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.

It's rare these days for an artist to ask for fewer microphones, but after warming up in our space, Billy Strings did just that. Surrounded by his band, the bluegrass virtuoso brings back the spirit ...

1538 ET – Oil futures snap a three-session winning streak with market concerns about oversupply back at the front of traders’ minds. Morning losses accelerated as the market approached contango, where ...

NPM developer qix's account compromise potentially puts user funds at risk by compromising library dependencies used by bitcoin wallets. A major NPM developer, qix, has had their account compromised.

For years, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been stridently glib when his rockets explode during tests, quipping that the blasts were “just a scratch,” a “minor setback,” or a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.” ...

The captain of an oil tanker and two officers accused of severing five undersea power and telecoms cables in the Baltic Sea last December, blamed technical faults for the damage as their trial began ...

A dozen years ago this summer, I wrote one of the more impactful columns of my life. Not that it was necessarily impactful on the world — though it is something I still get asked about — but it ...

Perched proudly over the experimental metal scene somewhere between the pounding rhythms of Meshuggah and the technicality of early ’80s Frank Zappa is Car Bomb, a resolutely hard-hitting New York ...

Prabesh Thapa Chettri, a former University of Louisiana Monroe student from Nepal, told local outlet KNOE that detainees held in the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center were "pepper sprayed." His ...

Happy Groundhog Day! It’s official, both Punxsutawney Phil and Chuckles agree on 6 more weeks of winter and so does Scramble the Duck. Meteorologist Jill Gilardi said Arctic cold returns. She's also ...

[Update 5/27/25]: Billy Strings has bolstered his previously announced 2025 spring and summer tours with a string of new dates. The additions include shows in the Pacific Northwest, a festival set, ...