At Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion, the teenpop supernova was as cool and confident as her debut album suggests.

The biennial early music extravaganza’s festival concerts on June 12 and 13 included music spanning a millenium, with nary a sour note.

Outdoor movies return to the Greenway, all things Morocco come to Revere, Cirque du Soleil tumbles into town, and more.

On her 14th studio album, she makes her multifaceted nature explicit, linking the title character’s many guises (secret agent, dancer, equestrian, nun, et cetera) to the hooky album’s overall concept.

The actress added a touch of Vegas to a program that also featured musical and multimedia tributes to the moon landing.

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The documentary “Echo in the Canyon” celebrates the mid-’60s LA rock scene.

Grace Kelly — who was mentored by the jazz impresario — as well as James Montgomery and Livingston Taylor will perform at the concert.

On his superb new solo album, songs that examine wanderlust, heartbreak, and the need for connection are framed by orchestrated pop and country and western.

The composer’s work was performed by Dunedin Consort and Vox Luminis, while Zachary Wilder and Josep Maria Martí Duran offered northern Italian lovers’ laments.

The North American premiere of the work, presented by Boston Early Music Festival, is determined to entertain, with dynamic singing actors, versatile dancers, fantastical scenery, opulent costumes, and enough bawdy sight gags to shake a shepherdess’s crook at.

Festival founder Donald Wilkinson gave composer Francine Trester his blessing to compose an opera about the boat “Can Do,” on which his father perished. Sadly, he didn’t live to see it realized, but the festival lives on.

Monster Jam comes to Gillette, world-class athletes compete in a “street meet,” Fenway homes double as musicians’ stages for Porchfest, and more.

What does it take to get an aging rocker to part with his beloved vinyl records?

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The app turned the simple joys of blithely browsing through and adding to one’s music collection into something more like a sequence of tiny tortures. 

Sponsored by the Free for All Concert Fund, the July 10 event kicks off the Landmarks Orchestra summer performances.

At 77, the bandleader known as Dr. Funkenstein took over the Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion for a 100-minute dash through greatest hits and more recent moonshots.

“It ain’t nothing like an old school track to get the party jumping just like that.”

A pillar of the Boston music scene, Brebner died in March. On Sunday, Arlington’s Regent Theatre will host a tribute to him.

A chat with travel guru Rick Steves, who joins the Boston Pops to take audiences on a musical trip through Europe.

Her songs capture the experience of being young, anxious, queer, and simultaneously in love with and enraged at the world.

The Colombian pop musician’s public relations firm says she denied any wrongdoing when she testified before a judge as part of an investigation into her alleged tax evasion in Spain.

Best known as a comic actress, Lynch is eager to show off her vocal chops with the Boston Pops.

Once a major figure, composer Agostino Steffani is little known today. But the Boston Early Music Festival has showcased his work in recent years, and it’s presenting the North American premiere of his opera “Orlando generoso,” a work notable for its psychological depth.

The Boston hard rock trio plays big music. Viking music. Epic stormcloud music.

The British band is celebrating 20 years of making music together with a new tour — including a stop at the Sinclair Friday — and a guest singer.

His new track “Outside” — which gets its video release this week — was inspired in part by the murder of Nipsey Hussle.

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That its catalog is full of genuinely great pop songs only adds to the band’s appeal, particularly in a live setting.

Missed your shot at the Boston production? Looks like you’ll have another chance to be in the room where it happens, and soon.

Indulge in ice cream to benefit a good cause, take in some music at the Boston Public Library, experience all things Greek at a Woburn festival, and more.

In Restoration England, some of the biggest musical hits were mad songs, and the most notable mad-song singer was Anne Bracegirdle.

The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra has composed and will be performing a new score.

It’s the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, time to celebrate a cultural lunar love affair.

In a promotional video that dropped Thursday, the Patriots wide receiver had a few questions about the massive block party that’s coming to Foxborough July 20-21.

School is in session for some famous faces.

Prosecutors in Chicago have charged R&B singer R. Kelly with 11 new sex-related counts, including some that carry a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.

Much of Ron Howard’s documentary about the famed tenor consists of talking heads heaping praise.

Leon Redbone, the acclaimed singer and guitarist who performed jazz, ragtime and Tin Pan Alley-style songs, died Thursday, according to a statement released by his family.

A study sponsored by the Berklee College of Music gathered its findings from 2,000 women.