Langhorne Slim’s on the ‘Move’

The singer’s new album is influenced by the ups and downs of life.

Thomas Adès (left) and Kirill Gerstein (right) will play a four-hand piano work to begin the Boston Symphony Chamber Players concert Nov. 18.

ClassicalNotes

New vinyl LP release of Dudamel conducting Mendelssohn

For this semi-serious vinyl collector, seeing and holding the Dudamel LP was an experience both reassuring and strange.

Concert cheers Boston sports

The Pops salute the only American city to boast 21st-century champions in professional baseball, football, basketball, and ice hockey.

High Five

5 ways Amy Correia relates to Donna Summer

The local singer/songwriter felt particularly affected.

Night Watch: Skrillex, Christian Arango, and Nicky Romero at Ocean Club

The Ocean Club starts off its third season with a bang.

Boston singer Marianne Solivan’s NY move pays off

When Solivan first got tto NYC, she left behind the comfortable lifestyle that she had made for herself in the Boston scene.

With “Beaus$Eros,” Regan Farquhar, who performs as Busdriver, says he has made his most personal album to date, sorting through the feelings following a failed relationship.

Fake Four Inc.

Rapper Busdriver gets personal on ‘Beaus$eros’

The Los Angeles rapper has long piled words on top of words with a gifted if unorthodox delivery.

Ryan Montbleau, known for his funk and R&B repertoire which he tours regularly, performing recently with his band at Showcase Live in Foxborough.

Scene& Heard

Montbleau stirs up some soul

A New Orleans collaboration creates new music for the Lawrence singer.

EVENTS

Upcoming music events around Boston

Critic’s picks for music around the Boston area.

“We haven’t heard much from the singer-songwriter since [2010], but his new album makes it clear that the intervening years have been tough.”

Critic James Reed,  on John Mayer

Inside Arts & Lifestyle

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2012 Summer Arts Preview
Jessica Lorion (second from right) as Babette and the other enchanted objects of “Beauty and the Beast’’ at the Boston Opera House.

Stages

Taunton actress comes home in ‘Beauty and the Beast’

Langhorne Slim’s on the ‘Move’
Liz Longley performed at Club Passim in Cambridge.

Events

Boston area to do list
Whitecrest Beach.

Best beaches guide for New England
Nadine Labaki (center) co-wrote, directed, and costars as a cafe owner in the black comedy “Where Do We Go Now?’’

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Where Do We Go Now’ is a Lebanese ‘Lysistrata’

“I was scared to leave for a million reasons,” says Marianne Solivan about making a career move to New York.

Solivan’s move to New York pays off
Thomas Adès (left) and Kirill Gerstein (right) will play a four-hand piano work to begin the Boston Symphony Chamber Players concert Nov. 18.

ClassicalNotes

Dudamel’s dream LP

New England Summer Travel

10 great New England vacation ideas (away from the beach)
From left: Joe ODAGIRI, Koki MAEDA, Nene OTSUKA, Oshiro Maeda in “I Wish.”

MOVIE REVIEW

In Koreeda’s ‘I Wish,’ childhood feels realized
Mickey Drexler (left) with CNBC anchor David Faber in “J.Crew and the Man Who Dressed America.”

Television Review

‘J.Crew and the Man Who Dressed America’
Detail of “Spills in Safe Environment,’’ a painting by Etienne Zack from the “Oh, Canada” exhibit at Mass MoCA.

‘Oh, Canada!’ shows the boundless arts of being Canadian

Classical music

Classical Notes

Composer Lisa Bielawa (pictured here in her New York apartment) returns to Boston next week for the debut of “Collective Memories in Fragments.”

Lisa Bielawa comes back with a new venture

Bielawa was composer in residence with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project from 2006-09.

Pop music

Summer Arts Preview | Pop Music

Vocalist Shirley Manson and Butch Vig performed in Seattle in 2005, the year Garbage released its last album and took a hiatus. On the wings of “Not Your Kind of People,’’ its new album, Garbage comes to the Paradise Saturday night.

Garbage enjoying a musical reunion after 7 years

Shirley Manson and her bandmates are not the only ’90s band making an appearance this summer.

Local music

Noisy Neighbors

Jenee Halstead, ‘Raised by Wolves’

By the time Halstead gets to “Bitten by the Night,” it’s apparent she’s not the same singer-songwriter she presented on her debut.

Album reviews

Album Review | POP

Soul searching suits John Mayer well

“Born and Raised” is an honest, and oftentimes compelling, statement on Mayer’s road to redemption.

Concert reviews

Music Review

At Jordan Hall, artistic director Gil Rose conducted the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s final concert of the season.

BMOP ends season with mythological leap

Artistic director Gil Rose was on the podium for this ambitious final concert of the BMOP season.

Jeremy Eichler

Classical music critic

Eichler previously wrote for the New York Times about classical music and other cultural topics.

Sarah Rodman

Arts critic

Rodman covers popular music and television for the Living/Arts section.

James Reed

Pop music critic

Reed is a pop music critic covering everything from indie rock and folk to Latin pop and hip-hop.

Magazine

The cover for the May 20 2012 issue

Best beaches guide for New England
The cover for the May 13 2012 issue

Things to do in and around Boston this week
The cover for the May 6 2012 issue

Homes for sale for $250,000, $500,000, $750,000, and $1 million
The cover for the April 29 2012 issue

Dying wishes expected to be decided on November ballot

Movies

“With the nincompoop immigrant Borat and the gay fool Bruno, we knew what Cohen was going after: the surprising comedy of discomfort. What’s the point of this dictator?”

Wesley Morris