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NPR's Tiny Desk announcement for 2026 on The Route. Entry window is now open!
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We're still in summer mode, so we made y'all mixtape. In fact, NPR Music's Lars Gotrich coined a term that encapsulates the season's sounds and feels: roséwave. Look for Tiny Desk Radio on your local NPR station.
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The Grateful Dead understood the importance of recording its legacy. A number of archivists and historians are dedicated to maintaining the band's immense collection of music and memorabilia.
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To devotees of the Grateful Dead, the first nine days of August are known as the "Days Between." This annual celebration commemorates the birth and death of guitarist Jerry Garcia.
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Morby's Little Wide Open is a love letter to a part of the country he finds endlessly inspiring.
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When Wilco keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen was a child, he visited his sound-engineer father Joe Jorgensen as he worked with jazz pianist and composer Bob James.
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Even as the band has changed and reinvented itself, the Grateful Dead's fanbase has proven to be uniquely and consistently renewable — a cosmic inheritance passed down from one generation to the next, welcoming younger Deadheads with open arms.
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Ariana Grande says she'll take a break from the public eye after her Eternal Sunshine tour ends. NPR's Leila Fadel asks music journalist Tomás Mier what's behind the decision.
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Charlie Puth, one of the biggest pop hitmakers of the last decade, turns the Tiny Desk into a jazz club.
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As soon as the weather warms up, fans of the Grateful Dead partake in an important summer tradition: gathering together to experience the band's music.
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BTS announced last week that the group would not be submitting an entry for consideration.
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The Grateful Dead endured an original run of 30 years, but its appeal has survived just as long in a world where the band no longer exists. The question now is not whether the music will continue, but how?
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This summer marks a moment of transition in the Grateful Dead's long, strange trip: the first in many years where there is no clear center of the band's universe. Where do Deadheads go from here?
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A musicologist discovered a pattern found all over modern pop music which he's dubbing the Gen Alpha melody.
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Bennett, who died in 2023, was known for a string of hits, including "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." Kevin Whitehead offers an appreciation and remembers some of Bennett's lesser-known songs.
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