Jambands

Billy Strings Concludes 2025 Touring with Intimate Sit-Down Traditionals Show in Austin

Billy Strings rolled into Austin, Texas over the weekend for the final performances in a long year on the road. Even seasoned road warriors like Strings and his band of Billy Failing, Alex Hargreaves, ...
NPR

Billy Strings: Tiny Desk Concert

It's rare these days for an artist to ask for fewer microphones, but after warming up in our space, Billy Strings did just that. Surrounded by his band, the bluegrass virtuoso brings back the spirit ...
Rolling Stone

Billy Strings Makes His Debut on ‘Tiny Desk’ After Sending Audition Tape: ‘It Only Took 12 More Years’

Michigan bluegrass phenom Billy Strings and his band stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk for a performance more than a decade in the making. Backed by his band — Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, backing vocalist ...
WTHR

Bluegrass artist Billy Strings to perform 2 shows at Fishers Event Center next spring

Strings will be performing at the Fishers Event Center on Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25, 2026. The tour extension is in support of his latest full-length album, "Highway Prayers, which was ...
Whiskey Riff

Billy Strings Announces 2026 Tour Dates

A 2026 tour you don’t want to miss. This morning, bluegrass phenom Billy Strings announced his 2026 tour, which will hit cities like Savannah Georgia, Tampa, Florida and Greensboro, North Carolina.
People

Billy Strings Says He's Still in 'Denial' Over His Mom's Shocking Cause of Death: 'It Was Just Unnecessary'

The bluegrass musician's mom Debra died of a drug overdose in June Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has ...
Gizmodo

Whatever Happened to String Theory?

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. Reading time 7 minutes ...
The Conversation

String theory: scientists are trying new ways to verify the idea that could unite all of physics

Marika Taylor currently receives funding from EPSRC, STFC, UK government deparments and the European Horizon programme. In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the ...
Wall Street Journal

Oil Futures Fall on Oversupply Concerns, Technical Flip

1538 ET – Oil futures snap a three-session winning streak with market concerns about oversupply back at the front of traders’ minds. Morning losses accelerated as the market approached contango, where ...
Jambands

Puff of Smoke: Billy Strings Covers “Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette” for First Time with a Full Band in Pittsburgh

Billy Strings turned in two performances over the weekend. The concerts arrived after the Michigan-bred guitarist ignited the Universal Monsters theme during his Halloween show at the CFG Bank Arena ...
The New York Times

50 Pianos Rumble With the Sound of ‘11,000 Strings’

Performances in N.Y.C. Georg Friedrich Haas has written a piece of almost ridiculous scale and complexity. The effect is awe-inspiring. Georg Friedrich Haas has written a piece of almost ridiculous ...