For these of us who agonized over 2025’s song-of-the-summer sweepstakes, Annie DiRusso supplied a much-needed balm: Tremendous Pedestrian, an album crammed filled with humorous, charismatic, bittersweet pop-rock songs about doomed Gen-Z romance and the enjoyment of flicks, sports activities and different distractions from… nicely, doomed Gen-Z romance. Whether or not or not 2025 ever gave you the precise track of the summer time you craved, DiRusso gave a few of us our album of the summer time.
Now, she’s again for a contemporary victory lap. DiRusso not too long ago launched a deluxe version of Tremendous Pedestrian with some welcome bonus tracks, and now we will unveil her first-ever Tiny Desk live performance. In a five-song pageant filled with intelligent costuming, synchronized dance strikes and even a couple of behind-the-back guitar riffs, DiRusso and her band replicate their killer stage present with out sacrificing the intimacy that makes the Tiny Desk particular.
Nonetheless, she needed to modify her stage patter, not less than somewhat bit.
“Often, once I play exhibits, I do that entire bit the place I inform the plot of Faculty of Rock prefer it’s my life,” DiRusso says, “after which I introduce each member of the band as ‘Annie DiRusso.’ However once I tried that [in rehearsal], simply speaking, I simply appeared like the most important a****** ever.”
If you have not but dug into her vibrant, infectious music, could this be your first step towards a triumphant summer time of 2026, full with a killer Annie DiRusso soundtrack.
SET LIST
- “Again in City”
- “Hybrid”
- “Legs”
- “Coming Quickly”
- “It is Good to Be Sizzling within the Summer time”
MUSICIANS
- Annie DiRusso: vocals, guitar
- James Eichman: guitar, banjo, background vocals
- ebook NOT brooke: keys, bass, cello, background vocals
- Eden Joel: bass, guitar, background vocals
- Levi Bennett: drums
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Robin Hilton
- Director: Maia Stern
- Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Video Editor: Kara Body
- Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Kara Body
- Audio Engineer: Hannah Gluvna
- Manufacturing Assistants: Dora Levite, Dhanika Pineda
- Photographer: Alanté Serene
- Sequence Editor: Lars Gotrich
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Government Director: Sonali Mehta
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton
