The nominees for the 64th Annual Grammy Awards were announced today (November 23rd).

Chris Stapleton has three nods including Best Country Album (Starting Over), Best Country Solo Performance (“You Should Probably Leave”) and Best Country Song (“Cold”).

Mickey Guyton is nominated in three categories, including Best Country Solo Performance (“Remember Her Name”), Best Country Song (“Remember Her Name”), Best Country Album (Remember Her Name)

Carrie Underwood has a pair of nominations for Best Roots Gospel Album (My Savior), Best Country Duo/Group Performance (“If I Didn’t Love You”) with Jason Aldean.

Brothers Osborne pick up nominations for Best Country Duo/Group Performance (“Younger Me”), Best Country Album (Skeletons).

Kacey Musgraves has a pair of nods for Best Country Solo Performance (“camera roll”) and Best Country Song (“camera roll”).

The Grammy Awards ceremony will take place January 31st at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. It will recognize the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year, running from September 1, 2020, to September 30, 2021.

Best Country Solo Performance

“Forever After All,” Luke Combs
“Remember Her Name,” Mickey Guyton
“All I Do Is Drive,” Jason Isbell
“Camera Roll,” Kacey Musgraves
“You Should Probably Leave,” Chris Stapleton

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

“If I Didn’t Love You,” Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood
“Younger Me,” Brothers Osborne
“Glad You Exist,” Dan + Shay
“Chasing After You,” Ryan Hurd and Maren Morris
“Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home),” Elle King and Miranda Lambert

Best Country Song

“Better Than We Found It,” Jessie Jo Dillon, Maren Morris, Jimmy Robbins and Laura Veltz, songwriters (Maren Morris)
“Camera Roll,” Ian Fitchuk, Kacey Musgraves and Daniel Tashian, songwriters (Kacey Musgraves)
“Cold,” Dave Cobb, J.T. Cure, Derek Mixon and Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Chris Stapleton)
“Country Again,” Zach Crowell, Ashley Gorley and Thomas Rhett, songwriters (Thomas Rhett)
“Fancy Like,” Cameron Bartolini, Walker Hayes, Josh Jenkins and Shane Stevens, songwriters (Walker Hayes)
“Remember Her Name,” Mickey Guyton, Blake Hubbard, Jarrod Ingram and Parker Welling, songwriters (Mickey Guyton)

Best Country Album

“Skeletons,” Brothers Osborne
“Remember Her Name,” Mickey Guyton
“The Marfa Tapes,” Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall and Jack Ingram
“The Ballad of Dood & Juanita,” Sturgill Simpson
“Starting Over,” Chris Stapleton

Best Roots Gospel Album

“Alone With My Faith,” Harry Connick, Jr.
“That’s Gospel, Brother,” Gaither Vocal Band
“Keeping On,” Ernie Haase and Signature Sound
“Songs For the Times,” The Isaacs
“My Savior,” Carrie Underwood

Kacey Musgraves performed on the 2021-22 season premiere of NBC’s Saturday Night Live on October 2nd. She turned in performances of ‘justified” and “camera roll” from her new album, star-crossed.

Kacey Musgraves made her MTV Video Music Awards debut on Sunday (September 12th) with a world premiere performance of “star-crossed,” the title track of her brand new album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcScm6NN6aE

Kacey will also announce a special North American headlining tour dates in support of her new record and film. The limited 15-city tour titled, “star-crossed: unveiled”  kicks off January 19th, 2022 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The tour concludes on February 20th, 2022 in Los Angeles, California at STAPLES Center

Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves’ highly anticipated fourth studio album star-crossed is available today via Interscope Records/UMG Nashville featuring previously released title track “star-crossed” and single “justified” (see full tracklist below). Kacey has also shared the music video for the track “simple times,” featuring Victoria Pedretti (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, You), singer-songwriter Princess Nokia, and Symone (RuPaul’s Drag Race winner). Watch the video here. star-crossed is available now for purchase here: https://kacey.lnk.to/starcrossed

star-crossed : the film is now exclusively streaming on Paramount+ in the US, Latin America, Australia, the Nordics and Canada. Fans outside of these markets can watch on MTV across its worldwide network of channels in nearly 180 regions. star-crossed : the film is presented by Interscope Films and is an Anonymous Content Production in association with UMG Nashville, Sandbox Entertainment and Golden Girl Productions.

star-crossed has been critically acclaimed by everyone from Associated Press, NPR, The New York Times, Billboard, SPIN, and Pitchfork among others. USA Today raved “the genre-defying singer is back with an even more sonically adventurous new effort,” The New York Times described star-crossed as “the psychological hangover to “Golden Hour,” and Stereogum detailed it as “Golden Hour‘s emotional inverse.” Kacey celebrated the star-crossed release with a chat on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night and will top it all off with a CBS This Morning interview with Gayle King airing tomorrow.

Kacey just announced special North American headlining tour dates in support of her new record and film. The limited 15-city tour titled, “star-crossed: unveiled” is promoted by AEG Presents and kicks off January 19, 2022 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The tour concludes on February 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California at STAPLES Center (see below for full tour dates). King Princess and MUNA are confirmed as support artists for these dates. Tickets are on sale to the general public now at http://www.kaceymusgraves.com/tour.

star-crossed track list:

1. star-crossed
2. good wife
3. cherry blossom
4. simple times
5. if this was a movie..
6. justified
7. angel
8. breadwinner
9. camera roll
10. easier said
11. hookup scene
12. keep lookin’ up
13. what doesn’t kill me
14. there is a light
15. gracias a la vida

2022 star-crossed: unveiled US tour :

16. Jan 19 / Saint Paul, MN / Xcel Energy Center
17. Jan 20 / Chicago, IL / United Center
18. Jan 21 / Kansas City, MO / T-Mobile Center
19. Jan 23 / Cleveland, OH / Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse
20. Jan 24 / Toronto, ON / Scotiabank Arena
21. Jan 26 / Philadelphia, PA / Wells Fargo Center
22. Jan 27 / Boston, MA / TD Garden
23. Feb 3 / Washington DC / Capital One Arena
24. Feb 5 / New York, NY / Madison Square Garden
25. Feb 9 / Atlanta, GA / State Farm Arena
26. Feb 11 / Nashville, TN / Bridgestone Arena
27. Feb 14 / Dallas, TX / American Airlines Center
28. Feb 16 / Denver, CO / Ball Arena
29. Feb 19 / Oakland, CA / Oakland Arena
30. Feb 20 / Los Angeles, CA / STAPLES Center

Luke Bryan is among the artists taking part in Loretta Lynn’s Friends: Hometown Rising Flood Relief Benefit Concert at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville on September 13th. Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood and Luke Combs are also among the artists performing with more names to be added soon. Proceeds from the event set for broadcast and live stream will directly support United Way of Humphreys County. The special event will broadcast live on Circle Network at 8pm ET/7pm CT in addition to live streaming on Circle All Access via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Keith Urban appeared on NBC’s Today Show on Friday performing a few songs including his latest single, “Wild Hearts” and “One Too Many.”

Kacey Musgraves is scheduled to perform on CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday (September 9th).

Kacey Musgraves announces special North American headlining tour dates in support of her new record and film star-crossed. The limited 15-city tour titled, “star-crossed: unveiled” is promoted by AEG Presents and kicks off January 19, 2022 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.  The tour concludes on February 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California at STAPLES Center (see below for full tour dates).  King Princess and MUNA are confirmed as support artists for these dates.  The “star-crossed: unveiled”  tour news follows the announcement of Kacey’s latest record star-crossed due out September 10, 2021. Watch the music video for the album’s lead single “justified” here. Fans can sign up for early access to tickets by going to http://www.starcrossedunveiled.com/.  American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Thursday, September 2^nd at 10am local time through Wednesday, September 8^th at 10pm local time.  Tickets go sale to the general public Thursday, September 9 at 10am local time at http://www.kaceymusgraves.com/tour

Kacey’s Oh, What A World: Tour, in support of her groundbreaking and critically acclaimed 2018 album Golden Hour spanned over two years and included a memorable arena tour with Harry Styles and headlining some of her biggest venues including New York’s Radio City Music Hall and Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.  Musgraves and her band delivered stellar performances at some of the biggest festivals including  Coachella, Stagecoach, Fuji Rocks Festival, Global Citizen Festival, Austin City Limits, Outside Lands, Newport Folk Festival, Bonnaroo, Governor’s Ball, Farm Aid, Lollapalooza and more. UPROXX called Oh, What a World: Tour “…a celebration of great songwriting,” and “enough to make even the biggest skeptic say giddyup”.   Variety says, “her onstage presence and command of the crowd have become arena-sized with ease.” star-crossed: unveiled promises to bring even more excitement and energy. 

Kacey Musgraves releases new single and video for “justified,” from her forthcoming album star-crossed, out September 10th via Interscope / MCA Nashville.  The video for “justified” was directed by Bardia Zeinali and taken from star-crossed : the film, a visual companion to the album, also out September 10th.  The video beautifully chronicles the quiet self-reflection and setbacks of rebuilding as Musgraves learns “healing doesn’t happen in a straight line.” The video made its broadcast premiere on MTV Live, MTVU, CMT, CMT Music and on the ViacomCBS Times Square billboard.  Listen to “justified” here and check out the video here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-0PaQanGBc&list=PLY6IURoiYR_cfea_ugb7MXSXFAUwfAhn1&index=2

Earlier this week Musgraves released brand new song “star-crossed,” the album’s title-track and it was announced she would debut the song live in her first ever MTV VMAs performance on September 12th.  The trailer for star-crossed : the film was also released earlier this week, the full film will begin streaming September 10 exclusively on Paramount+.  The film finds Musgraves reunited with director and friend Bardia Zeinali.  The pair met on the set of a Vogue shoot in 2019 and he later directed Musgraves in the visual to the video for “Easy,” her collaboration with Troye Sivan from 2020.

The global premiere of Kacey Musgraves’ star-crossed : the film will exclusively stream on Paramount+ in the US, Latin America, Australia, the Nordics and Canada beginning on Friday, September 10th. Fans outside of these markets can watch on MTV across its worldwide network of channels in nearly 180 regions.  star-crossed : the film is presented by Interscope Films and is an Anonymous Content Production in association with UMG Nashville, Sandbox Entertainment and Golden Girl Productions.

Six-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves will release her highly-anticipated fourth studio album star-crossed on September 10th, via Interscope Records / UMG Nashville.  star-crossed : the film directed by Bardia Zeinali, stars Musgraves, and will be streamed exclusively via Paramount+ on the same day. The title track written by Musgraves, Daniel Tashian, and Ian Fitchuk along with the film’s trailer are both out now.  star-crossed is the first album of new material from Musgraves since releasing her groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed album Golden Hour in 2018.  Check out title track “star-crossed,” here and check out star-crossed : the film trailer below.

star-crossed, the album, found Musgraves collaborating once again with co-producers and writers, Ian Fitchuk and Daniel Tashian, and was recorded in Nashville,TN earlier this year in just under 3 weeks.  The 15-song collection, structured as a modern-day tragedy in three acts, tells an extremely personal journey of heartache and healing and displays Musgraves continued growth as one of the finest singer-songwriters of our time. Pre-order the album here.

star-crossed : the film, takes the music from the studio to the screen with gorgeous visuals and a sense of heightened reality envisioned by Musgraves and Zeinali and shot by Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Matthew Libatique (A Star Is Born, Black Swan). “We wanted it to feel cinematic and epic without compromising the heart and the emotion,” Zeinali says, “to feel fantastical and heightened and tell her story through the lens of art and fashion.”  The 50 -minute movie was filmed over a 10 day shoot in Los Angeles and features cameos from Emmy Award-winner Eugene Levy, Victoria Pedretti (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, You), singer-songwriter Princess Nokia, Symone (RuPaul’s Drag Race winner) and comedian Megan Stalter.  The global premiere of Kacey Musgraves’ star-crossed : the film will exclusively debut on Paramount+ in the US, Latin America, Australia, the Nordics and Canada beginning on Friday, September 10th. Fans outside of these markets can watch on MTV across its worldwide network of channels in nearly 180 regions.  star-crossed : the film is presented by Interscope Films and is an Anonymous Content Production in association with UMG Nashville, Sandbox Entertainment and Golden Girl Productions.

star-crossed track listing:

1. star-crossed
2. good wife
3. cherry blossom
4. simple times
5. if this was a movie..
6. justified
7. angel
8. breadwinner
9. camera roll
10. easier said
11. hookup scene
12. keep lookin’ up
13. what doesn’t kill me
14. there is a light
15. gracias a la vida

Carrie Underwood is featured on NEEDTOBREATHE‘s new single, “I Wanna Remember.” “I have been a huge fan of NEEDTOBREATHE forever and I was so honored when the stars aligned and Bear agreed to lend his incredible vocals to a song on my recent gospel album,” says Carrie. “Needless to say, I was thrilled when he and the band invited me to be a part of their new project.  I love the song and have had the best time getting to know and sing with these amazingly talented guys.”As you may recall, NTB’s Bear Rinehart contributed vocals to “Nothing But the Blood of Jesus” on her recent gospel album, My Savior. 

Check out the brand new video for @NEEDTOBREATHE’s #IWannaRemember featuring Carrie now! https://t.co/ZFsRMPqqXU -TeamCU pic.twitter.com/2J0DvsJVTx

— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) May 20, 2021

Kacey Musgraves appears on the cover of the new issue of Elle magazine, in which she talks about new music, emotions and navigating her life since the release of her Grammy award-winning album, Golden Hour. Check it the cover story here.

George Strait will headline the 20th Anniversary of Austin City Limits Festival this October. The festival will feature a diverse lineup of acts with 8 stages and more than 125 performances over the course of  two weekends — October 1st – 3rd and October 8th – 10th. The ACL festival will include performances by Jon Pardi, Tanya Tucker, Cam, Billie Eilish, Stevie Nicks, Miley Cyrus, Erykah Badu, Megan Thee Stallion, Dababy, Machine Gun Kelly, Greta Van Fleet and many more. For additional information, go to aclfestival.com.

Just announced! George is headlining the 20th Anniversary of ACL Festival this October! @aclfestival

Get your tickets at https://t.co/sQFqXQ1UNh pic.twitter.com/B5qvdmEujU

— George Strait (@GeorgeStrait) May 20, 2021

Kylie Morgan just premiered the music video for her song, “Shoulda,” on CMT. “I co-wrote this song over Zoom back when we thought quarantine would be over in a few months,” Kylie previously said in a press release. “Even in those first few weeks I was going crazy wanting to get back to ‘normal.’ I wanted to go sit at a bar, hug a stranger or most of all, play more shows. So, I put all of those feelings into this song by highlighting we want what we can’t have and want to do what we shouldn’t. Once this is all behind us, my dream is to play this song in a stadium full of people with everyone singing the words back to me. I hope this is our anthem for all the things we shoulda done.”