American Songwriter

Billy Strings Opens up on How Fatherhood Has Changed Touring

Fatherhood has had an overwhelmingly positive on bluegrass star Billy Strings' touring career since welcoming son River in September 2024.
Whiskey Riff

Why Having His Young Son On Tour Makes Billy Strings A Better Performer

Billy Strings is getting real about how having a son has changed the way he views music. Last year, Billy Strings and his wife welcomed a baby boy into the world. After a long labor, Strings was happy ...
Live For Live Music

Watch Billy Strings Perform “Jingle Bell Rock” In 2012

Revisit Billy Strings’ 2012 “Jingle Bell Rock” performance from his early days, plus a few must-watch String The Halls and nugs videos.
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 ...
The Nation Newspaper

How we propagated the Gospel of Afrobeats in the UK – Billy Que

One of Nigeria’s foremost music promoters, Biliamin Olabanji who is popularly known in the entertainment circuit as Billy Que has revealed how himself and other UK based showbiz music promoters like ...
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 ...
Rolling Stone

Billy Strings Wants to ‘Honor’ His Late Mom With a New Album Featuring Her Poetry

Billy Strings revealed that he wants to set his late mother’s poetry to music for a potential new album during an extensive interview about drug use and addiction on the Dopey podcast. Strings’ mother ...
Jambands

Billy Strings Pays Homage to Late Singer-Songwriter Todd Snider, Debuts “Play a Train Song” in Newark

On Friday, November 14, Billy Strings arrived at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., for the first of two Fall Tour concerts at the indoor arena. Night one glinted with a sense of psychedelia, a ...
Yahoo

Hear Billy Idol With a String Quartet on New ‘Dying to Live’ Ballad

An unusually sentimental Billy Idol, once dubbed Rolling Stone’s “Sneer of the Year” in 1985, reflects on his life in a schmaltzy new ballad, “Dying to Live.” “Once when I was younger/Back when I knew ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Billy Idol Shares New Song “Dying to Live” for Upcoming Doc ‘Billy Idol Should Be Dead’ (Exclusive)

The song, a collaboration with J. Ralph, appears at the end of the documentary, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival this past summer and is expected to hit streaming services early next year. By ...