{"id":564651,"date":"2026-07-23T18:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/564651\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T18:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:20:09","slug":"tiny-desk-radio-caroline-polachek-flea-natalie-merchant-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/564651\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Desk Radio: Caroline Polachek, Flea, Natalie Merchant : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/natalie-merchant-jtsuboike-0005-edit_wide-8f0b16a6073b5cbb940db8988278262e2c4081b4.jpg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/01\/07\/natalie-merchant-jtsuboike-0005-edit_wide-8f0b16a6073b5cbb940db8988278262e2c4081b4.jpg?s={width}&amp;c={quality}&amp;f={format}\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Tiny Desk Concert with Natalie Merchant.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Tiny Desk Concert with Natalie Merchant.<\/p>\n<p>                    Jun Tsuboike\/NPR<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>              toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Jun Tsuboike\/NPR<\/p>\n<p>            <img data-original=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/01\/07\/natalie-merchant-jtsuboike-0005-edit_wide-8f0b16a6073b5cbb940db8988278262e2c4081b4.jpg?s=2600&amp;c=100&amp;f=jpeg\" alt=\"Tiny Desk Concert with Natalie Merchant.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Tiny Desk Concert with Natalie Merchant.<\/p>\n<p>            Jun Tsuboike\/NPR<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a trio of artists who were, or are, central to other bands. Host Robin Hilton presents them as solo acts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/771035161\/caroline-polachek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Caroline Polachek<\/a>, who co-founded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/96822281\/chairlift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chairlift<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/16264182\/red-hot-chili-peppers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Red Hot Chili Peppers<\/a> bassist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/g-s1-115365\/flea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Flea<\/a>; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15453591\/natalie-merchant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Natalie Merchant<\/a>, who sang with 10,000 Maniacs. <\/p>\n<p>Look for Tiny Desk Radio on your local NPR station.<\/p>\n<p>   Caroline Polachek: Tiny Desk Concert   <\/p>\n<p>                    YouTube<\/p>\n<p>   Flea and the Honora Band: Tiny Desk Concert   <\/p>\n<p>                    YouTube<\/p>\n<p>   Natalie Merchant: Tiny Desk Concert   <\/p>\n<p>                    YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Tiny Desk Radio is produced by Walter Ray Watson, Dhanika Pineda and Noah Caldwell. Neil Tevault is the Technical Director. Our series editor is Lars Gotrich. Suraya Mohamed is our executive producer. Sonali Mehta is the executive director of NPR Music. And our theme was composed by Kaelin Ellis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiny Desk Concert with Natalie Merchant. Jun Tsuboike\/NPR hide caption toggle caption Jun Tsuboike\/NPR Tiny Desk Concert with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-564651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}