KEXP, Tiny Desk, COLORS, and Like A Version exist to introduce someone new. Nine times, the someone had already been famous for decades.
Bush: Tiny Desk Concert
NPR Music
a 90s radio band, three decades in, at a folding desk
Queens of the Stone Age - Mosquito Song (Live on KEXP)
KEXP
twenty-five years of albums, squeezed into KEXP's little room
The Wedding Present - Hot Wheels (Live on KEXP)
KEXP
a band older than most of KEXP's audience
Brandi Carlile: Tiny Desk Concert
NPR Music
a decade of Grammys, still doing the desk bit
Jill Scott: Tiny Desk Concert
NPR Music
twenty-five years in neo-soul, no introduction required
Matt Corby covers Tame Impala's 'Dracula' for Like A Version
triple j
a solo career old enough that covering someone else is news
Silvia Pérez Cruz - Capitana | A COLORS SHOW
COLORS
flamenco and film scores behind her, one wall in front
Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble: Tiny Desk Concert
NPR Music
a producer with forty years of other people's records, now his own
James Blake - Trying Times | A COLORS SHOW
COLORS
over a decade in, still filmed like a fresh signing
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