Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf 2025: Episode 4 with Ayana Contreras

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.

Join NPR Music’s Bobby Carter and KUVO’s Ayana Contreras here at 3 p.m. ET on Thursday, April 17, to discover great new artists.

Entries featured in this episode:

Sadia, “Good” https://youtu.be/4EwwzZIBC9Y?si=NH2wJa1CemnniD6-
Dakota Bleu, “Still Outside” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0lVbyLegrA
Shannon Lauren Callihan “Don’t Make Sense” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-qRHhPmP-w
Regi Angelou “U Scared” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBdcmLmQ70I
Taisha Estrada, “El Abstracto” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2oWLqCyuOU
Maia Kamil, “Good Life” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzunPIZ0axA
Liam Taylor, “26 Missed Calls” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzit6W9namg
Black Hibiscus, “So Long” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bQoItOMuxo
The Narcotix, “The Mystic” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHW4Oaw03H8
Becca Hannah, “Rewind” https://youtu.be/-vMTQmyDCSs?si=Wi9onAomIMlZf_Ur

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

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