It took a while, but Noah Kahan has finally taken his seat at the most famous desk in music. The Vermont singer-songwriter, whose 2022 breakthrough ‘Stick Season’ turned him into one of folk-rock’s most talked-about artists, delivered his Tiny Desk Concert for NPR Music, and it’s exactly the kind of performance the format was built for. Raw, intimate, and built around the kind of songwriting that has been rattling around the internet for the better part of a decade, this is Kahan in the setting he deserves.


