NPR’s Tiny Desk concerts have seen a lot of action since their inception in 2008 but Turnstile brought a first with their performance for the online video series, which came out this week. Frontman Brendan Yates has been certified by NPR as executing the show’s very first stage-dive, throwing himself off of the eponymous desk and into the arms of the watching NPR staffers, who held him aloft before returning him back onto the desk.
Some bands use their Tiny Desk stop-off to strip down their sound but, as is their way, Turnstile went in the other direction, arriving with a horn section to beef up their already quite beefy sonics and going in hard. The NPR staff respond by getting a very commendable moshpit going.
