Aug 13, 2025
backxwash | Best Day Ever. Thank you so much to @ clppng @ counterfeitmadison and @ coolingprongs, I am extremely honored
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backxwash | Best Day Ever. Thank you so much to @ clppng @ counterfeitmadison and @ coolingprongs, I am extremely honored
Show notes:
“Lars Gotrich | October 31, 2025
The pot lid didn't sound the way we wanted. "What about our Webby?" I suggested. The award statue's metallic spring had just the right amount of wobble — a ride cymbal with a drip like Dalí. What you're about to see has never been attempted at the Tiny Desk before: small, MIDI-triggered robots strike and vibrate glass bottles, coffee mugs, plastic wrap and a pizza box to make futuristic music out of the present's refuse and rubbish. What band besides clipping. could pull this off?
For more than 15 years, clipping. has made its name from the deconstruction and celebration of hip-hop. This concert takes that philosophy literally: Producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson spent months digging through thrift stores to find the right clinks, clangs and clongs that could reshape their hypnotic melodies and serrating beats. A sturdy cardboard box becomes the kick drum. A chain bouncing off aluminum foil, the hi-hat. A panoply of glasses, bottles and mugs, the synths. Harmonium, piano and fretless bass fill out the edges. Kid Koala, a turntablist whose unique style no doubt has had an influence on clipping., guests on "Night of Heaven" and "Work Work."
This set, featuring songs that span 2014's CLPPNG to 2025's Dead Channel Sky, exemplifies the idea that something thrilling and beautiful can be created from the noise and debris of everyday life. Daveed Diggs, eternally game to exquisitely rap over whatever creative chaos bursts from his cohorts, sums up the process perfectly: "Thank y'all for this opportunity to do needlessly complicated s***."
SET LIST
"Nothing is Safe"
"True Believer"
"Code"
"Dodger"
"Night of Heaven"
"Work Work"
MUSICIANS
Daveed Diggs: vocals
Jonathan Snipes: electronics, harmonium, melodica, table of nonsense
William Hutson: percussion, loon call, table of nonsense
Sharon Udoh: vocals, piano
David Rothbaum: bass
Kid Koala: turntables
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Lars Gotrich
Director/Editor: Joshua Bryant
Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Kara Frame, Sofia Seidel
Audio Engineer: Josephine Nyounai
Production Assistant: Dhanika Pineda
Copy Editor: Daoud Tyler-Ameen
Photographer: Maansi Srivastava
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Executive Director: Sonali Mehta
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton”
clipping. perform "face" live from The Stables on KEXP
NEW CLIPPING ALBUM LET'S GOOOO Only at Dodger so far but this is such a distinctly-made album and it's entrancing
i kinda miss posting on here tbh
clipping. feat. Cocc Pistol Cree - Work Work