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He brought Gwar to NPR. He being Lars Gotrich, producer at NPR music, who according to a tweet posted earlier today has spent the past four years trying to coax the heavy metal collective and self-proclaimed "Scumdogs of the Universe" to the Tiny Desk stage.

New Orleans rapper Juvenile is NPR's newest guest to grace the coveted Tiny Desk. Back in April, a fan tweeted at the radio station to get Juvie on stage, to which he replied: "Wtf is a tiny desk

Babyface is exactly the kind of artist that excites me most to see appear behind the Tiny Desk. He’s been celebrated for decades (the man has 12 Grammys) but stands just short of being a household name.

NPR Tiny Desk Concert — now that he knows what it is. A fan-led Twitter campaign to get the 48-year-old “Back That Azz Up” rapper to take part in the famed concert series started last week when a supporter tweeted at NPR to “please” have him on.

Neal Conan was a radio personality who was the longtime host of the National Public Radio (NPR) show “Talk of the Nation.”Conan joined NPR in the 1970s, in the network’s early days. He was a producer for “All Things Considered” and provided Washington DC coverage for NPR before beginning to host “Talk of the Nation” in 2001.

Gospel trailblazer Kirk Franklin, along with his powerful choir and full band, turned a Texas studio into the latest backdrop for their NPR Tiny Desk (Home) concert. The artist and producer performed four of his biggest tracks as part of Tiny Desk's Black History Month celebrations.

Harry Styles stopped by NPR for an intimate Tiny Desk Concert, performing four tracks from his new album, “Fine Line.”

Harry Styles took on a format we all may be getting more and more accustomed to when he and his band recently performed an installment of NPR’s long-running “Tiny Desk Concert” series. The series features musicians playing more or less acoustically in National Public Radio’s Washington, DC offices, and always offers an entertaining different side to the artist and the music.