric Guitar: Nolan…