Pecos & the Rooftops bring their Texas barroom rock to The Senate on Nov. 13

The Lubbock-born quintet plays its first Columbia show in our records next Friday, ten months after their Warner Records album From Me To You.

Some songs are built for the hour after last call, and Pecos & the Rooftops have made a career out of them. Next Friday, the Texas band carries that catalog into Columbia for what our records show is their first show in town.

Pecos & the Rooftops play The Senate on Friday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $38.70 through Ticketmaster. The Senate holds 1,200, which puts a band like this close enough to feel the room sing back.

The band formed in Lubbock, and by the time they were signing papers they were already a working road act. Warner Records Los Angeles signed them on Jan. 19, 2023, and by the band's account they weren't chasing a deal when the label came calling, according to Music Connection and Whiskey Riff. Press materials now bill them as a platinum-certified Texan rock quintet, and if their genre tags drift between rock and country, that tells you something about the crowd they draw.

The record they're touring is From Me To You, their second full-length, released Jan. 9 on Warner. Frontman Pecos Hurley split it into two halves: the "From Me" side carries the punchier material, while the more introspective songs land on the back half, per the album notes and The Music Universe.

The song that set it up was "Hate Waking Up," an emotionally charged ballad the band released with a video in October 2025. It has since passed 1.4 million Spotify streams. Hurley has described it as being about a habit of going to the bar, getting drunk and staying up all night, one of those songs about knowing you messed up (antiMusic). Another single, "Looking Down Proud," followed it into the album rollout.

Hurley split the record in two: the punchy songs up front, the introspective ones held for the back half.

The band spent the first stretch of 2026 on the From Me To You Tour, which opened Jan. 23 at Cook's Garage back home in Lubbock and wound through the South and Midwest before closing March 20 in Midlothian, Texas. The fall run that brings them to Columbia is a tight Southern swing: after The Senate they head to Charleston the next night, Nov. 14, then Gainesville on Nov. 21 and Houston on Dec. 11.

That Charleston date matters if you're weighing the drive. Columbia gets them first, on a Friday, in a room that size. For anyone who found "Hate Waking Up" during a bad week this year, this is the easy version of seeing it live.

Expect a crowd that knows the words to the newer songs and a band with plenty of reason to lean on the new record, which is still less than a year old. The Senate's floor rewards getting there early if you want to be close.

Go for the ballad that got you through something. Stay for the rest of the set.

Sources: Pecos & The Rooftops announce second full-length album, 2026 tour dates (The Music Universe) (themusicuniverse.com); Warner Records Signs Pecos & The Rooftops (Music Connection) (musicconnection.com); Pecos & The Rooftops Ink Deal With Warner Records (Whiskey Riff) (whiskeyriff.com); From Me To You – Pecos & the Rooftops (album notes) (dev.highresaudio.com); Pecos & The Rooftops premiere 'Hate Waking Up' video (antiMusic) (musicpressbox.antimusic.com); Pecos & The Rooftops to perform at Coyote Joe's (Charlotte Weekly) (thecharlotteweekly.com); Tickets – Ticketmaster (ticketmaster.evyy.net); JamBase show listing (jambase.com)