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Rock Goes Orchestral: Our Favorite Bands Performed With An Orchestra
In recent years a lot of great bands have done the orchestral thing and decided to play some shows backed by a symphony orchestra. Sometimes it’s great, sometimes it’s a bit ridiculous. But when di...
Read morePeter 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...
Read moreTop 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...
Read moreTop 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...
Read moreVSQ Employee Mixtape: Digital Department
Jim C works in the digital department at CMH. Since he turns real music into 1's and 0's all day, his opinion doesn't really matter. Just kidding! Somehow he convinced the Vitamin String Quart...
Read moreVSQ Employee Mixtape #1: Marketing Department
We created this unofficial series to help you uncover the precious gems that are buried in the depths of our impressive and seemingly endless catalog. While creating our lists we've found tributes ...
Read moreRadiohead Jacket Made From Recycled Plastic PET Bottles
Just received an email from Waste.uk.com, about the new Radiohead jackets. What makes these jackets cooler than any other Radiohead jacket? Because they are made from 100% certified recycled pl...
Read moreStuff We Life: Radiohead Deluxe Reissues of Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief
Just because Radiohead ditched their record label and are taking to newer ways to distribute music doesn't mean Capitol can't bank on the success of their previous albums. While we relish any ch...
Read moreStuff We Like: Radiohead In Rainbows CD 2
Among all of the buzz about Radiohead's In Rainbows pay-what-you-want download scheme, you may have skimmed over the fact that their was a second part to the album. If you are a huge fan like us,...
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