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.
The first song Rod Wave performs in his Tiny Desk concert comes with a bit of a wink. The St. Petersburg, Fla., rapper interpolates Drake s Over My Dead Body, the delicate intro to
Take Care. Like Drake, Rod Wave makes sad, melodic rap music. But his feels removed from the Canadian superstar s lineage. His cadences are more in step with the full-bodied crooning of Southern rap giants like Kevin Gates and Lil Boosie. It s been said that Rod Wave could be an R&B or blues singer in another era. With this Tiny Desk concert, anchored by the interplay of flute, piano, bass and drums, he seems to suggest: Why not this one?
Rod Wave: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
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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.
Watch this stunning home Tiny Desk performance from Son Lux and you might conclude the band members live together in an all-white universe without walls or boundaries. But it s all an illusion. In fact, guitarist Rafiq Bhatia, drummer Ian Chang and singer-keyboardist Ryan Lott, who started Son Lux as a solo project back in 2008, each shot their own, separate video with their iPhones, at different times, at their homes scattered across different states. So did the guest vocalists, Nina Moffitt and Kiah Victoria. Editor Evan Chapman then stitched all the videos together.
Across five decades, through his writing about music, Marsh has offered insights into issues of community, class, race, politics, health, the environment, the music industry and more.
“Dave Marsh has been a force in music culture since the late 1960s,” Jon Landau, manager of Bruce Springsteen and Marsh’s longtime friend, tells
Billboard. “Whether it’s through his many books, his countless reviews, his journalism, or his radio shows, one thing has remained constant he always brings his love of the music to everything he touches.”
Landau will open the celebration Friday in conversation with author Caryn Rose, whose works include