Turnstile's NPR Tiny Desk concert features first-ever stagedive

Baltimore hardcore band Turnstile brought a raucous, unconventional moment to NPR this week when the group performed a five-song Tiny Desk Concert and frontman Brendan Yates jumped from the eponymous desk into the crowd, an act NPR identified as the series first-ever stagedive. The intimate set, recorded at NPR's offices, featured material from Turnstile's most recent album Never Enough and ended with a mosh pit forming in front of the performance area during the closing song Birds.

Turnstile opened with Dreaming and proceeded through Sunshower, I Care and the title track before closing with Birds. The band expanded its live lineup for the session, adding Troy Long on piano and a three-piece horn section led by Tobias Moody on saxophone and Theljon Allen on trumpet to rework the songs for the Tiny Desk setting. The core quintet performing included Yates on vocals, guitarists Pat McCrory and Meg Mills, Franz Lyons on bass and Daniel Fang on drums.

As the crowd pressed forward during Birds, Yates climbed atop the desk that separates the Tiny Desk stage from NPR staff and attendees and launched into a flip before diving into the group. NPR staffers held him aloft and returned him...