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If you haven’t heard or seen NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series, that’s a rabbit hole you should spend your day going down. Basically, bands huddle around a desk at the NPR offices and play stripped-down versions of their songs. Everyone from The National to T-Pain has stopped by, and now maybe a lucky Denver band will too.
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NPR recently created the “Tiny Desk Contest” where any band from anywhere in the country can submit a video for a chance to be featured in the regular series. If you haven’t noticed, Denver has a lot of musicians roaming around, so it’s no surprise a bunch of them entered the contest. We spent our morning on Youtube (we know, our jobs are hard) finding some of those Denver-based entries. They are all fantastic, and now you can spend your morning watching them instead of doing work.
Note: The internet is vast and maze-like so there are surely some Denver entries we missed. Please post them in the comments.
Lara Ruggles — “What You Call Home”
Ben Gallagher — “Alchemy”
The Raven and The Writing Desk — “Silent Actress”
Patrick Dethlefs — “I Was Your Age”
Joe Smith and The Spicy Pickles — “Obviously”
ATOMGA — “Wacks”
Anthony Ruptak & The Midnight Friends — “Hooks & Rope”
RaShelle Myra with Brian Kittrel — “Lie To Me”
Glowing House — “Don’t Know How”
Poet’s Row — “The Sweet One”
SansTribe — “The Last Song”
The Real Folk Blues — “Rubric”
Eldren — “Should You Find Me”
The Blue Rider — “The Year of The Horse”
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