The Weekly Mix, Vol. 734 - Tiny Desks, Mighty Songs
The Runcast with John Richards
KEXP
4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
DJ Kevin Cole shares some of his favorite songs from the over 6000 entries to this year’s NPR Music Tiny Desk Contest!
1. Bandits on the Run - We Battle Giants
2. Tia P. - 151
3. Silicone Boone - Found You
4. Danielle Ponder - Poor Man's Pain
5. Rama Gu - Good Egg
6. Redbeard Samurai & the JB Dojo - Rain Fall Down
7. Midnight Daughter - The High
8. Alec Shaw - I'll Just Let You Down
9. Crystal Rose - House of God (Golden Child)
10. Linda Diaz - Green Tea Ice Cream
11. Septymber - Trip & Fall
Kevin Cole is the host of Drive Time on KEXP, Tuesdays through Fridays from 4-7pm PT on KEXP.org, the KEXP app or 90.3 FM in Seattle.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kevin Cole, coming to you from the smallest desk I could find because this is the Tiny Desk Edition of KexP's weekly mixed podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | Now, Tiny Desk concerts are a series by NPR Music. |
| 0:11.6 | They've been going on since 2008. |
| 0:13.5 | They usually take place literally at Bob Bowen's desk in the NPR office in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:19.7 | NPR music started the Tiny Desk contest in 2014 in an effort to discover and share great |
| 0:25.2 | unknown artists. |
| 0:26.9 | Artists send in a song. |
| 0:28.1 | They record from their own Tiny Desk. |
| 0:29.8 | Then the winner is invited to play at Bob's bigger Tiny Desk. |
| 0:33.9 | KXP's been involved over the years as judges on the panel to help select the winner, |
| 0:38.3 | and also as host of the Tiny Desk Contest Tour that would usually stop in Seattle and have artists play at KXP. |
| 0:45.9 | This year, because of the coronavirus, artists have been unable to tour, so NPR hosted an eight-episode live stream event, |
| 0:53.5 | and I had the honor of being one of the co-hosts |
| 0:55.4 | and got to present some of my favorite performances from the over 6,000 entries they got, |
| 1:01.1 | a handful which I'll be featuring on today's podcast, including the winner of this year's |
| 1:05.0 | Tiny Desk Contest. |
| 1:07.2 | I want to start the podcast with an infectious, uplifting song from Brooklyn-based Bandits on the Run. |
| 1:13.7 | The song is We Battle Giants, and this is what they say about it. |
| 1:17.5 | It's an ode to the people in your life who push you to go farther, dream bigger, and dare greatly. |
| 1:23.2 | We hope this song urges you to join forces with your loved ones to battle the giants big and small and even microscopic that we all face today. |
| 1:32.9 | It's our sincerest wish that when you watch the video and hear this song that you'll feel empowered. |
| 1:38.3 | You are not alone. Times are hard. There's a lot that needs to change. Stay hopeful. We battle giants together. |
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