The NPR Tiny Desk Contest win has paid off for Tank and the Bangas. It’s a platform that doesn’t guarantee success, but it says something that the YouTube video of their Tiny Desk Concert/victory lap is easily the most viewed of those by the winners of NPR Music’s national unsigned artist talent search.

Today, Chicago's Bloodshot Records announced that it has signed Luke Winslow-King. The label made its reputation on "insurgent country," and while it still releases albums by Rosie Flores, The Waco Brothers and Kelly Hogan, it has broadened its horizons to include such artists as Firewater, Justin Townes Earle and now Winslow-King.