The group’s superb new album, “Bloom,” sounds a lot like its gorgeous 2010 disc, “Teen Dream.” But somehow, it’s a more pleasing listen — like the mysterious epiphany that arrives when you rearrange the furniture in your apartment and it feels like you’ve invented a new home.

Edited to add: Another view from Charles T. Downey on Ionarts.

She’ll be in D.C. the following two nights opening for Coldplay at Verizon Center, but this intimate DJ gig gives fans an opportunity for a much more up-close-and-personal experience. Robyn will be joined by DJ Rokk, whose London club night Body Talk served as inspiration for Robyn’s sensational 2010 album of the same name. Tickets for the 18-and-over event go on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. are $25 in advance or $30 at the door.

Arena Stage announced the ambitious assembling of musicians as part of a campaign to raise awareness about music education in the D.C. area.

It’s on the protracted escalator ride up — the stairs you sprint for exercise — that the faint warbling starts to sound more like melody. The hollow notes break the usual rumblings. The swooshing. The screeching. The “Hello, I’m Janet Napolitano, Secretary of . . . ” you know the rest. And when you hit the passage adorned with posters of a coy Brian Williams and a man offering you a plate of linguine, you remove your ear buds to hear an aria — opera, interrupting your morning Playlist.

Bass guitarist Marcus Miller earned that title by a working a double shift. After anchoring a vibrant, funk-driven set by DMS, a new all-star group that teams him with George Duke and David Sanborn, Miller shrewdly underpinned Hancock’s sweeping finale.