Music Country

Orville Peck will anchor a multi-artist special event at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre this summer. Peck’s Rodeo at Red Rocks, set for July 22nd, will feature performances from the masked singer as well as Yola and Charley Crockett, plus hosting duties from Pink Flamingos writer-director John Waters. The Rodeo at …

Brothers Osborne perform a fiery five-song set for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, recording their intimate gig in the Nashville living room of the duo’s guitar player, John Osborne. It’s John’s ferocious playing that introduces the country band’s performance, as he leads the group through the wicked instrumental “Muskrat Greene,” before …

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo will return in 2022 for its 90th anniversary with three weeks of entertainment. The event, also known as RodeoHouston, begins February 28th and runs through March 20th with a final-day performance from Country Music Hall of Fame member George Strait. This will mark Strait’s …

Randy Rogers Band imagine a new kind of dance in “Chupacabra,” a collaboration with La Maquinaria Norteña that’s named for the legendary bloodsucking creature of North American folklore. The kind of dusty country-rock track that is Randy Rogers Band’s bread and butter, “Chupacabra” has a moodier, minor-key feel to match …

For the second time in just seven months, the Academy of Country Music handed out its annual awards. After the 2020 ACM Awards were delayed from April to September because of the pandemic, the organization moved the show from Las Vegas to Nashville for the first time in its history. …

Since mid-January, Bahamas — the nom de guerre of singer-songwriter-musician Afie Jurvanen — has been re-creating songs off his latest album, the eclectic Sad Hunk, with a rotating cast of guest players for the performance series Live to Tape. The latest assembles a small army of Nashville elite to perform …

As the Academy of Country Music Awards ramp up for another year in Nashville under Covid-19 restrictions, the event will have a new hosting team. For its 56th annual outing on April 18th, the ACM Awards will feature Keith Urban and Mickey Guyton sharing hosting duties. Urban hosted the ACM …

Late last year, Margo Price released That’s How Rumors Get Started, where she steered her sound from outlaw country into full-on arena rock, inspired by Tom Petty and Fleetwood Mac. She recorded in L.A., putting together a band that included Benmont Tench of the Heartbreakers and bassist Pino Palladino. Price …

For more than 25 years, Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe has hosted its “Alive at the Bluebird” series to raise funds for the Middle Tennessee nonprofit Alive Hospice. The event will continue in 2021 and feature performances from Kendell Marvel and Shane McAnally, among others, but will shift to a streaming format …

When producer T Bone Burnett’s soundtrack to the Coen Brothers’ 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou? was released 20 years ago this month, it launched a roots-music boom. Many artists on the album — from new traditionalists Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss to bygone legends like Ralph Stanley — …