More than 6,000 artists entered this year’s Tiny Desk Contest, hoping to win their very own performance behind the actual Desk. We’ll announce the winner soon, but in the meantime, we’re sharing some of our favorite entries, from the riff-rock group Pump Action, to soul singer Les Greene, loop artist Jackie Marchal, singer-songwriter Yuri Shin and more.

Tiny Desk series producer Bobby Carter joins All Songs Considered host Robin Hilton. (They’re also the two lead judges for the Contest.)

Featured entries:

(00:00) Intro

(00:51) Pump Action: “Supernova”

(03:34) Lily Talmers: “The Big Idea”

(07:18) Walker Burroughs: “Open Skies”

(10:53) Les Greene & the Swayzees: "Long Story Short"

(14:08) Nicolosi: “Are You Coming To The Ivy?”

(17:20) Jackie Marchal: “Excavate The Girl”

(21:43) the King will come: “welcome”

(24:33) Yuri Shin: “Falling Rabbit”

(27:54) Lauren Frihauf: “One Thing Always Leads To Another”

(31:41) Meira: “Make Me Go”

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