Kacey Musgraves is teaming up with musicians from her home state of Texas on a trio of upcoming album release shows, with the country star announcing Tuesday (April 28) that she’ll be joined by The Mariachi Brothers — aka the three boys who were detained by ICE earlier this year despite previously performing on Capitol Hill — on the outing.

The shows will take place at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas, on May 3, 4 and 5, kicking off two days after Musgraves’ new LP Middle of Nowhere is set to drop. The Grammy winner got the word out by simply sharing a poster for the event on Instagram reading, “Kacey Musgraves … with special guests The Mariachi Brothers.”

Below that, the names of McAllen residents Antonio, Caleb and Joshua Gámez-Cuéllar — the sons of Gámez Martínez and Emma Guadalupe Cuéllar López — are displayed. The whole family was arrested by ICE and detained in Texas for about two weeks before they were released in March amid growing unrest over the Donald Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies, which has included mass deportations and widely protested raids across the country.

Antonio, who is 18, is an award-winning mariachi trumpeter. His band with 14-year-old Caleb and 12-year-old Joshua played on Capitol Hill last year at the invitation of Rep. Monica De La Cruz, a Republican congresswoman who has been a vocal supporter of the twice-impeached president and his immigration policies. When the brothers and their parents were arrested, however, she called for their release and described them as “valued members of the community.”

Like dozens of other musicians, Musgraves has previously spoken out against ICE. In June 2025, she wrote on X, “If protesters can’t wear masks ICE shouldn’t be able to either.”

Arriving Friday (May 1), Middle of Nowhere will mark her sixth studio album and follow up 2024’s Deeper Well, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The project features collaborations with Miranda Lambert and Willie Nelson. So far, fans have only heard two tracks: lead single “Dry Spell” and the title track.

See Musgraves’ announcement for her performances with The Mariachi Brothers below.

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A man accused of pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and plotting to attack one of superstar singer Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna nearly two years ago pleaded guilty as his trial began on Tuesday, his lawyer said.

The plot was thwarted, but Austrian authorities still canceled Swift’s three performances in August 2024. The singer’s fans, known as Swifties, who had flown to Austria from across the globe to attend a performance of her record-setting Eras Tour were devastated, but rallied to turn Vienna into a citywide trading post for friendship bracelets and singalongs.

The defendant, a 21-year-old Austrian citizen known only as Beran A. in line with Austrian privacy rules, faced charges including terrorist offenses and membership in a terrorist organization. He could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison, and has been in custody since August 2024.

The Vienna plot drew comparisons to a 2017 attack by a suicide bomber at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, that killed 22 people. The bomb detonated at the end of Grande’s concert as thousands of young fans were leaving, becoming the deadliest extremist attack in the United Kingdom in recent years.

Defendant regrets his actions

Anna Mair, his defense attorney, said her client pleaded guilty to the charges related to the concert plot.

“Of course, he deeply regrets it all,” Mair said outside the court, adding that “he says it was the biggest mistake of his life.”

Austrian media reported that he also pleaded guilty to being a member of a terrorist organization.

Beran A. is facing trial alongside Arda K., whose full name also has not been made public. They, along with a third man, planned to carry out simultaneous attacks in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates during Ramadan in 2024 in the name of the Islamic State group. Beran A. and Arda K. never carried out their attacks.

Only Beran A. was charged in connection with the concert plot. He pleaded not guilty to the charges related to the plot for simultaneous attacks.

He allegedly planned to target onlookers gathered outside Ernst Happel Stadium — up to 30,000 each night, with another 65,000 inside the venue — with knives or homemade explosives. The suspect hoped to “kill as many people as possible,” authorities said in 2024. The U.S. provided intelligence that fed into the decision to cancel the concerts.

Beran A. also allegedly networked with other members of the Islamic State group ahead of the planned attack. Prosecutors say they discussed purchasing weapons and making bombs, and that the defendant also sought to illegally buy weapons in the days ahead of the performance. In addition, he swore allegiance to the militant group.

Authorities searched his apartment on Aug. 7, 2024, and found bomb-making materials. The concerts were scheduled to begin the next day.

“Having our Vienna shows canceled was devastating,” Swift wrote in a statement posted to Instagram two weeks later. “The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows.”

A representative for Swift did not immediately return a request for comment Tuesday.

The trial is being held in Wiener Neustadt, about an hour south of Vienna. The proceedings are set to continue May 12.

Three attacks planned in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and UAE

Prosecutors have also filed terrorism-related charges against Arda K. in the trial in connection with the plan for simultaneous attacks in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

The third man in that plot, Hasan E., allegedly stabbed a security guard with a knife at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on March 11, 2024. He was arrested and remains in pretrial detention in Saudi Arabia, Austrian prosecutors said.

Beran A. and Arda K. did not carry out their plans in Turkey and the UAE. Beran A. returned to Vienna and then allegedly began plotting to attack a Swift concert there.

This story was first published by The Associated Press.

Madonna’s “I Feel So Free,” the first song released from her forthcoming Confessions II studio album (due July 3 via Warner Records), debuts on four Billboard charts (dated May 2), including a No. 1 arrival on the Dance Digital Song Sales tally. It also takes a bow on Digital Song Sales, Hot Dance/Pop Songs and Dance/Mix Show Airplay.

The track arrived exclusively via iHeartRadio’s Pride Radio on Friday, April 17, before becoming widely available through streaming services and digital download stores, alongside an official visualizer.

In addition to its No. 1 entrance on Dance Digital Song Sales (Madonna’s second leader on the 16-year-old chart), “I Feel So Free” arrives at No. 6 on the all-genre Digital Song Sales, marking her first appearance on the ranking since 2024, when “Like a Prayer” debuted on the ranking, 35 years after its release, following its appearance in the movie Deadpool & Wolverine. “Free” becomes her 10th top 10 on Digital Song Sales, which started in 2004.

Speaking of “Like a Prayer,” DJ Josh Fawaz’s cover climbs 5-3 on Dance Digital Song Sales and debuts at No. 19 on Digital Song Sales and No. 11 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs.

“I Feel So Free” also opens at No. 12 on Hot Dance/Pop Songs — Madonna’s first entry on the one-year-old chart, following seven appearances on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (the latter chart is now a DJ-centered ranking).

Plus, the track debuts at No. 14 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay, Madonna’s 17th entry on the 23-year-old ranking and first since “Popular,” with The Weeknd and Playboi Carti, in 2023. It’s also her highest-charting song on the list in 14 years — since “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” featuring Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., in 2012 (No. 11 peak).

Even more impressively, only four songs have had higher debuts on Dance/Mix Show Airplay this decade: “Looking for Me” (Paul Woolford, Diplo and Kareen Lomax; No. 4 in 2020), “Don’t Forget My Love” (Diplo and Miguel; No. 12 in 2022), “Favour” (FISHER and Tones and I; No. 12 a week ago) and “You” (Regard x Troye Sivan x Tate McRae; No. 13 in 2021).

The May 2-dated charts reflect the April 17-23 tracking week, as reported by Luminate.

Dance Digital Song Sales ranks the week’s top-selling download songs in the dance genre, while Digital Song Sales is the overall weekly sales chart for all downloaded songs. Hot Dance/Pop Songs is a multimetric chart that blends streams, airplay and sales to rank the week’s most popular dance/pop tracks and the Dance/Mix Show airplay tally ranks the week’s most popular songs ranked by radio airplay detections at dance-formatted stations and mix show plays on mainstream top 40 and select rhythmic stations.

Across the United States some of the music industry’s legacy indie stores have been reporting their best day ever thanks to this year’s Record Store Day (RSD 2026) release line-up. As usual, Retail Track implemented the annual RSD store crawl on Saturday (April 18), visiting 10 stores that day to witness first-hand how RSD was performing. 

But unlike past years when Retail Track started further afield — in Poughkeepsie one year, in Patchogue another, and once in South Jersey — and stop by stores on the way back to New York City, this year the Crawl consisted of visiting stores in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, with the road trip culminating, as it usually does, at Rough Trade in Rockefeller Center for its annual Indie Plaza event.

Retail Track began the day a little before 7:30 a.m. in my hometown of Astoria, Queens, with a visit to Pancakes Records on Steinway Street. There were already 60 people in line before the store’s scheduled 8 a.m. opening, including Kyle, who arrived first at 1 a.m. He said he was hoping to buy Laufey’s A Matter Of Time: Live at Madison Square Garden and Pink Pantheress’ Girl Like Me. Second in line was Jose, who got there at 2:30 a.m., whose coveted record list included Paramore’s All We Know Is Falling (Deluxe), Carly Rae Jepsen’s 7-inch “Disco Darling” and Dijon’s How Do You Feel About Getting Married.

Retail Track didn’t wait for Pancakes Records to open. Instead, he hopped into his jalopy at 7:40 a.m. and took off for Vinyl Veritas — which opened its flagship location in 2024 — to see how long the Brooklyn store’s line was ahead of its scheduled 8 a.m. opening. It was the only other store on the Crawl list scheduled to open that early, and — with Google Maps promising it was only nine miles and 19 minutes away — there was just enough time. However, an overturned car on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) stymied that plan and Betsy III — Retail Track’s 2000 Buick LeSabre — didn’t turn onto Front Street in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Dumbo until 8:30 a.m. Nevertheless, there was still a line of customers about 50 people long, suggesting the queue was even longer when the store opened.  

Rather than get my ass kicked by trying to jump the line, Retail Track figured it was safer to interview Vinyl Veritas owner Will Grandberg, via phone later. He reported two people were in line the midnight before RSD, with a third arriving at 3:45 a.m. on Saturday. By the time he got to the store at 5 a.m., he says there were about a dozen people waiting.

The store hosts two locations in the same building, including a street-level store on Front Street, and another on the seventh floor. On the seventh floor, customers received refreshments and discount offers (as well as a few giveaways) while four DJs continued to spin throughout the day— all livestreamed on Vinyl Veritas’ Instagram account. Grandberg declared it their best day ever since opening their doors in January 2024, with the Grateful Dead set being their top-seller for the day. Although, Grandberg shared, he wished the store had more inventory of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Disco Darling” single. 

Retail Track then made his way to 5th Avenue Records in Park Slope, which the internet claims is open at 10 a.m. on Saturday, but by 9:05 a.m., there wasn’t any line. Since there was a parking spot out front and the next group of stores on the crawl list wouldn’t open until 10 a.m., Retail Track decided to investigate. Across the street was Smith’s Tavern, a splendid dive establishment which was already open and had an impressive 10 customers. Since Retail Track was driving, it seemed wise to forego asking for the usual can of PBR or Budweiser, and instead requested a Diet Coke, which subsequently turned out to be the worst Diet Coke ever. Regardless, Retail Track persisted in his informational quest, and queries to the customers and bartender yielded information that the store had been closed for some time. But, customers said, every once in a while, the store would seemingly open for a day or two before once again shuttering for weeks on end. 

Next up, Retail Track drove to nearby Psychic Records, also in Park Slope, and, by 9:30 a.m., saw a line of about 15 people waiting ahead of the store’s 11 a.m. opening. Henry was first in line, and was looking to buy the Stax B-sides record and Ray Charles Live set. Peyton was second in line — even though, she claimed to have been the first to arrive at 7 a.m. However, she says she had gone across the street for a coffee, thus losing her spot to Henry. But not to worry, her desired RSD titles were different than Henry’s as she was looking for Taylor Swift and Steely Dan records and some jazz records for her dad. Peyton told Retail Track she chose to shop at Psychic for RSD because researched and heard people don’t line up at the store as early as they do at other participating places. 

Retail Track left before the store opened, but spoke to Psychic Records owner Chris Lentz via phone on Sunday, who said his store’s big seller was Sonic Youth’s Diamond Seas. He also said that he sold many copies of the Springsteen album and a few Pink Floyd albums. Lentz also admitted that he wished he had more copies of the RSD pop records like Charli xcx and Jepsen. Overall, he says the store has a wide customer base, so he carries everything for Taylor Swift to Throbbing Gristle. 

For the last stop in the Park Slope segment of the RSD crawl, Retail Track headed to Sterling Records, arriving at 9:58 a.m. According to the internet, the store usually opens at 10 a.m. on Saturday. But, in celebration of the RSD festivities, the store opened earlier than expected, at 9:15 a.m. Sterling Records owner Gary Giddens reported to Retail Track that there were about 30 people in line when he opened the store. A perusal of the inventory showed that at a little after 10 a.m., the store still had plenty of copies of The Cure, Pink Floyd and Jeff Buckley RSD releases, but Sterling noted he could have used more of the Bruce Springsteen Live From Asbury Park 2024 boxset.  

After Retail Track left, Giddens called to report the Buckley and Pink Floyd and Cure titles had sold out by noon. Other titles that did well were Olivia Dean’s “BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge,” the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack and Ariana Grande/Cynthia Erivo Wicked: One Wonderful Night (Live) titles, he said. 

Sterling Records was a fairly new two-year old store. Giddens, who is 69, told Retail Track he got the urge to open a record store. “I have never been a very smart person but wanted to do something that makes me happy,” he said. “And I am friends with Vince Clarke (Depeche Mode, Yahoo, and Erasure) and was talking to him and said aloud that I wanted to open a record store; and Clarke said ‘I’m in.’” Clarke serves as an investor for the store.

Retail Track opted to browse Sterling Records for his own purchases, taking home the Lunachicks’ We Can Be Worster, Stax Killer B’s, The Westbound Sound: Single Minded and the non-RSD title, Cramps’ Bad Music For Bad People.

Since it was still early and most other stores on Retail Track’s crawl list weren’t opening until noon, a trek to VP Records in Jamaica Queens, which opened at 10 a.m., seemed like the next logical store to visit. VP Records Retail is a unit of Jamaican-born record label and music company. The company was founded by husband and wife Vincent “Randy” and Pat Chin.

The store’s website claims that VP Records is the largest indie reggae label in the world. Throughout the years, they’ve put out releases from artists including Yellowman, Lee Scratch Perry, Gregory Isaacs, Buju Banton, Maxi Priest, Beenie Man, Shaggy and Sly & Robbie. Like the label, the store on Jamaica Avenue is mainly dedicated to dance hall, reggae and all its sub-genres, but the store also carries a mix of R&B and soul.

When Retail Track arrived at VP Records at 11 a.m., there was a beehive of activity in the parking lot next to the store. Store manager Rashan Mykoo reported that the RSD Festivities would begin at noon, with merch tables and four DJs scheduled to entertain during the day. Recording artist I Wayne was also due to make an appearance to help sell merchandise, sign autographs, and take photos with fans. The vinyl showcase featured “legendary sound system King Addies, alongside Massive B, DJ Proud, and DJ Anthony, with hosting duties were led by Killa Boo and sound powered by Next Level Sound,” according to a subsequent press release. After I Wayne performed, Buju Banton surprised guests with an appearance.

“Presenting the sound systems each year has been a great way to connect with the community and today will be well remembered,” Chris Chin, CEO of VP Records, said in a statement.  

Meanwhile, inside the store, featured RSD titles included the Bruno Mars “Collaboration,” Elton John “The Remixes,” the Ariana Grande/Cynthia Erivo Wicked: One Wonderful Light (Live), The Soundtrack, the Taylor Swift “Elizabeth Taylor” 7-inch single; and Ziggy Marley’s Brightside. Besides official RSD titles, the store’s own highlighted selections were Jackie Mittoo’s “The Myestro — In Cold Blood,” Congo Ashanty’s “Congo,” Ziggy Marley albums and Randy’s 50th Anniversary Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, the latter compilation titles named for the company’s late co-founder, Mr. Chin. 

While the store still had the Bruno Mars title in stock when Retail Track arrived, Mykoo said every copy of the Taylor Swift single had been bought up by a woman who had arrived in time for the store’s opening. As it was, Retail Track scored the RSD title Skeeter Davis’ “The End of The World: Navy Hoedown Sessions,” quipping the store’s buyer must have purchased the title by mistake. Instead of sticking around for the party to begin next door in the parking lot, Retail Track headed back to Brooklyn for the next RSD stop on his list, but first he went to grab some sustenance, i.e. lunch.

By 1 p.m., Retail Track pulled up to Octopus Records for the Bushwick leg of his crawl. Store owner Nigel Filson reported he had about 20 people waiting when he opened at 11 a.m., with the first bunch of arrivals rewarded with cupcakes. The big sellers during the day at that point had been the Pink Pantheress and Charlie xcx titles, while store associate Celine Mancuri noted that Cam’ron’s “Killer Season” was also popular. Filson also acknowledged that some customers were asking for the Taylor Swift record, “Which I didn’t carry.”  

At Octopus Records, Retail Track scored RSD titles Power Pop! American Power Pop for the Now Generation: 1977-1981, Teenage Fanclub & Jad Fair’s Words of Wisdom and Hope and the Misfits Famous Monsters. 

Next up was the nearby Rebel Rouser, which didn’t participate in Record Store Day because, in the words of sales associate William Martin, “We don’t do corporate discs.”

Rebel Rouser primarily carries used records and is in a long shed in an alley off Broadway, in Bushwick, about a mile from the Williamsburg Bridge. It has a huge selection of punk, glam rock, power pop, new wave, garage rock and old soul music, both albums and 7-inch singles, as well as many old classic rock magazines and fan zines. The only new product it carries are largely local indie band releases. 

“Our idea of record store day is loading up on local indie bands and selling vinyl LPs at 25% off,” Marten said. 

At Rebel Rouser Retail Track bought The Charly Black Music Sampler, two Millie Jackson albums: E.S.P. (Extra Sexual Persuasion) and Get It Out’cha System, Candi Staton’s eponymously named album, Little Anthony and the Imperials’ “I’m on the Outside (Looking In)” and Johnny Thunder’s “Loop De Loop.” 

Finally, Retail Track arrived at what would be the last Brooklyn record store stop of the day at Superior Elevation Records, also located in Bushwick. The used record store caters to the DJ and the dance music crowd, carrying electronica, house, disco and soul music; sales associate Alex Feldherr says the store and even has a school for DJs. Despite the store not participating in Record Store Day, Feldherr shared that business on the day was good.

“That’s because “we get everybody who is tired of waiting on lines,” he told Retail Track. At Superior Elevation Retail Track bought two Laura Lee albums, Women’s Love Rights and her eponymously named album; and an album from 100 Proof (Aged In Soul).  

Around the same time, elsewhere in Brooklyn, Billboard’s executive digital editor, east coast, Joe Lynch served as a Retail Track deputy for the day and visited the Record Grouch and the Academy Records Annex, both in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Greenpoint. 

After participating in Record Store Day celebrations for several years, Record Grouch in Greenpoint chose to opt out of the vinyl holiday the last few years. But even without a trove of exclusives on offer, the highly curated store of reasonably priced rarities and obscurities was packed on Saturday afternoon. Walking past an 8.5 x 11-inch piece of paper proudly proclaiming, “THIS IS NOT A RECORD STORE DAY CELEBRATION,” patrons browsed the stacks while an assortment of local and indie artists performed in the small space. The Retail Track Brooklyn deputy caught a punishing but impressive experimental set from Outdoor Horse Shrine (one of five artists playing Record Grouch that day) while picking up used copies of Jobriath’s second album, the soundtrack to Forbidden Zone by Oingo Boingo and a single by ANOHNI and the Johnsons. 

Moving toward Williamsburg, but still in Greenpoint, the Academy Records Annex was also doing banger business despite opting out of the official celebration. Patrons munched on free Peter Pan donuts while browsing the store’s extensive, eclectic collection of new and used vinyl (and if you wanted to enjoy the fabulous weather, 40-some boxes of music were out on the curb). Academy Records owner Cory Feierman says he stopped participating three years ago — not just because it was becoming too corporate, but for business reasons. 

“I might make $20,000 in a day, but I spent $13,000 to get there, and I’m left with a bunch of product that won’t move,” he tells Retail Track’s Brooklyn deputy. In his eyes, the early years of RSD included “warranted” reissues of rarities, but the recent glut of RSD exclusives are much less interesting to him and his shoppers. Retail Track picked up a clear-vinyl copy of Rosalía’s Lux (which he notes is about as mainstream as the store’s product gets) as well as used copies of Isaac Hayes’ Shaft soundtrack plus Eartha Kitt’s 1955 album Down to Eartha. 

For the last stop of the day before heading into Manhattan for the annual Rough Trade Indie Plaza RSD celebration, Retail Track returned to his hometown of Astoria to re-visit Pancake Records and see how it was doing since opening, arriving there at 3:30 p.m. (Before joining Billboard, Retail Tracked worked in three record stores on the same block on Steinway Street— Words ’n’ Music, Record Scene/Record Spectacular and Sound City — in the 1970’s and 1980s.)

Pancakes Records co-owner Tanya Gorbunova reported that the big sellers were John Frusciante’s “To Only Record Water For Ten Days;” Ethel Cain’s Inbred, and Hemlock Springs going…going…GONE! Meanwhile she said the Springsteen and Pink Floyd titles were slow movers on RSD, but she wasn’t worried about the latter, “because Pink Floyd fans are known for sleeping in.”  

For RSD, the store was offering customers a selection of CDs for only 50 cents, as well as 10% off used records. Overall, she said the store’s customer base was a cross between the “pop echo chamber, but still have people looking for niche stuff.”  

For the last purchase of the day, at Pancakes Records, Retail Track scored Robert Plant’s Savin Grace All that Glitters with Suzi Dian.  

Alas, the day unfortunately ended without Retail Track scoring the four RSD titles was still looking for: Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted, Bob Brady and the Con Chords, Bruce Kulick’s Transformer, and T. Rex’s Songs from ‘Marc.’

Joe Lynch provided assistance in preparing this story. 

With Offset and Quavo on better terms, there appears to still be hope for a Migos reunion.

Quavo took to his Instagram Story on Monday (April 27), laying out plans for his next creative endeavors, which include a posthumous TakeOff album, another joint album with his late nephew, who was killed in 2022, and then he left room for what appears to be a possible Migos project.

“Warriors Never fold. Jobs Not Finished. TAKEOFF ALBUM. UNC N PHEW 2. LAST ????? ALBUM. REAL MIGO BLOOD RUN IN MY VIENS!!! AINT NO NEW CHAPTER JUST THE NEXT ONE,” Huncho wrote alongside a photo of himself with TakeOff.

Offset followed up with a post of his own to his Instagram Story a few hours later, which included a photo of the ATL trio. “On dat,” he wrote.

Migos have four studio albums to date, with the most recent arriving in 2021 with Culture III, which was billed as the final installment from the Atlanta group. The LP debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 130,000 total album units earned.

TakeOff (born Kirshnik Khari Ball) was shot and killed during a Halloween party he attended at 810 Billiards & Bowling in downtown Houston with Quavo on Nov. 1, 2022.

Just a few weeks before TakeOff’s death, Quavo and Take teamed up to release their first joint project with Only Built for Infinity Links in October 2022, which reached the Billboard 200’s top 10 (No. 7).

During a 2023 interview, Quavo teased that TakeOff had hundreds of songs in the stash that could be used down the line. “We’ve got a lot of songs,” he said. “In this phone alone, it’s 150 songs. Every phone probably has 350 songs. He’s got songs I never heard, ‘I’m like, bro, ‘Why you never played me this?’”

Quavo released a posthumous collaboration with TakeOff in 2025, which saw the uncle and nephew combination join forces for “Dope Boy Phone.”

As for Offset, he’s currently recovering from being shot outside the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida, earlier in April. The “Ric Flair Drip” rapper returned to the stage days after the shooting for a performance at the University of Arkansas on April 11.

Billboard has reached out to reps for Quavo and Offset for comment.