NPR

Billy Strings honors his late mother with his album 'So Much for Goodbyes'

Billy Strings' late mother, Debra Apostol, introduced the three-time Grammy award-winning musician to alternative music early in his life. "I remember her playing [The Beatles'] White Album backwards ...
Saving Country Music

Album Review – Billy Strings – “So Much For Goodbyes”

Traditional bluegrass (#520.3), Jamgrass (#520.7), Americana (#570) on the Country DDS. There were so many moments of fate that could have placed Billy Strings in so many other scenarios in life that ...
Billboard

Billy Strings’ ‘So Much for Goodbyes’: All 16 Tracks Ranked

The acclaimed bluegrass artist's latest album is a profound meditation on grief inspired by the recent death of his mother. By Eric Renner Brown Over the last few years, virtuosic bluegrass player ...
marktechpost

Cohere Releases Parse 5 (parse-v5.0): A 2.3B Vision Language Model That Turns Enterprise Documents Into Markdown

Parse is a 2.3B-parameter vision language model built on Cohere Labs’ North-Micro-Vision-Instruct architecture, with an 8,192-token context window and a ~4.6GB footprint. It accepts PDF, PPT and JPEG ...
The Guardian

Billy Strings: So Much for Goodbyes review – staggering, stirring songs of grief draw the blues out of bluegrass

The crossover star’s introspective sixth album is full of memories of his mother, who died in 2025, bringing his dextrous guitar to songs rooted in tradition and yearning On the face of it, 2025 was a ...