Keyboard sideman Peter Levin, cherished at the top tiers of southern jam and roots music, was getting back into a post-pandemic touring routine this year when a lifelong heart condition reared up and sent him into emergency heart transplant surgery. He's got a new livestream concert and album.

Nashville veteran Allen Thompson has re-made his large, longstanding namesake band into LadyCouch with co-founder, co-writer and relatively new roots singer Keshia Bailey. Their debut The Future Looks Fine emerged in September, and they launch a December residency at Dee's Country Lounge next week.

Nashville-based breakout solo artist Allison Russell finds herself in a good place going into the 2022 Grammy Awards with three nominations, including Americana Album of the Year. Outside Child was released in late May on Fantasy Records and received immediate acclaim for its insightful and healing reflections on horrible abuse she suffered in her youth. Its song “Nightflyer” has been tagged for two possible Grammys, as American Roots Song and American Roots Performance.

Meet Brontё Fall, a Nashville-based indie-folk outfit led by Teri Bracken debuting a new video for the song "Outsmart Love" today.

The country music community convened Sunday to recognize the Hall's class of 2020 after the pandemic canceled last year's ceremony.

Voting is ending at three stores around Buffalo, N.Y. Starbucks had flown in executives to the area and asked federal officials to delay the ballot count.

Discover a broad range of the year's best classical albums, from groundbreaking teenage percussionists and innovative opera singers to fierce orchestral composers and brainy pianists.

At issue in the case is whether the state, which pays for some students to attend nonsectarian private schools, should also pay tuition for students to attend religious schools.