About this episode
The episode highlights favorite entries from the Tiny Desk Contest, featuring various artists and their performances.
More than 6,000 artists entered this year’s Tiny Desk Contest, hoping to win their very own performance behind the actual Desk. We’ll announce the winner soon, but in the meantime, we’re sharing some of our favorite entries, from the riff-rock group Pump Action, to soul singer Les Greene, loop artist Jackie Marchal, singer-songwriter Yuri Shin and more. Tiny Desk series producer Bobby Carter joins All Songs Considered host Robin Hilton. (They’re also the two lead judges for the Contest.) Featured entries: (00:00) Intro (00:51) Pump Action: “Supernova” (03:34) Lily Talmers: “Big Idea” (07:18) Walker Burroughs: “Open Skies” (10:53) Les Greene and the Swayzees: "Long Story Short" (14:08) Nicolosi: “Are You Coming To The Ivy?” (17:20) Jackie Marchal: “Excavate The Girl” (21:43) the King will come: “welcome” (24:33) Yuri Shin: “Falling Rabbit” (27:54) Lauren Frihauf: “One Thing Always Leads To Another” (31:41) Meira: “Make Me Go” Support the show with a review on Apple , Spotify , or wherever you listen to podcasts. And tell a friend! Questions, comments, suggestions or feedback of any kind always welcome: allsongs@npr.org See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and…
People in this episode
Host: Robin Hilton
Guest: Bobby Carter
Topics covered
- Tiny Desk Contest
- music performances
- artist entries
- judging process
- live music
Keywords
- Tiny Desk Contest
- music
- performances
- artists
- NPR
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: NPR
Books & works: Tiny Desk Contest
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