The Linda Lindas: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It’s the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space. Marissa Lorusso | April 11, 2022 A library might not be the first place that comes to mind when you picture a suitable venue for a punk band — unless, of course, you’re thinking about The Linda Lindas, who shot to viral stardom after a performance in the Los Angeles Public Library’s Cypress Park Branch last year. For the band’s Tiny Desk (home) concert, the teen punks returned to the library — this time, playing at the Los Angeles Central Library — with several members even sporting buttons that pledge love to the LA library system. “We’re playing the library once more,“ guitarist Lucia de la Garza says with a smile, in awe of the “cool space.“ (It feels fitting — after all, having artists per