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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correction: Billy Strings' mother is Debra Apostol. Her name was misspelled in an earlier version. LANSING - Debra Apostol, the mother of Grammy-winning artist Billy Strings, died Friday, June 20, ...

Are you ready for Python Pi? The 3.14 beta is out now, and we’ve got the rundown on what’s so great about it, including the new template strings feature, or “f-strings with superpowers.” ...

Python’s new template strings, or t-strings, give you a much more powerful way to format data than the old-fashioned f-strings. The familiar formatted string, or f-string, feature in Python provides a ...

Last month, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collective reported that dark energy is evolving—specifically weakening—and it could help provide the first observational evidence of string ...

The Lansing, Michigan-born bluegrass player Billy Strings (born William Apostol) is one of the most important people in music today. With his charm, love of music and music history, and his ...

'California Sober' singer Billy Strings met his wife in a bar Emma Kershaw is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared in ...

On his major-label studio debut, the bluegrass wunderkind expands his palette, exploring new textures and emotional registers while staying true to his beloved genre. The picturesque detours are ...