Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros can't exactly slip into an office building unnoticed: Clad in the same clothes they'd worn at a concert the night before, the LA band's 10 ragtag misfits would have fit in far more seamlessly at, say, Burning Man. Seeming to exist in a blissed-out alternate universe — during the wonderful "Home," singer Jade Castrinos exclaims, "Good morning, everybody!" as the clock behind her reads 2:10 pm — this is a band whose performances beg to be seen as well as heard, not to mention shot through a wide-angle lens. The biggest band to play a Tiny Desk Concert - the 10 members of The Magnetic Zeroes played three songs from their debut album (Up From Below). The set included: - Janglin - Home - 40 Day Daydream

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With all due respect to its terrific albums and kinetic, frenetic live shows, if The Avett Brothers could put on a three-song acoustic concert at every workplace in America, the band would be a world-beating colossus. For proof, listen to this performance in the NPR Music offices. Find more at www.npr.org

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In a stripped-down three-song set at the NPR Music offices, the Grammy-winning UK pop star showcases her brilliant voice and seemingly effortless charisma. Watch Adele perform two new songs to go with her ubiquitous hit "Chasing Pavements." Set List: "Someone Like You" "Chasing Pavements" "Rolling In The Deep" For more videos, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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Thao Nguyen makes captivating music. Her songs are raw and infectious, her voice has a distinctive swagger, and she's a remarkably nimble guitarist. The singer-songwriter stopped by NPR's offices recently to give an intimate performance at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen. Read More: www.npr.org See More Tiny Desk Concerts: www.npr.org

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Argentine singer Maria Volonte's powerful, refreshing interpretation of tango is fully capable of transplanting itself into folk, Latin blues or the traditional music of Peru, Uruguay and Brazil. With its mature sensuality, her music is filled with a potent brew of nostalgia and melancholy. Set List: "El Beso Azul" "Oh Viejo Tren" "SF Tango"

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Maybe you couldn't hear a pin drop when Gem Club played, but you could hear the click of a keyboard. The band stopped by the NPR Music offices to play songs from 2011's 'Breakers.' Set List: "Animals" "Breakers" "252" For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts.

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Swedish native, Kristian Matsson, aka The Tallest Man on Earth, plays a few tracks from his debut album "Shallow Grave."

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Beirut arrived at the NPR Music offices dusty and exhausted following a weekend at Bonnaroo in Tennessee. But after some much-needed showers, the band brought infectious joy to its short set behind the Tiny Desk. Set List: "East Harlem" "Sante Fe" "Serbian Cocek" For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts.

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Somewhere inside Julian Koster lives a 13-year-old boy filled with wonder and imagination. Performing with his band The Music Tapes, the Elephant 6 and Neutral Milk Hotel alumnus plays a holiday set complete with bowed banjos, singing saws and tape machines at the NPR Music offices. Set List: "The First Noel" "Freeing Song For Reindeer" "Jesus Blood" "Takeshi And Elijah" "Zat You, Santa Claus?" For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts.

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When Athens, Ga., songwriter Vic Chesnutt was on tour in support of his album, "North Star Deserter," he stopped by NPR to perform live at All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's desk. Chesnutt played five songs, including two entirely new ones. Read More: www.npr.org See More Tiny Desk Concerts: www.npr.org

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There have only been a handful of Tiny Desk Concerts where NPR employees have overflowed our modest office space, stepping away from looming deadlines to hear some music. Jakob Dylan and his touring companions, Neko Case, Kelly Hogan and Paul Rigby, joined those ranks when they stopped by to perform a mesmerizing, stripped-down set of songs from his latest record, Women and Country.

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Armed with acoustic guitars, tiny amps, a desktop percussion unit and a ton of grace, Wilco plays three new songs from The Whole Love and an old favorite in a stripped-down but powerful set at the NPR Music offices. Set List: "Dawned On Me" "Whole Love" "Born Alone" "War On War" For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts.

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The LA-based indie-rock band plays buoyant, infectious songs that brim with sunny melodies and three-part vocal harmonies. Local Natives' members bring their euphoric choruses and clattering Afrobeat rhythms to the NPR Music offices for a stirring acoustic set. Set List: "Wide Eyes" "Cards & Quarters" "Airplanes" For more videos, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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Exuding both musical and personal warmth, the Irish singer mesmerized at the NPR Music offices. Set List: "Knots" "Little Bird" "Passenger" For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts.

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As CALLmeKAT, Katrine Ottosen produces airy, synth-infused pop that pairs melancholy sentiment with sparse melodies. Watch the singer perform a hauntingly beautiful Tiny Desk Concert at the NPR Music offices. Set List: "Tigerhead" "Going Home" "Glass Walls" For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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In preparation for South by Southwest 2010, we each listened to some 1300 songs. Among the favorites was "Easy to Love" by Ivan and Alyosha. Watch the band showcase its Beatles-esque pop harmonies and sweet melodies from the NPR Music offices. Set List: "Beautiful Lie" "Easy To Love" "I Was Born To Love Her" For more, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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Jones' name is synonymous with the Hammond B3 organ. At 17, he recorded the instrument's anthem, "Green Onions," with his band Booker T and The MG's. Watch him play the song all alone in the NPR Music offices -- and with such joy, you'd swear he just discovered it. Set List: "Green Onions" "Born Under A Bad Sign" "Down In Memphis" For more videos, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts You can download the video by subscribing to the All Songs Considered Tiny Desk Concert Podcast at npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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Sweet-voiced, bearded acoustic guitarists are not a rare commodity in the Pacific Northwest, which has spawned the likes of Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Blind Pilot and countless others, just in the last few years. Horse Feathers' Justin Ringle may be the gentlest beard-wearer of them all, which made him a perfect candidate to appear in our Tiny Desk Concerts series: With a voice that high and soft, the man needs a quiet room. Watch them perform "Working Poor," "Heathen's Kiss" and "Curs in the Weeds." Find more Tiny Desk Concerts at www.npr.org

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The sounds of the group's best-selling 2009 album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix are so ubiquitous to viewers of TV commercials that they produce a Pavlovian impulse to purchase portable music players and luxury automobiles. But at this Tiny Desk Concert, instantly recognizable hits such as "1901" and "Lisztomania" were stripped down and reassembled as sweetly shambling acoustic numbers.

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For those who fell in love with Sam Beam's spare solo work, he plays his new full-band material as a solo performer here. Watch Beam show a fresh side of his new songs at the NPR Music offices, and top them off with his devastating 2004 gem "Naked As We Came." Set List: "Half Moon" "Big Burned Hand" "Tree By The River" "Naked As We Came" You can download the video by subscribing to the All Songs Considered Tiny Desk Concert Podcast at npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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LaFarge writes and performs original, sometimes traditional music steeped in American blues, country and Western swing from the days when 78s ruled the record player. Watch him perform a short set at the NPR Music offices, with the help of his band The South City Three. Set List: "La La Blues" "Pack It Up" "Head To Toe" For more videos, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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Thile and Daves play the traditional bluegrass music of icons Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs with a New York City intensity. Watch the dexterous duo perform songs from their album Sleep With One Eye Open at the NPR Music offices. Set List: "Sleep With One Eye Open" "Rabbit In The Log" "Bury Me Beneath The Willow" "Billy In The Lowground" "It Takes One To Know One" "Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms" For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concert podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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The music of Sam Phillips unfolds like perfect, miniature pop dramas. Her album, "Don't Do Anything," is loaded with great ones. Of all her incarnations as a performer — first as a Christian singer, then as a pop singer — the current Sam Phillips is one of the most alluring. In this Tiny Desk performance, recorded live at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen, Phillips performs four songs from "Don't Do Anything." Read More: www.npr.org See More Tiny Desk Concerts: www.npr.org

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Raphael Saadiq was nominated for his 2008 solo album The Way I See It. The album featured an eclectic group of collaborators, such as Joss Stone, Stevie Wonder and Jay-Z. For his Tiny Desk Concert, Saadiq brought a remarkable accompanist in guitarist Rob Bacon. The two had just gotten off a plane, but in their impeccably tailored suits and their grand smiles, they looked fresh and played an inspired acoustic performance. As you watch, keep an eye on Saadiq's guitar work: You'll see how his years as a bassist influences many of his licks on his Taylor acoustic. Saadiq played: "Love That Girl" "100 Yard Dash" "Sure Hope You Mean It"

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He should be a name everyone knows by now. Instead, troubadour David Dondero returned to NPR having slept the night before in his car. Dondero travels from club to club, singing his well-crafted songs — songs that have his signature lyrics at their core. His lyrics can make you smile with their wit and hurt with their bite, all at the same time. Watch Dondero perform his well-crafted songs at Bob Boilen's desk in the NPR Music offices. Read More: www.npr.org See More Tiny Desk Concerts: www.npr.org

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Jurado has spent the last decade churning out albums of raw, time-worn, authentically graceful music, and he's always possessed a seemingly innate gift for capturing the intricacies of human behavior. Watch him perform his songs in the NPR Music office. Set List: "Cloudy Shoes" "Newspaper Gown" "Arkansas" "Beacon Hill" For more, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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Few musicians get better with age. Nick Lowe is an exception: At 61, Lowe is part crooner, part country and a little crotchety, but with a heart of pure pop. Watch the veteran singer-songwriter perform a four-song set in the NPR Music offices. Set List: "Man That I've Become" "Rome Wasn't Built In A Day" "All Men Are Liars" "House For Sale" For more videos, visit NPR.org/tinydeskconcerts

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In the few years that Mount Kimbie has been creating music, the London-based dubstep duo has crossed over to find fans in the US Venturing into the pair's groundbreaking yet accessible soundscapes in this first-ever electronic Tiny Desk Concert, it's easy to see why. Set List: "Maybes" "Ode To Bear" "Field" For more videos, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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After playing a pair of songs from Reservoir, the band closed with a cover of Low's 1999 song "Just Like Christmas." Fanfarlo's members had practiced it all the way from Baltimore to DC, not exactly a trek across continents, but the result was, well, perfect.

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Moreno's breathtaking voice is passionate and stylistically malleable, as she glides back and forth easily between bossa nova and bluesy rock. Moreno sings three songs from her newest album, Illustrated Songs, at the NPR Music offices. Set List: "No Regrets" "Ave Que Emigra" "Sing Me Life" For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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It's a high compliment to suggest that these three Bill Callahan songs may well implant themselves in your brain, lay eggs and sprout horrifically disturbing dreams at that point when you're banging on the snooze alarm in a state of anguished early-morning half-sleep. Hear and watch Callahan perform at the NPR Music offices. More at www.npr.org

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Regina Carter's violin has expressed moods inspired by European classical, bebop, Afro-Cuban and Southern blues music. On her new album 'Reverse Thread,' and in this recent performance at the NPR Music offices, Carter plays traditional African melodies, re-imagined through her own jazz sensibilities.

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The bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding conceived of Chamber Music Society as an intimate experience, a close musical exchange between a small group of friends. If it was intimacy she wanted, she got her wish: Performing three songs in the constraints of Bob Boilen's workspace ensures that all of her supporting players were nice and cozy. Set List: "Little Fly" "Midnight Sun" "Apple Blossom" For more go to NPR.org/tinydeskconcerts

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The classical guitarist has a huge appetite for diverse music, and plays with a clear, lyrical technique. His diverse set at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen mixes the baroque, Argentine dance, West African rhythms and a classic from Spain. Find more information at www.npr.org

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Givers' music is a clatter of percussion, bright tropical melodies, slinky guitar upstrokes and playful vocals that float over polyrhythmic grooves. At the NPR Music offices, the band plays a sunny, exuberant set, suitable for dancing and bobbing along. Set List: "Meantime" "Up Up Up" "Atlantic" For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts.

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With the help of Iranian singer-percussionist Aida Shahghasemi, Marketa Irglova crafts a lovely mix of the exotic and the familiar; of sweetness and longing. Watch the pair perform three songs in the NPR Music offices. Set List: "We Are Good" "Dokhtar Goochani" "Let Me Fall In Love" For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts.

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Sera Cahoone got her start playing drums for a few widely adored bands in the Pacific Northwest, most notably Band of Horses and the spell-checker-defying Carissa's Wierd. But her self-titled, self-released 2006 album marked her as a fully formed talent — a warm and inviting singer whose songs convey world-weariness and homespun grace. Cahoone stopped by the NPR offices to perform a few songs at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen. Read More: www.npr.org See More Tiny Desk Concerts: www.npr.org

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Laura Burhenn says she'd long imagined a band that sounded like Neil Young playing Motown. A veteran of the pop group Georgie James, she formed The Mynabirds to capture a grittier and more soulful sound. Burhenn recently brought The Mynabirds to the NPR Music offices to perform songs from What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood.

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Jens Lekman is a singer-songwriter, storyteller, actor and comedian whose banter falls somewhere between the effortless delivery of a seasoned comic and the nervous rambling of an indie-rock frontman. Lekman shows off his humor and charm in this intimate set at the NPR Music offices. Set List: "I Want A Pair Of Cowboy Boots" "The End Of The World Is Bigger Than Love" "Waiting For Kirsten" For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts.

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Harps are something of a curiosity, even to the other members of the orchestra: They're huge and difficult to tune. So when Yolanda Kondonassis parked her giant and distinct Art Deco-inspired instrument behind the Tiny Desk, it had a powerful presence in the room. Set List: Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in A Major, K. 208 Trad. Chinese/Arr. Kondonassis: Small River Flowing Carlos Salzedo: Chanson dans la nuit For more, visit www.npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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At the NPR Music offices, Trixie Whitley and Daniel Lanois brought a variety of instrumental backing, including an electronic bed for the single "I Believe in You," only to ditch many of the accoutrements on the fly. The result is a gripping and revealing performance. Set List: "Surely" "Silverado" "I Believe In You" "I'd Rather Go Blind" For more videos, visit NPR.org/tinydeskconcerts

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Joe Henry's latest record 'Reverie' reflects his fearlessly easygoing style, so asking him to sing in a crowded office never felt like an imposition. Set List: "Sticks And Stones" "After The War" "Odetta" "Piano Furnace" For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts.

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Following a frenetic and enjoyable set at the Newport Folk Festival, David Wax Museum brings its infectious blend of American and Mexican folk music to the NPR Music offices. Watch the band perform with a Mexican jarocha guitar and percussive donkey jawbone. Set List: "Yes, Maria, Yes" "Let Me Rest" "Unfruitful" For more, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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The Black Angels' music is hardly the stuff of stripped-down acoustic confessionals: It's the sound of a distant rumble, possibly beamed from a garage in a distant decade. Set List: "Bad Vibrations" "Haunting At 1300 McKinley" "Entrance Song" "Too Much Hate" For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concert podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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Steve Earle has lived through the sort of horrors that have launched a million country songs: addiction, affliction, heartbreak, even prison. He wears them in his voice, but what's most appealing about him is the wide-eyed, unmistakable fearlessness with which he goes about his life these days. The singer, author, actor and activist showcases many of his talents at the NPR Music offices. Set List: "Waitin' On The Sky" "Every Part Of Me" "This City" For more videos, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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Watch the stylish young violinist pull out a bag of tricks in music by Paganini. Performing at the NPR Music offices, Siem tosses off left-hand pizzicatos, double-stop harmonics and spiccato bowing as if he were buttering bread. Set List: Ole Bull: Cantabile Paganini: Introduction and Variations on Paisiello's "Nel Cor Piu" Godowsky: Alt Wien (arr. Heifetz) For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concert podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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The music and voice of singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten are engineered to turn each listener into a weepy, vulnerable heap. In this lovely performance at the NPR Music offices, Van Etten plays a beguiling set of songs from her latest album, Epic. Set List: "Peace Signs" "Save Yourself" "One Day" "For You" For more, visit NPR.org/tinydeskconcerts

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When he turned up at the NPR Music offices to perform three songs from 'The King Is Dead,' Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy wasn't expecting to be staring into dozens, if not hundreds, of rapt faces. Set List: "Down By The Water" "Rox In The Box" "June Hymn" For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concert podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

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Dr. Dog isn't an obvious choice for one of NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concerts. For one thing, it's a pretty big group, at least for the small space behind Bob Boilen's desk. The band's music can be pretty chaotic — loud and rumbling, with multiple instruments fighting to be heard. And singer Toby Leaman likes to belt out his vocals in a window-rattling, raspy growl. Read More: www.npr.org See More Tiny Desk Concerts: www.npr.org

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Sir Tom Jones, a full-throated legend among legends, wasn't an obvious choice for a Tiny Desk concert. When we began the series last year, the goal was to bring in quieter, more intimate artists (Laura Gibson, Vic Chesnutt) who are often drowned out by the clinking glasses and chatter of the small clubs they play. When a publicist for Tom Jones contacted us and said the singer wanted to do a "Big Desk Concert" for us, the thought of Jones' substantial voice filling our office left us laughing — and dying to do it. Read More: www.npr.org

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