Title Tracks Live At WAMU
The idea for a Title Tracks session at WAMU 88.5 hatched way back in August of 2015, when the D.C….
Category: Music Videos
The World’s Largest Salt Flat, Set To A Celestial Score
The desolate landscape of Salar de Uyuni provides the backdrop for a song by Stars Of The Lid’s Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie. “The Few Of Us Left” refers to the people who harvest salt on the flats.
The Sweet Windbreakers In Flasher’s Video For ‘Destroy’ Will Make You Jealous
Featuring Taylor Mulitz from Priests, Flasher’s lush post-punk is razor-cut with a bit of a sarcastic sneer. The band looks good in light blue for a video filmed around its D.C. stomping grounds.
RDGLDGRN: Tiny Desk Concert
The D.C.-area band crafts a striking mix of rock, hip-hop, funk, go-go and Brazilian sounds, fused with energy and humor.
First Listen Live: Drive-By Truckers, ‘American Band’
Filmed live at OPB in Portland, Ore., the long-running rock group tackles social and political issues with firebrand zeal. Watch Drive-By Truckers perform American Band in its entirety.
Common: Tiny Desk Concert At The White House
It was an offer we couldn’t pass up: The veteran rapper fronting an all-star band at the White House, for the very first Tiny Desk Concert to take place outside NPR’s offices.
Watch Miguel Get Creative In NPR Music’s New Documentary Series, ‘Noteworthy’
Our new video documentary series on the creative process kicks off with the Grammy-winning soul singer. Watch him break down the origins of “Come Through And Chill” and “Adorn” with host Jason King.
Watch A Strange, Gorgeous New Video From Beach House
The Baltimore dream-pop duo’s new video for “The Traveller” plays like an experimental short film.
Premiere: Experimental Composer James Wolf Gets Metaphysical In A Cryptic New Video
Composer/violinist James Wolf has no particular fondness for titles, which makes his new track, “Haa,” that much more cryptic. Taken…
Thaylobleu Live At WAMU
Terence Nicholson says that when people think “D.C. rock,” they probably think of punk from the ’80s and ’90s — Minor Threat,…
Ras Nebyu Has Multiple Personalities In New Video For ‘No Love’
This post has been updated with a release date for Ras Nebyu’s next single. Ras Nebyu is consistent on a few…
Premiere: In Luray’s New Video, A Little Girl Finds Friends In Nature
If you translate Albert Camus’ famous “invincible summer” quote into a music video, it would probably look like the new…
More Humans Live At WAMU 88.5
More Humans isn’t the most visible or prolific band in D.C.’s indie-rock community, but when they pop up on the…
Laney Jones And The Spirits Live At The Wilderness Bureau
For years, Americana performer Laney Jones toiled away in rural Florida clubs before she made the leap to a larger…
Julia Holter: Tiny Desk Concert
The most minute details suddenly become a grandiose spectacle in Julia Holter’s cosmic cabaret. Her new arrangements at the NPR Music offices unravel amid moments of both quiet and bombast.
Video Premiere: Fellow Creatures Get Trapped In Party Jail
Sam McCormally is not having a good time. At least that’s how it appears in the video for “Wouldn’t You…
Premiere: Benjy Ferree Is A New Man
Benjy Ferree never stopped writing. He just slowed down. That’s how the songwriter explains his recent absence from music. The last time the…
Mount Moriah Live At The Wilderness Bureau
On the heels of the Americana band’s third album, How to Dance, North Carolina’s Mount Moriah swung through the Wilderness Bureau…
Palehound: Tiny Desk Concert
Ellen Kempner and her band perform three tense and evocative songs from last year’s Dry Food, set amid the pin-drop silence of a rapt crowd.
Mothers: Tiny Desk Concert
Mothers’ members chose a few of their slowest, most languid and fragile songs to perform in the NPR Music offices.