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Creem magazine co-founder Dave Marsh will be honored during three-week virtual celebration. When “The Boss” shows up you know shit is serious, and by serious we mean seriously rock n roll, because Bruce Springsteen is just one of several notable names coming together to celebrate pioneering music writer and Detroit native Dave Marsh. Marsh, 71, the celebrated activist, author, and founding member of
may have coined the term punk rock, who
absolutely played the Who s I Can t Explain 23 times in a row during his stint at a college radio station (which got him fired), called drummer John Bonham Led Zeppelin s “insurmountable flaw,” and dared to describe Freddie Mercury s voice as being “passable” is the honoree at the upcoming “Land of Hope and Dream
Apr 15, 2021
Bob Boilen
The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit stripped-down sets, an intimate setting just a different space.
For the Tiny Desk (home) concert series, home can mean many things. For CJ Camerieri and his project CARM, home is where the art is. He performed his concert at the Pablo Center in Eau Claire, Wisc., where the trumpeter and French horn player conceived and recorded all the songs for his 2021 debut solo album,
CARM. This particular community has been a really big part of my musical life for 10 years, CJ says after playing the calming tune Soft Night, so it seems like the perfect place to be doing this.
The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit stripped-down sets, an intimate setting just a different space.
A few years ago, some of us on the NPR Music team stumbled upon a copy of Demi Lovato s 2013 book,
. Reading Lovato s heartfelt daily reflections became a workday habit; her transparency and vulnerability made us ardent admirers who wanted nothing but the very best for Demi.
We made it our mission to get Demi to the Tiny Desk, and though the pandemic had other plans, Lovato s Tiny Desk (home) concert was worth the wait. Recorded on a sunny spring day in her Los Angeles backyard, Lovato begins with a moving rendition of Tell Me You Love Me from her 2017 record of the same name, accompanied by subtle, sparse keys. She continues her set with the title tracks from her recently-released studio album,
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