CLOSED! Thank you to everyone who participated and congratulations to our winner: Raul Bautista!
Welcome to Vitamin String Quartet’s Twilight Reboot. Each day this week we’re asking fans of the Twilight saga to reimagine the series by recasting the main characters and selecting new music for the films. Each time you share your picks, you earn the chance to win [...]

First off, props to Goldenvoice for being hip to the 21st century and streaming their Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival online. Although not all performances remained online after the festival, their choice to share without obligation was an additional bonus for us at home.  The webcast was so adequate, in fact, that it was [...]

A great movie or song, alone, can inspire powerful emotions. But combined, sounds and images can amplify the sensation. The Smiths’ guitarist Johnny Marr, who worked on the soundtrack to Dennis Hopper’s film Colours in the late-1980s, said he enjoys working on movies because “You’re not restricted to working on something between three and five minutes [...]

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 privy to the attention-grabbing lede:
“Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the [...]

Earlier this week, Radiohead dropped another surprise on us in the form of a full length, free, downloadable concert from 2009’s show in Prague. The gig was at Prauge’s Výstaviště Holešovice Exhibition Hall on August 23, and around 50 fans had banded together to shoot the show on flip phones. The footage was later [...]

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 did all this start?
The first rock concerts backed by an orchestra are recorded as happening when Deep Purple did some shows [...]

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 immense contributions he’s made over the years because, really, kudos to him, man. I just thought he was, ya know, done. But then [...]

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 okay year in music, though some may say it was “meh” and 2008 was better, etc. Well, [...]

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 contemporary cover albums lately, look at Johnny Cash’s last few records before he died. Here’s a list of some [...]

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 Quartet to cover No Age, so he hopes you enjoy it!
1. Nirvana – Smells like Teen Spirit from The [...]