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Taylor Swift, center, performs at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, May 19, 2013 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Taylor Swift wins eight of 11 at Billboard Music Awards

Monday, May 20, 2013

Another day, another domination for Taylor Swift: She was the red hot winner at the Billboard Music Awards. Swift won eight of 11 awards, including top artist and top Billboard 200 album for “Red.” She told the crowd: “You are the longest and best relationship I ever had.” She also had a colorful performance of her hit “22” — starting … 0

Beyonce reportedly pregnant

Sunday, May 19, 2013

LOS ANGELES — Beyonce is pregnant with her second child — another baby with husband Jay-Z, more sources said Friday. Multiple sources confirmed the pregnancy to E! News on Friday after the New York Post went public Monday with sourced rumors of a second pregnancy. The singer had nixed a performance of “The … 0

Tuned in

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Northampton writer/musician Ella Longpre celebrates the release of her first-ever chapbook, “The Odor of the Hoax Was Gone,” with a show at Flying Object in Hadley Thursday at 8 p.m. Longpre can quiet a bustling room with her hushed songs, sometimes even with her back to the crowd (as she did one night, … 0

Pioneer Valley Symphony performs Saturday in Greenfield

Thursday, May 16, 2013

The curtain is about to close on Pioneer Valley Symphony’s star-studded season, PVS at the Movies. Thankfully, the symphony’s final visit to movie music is one where fiery crashes, bloody chases, or floor-rocking explosions have neither pride nor … 0

Clubland: Big Sandy and his boys fly right at Iron Horse

Friday, May 17, 2013

Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys is a band out of time. It speaks my grandfather’s vocabulary of pre-Beatles pop music, of songs aimed at the dance floor, guitar-driven tunes that kick it up on the common ground … 1

Advance bookings

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Advance bookings Pitbull — Fri., May 24, 8 p.m., MassMutual Center, Springfield. $72.50-$122.50. massmutualcenter.com Aretha Franklin — Sun., May 26, 7 p.m., Foxwoods. $40-$65. foxwoods.com Seth Meyers — Thurs., June 20, 8 p.m., Calvin Theatre, Northampton. $35. 586-8686, … 0

Track Record

Thursday, May 16, 2013

American Kid Patty Griffin New West; $10 Patty Griffin bookends her seventh album “American Kid” with two songs about the death of her father, opening with the wistful, spiritually open-hearted “Go Wherever You Wanna Go.” The song features … 0

Weekend planner — music

Friday, May 17, 2013

An annual ratification of the arrival of spring since 1995, the Northampton Community Music Center’s Springfest finds hundreds of NCMC students and faculty taking to the streets of downtown Northampton for a day of public performances and festivities. … 0

Weekend planner — club

Friday, May 17, 2013

Sometimes called “The James Taylor of Scotland,” Dougie MacLean is known for his rich imagery, lyrical melodies and a folk style deeply rooted in his native heritage. “Caledonia,” his stirring ballad about the yearning evoked by separation from … 0

Dave Brubeck’s life, music celebrated

Monday, May 13, 2013

NEW YORK — A celebration of Dave Brubeck’s life and music turned into an ode to joy as family, friends and fans paid tribute to the groundbreaking pianist and composer who became the best known ambassador of jazz to the world. Brubeck died Dec. 5, a day before … 0

Amandla Chorus marks 25 years of singing for peace, justice, humanity

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

It’s not every chorus that has Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu joining them in song. But if you spend two and a half decades singing about peace, justice, freedom and the ties that bind us, chances are … 0

Tuned In

Thursday, May 9, 2013

When guitarist/vocalist Tom Pappalardo and drummer/vocalist Sturgis Cunningham join forces, they become The Demographic. Priding themselves on bull-free rock songs, the twosome can pummel their instruments with blunt force ... but even when they go “unplugged” and replace … 0

Clubland: AstroBeast brings ‘music for dancing’ to The Elevens in Northampton

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Dan Richardson mans the mixing board with a huge grin, fine-tuning with faders and knobs while bopping around in the back of the room to the live music happening on stage. That sentence was accurate in 1994, the … 0