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In this intense performance, you can feel the singer and poet's passion in every sharp, thoughtful, powerful, provocative word.

This fierce and lyrical guitar player writes playful instrumental music led by hooky vocals — but there is no voice, just the human-like twang of a glass slide on a guitar.

Esmé Patterson has dropped the banjos and folk from her previous project Paper Bird, and in their place are electric guitars and a backing band worth getting behind.

Everything serves the songs here: There's no overplaying, no frills, just great music and a tremendous new artist who sounds thrilled to be playing it.

To celebrate Fat Tuesday, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band brought their euphoric horns to the Tiny Desk for a raucous, joyous set.

In the band's hands, East African music pulses, breathes and comes alive in a mix of tradition and contemporary sounds.

Making her third appearance on Mountain Stage, Kat Edmonson performs songs from her 2018 record Old Fashioned Gal backed by a stellar combo of jazz players.

The rapper closed his set at our SXSW showcase with this standout track.

The two Americana singers tackle a sweet ballad from Carll's new album, Lovers And Leavers, at the 30A Songwriters Festival in Florida.

In performance together, the venerated saxophonist and the ubiquitous pianist perform three tunes that draw from their past while still looking to the future.

The young Tennessee singer-songwriter performs three of her spare, sad, simple songs at the NPR Music offices.

At our SXSW showcase, Price, a country singer who has faced her share of real-life struggles, belts a desperate country ballad about setbacks and failures.

At our SXSW showcase, someone yells a yee-haw! from the audience before the country singer launches into the stomping, southern soul-rocker that turns cosmic.

In a performance of three songs from Impossible Dream, the Minnesota singer-songwriter achieves a nifty balance of stripped-down intimacy and impeccable polish.

Watch the singer and her band perform three ferocious songs from her "Lincoln Center Out Of Doors" set, recorded live at New York's Damrosch Park.

Watch a spirited dance and hear a magnificent voice: The music of Adam Torres comes together with simple choreography in the video for "Juniper Arms."

Led by the irrepressible Kam Franklin, the 10-piece Houston soul band can barely fit all its horns, guitars, percussion and energy behind a single desk.

The Rogers sisters say this murder ballad both offers perspective on a character they introduced in an earlier song and reflects their own career challenges.

Armed with a menacing bass line and a long list of wrongs, the country singer turned up the heat on no-good-men at our SXSW showcase.

Bradley slowed things down (and heated things up) at our SXSW 2016 showcase with a burning version of this tender love song.