Rick Ross performed a part gangsta-rap, part gospel, part funk concert for NPR's Tiny Desk. It took place in the gallery space of Miami artist Rich B Caliente, and it was just the second time Ross has performed with a live band.
Iranian-Dutch singer and producer Sevdaliza performed four tracks on the latest home edition of NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series from Amsterdam bookstore MENDO. Backed by a quartet of musicians, she kicked the performance off with a rendition of her 2017 track 'Human', and continued with 'Dormant', 'All Rivers at Once', and 'Gole Bi Goldoon', all from last year's acclaimed album 'Shabrang'.
Texan blues-soul band Black Pumas played a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR - it was an intimate setting as usual, and powerful nevertheless. Singer Eric Burton "digs deep and... he's burning with old-school soul heartbreak", Adrian Quesada's guitar "is the perfect call-and-response foil, while the entire band - complete with two powerful back-up singers - calls to mind soul classics, but with a groovy new sheen".
Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker has just released new Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, recorded in a camper trailer parked in Joshua Tree National Park. It just Lender and her acoustic guitar, playing five songs from her latest album 'Songs'.
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib visited NPR's offices and performed four songs at a Tiny Desk Concert. The duo played songs from their 2019 album 'Bandana' alongside New York-based funk band El Michels Affair. Watch it below.
