{"id":84726,"date":"2025-10-17T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84726\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:16:08","slug":"see-tame-impala-go-all-acoustic-for-first-time-for-npr-tiny-desk-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84726\/","title":{"rendered":"See Tame Impala Go All-Acoustic for First Time for NPR Tiny Desk Set"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Parker and six acoustic guitars showcase hits like “Borderline,” “New Person, Same Old Mistakes,” and new Deadbeat tracks<\/p>\n

\n\tTame Impala<\/a> released their new album, Deadbeat, today, and to celebrate the arrival, Kevin Parker and company visited NPR\u2019s Tiny Desk to deliver the band\u2019s first-ever all-acoustic performance.<\/p>\n

\n\tArmed with six acoustic guitars \u2014 one of which was used as the percussion \u2014 Tame Impala played four songs over 20 minutes, opening with The Slow Rush\u2019s \u201cBorderline\u201d before performing two tracks off the just-released Deadbeat, \u201cLoser\u201d and \u201cDracula.\u201d Tame Impala closed out the mini-set by revisiting Currents\u2019 \u201cNew Person, Same Old Mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Tiny Desk concert marked Tame Impala\u2019s second time on the NPR music show, although it was their first time actually visiting the venerable cubicle. Back in 2020, amid the Covid pandemic, Parker played a Tiny Desk At Home gig from his quarantine<\/a>. The performance focused on tracks from Tame Impala\u2019s then-new album The Slow Rush, which was the band\u2019s most recent LP until Deadbeat\u2019s release today.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn addition to the Tiny Desk set, Tame Impala also released the latest visual off Deadbeat on Friday with a cinema verit\u00e9-style visual for the album\u2019s opening track \u201cMy Old Ways\u201d:<\/p>\n

\n\tA plugged-in Tame Impala will hit the road later this month on their six-city U.S. tour in support of Deadbeat, beginning Oct. 27 with a four-night stand at Brooklyn\u2019s Barclays Center and concluding Nov. 17 with the third of three gigs at Los Angeles\u2019 Kia Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Parker and six acoustic guitars showcase hits like “Borderline,” “New Person, Same Old Mistakes,” and new Deadbeat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,6002,69,3200],"class_list":{"0":"post-84726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-npr-tiny-desk","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-tame-impala"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}