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 [...]

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 [...]

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 rest of you hopeless romantics, keep reading for a special treat for your Valentine.
Nothing creates [...]

Ah the 80’s, you simultaneously shame me and make me want to break out into dance. 80’s covers have always sort of been horrible, why is that? I’m guessing that has to do with the overall quality of music in that time period. No one seemed to know what the hell was going on (except [...]

Reunions are all the rage in the last few years, and bands are coming out of seemingly nowhere to take any high paying offers to do one-off shows or entire tours. Any band that has had a mild hit has pretty much reunited, unless a member has died. Luckily, there are still many great bands [...]

Please welcome the second installment of our new series of employee playlists, designed by the experts themselves – the VSQ staff! Like we said in our first post, we designed this series to help fans discover VSQ tracks they may have never found otherwise – and show off our impeccable and discerning musical taste! Last [...]

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.