The Arcs: NPR Tiny Desk Concert
January 25, 2016 by BOB BOILEN Today, we celebrate the release of our 500th Tiny Desk concert. It s amazing that something that started as a bit of a wisecrack has been so widely embraced by artists and fans. In 2008 at SXSW in Austin, NPR Music s Stephen Thompson and I met up to see singer Laura Gibson. Laura was so quiet, and the crowd was so loud and rude something about a March basketball game that Stephen jokingly asked her to come play at my desk so we could hear her. My lightbulbs went off, and
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