American Songwriter

Billy Strings Opens up on How Fatherhood Has Changed Touring

Learning to play guitar as a young boy growing up in Michigan, Billy Strings never saw it as a viable career path. Instead, he assumed he’d eventually “wither away in prison” or end up a drug addict.
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, ...
Lansing State Journal

Michigan native Billy Strings performs Tiny Desk Concert. What to know

Michigan native Billy Strings got the Tiny Desk Concert treatment this week on NPR's YouTube channel. Strings, now based in Nashville, Tennessee, is a west Michigan native. He grew up in Muir, a ...
Yahoo

Billy Strings Makes His Tiny Desk Concert Debut: ‘Even Just Standing Here Feels Like a Special Thing’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Billy Strings made his NPR Tiny Desk debut performance on Wednesday (Dec. 10), but for the multi-talented musician, the ...
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 ...
WSAZ

Billy Strings making 2026 tour stop in Charleston

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Two-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and musician Billy Strings is coming to Charleston next year. The Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center said the singer ...
Jambands

Billy Strings Confirms Spring 2026 Tour Dates

After teasing his Spring Tour on Thanksgiving with the arrival of an after-dinner activity sheet, a crossword puzzle that hinted at the cities and venues on Billy Strings’ April run, the esteemed ...
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 ...
Taste of Country

Billy Strings Was Blindsided When He Learned His Mom’s Cause of Death

Billy Strings is opening up about the unexpected death of his mother, Debra Apostal, which happened in June. Strings — whose legal name is William Lee Apostal — says his mom wasn't sick leading up to ...
Stereogum

Billy Strings Brought Bluegrass Brilliance To Colbert

Billy Strings never really stops touring, so the fact that he visited The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday night was no surprise. I was a little bit surprised to see he was there to promote ...
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 ...