Alas, Tiny Desk, I Knew You Well

I used to depend heavily on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert for a bead on where to get my new music. It was such a wonderfully micro-targeted stream of twee British pop bands whose members first met at Uni; sensitive singer songwriter dudes who recorded their albums in a log cabin in Maine; and the occasional international act that seamlessly integrated bits of retro American pop songs into their soulful ethnic mélanges