I’ve been wanting to make this exact image for weeks, so thank you.

At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.

I knew I chose Hildegard as my confirmation name for a reason.

just a reminder that there's a donation link on the NPR music youtube now so you can give them a few bucks for producing amazing content like brendan yates and the carpet company dude stagediving off the tiny desk www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylL-...

A milli views. Hell yeah. I’ll take good news where i can get it, y’all youtu.be/ylL-SSRDyJc?...

Both copies now gone... wow! Sent the donation (and then some) over just now. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ch...

Tonight required an emergency family E•MO•TION dance party

Interesting.

*puts fresh dill on everything* is my whole personality trait now

Just 1 left! Only 5 copies in existence. A densely textured drone record with improvised elements, featuring Nels Cline and Dave Easley, first released on CD via Asthmatic Kitty. I will likely toss in a bunch of extra goodies.

Help Lars help Schlarb!

A few copies of I Heart Lung’s 'Interoceans,' never-before released on vinyl, have been sitting in my basement for 17 years. It’s time to let them go for a good cause: Help Chris Schlarb and his family get back on their feet. newsletter.vikingschoice.org/archive/the-...

[internal monologue: Don’t do it, Lars. Don’t.] ANTI-BLACK METAL? BUDDY DO I HAVE AN UNBLACK METAL ALBUM FOR YOU

Go to a rock show. You’ll be around your people, and it’s so much more cathartic than doomscrolling. My POV from the same set.

Heartily second.

I think TV on the Radio’s ecstatic rendition of “Staring at the Sun” cured me just now.

was under the impression that making fun of someone else's murder is out of bounds

"We don't need to censor 'tits.' " An actual edit I just made for a video caption's translation. #ThisIsNPR

There’s a BP song called “Like A Peach” that we left off of the album. It’s about white supremacy/fragility. At the time, I thought it was too blunt. Ten years later, it feels pretty damn current. It will be on this new album.

I am currently mixing an album that was completed about a year ago. Took some time out to talk to discuss the 10th anniversary of “Describes Things” with @talkhouse.bsky.social www.talkhouse.com/chad-clark-d...

Luiza Brina is an artist on a small, São Paulo-based label who captured my heart so deeply that I wrote a letter to Brazil's ministry of culture so she could get a grant to travel to the U.S., so that we could share her music. This one took a lot of work to produce, and it has my whole heart.

I want the world to fall in love with Luiza Brina, so I brought her to the Tiny Desk for Latin Music Month (aka El Tiny). The Brazilian artist looks to MPB and tropicália, but has found her own way in — I hear Milton Nascimento, but also Joanna Newsom and Björk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZxD...

RIP maestro.

New week, new Viking's Choice mixtape... We've got a S-tier Robert Forster solo track, Mongolian jazz singer Enji, my favorite song from the Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band album, Dianogah. (Plus, a recipe for smoked n fried tofu) newsletter.vikingschoice.org/archive/mixt...

New week, new Viking's Choice mixtape... We've got a S-tier Robert Forster solo track, Mongolian jazz singer Enji, my favorite song from the Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band album, Dianogah. (Plus, a recipe for smoked n fried tofu) newsletter.vikingschoice.org/archive/mixt...

I finally got around to watching Turnstile performance at @npr.org’s Tiny Desk, and the Baltimore outfit did not disappoint. Well done, @totalvibration.bsky.social.

NPR is trying to raise $1M in September, and you should help out. Please and thank you. www.npr.org/donations/su...

I will forever beat the drum of Tron: Uprising, an extremely thoughtful animated series on par with the She-Ra series in terms of depth of story and character. Picks apart some really probing/philosophical lore and… poof!

hell yeah this rules, i just sent a donation in like 15 seconds. NPR deserves it for all of these great shows

I like knowing my donation made these stage dives possible.

Here's something new as of today: You can now donate directly to NPR through our YouTube channel. Hit repeat on Turnstile's Tiny Desk stagedive a few times? Maybe toss NPR some bucks, keep our hard work goin'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylL-...

I have now seen Deftones twice in 2025 and I would follow them on tour if I could. Just an unreal run of shows from a band rediscovering its fire.

u dont say

Everybody in the YouTube and IG comments, "iS ThIS tHe fiRSt stAGeDive at TIny DEsk?" Me, an editor who's been at Tiny Desk since day 1, in the first paragraph of copy: This is the first-ever stagedive at the Tiny Desk.

Appreciate the shout out here, @tombreihan.bsky.social. I produced this show! Tiny Desk is always a creative collaboration between the artist and the Tiny Desk team. This one was a lot of work and it paid off.

I brought Turnstile to the Tiny Desk @npr.org There's horns and piano. Ska and Motown renditions of songs u luv. Brendan stage dives. A mini mosh ensures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylL-...

It’s my favorite time of the year: Halloween cover band SZN! I’m gonna play Cranberries songs with some pals as THE BOO-BERRIES on Oct. 24 at Haydee’s (the one on Georgia Ave.) in Washington, D.C. Proceeds benefit MSMA. Come thru.

My Pop-start looks like an Endless Boogie album cover.

It is rude that we're at the 20th anniversary of when I graduated college and now these reissues have to remind me of my mortality.

Sean McCann in his opera era, I see. recitalprogram.bandcamp.com/album/the-le...

First Brent Hinds, now Allen Blickle. Georgia metal scene must be feeling these losses hard. I saw Baroness a handful of times in those early days, in Athens DIY spaces with punk and hardcore bands (because no one knew what to do with Baroness' sound, yet).

Fully expect a Vocal Teacher Reacts video on YouTube by week's end. Absolute masterclass in vocal arrangement.

[remembering some bands that we didn't even knew existed] (I am eternally endeared to this particular era of psych.)

My home did good today. Love you, D.C., forever and ever.

Big Ego has put out some amazing albums and Chris is beyond nice. We spent an hour chatting one night when I was the ONLY person to show up at a Psychic Temple show. Chris and the band still played as if it were a packed house. Happy to help the dude out.

Three songs, recorded 4/25 that became Obscuress (C Carter & Spencer Dobbs) - Maltha (Unifactor) released 6/25. C C - voice, acoustic guitar, all music & lyrics. Recorded by S Dobbs & mixed/mastered (& cover photo) by Alistair Lingren @lingren.bsky.social christinacarter.bandcamp.com/album/carrie...