Here are a few of my favorites from NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series. Sometimes you forget how awesome a band is until you hear them cut out all the crap and just play. Makes me wish MTV Unplugged still existed.
All I gotta say is, how do I get this job?
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
The Cranberries (I miss you, 90’s.)
The Civil Wars
The Decemberists
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
Foster the People
The Cranberries!!! OMG! LOVE!!
Foster the People! I totally have quirky-boy crush on the lead singer.
This post is exactly why we are friends. MTV Unplugged, now on VH1 as Storytellers and occasionally on MTV(see 30 Seconds to Mars episode for U2 cover of Where the Streets Have No Names….holy moly), was so great in it’s prime. Still good, but not the same. I used to use that show as a true measure of a musicians ACTUAL ability. But I very much LOVE every single band you profiled here. We seriously need to start sharing Spotify playlists as our taste in music is very much similar.
Also, you cannot have that job. I would SO be willing to do ANYTHING, yes ANYTHING, to get a job like that.
I LOVE the Decemberists and the Civil Wars! Those are two of my all-time favorite bands.
LOVED Same Love and the hole Foster the People…plus, who doesn’t love thrift shop??
I still get the chills when I hear “Zombie”… LOVE it.
For me, it’s “Linger”…..I go back to my college years (and college boyfriend lol) every time I hear it.
Civil Wars rock! What a cool concept
I know I’m late on my obsession with The Civil Wars, but I’ve been obsessed with them since reading Edge of Never. LOVE!
I so so so so love the Decemberists!
I love all of your choices. and of course NPR Tiny Desk is the SHIT. Edward Sharp is pretty awesome in that tiny office, I hadn’t seen Macklemore and Cranberries yet (can’t beat the 90’s classics yo) So thanks for sharin, miss B!