Our New Fav: Tank and the Bangas
Continuing with this wave of new soulful jazz and hip-hop inspired bands, this week we bring you Tank and the Bangas from New Orleans. Having won the 2017 Tiny Desk Contest, they recently recorded their Tiny Desk concert and it was amazing. Since it made us so happy, we wanted to share. Click below!
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Common x NPR x SXSL
A few weeks ago the White House hosted a one day event called South by South Lawn, a festival of Ideas, Art and Action. During SXSL, NPR recorded a unique Tiny Desk concert in the Library of the White House with the amazing Common, the soul singer Bilal, keyboardist Robert Glasper, drummer Karriem Riggins, bassist Derrick Hodge, flautist Elena Pinderhughes and trumpeter Keyon Harrold.
Cords Journal Interview: Craig Swann, founder of Looplabs
We recently caught up with Craig Swann, developer extraordinaire and democratizer of Music to talk about his origins, how he came up and built Looplabs and what's next.
Cords for Music on MSNBC
We were thrilled to be interviewed by Tamron Hall on MSNBC last week for their Born in the U$A series on American success stories. Thank to the whole team at MSNBC for supporting Music Education! It was such an amazing experience to be there and we are humble to be counted among the roster of incredible small businesses that have been featured.
