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The Bright Eyes singer performs songs from Upside Down Mountain with help from members of Dawes, recorded live on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in the NPR Music offices.

The singer-songwriter recently held a special concert at The Old Church in downtown Portland, Ore., to celebrate her new album. Watch Diane perform "Lost Land" with the aid of a string section.

The Alabama singer-songwriter and his band perform three songs from The Nashville Sound, but their set includes a few surprises, too.

The thunderous pop song featured in the Leap! soundtrack gets a behind-the-scenes-y music video directed by Gia Coppola.

The band makes life-affirming music that singer Kalmia Traver created over the past few years, filled with the triumph of being cancer free.

Price closed her set at our SXSW showcase with what she called "a drinkin' song." And, not just any drinkin' song, but a bleary 'n' cheery, whisky-soaked country howler.

The emotive alto saxophonist has been summoned all around the United States, and now calls his native Baltimore home. He returns to New York for this performance celebrating his debut album.

After more than three decades, John Lydon and his re-formed PiL still perform with conviction. Here, they visit The Current in the Twin Cities to perform songs from their first album since 1992.

After battling a life-threatening illness with the support of fellow musicians and fans, the Oregonian blues icon makes his return to the stage. He and his band visited OPB's studios to perform.

The former punk rocker and middle-school art teacher performs a raw, energetic blend of jump blues, rockabilly and rock 'n' roll for opbmusic.org. Watch JD McPherson and his band perform "Wolf Teeth."

ÌFÉ isn't playing anything new. In fact, the band takes on something quite old: ritual Afro-Caribbean music that takes a lifetime to absorb and master.

The band's songs, stripped here to their essence, are particularly peaceful and calm — and sometimes chilling.

The Juice Crew legend brought his biggest hit, "Born To Roll," and a heartfelt recollection of his personal journey to the Tiny Desk.

While this Sacramento, Calif. band didn't win this year's Tiny Desk contest, their video entry, for the song "Peach Scones," was among the more memorable we've ever seen.

It's safe to say this Korean, cross-dressing rock band looks and sounds like no one who's ever performed at the Tiny Desk.

The Afro-Venezuelan collective brings the boisterous parrandasound to the Tiny Desk.

The Mercury Prize-winning band from Cambridge, England, capped NPR Music's SXSW showcase in Austin. Watch them dig deep into their one and only album, An Awesome Wave, in front of a packed house.

A saxophonist, a pianist and a bass player walk into a bar. But the bar happens to be one of the world's preeminent jazz clubs. And they're working as a collective band: no drummer, no hierarchy.

Take a group of heavyweight jazz masters — the kind who helped to make the classic records that defined the modern idiom — and put them together on stage: Of course there'll be fireworks. After five years, they've cohered as a band too. The Cookers lift off in loose assembly.

The country singer opened her set from our SXSW showcase with some sharp-edged honky tonk. It's the perfect song to sing sweetly when you need to cut someone down.