The spirit of the infamous but now defunct New York music club CBGB will be reborn this summer, in the form of a music festival and movie. Originally intended to showcase the music styles it was named after (Country, BlueGrass, and Blues), CBGB became a breakout forum for Punk and New Wave bands like The [...]

I hate to see a good band go. It sucks when they’re big players, like the end of R.E.M. or Rilo Kiley, but it’s even worse when a band break ups on the cusp of breaking out. At best, we get an album, maybe a few EPs, to remind us of the potential and nothing [...]

I learned a lot this past year. For example, did you know that Nicolas Cage could have been Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings? Crazy. But for more substantial learnings about life, let’s turn to this year’s music, and what it told us along the way.
1. Surprise People. 2011 in music was a year [...]

September 21st marked the end of an era. No, we’re not talking end of summer, we’re talking the end of the world as we know it; after thirty years together, R.E.M. has decided to disband. In an announcement on their website, the group said, “We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of [...]

Vitamin String Quartet will release an album of Decemberists covers this coming March. The track list for this album is as follows:

Down By the Water
O Valencia!
Sixteen Military Wives
HereI Dreamt I Was an Architect
The Rake’s Song
This is Why We Fight
The Mariner’s Revenge Song

In honor of these seven songs, we give you seven facts about The Decemberists.
1.The [...]

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 we didn’t even know existed and we’ll be sharing this valuable information with you in weekly installments of playlists from the experts themselves, The VSQ Staff. So get your headphones ready because we’re about to take you on a tour through the best, the classic and the weirdest Vitamin String Quartet tributes to be found.