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Arts & Life
The 2024 Tiny Desk Contest is here
NPR's Tiny Desk has a passion for discovering new artists, and today, NPR Music is launching the 10th edition of Tiny Desk Contest.
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Music
Want to play your own Tiny Desk concert? The 2023 Contest is now open for entries
Unsigned artists can submit their original music to the Contest until March 13.
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National
NPR's Bobby Carter on why a 2020 song should be included on 2021's best music lists
One of the biggest songs of 2021 was technically released in 2020 — so it can't be included on lists of the year's best music. NPR's Bobby Carter shouts out the song "Essence" by Wizkid.
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Music
5 Tiny Desk Concerts To Calm Your Mind
Tiny Desks most tranquil to curb anxiety and break away from the gloomy world forecast.
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Music
The Best Rap Albums Of 2018 Were Totally Surreal
Our list of the year's best hip-hop is an encapsulation of a year awash in trolls and tabloid fodder, grief and grit and escapist fantasy, and also an attempt to extract meaning from the chaos.