If you wondered who the woman with the vintage Afro singing “What a Wonderful World” on the Oscars was, you’re no Justin Bieber fan. If you were, you’d recognize Esperanza Spalding as the jazz singer who brazenly stole the best new artist Grammy  from under Bieber’s nose in 2011, making her No. 1 on the tween-Interpol public-enemy chart.

But Spalding has more in common with Bieber than we might at first have assumed. It turns out the jazz usurper is a music video star, too – or at least should be, on the basis of her new album, “Radio Music Society,” which comes with an hour-length DVD or...

“Once” was not enough, as a movie. So a Broadway adaptation of the 2006 film officially opens next week, preceded by a soundtrack that has a pair of actors stepping into the vocal parts created so indelibly on screen by the duo the Swell Season.

But is the new release a cast recording, covers album, or both?

It’s a bit disconcerting, if you’re a fan of Glen Hansard -- the auteur behind the Swell Season as well as the Irish band the Frames -- to hear a seasoned and inevitably slicker thespian take over what amounted to nearly a full album’s worth of Hansard lead vocals. Whatever other concessions have been made for the theater, this “score” still...

On one side, in the all-star play “8,” which was live-streamed from Los Angeles Saturday night, you had George Clooney and Martin Sheen in the heroic roles of the pro-gay-marriage attorneys… not to mention Brad Pitt as a judge so sympathetic to the cause, he might as well have been starring in a buddy picture with the aforementioned leading men.

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On the other side, portraying a noted anti-gay-marriage advocate, you had Jane Lynch at her scenery-chewing best; think Sue Sylvester with a very specific reason for hating musicals. Then there was John C. Reilly as the bumbling lone “expert” to take the stand on the pro-Prop-8 side, looking...

Remember that triumphant moment when Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” won Album of the Year at the 1981 Grammys?

If so, you'd better get checked out for false memory syndrome, since Floyd lost that year to the then-unstoppable juggernaut that was Christopher Cross’ debut. Now there’s a seven-disc boxed set devoted to expanding upon the real best album of 1979-80 -- and, needless to say, “Sailing” isn’t on it.

Priced at over $100, “The Wall – Immersion Edition” is practically a brick unto itself, and not necessarily for fair-weather Floydians just looking to sing along...