Taylor Swiftdelivers a paean to a handsome object of desire on new song “Gorgeous,” the third offering from her upcoming album Reputation, out November 10th. The song is the yang to the vindictive, angry yin of “Look What You Made Me Do,” as Swift sings wistfully about a man she’s …

If you’ve been to the movies any time over the last century, you’re familiar with men like Eric Marsh. They’re hard-ass guys, often stoic but capable of being sensitive and, in rare cases, prone to sentimentality. Their flaws and temper-flares are balanced out by their virtues: staunch professionalism, a salt-of-the-earth …

Beck gave an electric performance of “Up All Night” on Ellen Tuesday. The track appears on the musician’s latest album, Colors. The performance found Beck and his backing band breezily playing through the ecstatic pop-rock cut. Amidst flourishes of glittering disco guitars and supple harmonies, Beck embraced the dance-happy environs …

Barack and Michelle Obamaselected the artists who will paint their portraits for the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the museum announced Friday. According to the National Portrait Gallery‘s website, the former president tapped renowned New York-based artist Kehinde Wiley. The former first lady chose up-and-coming Baltimore-based artist Amy Sherald to paint …

Before you start yawning and think you’d rather die than sit through a dutiful, drowsy, ever-so-virtuous biopic about Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to hold a seat on the Supreme Court, get a grip. Marshall, directed with spiky humor and propulsive drive by Reginald Hudlin, is nothing like that. Drawn …

Any good bluegrass band is worth its weight in cover songs, so it’s no surprise to see Infamous Stringdusters returning to the fertile territory of their 2015 EP Undercover. The Virginians have a sequel, Undercover Vol. 2, on the way, which includes their version of the Cure’s “Just Like Heaven.” …

After a week on The Tonight Show, Miley Cyrus ventured to Los Angeles to help James Corden avoid traffic with “Carpool Karaoke” on Tuesday’s Late Late Show. With Corden controlling the car radio, Cyrus and the late-night host sang her hits like “We Can’t Stop,” “The Climb,” “Party in the …

In March 1973, an item appeared in the Random Notes section of Rolling Stone about John Hammond of Columbia Records. The veteran A&R man had suffered a heart attack while checking out a concert by a new act he’d just signed. “He attributed it to a heavy work schedule and …

Motormouthed rapper Open Mike Eagle has gotten raves for albums that explore the comedy of neurosis. His new one, easily his headiest, is a concept LP built around Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes, a famously mismanaged housing project destroyed 10 years ago. Eagle impressionistically inserts himself into events real and imagined. …

Abig story hit the news this week after a joint investigation by ProPublica, WNYC and The New Yorker. Reporters Andrea Bernstein, Jesse Eisenger, Justin Elliott and Ilya Marritz discovered that Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance dropped a potential felony fraud case against Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., before a campaign …