D’Addario Helicore 1/8 Cello G String Medium Tungsten-Silver Multi-strand twisted steel core strings are superb for the advanced and professional player. The small string diameter provides quick bow response. Produce a warm, clear sound with excellent pitch stability and longevity. Available in light, medium, and heavy gauge for 4/4 size, plus 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 sizes (medium only).

Allan on beat back to birth of heavy metal (Express and Star)
Allan Atkins’s passion for music didn’t start in a pub or club, but a tin shed in West Bromwich. “As a youngster I was in the Air Scouts and that was when I first lay my hands on a musical instrument, it was a set of drums,” he says.

and have a stratocaster i was thinking about trying some 0.11s and i hit the strings pretty hard and if i do do i have to adjust the tension on the springs in the back?

D’Addario Helicore 1/8 Cello D String Medium Titanium Multi-strand twisted steel core strings are superb for the advanced and professional player. The small string diameter provides quick bow response. Produce a warm, clear sound with excellent pitch stability and longevity. Available in light, medium, and heavy gauge for 4/4 size, plus 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 sizes (medium only).

When Sounds Collide: An Interview with Eon Sinclair of Bedouin Soundclash (OnMilwaukee.com)
Before Gwen Stefani and No Doubt make their much buzzed about performance in Milwaukee at the Marcus Amphitheater on July 2, a rising musical sensation from Toronto plans to shake up the sonic hemispheres from its first note.

From P.S. 176X, kids with autism get joyful launch (CNN)
All parents have hopes and dreams for their children. Parents of kids with serious disabilities are no different. But in their moments of wildest imagination, the parents of Vicki Martinez, Chase Ferguson and Travis Cardona could not have envisioned high school graduation — certainly not in the dark days when they first learned their children had autism.