Latest News

Available Now: Vitamin String Quartet Performs The Hunger Games

Although the post-apocalyptic setting of The Hunger Games presents a rather bleek mind-set, the dramatically sweeping soundtrack is a rich cushion of melodies from some of the most talented artis...

Is Rock & Roll Dying? A Response to Patrick Carney

If you've been in a long supermarket line recently, you've probably seen the leather jacketed members of The Black Keys gracing the cover of this month's issue of Rolling Stone. You may even be p...

Our Favorite Musical Videos of the Moment

Haven’t spent much time trolling the internet lately? Here are the five best videos you may have missed. Post ‘em to your Facebook for instant cool points. Bon Iver Performing “Holocene” on ...

Arcade Fire Play Surprise Show in Haiti

Arcade Fire delighted a tiny audience with a surprise set at a hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on early last week. The 45 minute show included covers of The Rolling Stones’ “The Last Time,” Blondie’...

Songs of the Month

The Vitamin String Quartet’s gorgeous renditions of songs by The Decemberists is scheduled for release this month. The album includes Decemberists favorites including “O Valencia” and “The Mariner’...

VSQ Performs Arcade Fire

Description: The Vitamin String Quartet Tribute to Arcade Fire bravely transforms songs such as "No Cars Go,""Wake Up" and "The Suburbs" into timeless string arrangements. Befitting of a band who...

Peter Gabriel Gets His Indie On, New LP Scratch My Back

Oh, I really should apologize to Peter Gabriel. I had pretty much written him off. I thought he was done, at least in the current-pop-culture-relevancy context. I don’t mean to downplay the immen...

Valentines Day VSQ Mixtape & Contest!

It's February and love is in the air. Well, depending on who you talk to. For those of you who turn your nose up, scroll to the second part of this post for something a little less sappy. For the r...

Top 10 Most Anticipated Releases of 2010

Music is a funny thing, like water and insanity it comes in waves. Remember that whole boy band thing in the late 90’s? What was that all about? How did that even happen? Either way 2009 was an o...

Top 10 Songs By New Artists that Should Be Covered By Older Artists

While the common practice is for new artists to cover old ones, I find it much more interesting when it’s the other way around. In fact, there are a lot of old crooners that are doing contemporar...