Our Tiny Desk Contest Winner, New Beach House, More

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New Mix: Beach House, Tank And The Bangas, Stevie Wolf, More We open this week's show with a look at our 2018 Tiny Desk Contest winner, Naia Izumi. He's an artist based out of Los Angeles with a phenomenal voice and breathtaking technique on guitar. Naia is also incredibly charming with a profoundly moving personal story about how he came to music and what it has meant to him over the years. That plus the mind-blowing guitarist Rafiq Bhatia of the band Son Lux, passionate rock from Welles and more. Hear The Discussion And Songs All Songs Considered Announcing The 2018 Tiny Desk Contest Winner Nearly 5,000 entries from all 50 states and we had to pick just one! The competition rose to a new level this year and the decision was harder than ever. Our judges looked at a vast array of music from every genre - and lots of music that couldn't be categorized. The creative community these days is bursting, and the diversity of sounds and people who sent us entries made for many magical "wow" moments. See The Winning Entry Tiny Desk Logan Richardson: Tiny Desk Concert Logan Richardson's latest project, Blues People, is a condition, a state of being. The album was derived from the early slave calls that inspired the earliest American jazz and blues musical traditions. Here at the Tiny Desk, the saxophonist revisits that history with four remarkable songs from the album, all performed with a hope that our country's future will be less painful than its past. See The Tiny Desk Performance All Songs Considered Chastity's 'Children' Will Lead The Way Chastity's heft is often uncommonly pretty. You can hear the industrial-metal gruel of Godflesh, Smashing Pumpkins' snarl swirled in sweetness and Hum's distorted stargaze all through Brandon Williams' project, yet that heft appears to function as a way to ponder heavy ideas just as much as sound. Hear The New Track All Songs Considered The Rock*A*Teens, Cabbagetown's Vibrantly Weird Rock Band, Is Back Emblematic of Atlanta's eccentric '90s scene, hear the first single from The Rock*A*Teens first album in 18 years, Sixth House. With a garage-rock swagger and shake, "Go Tell Everybody" tells the story of Bartholomew, Jesus' apostle who brought Christianity to India and Armenia, and, according to hagiography, was flayed alive and beheaded. Hear The New Track

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