Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) must have been feeling pretty good standing on stage at Lone Star Convention and Expo Center in Conroe, Texas last week. Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend, ex-Fox News anchor Kimberly Guilfoyle, were there supporting the Texas senator for their fifth campaign stop in a row. …

Two years ago, Morgan Evans was a hungry singer-songwriter trying to make his way in Nashville after moving from his native Australia, where his career was already flourishing. In the brief time since, he has nearly lived an entire life. In late 2016, he became engaged to and later married …

Do “based on a true story” addiction dramas bum you out? My guess is you’ll still be moved by Beautiful Boy — an emotional workout that’s too powerful to resist. Steve Carell, proving again he’s as skilled at drama as he is in comedy, brings a fiercely moving core to …

Idina Menzel unveiled a stunning cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” The track will appear as a bonus song on the singer’s upcoming album, Idina: Live, which arrives October 12th. Menzel’s version of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” boasts a simple piano arrangement that’s bolstered perfectly by an …

Dua Lipa surprised Jimmy Kimmel with a late-night, in-bed performance of “Electricity,” her collaborative single with Silk City, on Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. The comedian’s wife, Molly McNearney, orchestrated the celebrity prank, which follows similar surprise visits from Rihanna, Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus. The clip opens with Lipa arriving …

President Trump on Tuesday morning accepted Nikki Haley’s resignation as ambassador to the United Nations. The news was first reported by Axios, which noted that Haleydiscussed her potential departure with President Trump when the two met last week at the White House. It’s unclear what motivated the decision, but foreign …

Esperanza Spalding is determined to turn her music into an event. After writing and recording her 2017 album, Exposure, during a continuous 77-hour live stream, she’s devised a similarly splashy roll-out for12 Little Spells. This time, she’s unveiling one song per day at 12:12 p.m. EST for 12 days — …

It’s a Monday afternoon in August, and Steve Perry is cheerfully belting out the Backstreet Boys’ “As Long As You Love Me.” Perry is visiting a buddy at his house in San Francisco, and the singer — who grew up on Sam Cooke, Otis Redding and the Kingston Trio, and …

There’s a simple but effective formula to a Sheck Wes song: a bass-rattling beat, off-key singing, basketball references and a lot of “bitch” ad-libs. Also, the Harlem rapper loves to say his own name. It doesn’t matter if it’s the basis of a hook (“Live Sheck Wes, bitch, I’m dying …

Matthew Houck’s studio is located at the back of a warehouse complex in East Nashville, the sort of place that looks like a quirky crime family in a Showtime drama might store a suitcase of unmarked bills there, hiding their stash in one of the pinkish-gray structures that border a …