The acclaimed bluegrass artist's latest album is a profound meditation on grief inspired by the recent death of his mother. By Eric Renner Brown Over the last few years, virtuosic bluegrass player ...

The crossover star’s introspective sixth album is full of memories of his mother, who died in 2025, bringing his dextrous guitar to songs rooted in tradition and yearning On the face of it, 2025 was a ...

Billy Strings isn’t making a career pivot into being a minor league hockey player. He’s just protecting his noggin from unruly concert attendees. The guitar-picking maestro donned a helmet from ...

Billy Strings has drawn from something old to do something entirely new. The singer and virtuoso guitarist, who is 33, has broken ground by using the elements of traditional bluegrass to become an ...

For decades, string theory promised a “theory of everything” that described all particles and forces as tiny vibrating strings. Physicists hoped it could also solve one of the field’s deepest problems ...

String theory attempts to unify general relativity and quantum theory. Popular in the 1990s, string theory fell out of favor as it failed to provide testable predictions and required ten dimensions ...

Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory—the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibrating strings—could be more than just a mathematical fantasy.

[Originally published 4/19/26; Updated 4/20/26, 5/9/26]: Billy Strings broke his leg on Saturday while attempting a trick on his skateboard backstage at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA.

Billy Strings has broken his leg. The bluegrass singer, guitar virtuoso, and avid skateboarder was attempting a skateboard trick backstage after his show in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday ...

Billy Strings, a two-time Grammy Award winner, from Ionia, confirmed on social media on Sunday, April 19, that he has broken his leg. Strings shared an X-ray on Facebook and Instagram of his leg ...

Bluegrass champ Billy Strings is heading back on the road for a fall 2026 US tour. The new dates follow Strings’ previously-announced spring and summer tour, which formally kicks off in Florida on ...