Paul McCartney blends reflection with joy (and Ringo) on 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane'

Seeing Paul McCartney charm on “Saturday Night Live,” help Stephen Colbert turn out the lights in the Ed Sullivan Theater, even pop up on non-octogenarian-courting TikTok, felt more profound than mere ...
Fox News

Billy Strings broke his leg skateboarding backstage and heard it 'snap over the screaming crowd'

Bluegrass superstar (it's kind of fun to have one of those these days, huh?) Billy Strings posted a photo of himself and some nasty-looking X-rays that came from an ill-advised bit of backstage ...
Lansing State Journal

Michigan native musician Billy Strings breaks leg at Virginia concert

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 ...
The Boston Globe

Andrew Norman’s ‘Split’ — conducted by Susanna Mälkki — was astonishing. (Might she have a future at the BSO?)

The Finnish conductor and pianists Lucas and Arthur Jussen led the charge through a musical landscape shaped by techno-dystopia The ability to change our minds, to evolve our perspectives as we learn ...
Billboard

Billy Strings Breaks Leg in Backstage Skateboarding Accident During Charlottesville Show, Reschedules Tour Dates (UPDATE)

"I had every intention of carrying on with the tour and Dave Grohling it," Strings said, revealing that the Foo Fighters frontman offered his throne. By Gil Kaufman UPDATE: After the original story ...
Scientific American

AI music is booming, and the player piano saw it coming

Recent research suggests listeners often struggle to distinguish music made by artificial intelligence from human-made songs—a sign that the technology has moved past novelty and into serious business ...
Billboard

Australia’s Steph Strings Wows Brooklyn Crowd During Her First World Tour: 5 Best Moments

A dazzling guitarist and confident singer-songwriter, her self-released debut album Feel Alive arrived at No. 2 on the ARIA album chart. By Thom Duffy Editor Across the decades, the old, street-corner ...
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 ...
The Conversation

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

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called “Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?” Hawking, who later became my ...
Phys.org

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

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...
Observer

In ‘11,000 Strings,’ Georg Friedrich Haas Builds a Vast Sonic Landscape

In 1609, Galileo Galilei flipped around a lens and the telescope became a microscope. This turn connected the massive to the minuscule, far-away made close to the too-close made visible. The same ...
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 ...