Bob B Boilen (born April 10, 1953, in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American musician and media personality. He was the host and creator of NPR 's online music show All Songs Considered and the co-creator of NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts , a series originally conceived of by NPR's Stephen Thompson . He retired from NPR in October 2023 after 35 years.
17-630: Tiny Desk Concerts is a video series of live concerts hosted by NPR Music at the desk of former All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen in Washington, D.C. The first Tiny Desk Concert came about in 2008 after Boilen and NPR Music editor Stephen Thompson left South by Southwest frustrated that they couldn't hear the music over the crowd noise. Thompson joked that the musician, folk singer Laura Gibson , should just perform at Boilen's desk. A month later Boilen arranged for her to do just that, making an impromptu recording and posting it online. The name
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51-483: A producer for Channel 50, and produced Science Live for the Discovery Channel . He joined NPR in 1988 and "was hired to work on the flagship news program All Things Considered on a temporary basis. Less than a year later, he became the director of the show". He held that position until 2007. As director, Boilen chose the music between the news stories for that show. Those musical snippets, or "buttons", were
68-448: A regularly scheduled program on September 30, starting with B'z vocalist Koshi Inaba . In December 2014, NPR announced it would host its first contest, inviting musicians to submit a video of one of their songs. A jury of musicians and NPR staff choose a winner to play a Tiny Desk Concert . The contest has continued annually, each year drawing more than 6000 submissions. Jurors have included Trey Anastasio of Phish , Dan Auerbach of
85-464: A show at South by Southwest in 2008 and the loud crowd made it impossible to hear her. The series is named after the band Boilen played in from 1979 to 1981, Tiny Desk Unit. He retired from NPR on October 2, 2023. Since August 2021, he has hosted a weekly morning show on WOWD-LP , a low-power FM station in Takoma Park, Maryland . In April 2024, it was announced he would become program director at
102-1836: A video series of live performances by artists at the NPR Music office Studio Sessions , videos of performances by artists from media partners and member stations Field Recordings , videos of performances by musicians in unconventional locations from media partners and member stations References [ edit ] ^ "Music" tab npr.org Retrieved July 30, 2012 ^ "Tiny Desk Concerts" . NPR Music . NPR. 2013 . Retrieved October 6, 2013 . ^ "Studio Sessions" . NPR Music . NPR. 2013 . Retrieved October 6, 2013 . ^ "NPR Music Field Recordings" . NPR Music . NPR. 2013 . Retrieved October 6, 2013 . External links [ edit ] home page National Public Radio website music tab NPR website podcast partners NPR website v t e NPR National Association of Educational Broadcasters (1925–1981) National Educational Radio Network (1961–1970) Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1967–) Association of Public Radio Stations (1973–1977) Productions All Songs Considered All Things Considered Alt.Latino Code Switch Consider This Here and Now How I Built This Invisibilia Morning Edition No Compromise Planet Money Rough Translation TED Radio Hour The Thistle & Shamrock Throughline Tiny Desk Concerts Up First Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Weekend Edition [REDACTED] Distributions 1A Bullseye with Jesse Thorn Car Talk (reruns only since 2012) Fresh Air From
119-547: Is taken from Boilen's 1970s psychedelic dance band called Tiny Desk Unit. The series has previously drawn criticism for narrowness in the musical genres it includes—described as focused on " hipster -infused indie rock " by Zachary Crockett at Vox —to the exclusion of genres like country and hip-hop . However, the series' musical focus has broadened in scope over time. During the COVID-19 pandemic , NPR Music enlisted artists to instead record their own virtual performances under
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153-809: The Black Keys , and Jess Wolfe of Lucius . Tiny Desk Contest winners have included: NPR Music American music radio project [REDACTED] The logo used by NPR Music's YouTube channel NPR Music is a project of National Public Radio , an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization, that launched in November 2007 to present public radio music programming and original editorial content for music discovery. NPR Music offers current and archival podcasts, live concert webcasts, reviews, music lists, news, studio sessions, and interviews to listen to from NPR and partner public radio stations across
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#1732891292292204-662: The country, as well as an index of public radio music stations streaming live on the Internet. There have been two blogs: "Monitor Mix" (now defunct) by Sleater-Kinney musician Carrie Brownstein and the All Songs Considered Blog by Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton. Programming [ edit ] Programs available to hear at NPR Music [ edit ] All Songs Considered , hosted by Bob Boilen Alt.Latino , hosted by Jasmine Garsd and Felix Contreras From
221-607: The first time Tiny Desk Concerts was adapted as a TV show outside North America, with up to 52 episodes aired weekly. The TV show was premiered on LG U+ platforms in August 2023. In March 2024, a similar licensing agreement was struck with NHK to launch Tiny Desk Concerts Japan with Fujii Kaze as the first performer in the series. The show premiered on NHK General TV in Japan on March 16, 2024, subsequently premiering on its global sister channel NHK World-Japan on March 29. The series became
238-441: The re-branded title Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts . The 2022 Tiny Desk Concert winner, Alisa Amador, was the first performance back at the desk with an audience since the pandemic started. As of November 2016, the series included more than 550 concerts viewed a collective 80 million times on YouTube . South Korea–based TV agency Something Special worked alongside both NPR and LG U+ to launch Tiny Desk Korea , which served as
255-606: The starting point for the creation of the show All Songs Considered in 2000. He then helped create NPR Music in 2007. Boilen co-created and produced the Tiny Desk Concert series in April 2008 for NPR Music, hosting intimate performances at his desk. The series, curated by Boilen and the team of NPR Music, was inspired by a comment made by NPR Music's Stephen Thompson when he jokingly invited musician Laura Gibson to perform at Bob's desk. The two of them went to see Gibson at
272-404: The station effective June 1, 2024. Bob Boilen continues to play music with friend Michael Barron; both were founding members of the psychedelic dance band Tiny Desk Unit (1979–1981), for which Boilen played synthesizer. Boilen continues to write music with Barron in a band called Danger Painters and also writes and releases solo music. Boilen also composed the original theme music for Talk of
289-524: The weekly show My Tiny Morning Show on WOWD-LP . He will become the station's program director in June 2024. In 1978, Bob Boilen played synthesizers in the Washington, D.C. band Tiny Desk Unit. They were the first band to ever play the 9:30 Club at the original location at 930 'F' Street. From 1982 to 1986, Boilen filled a variety of roles including composer with Baltimore 's Impossible Theater. He also worked as
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