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At the ACM Awards in Las Vegas, Ella Langley swept seven trophies across five categories, Cody Johnson won two awards including Entertainer of the Year, and the red carpet and backstage moments featured standout fashion from Kacey Musgraves, Shania Twain, Lainey Wilson and other stars.
Kacey Musgraves made her ACM Awards debut with a playful, risqué performance of “Dry Spell” from Middle of Nowhere, opening on a washing machine and then moving through a cheeky grocery-store setup with suggestive signage; the country-leaning album was released May 1, 2026, and although she has seven ACM wins, she isn’t nominated this year as the ceremony features other performers.
A round-up of four new album reviews: Kacey Musgraves’ Middle of Nowhere is polished and atmospheric but not revelatory; American Football’s LP4 is a bold, introspective redefinition that pushes their sound forward; Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide is lengthy and thematically repetitive despite strong moments; Metric’s Romanticize the Dive marks a confident, self-sufficient tenth album that embraces experimentation and perseverance.
Rolling Stone’s weekly Songs You Need to Know picks highlight Kacey Musgraves’s ‘I Believe in Ghosts,’ Vince Staples’s ‘Blackberry Marmalade,’ and Madonna with Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Bring Your Love,’ plus a broad slate of fresh tracks from artists across pop, hip-hop, and indie.
Kacey Musgraves returns to her Texas roots on Middle of Nowhere, blending traditional country twang with música mexicana influences while enlisting guests like Willie Nelson, Billy Strings, and Miranda Lambert. The album juxtaposes witty, self-assured lyricism with heartfelt moments, celebrating a homecoming that’s both humorous and heartbreakingly honest. It’s her strongest full-length since Golden Hour, a cohesive, Texan-infused journey that anchors her evolving voice amid nostalgia and growth.
Kacey Musgraves’ Middle of Nowhere returns to traditional country textures with a guest-heavy lineup (Billy Strings, Miranda Lambert, Willie Nelson) and a Texas-inspired thread. The album blends pedal steel, Tex-Mex touches, and ’70s rock as it surveys country subgenres, anchored by tracks like Dry Spell, Abilene, Everybody Wants to Be a Cowboy, and Rhinestoned. Musgraves sings mostly in a lower, more resigned register as she explores independence and imperfect romance, delivering a witty, cohesive, and confident pivot from Deeper Well and Golden Hour.
Kacey Musgraves returns to her roots with Middle Of Nowhere, her first Lost Highway release, blending country textures with folk and pop for a livelier, more varied set that reinvigorates her songwriting. With guests like Miranda Lambert, Willie Nelson, and Billy Strings, the album offers witty, insightful tracks about love, single life, and homecoming—arguably her strongest work since Golden Hour.
Kacey Musgraves describes Middle of Nowhere as a return to country on her own terms, written during a long period of single life, blending humor with honesty (including the self-pleasure lyric from “Dry Spell”). The album features a late-added duet with Miranda Lambert and a cameo by Willie Nelson, was crafted with longtime collaborators, and is accompanied by a new tour after a period of personal growth and a Texas/Mexico-based sense of home.
Kacey Musgraves announces the Middle of Nowhere Tour, a North American headlining run this fall from August 21 in Chicago to October 27 in Seattle, with a rotating slate of openers (Midland, Flatland Cavalry, Carter Faith, Charles Wesley Godwin, Estevie, William Beckmann, Gabriella Rose, Brudi Brothers) and the Mariachi Brothers opening three Texas shows; the tour supports her upcoming album Middle of Nowhere (May 1, Lost Highway), which includes the singles “Dry Spell” and the title track and features guests Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings, and Gregory Alan Isakov, following her Grammy-winning 2024 release Deeper Well.
Kacey Musgraves has tapped the Gámez-Cuéllar brothers—Antonio, Caleb and Joshua, members of Mariachi Oro—to open three Texas stops on her Middle of Nowhere tour at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels; the brothers were detained by ICE earlier this year during a court check-in linked to their asylum-seeking family and were released in March, a situation Musgraves says she wants to highlight by spotlighting Tejano and mariachi music on her upcoming album.
Three teenage mariachi brothers—Antonio (18), Caleb (14) and Joshua (12)—detained with their parents by ICE in February were released after bipartisan backlash and have been tapped to open for Kacey Musgraves on her Middle of Nowhere tour at Gruene Hall in Texas (May 3–5, Cinco de Mayo). Their family, who arrived in the U.S. in 2023 seeking asylum after fleeing cartel threats, had been held in Dilley and in an adult facility for Antonio, drawing attention from lawmakers and supporters who urged humane treatment for talented performers navigating the immigration system.
Kacey Musgraves hit back at Trump's AI Jesus meme by sharing an AI image that depicts Dolly Parton as a Christ-like savior healing the sick, posted on X with no caption, highlighting Parton's iconic status and the online backlash to AI-generated imagery.
Rolling Stone’s weekly music roundup highlights new releases from Kacey Musgraves, James Blake, Kim Gordon, plus a wave of other artists, with standout tracks like Musgraves’ "Dry Spell", Blake’s "Just a Little Higher", and Gordon’s "Busy Bee" among the week’s highlights.
Kacey Musgraves reveals that her song Mama's Broken Heart was pitched to Miranda Lambert without her knowledge, fueling a rumored feud after Lambert recorded it for Lambert's 2013 Four the Record; Musgraves later wrote Merry Go Round, and the two have since reconciled enough to collaborate on a track for Musgraves' upcoming album Middle of Nowhere, due in May—a full-circle moment that leads to a joint song on the project.
Kacey Musgraves told NPR she originally wanted to record Miranda Lambert’s 2011 hit ‘Mama’s Broken Heart’ but Lambert ended up releasing it, a move Musgraves says helped fuel their long-running feud. The two have since buried the hatchet and co-written the song ‘Horses and Divorces’ for Musgraves’s upcoming album Middle of Nowhere, due May 1, while Musgraves also unveils the new track ‘Dry Spell.’