Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf 2025: Episode 2 with Raina Douris

NPR Music received more than 7,000 submissions to this year’s Tiny Desk Contest, our annual search for the next great undiscovered artist to play a Tiny Desk concert. Before we reveal this year’s winner, our Contest judges are sharing their favorite entries as part of our annual Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf livestream series.

Entries featured by NPR Music’s Robin Hilton and WXPN’s World Cafe host Raina Douris in this episode:

“A Corner Store Hymn,” Emerson Woolf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8OHxt7_p14
“RIC FLAIR,” Ollie Gabriel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqrYJyGu4NE
“Flashes,” Leah Marlene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij21VBOF94o
“Yè,” P.H.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrkQhIraOps
“Leave My Girl Alone,” Pump Action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olMJuOFW4c8
“Between,” Chris Wallace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziC96c2Sp3w
“Caspian’s Inquisition,” Enter Sceptre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1RDp0HsN3w
“In Flow,” IAHIAL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi-lugBLcA0
“Christ Pose / 90 Knot Water Whip,” Slumpwick Grummo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNqPPeelr5I
“Fàájì,” DAP The Contract & Kingsmen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9iq4LinYHs

Learn more about the Contest: https://npr.org/tinydeskcontest

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