Lars Gotrich
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The Breeders' dreamy scuzz sounds wiser and more frazzled at the Tiny Desk, featuring the same lineup behind the band's breakout, 1993 album Last Splash.
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Stephanie Richards' trumpet sounds like deep space wrapped around your head, a flood in the endless void.
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Tyler Childers writes songs about hard lives and hard love with direct heart and a soulful Kentucky drawl.
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With lyrics taken from Muhal Richard Abrams song titles and a video shot in the Bronzeville neighborhood, the Chicago-born musician connects the dots of his city's jazz history. -
Deer mixes traditional Inuit throat singing and indie-rock in a style she cleverly calls "Inuindie." "I have one foot in both worlds and I think my music exemplifies that," the singer says. -
Seth Graham, who co-runs the experimental music label Orange Milk, makes glitched classical music frayed at the ends of reality.
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Everyone looks fly as hell in this "Rosa Tropical" video as the Chicano-soul band burns the edges of the evening with chrome embers. -
Surrounded by an art installation featuring wires and woolen yarns, the Australian singer-songwriter's sharp wit stands out in a sweetly quiet song that rages loudly.
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Cornelius' Keigo Oyamada deconstructs and reassembles music like it's a neon cubist-pop sculpture. On a rare U.S. tour, the Japanese band brought its complex cool to the Tiny Desk.
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The audience slept, dreamed and sometimes snored — it's okay, that's what it's for — through this trance-inducing experience.
