Daoud Tyler-Ameen
-
The New York icons whose songs pulled rock inside out (and whose breakup was nearly as legendary) gather for the first time in years to discuss their rereleased concert film, Stop Making Sense.
-
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.
-
In a remix featuring Christopher Jackson and BeBe Winans, Obama channels the viral "Yes We Can" video from the 2008 campaign that inspired Hamilton's "One Last Time" in the first place.
-
Certain musical rhythms trip us up: We try to dance or count along and keep losing our place. Two musicians explain what makes some beats so slippery, and what butter has to do with making them stick.
-
Watching Cluck perform jams the senses. It's almost easier to imagine some tiny spirit in her chest is controlling the action, turning a pitch wheel with one hand and a tone knob with the other.
-
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.
-
At 24, Katie Crutchfield has already had multiple careers as a musician. She broke through last year with an aching, bare-bones solo album — but the follow-up, Cerulean Salt, has roots in her years playing underground punk shows.
-
Zach Yudin is one of those brainy, studio-savvy musicians who can get a sound out of any instrument he picks up. On his debut as Cayucas, he indulges summer nostalgia from a healthy distance. Hear "A Summer Thing."
-
The Best Picture nominee about two musicians nearing the end of life uses music sparingly but crushingly.