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A single voice can send a powerful message - and that's just what Jim James did at the Tiny Desk, with just his voice and an acoustic guitar.

A power trio of an entirely different kind, the Houston band led a journey through globally-influenced funk, jazz, surf and psych-rock — before creating a live, instrumental hip-hop mixtape.

After back-to-back performances in South Africa, Argentina, Chile and New York, Payton hit the Tiny Desk, where he dazzled the audience, simultaneously playing his trumpet and a Fender Rhodes.

The precise serrations of Washington, D.C. band Flasher get softened for a visit to the Tiny Desk — their vocals, normally side-by-side rushing electric instruments, get the center stage treatment.

The saxophonist is known for his unique compositions. In a dark corner of the Newport Jazz Festival, he and his band gave us a little demonstration of how this musical dialect is forged.

It's not often you find a band with three lead singers who each sound as impressive on their own as they do together.

The Nashville-by-way-of-Brooklyn band repeatedly took the Newport audience from joyful, foot-stomping singalongs, to a rapturous hush.

In his new biography of Sen. Hillary Clinton, writer Carl Bernstein claims to cut through what he calls the "self-generated myth" about the presidential candidate. Bernstein talks about the details of his new book, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Today, the Mickey Mouse Club is known for its perky, wholesome cast of Mouseketeers. But when Walt Disney first pitched the series more than 50 years ago, he was just looking for a way to finance Disneyland. Jennifer Armstrong looks at the history of the show in her new book, Why? Because We Still Like You.

Retail sales dropped sharply last month after a winter storm blanketed much of the country's midsection, but forecasters expect a sharp rebound in sales.

Ping! Buzz! Swoosh! Research shows we're really bad at multitasking. Why does constant emailing cause us to do so much of it?

The Big Thief guitarist and vocalist performs a solo Tiny Desk home concert from the back of his Land Cruiser in Topanga Canyon, Calif.

Growing up, Chinese-American writer Jennifer 8. Lee noticed the food at Chinese restaurants differed greatly from what her mother served at home, and an obsession was born. The result is a book called The Fortune Cookie Chronicles.

In her new book, The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History, Katherine Ashenburg looks at the fascinating history of cleanliness — or the lack thereof — and how humans' obsession with hygiene has led to today's over sanitized world.

The co-founder of yMusic and Bon Iver collaborator performs a quarantine concert from Eau Claire, Wisc.

Many critics of the company are saying it's become far too influential and have raised concerns about how its warehouse workers and delivery drivers are treated.

The pop group took to the biggest little stage in New York City to record its Tiny Desk quarantine set.

Deepfakes are altered photos, videos, and still images that use artificial intelligence to appear realistic. They've become harder to detect.

Smooth vibes abound in this quarantine concert, recorded in a cottage near the Montreal band's home.

In the new comedy series 'Reservation Dogs', four Indigenous teens in rural Oklahoma are desperate for a new life in California. Native critic Vincent Schilling calls the show "ground breaking."