Ernie Ball and D'Addario strings are two American companies that have dominated the acoustic string market for decades. They both make exceptional products, but with distinct tones that serve ...

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Bluegrass guitarist Billy Strings took the stage in Lexington Friday night and announced that his mother, Debra Apostol, has died. “I’m going to do my best to make it through this,” he told the ...

SpaceX's ongoing mission to prepare Starship spacecraft for trips to the moon and, eventually, Mars suffered a setback when a spacecraft exploded this week in South Texas. The explosion happened ...

Recently, the brutal/technical death metal band Cryptopsy announced the re-release of their 1994 debut album, Blasphemy Made Flesh, featuring some special guests. Billy Strings is among the list of ...

From lucrative contracts to staffing connections, a web of entanglements will ensure Elon Musk's influence on the Trump administration is here to stay. From lucrative contracts to staffing connections ...

SM Hanson Music is partnering with D’Addario and the Playback String Recycling Program, the world’s leading string recycling initiative, to host a special community event on Saturday, April 19, 2025, ...

A music store in Salina will be offering a free guitar restring and recycle service this Saturday. SM Hanson Music in Salina is excited to announce their partnership with D’Addario, in the Playback ...

The D’Addario story begins in the Abruzzo mountains of Southern Italy, crosses the ocean to America at the dawn of the 20th century, and writes a new chapter with every pack pulled from the peg of a ...

For Michigan-born and one-time Traverse City resident Billy Strings, it was Grammy Award No. 2, this time winning the 2025 award for best bluegrass album of the year for “Live, Vol. 1.” “I am so very ...

The surname D'Addario is, by now, inextricably linked to guitar strings. Among its many ventures and innovations is the system of color-coding strings, which D’Addario CEO Jim D'Addario reveals was ...