Interview | Bob Boilen on the 2022 Tiny Desk Contest

The Tiny Desk creator offers tips on submitting your video to the 2022 contest

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Attention unsigned Jacksonville musicians: The Tiny Desk wants to hear your music.  NPR’s 2022 Tiny Desk Contest is underway. Over the past seven years, nearly 35,000 musicians have submitted their videos to the Tiny Desk Contest in the hopes of being chosen to perform as part of NPR Music’s signature music discovery series. Now, NPR is once again calling for …

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Join NPR Music’s film screening of ‘Karen Dalton: In My Own Time’

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Join us for an online screening of Karen Dalton: In My Own Time. Bob Boilen from All Songs Considered will be joined by director Robert Yapkowitz and singer-songwriter Margo Price in a live conversation about the film. The event will take place on Nov. 11, at 7 p.m. ET – you can RSVP via NPR Presents and watch via NPR …

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New Music Friday: The Top 6 Albums Out On Aug. 6

The best new music of the week from the All Songs Considered team

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Abstract Mindstate might be the greatest rap duo you’ve never heard of. MCs Olskool Ice-Gre and E.P Da Hellcat got their start in Chicago in the late ’90s and were about to make an album with features from Kanye West, Common, John Legend and more. But the deal fell through, E.P and Olskool fell on hard times and the two eventually stopped making music altogether. …

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New Music Friday: The Top 6 Albums Out On July 9

NPR Music contributors share their choices for the best albums out on Friday, July 9.

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West Coast Rapper Vince Staples has never shied from sharing details and stories from his life coming up in and around Long Beach, Calif. But on his latest, self-titled album, he reveals more of what’s in his heart and on his mind than ever before, with vivid and intimate songs about childhood dreams, his family, the scars he carries with him and …

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