In Texas, where bigger often means better – bigger audiences, stadiums and productions – it’s easy to assume the same applies to music. The industry thrives on spectacle, but NPR’s Tiny Desk contest ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) - Each year, thousands of musicians from across the country submit their own live performance videos to be considered for the NPR Tiny Desk Contest. This year, Carbondale-based ...

WLRN is highlighting some of our favorite South Florida submissions for NPR's 2025 Tiny Desk Contest contest. Pictured above going clockwise is Mava (top left), Funk Unity, K Boswell and Justin Koolik ...

Today, NPR announced the Bay Area's Ruby Ibarra as the winner of the 2025 NPR Tiny Desk Contest. Each year, NPR accepts thousands of video submissions from unsigned bands across the country. The rules ...

Sal Geloso of the New Orleans band Sally Baby's Silver Dollars talks about his entry into NPR's Tiny Desk Contest, "I Got No More Tears Left To Cry." NPR's Tiny Desk Contest has had a good number of ...

KVtheWriter submitted a video for her song “FaceTime” to the 2025 Tiny Desk competition. After St. Louis native Royce Martin, 25, chatted with rapper Big Sean on the “Kelly Clarkson Show” in February, ...

Many Kansas City artists, like the band Big Fat Cow, submitted videos for NPR's 2025 Tiny Desk Contest. Out of the 7,500 musicians who entered NPR's Tiny Desk Contest this year, these Kansas City ...

Last week, Carlos Arzate & The Kind Souls came out with a new video filmed in the Bowen Stone House for the song “No More” for consideration in NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest, in which bands and performers ...

That's the question posed by the MCs of I Am In Demand in their Tiny Desk contest submission "Spark The Flame." But these guys aren't just rappers. They're also educators in the Detroit area. Their ...

Singer-songwriter YANINA stands in front of a long wooden table with shelves of colorful books and large black and white photographs behind her. A man plays a baby pink bass to her left, and another ...

Reggaeton bumps from Honda Civics and EDM beats reverberate from swanky clubs. But that’s not the only music coming out of South Florida. We’re home to a wide array of music genres from all types of ...