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Every year, NPR Music participates in theSXSW music festival, whether it s curating a stage or simply attending hundreds of shows at the annual event in Austin, Texas. Last year, the festival was canceled due to the pandemic, but it returned this March as an online festival. We programmed a stage of Tiny Desk (home) concerts and presented them on the final day of the festival. Now, we present to you Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: four videos filmed in various locations, all of them full of surprises. Stephen Thompson, April 8, 2021 Leave it toclipping. to innovate around the central notion of the Tiny Desk; to take the series emphasis on closeup intimacy and transport it to new heights of, well, tininess. This is, after all, a band that contains multitudes. Producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes craft a bed of hiphop, industrial music and noisy experimentalism, then set loose rapper Daveed Diggs, whose violent imagery summons 90s horrorcore and a thousand bloody movies. The band s last two album titles