NPR Music's 2025 Tiny Desk Contest yielded thousands of entries, including some standouts in the pop and rock categories.

Toronto punk group PUP recently visited NPR to play a Tiny Desk Concert. The set featured songs 'Morbid Stuff,' 'Robot Writes ...

Meet the stacked list of past entrants and secret headliners who joined Contest winner Ruby Ibarra on the road.

After performing a homebound set for Tiny Desk’s pandemic living room series, PUP makes their official in-office debut.

Existential dread never sounded more joyful or uplifting than it does in the hands of PUP. The Canadian pop-punk group confronts world-weary discontent with deadpan humor, hard-earned wisdom and a lot ...

Rusowsky brings his flute and piano to NPR’s Tiny Desk with a live set of acoustic tracks from his new album 'Daisy.' ...

Houston Public Media is slated to lose $2.2 million it receives from CPB, accounting for 10% of its annual operating budget, ...

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Follow Architectural Digest as they head behind the scenes at the offices of NPR Music to see how the now-iconic Tiny Desk ...

The Spanish producer has built a career, thus far, on making other people's authenticity shine. In this Tiny Desk, Rusowsky's ...

ITO: (Singing in Spanish). SIMON: He entered the song in the NPR's Tiny Desk Contest. While the song didn't win, its energy and rhythm stayed with us.

The provocative singer and her sublime band give a soul-searching performance in songs that require us to look within ...