Daoud Tyler-Ameen
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Sayonara is a dazzling indie game powered by synth-pop and emotional catharsis. In a year of bitter loss and isolation, its existence is a gift. -
When it's super hot, sometimes cold thoughts is all you've got. Three NPR colleagues offer suggestions on what to watch, hear and read to get in a chilled state of mind.
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!["[Jonathan Demme] was sensitive to the fact that each musician had as much excitement to bring to the screen as to the music," Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth write of the director's <em>Stop Making Sense</em>.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ea09755/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4812x2681+0+13/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2017%2F04%2F28%2Fgettyimages-86102556_wide-04739f758954f63c3f3e1543cf7f8def2f6a0ac7.jpg)
Rick Springfield, Tunde Adebimpe, Kenny Chesney and members of Talking Heads and The Feelies share how music moved — and moved us — in Jonathan Demme's movies. -
Alabama-born singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield broke through to a bigger audience last year by releasing an aching, bare-bones solo album. Her follow-up album came out in March.
!["[Jonathan Demme] was sensitive to the fact that each musician had as much excitement to bring to the screen as to the music," Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth write of the director's <em>Stop Making Sense</em>.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8c0b58e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4812x2681+0+13/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2017%2F04%2F28%2Fgettyimages-86102556_wide-04739f758954f63c3f3e1543cf7f8def2f6a0ac7.jpg)