[Welcome to a new series on the VSQ Blog called "Raging Strings." Each week, we'll highlight two pop and/or rock songs which include strings, and we'll ask you to vote for your favorite.]
The Verve had their ’90s hit with “Bittersweet Symphony” and one of many Smashing Pumpkins’ hits during that era included “Tonight, Tonight.” Strings [...]

Not that it matters in today’s political climate and economic crisis, but a few days ago, President Obama reiterated that he thinks Kanye West is a jackass, this time on the record. But an important thing to note is that he was initially complimenting West on being “very talented,” an important nuance found in the [...]

We’re only five days into the month of March and VSQ has already caught a powerful case of Spring fever!
With just three more weeks before Spring officially makes its way out of hibernation, we’ve mustered together a few of our favorite Vitamin String Quartet “Springtime” covers to keep this fever burning until it’s official arrival.
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Former Smashing Pumpkins bassist D’arcy Wretzky has been arrested in connection to an incident occurring in Michigan, where a number of her horses broke free from their pen and ran about town, causing a ruckus. TMZ reported a the occurrence in 2009, where Wretzky’s horses busted through their fences, leading her neighbors calling the [...]

Once again Bully Corgan is in the news for personnel changes in his current incarnation of the Smashing Pumpkins. This time it’s concerning his newest female bassist. Whether it’s simply his preference, or the need for a female backup vocalist, or maybe it’s just because everyone loves to look at a hot girl playing bass, [...]

In his recent interview with Rolling Stone, Billy Corgin revealed a lot of interesting tidbits. In one snippet, he claims that the days have been rough on him, even claiming at one point that he’d “wake up every morning for a while and think, ‘Go eat breakfast, or go kill yourself.’”

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The Vitamin String Quartet reinterprets some of the classiest modern songs to play for any of your guests. Start cocktails off with “Champagne Supernova,” take part in some great conversation during “How’s It Going To Be?” and rejoice at the dining table while the violin, viola, and cello offer melodies of “Just Like Heaven.” This [...]