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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 [...]

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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 [...]

Who can forget the first few measures of Aerosmith’s monster ballad “I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing?” Orchestrally robust, the song became the unforgettable theme song to the ’90s blockbuster summer film Armageddon as well as one of Diane Warren’s biggest hits. However, the strings in Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain” definitely helped define the [...]

October 14th will be a big day for David Bowie fans all round the world.
It will mark the 35th anniversary of one of Bowie’s most classic albums, Heroes. The album was one of three albums Bowie conceptualized around Berlin and the second of the infamous Brian Eno/David Bowie trilogy. Not only have critics highly praised [...]

The memorably quirky tunes sung by Jack Skellington and the citizens of Halloween Town are reinterpreted with animated string arrangements by Vitamin String Quartet. Songs like “This is Halloween,” “What’s This?” and “Kidnap the Sandy Claws” are spun into a whirlwind of violin, viola and cello. VSQ’s performance of the music of “The Nightmare Before [...]

Consider yourself up to snuff on all of Vitamin String Quartet’s latest releases? Now’s your chance to test that theory.
Click and print the VSQ crossword puzzle below. Use our lyrical clues to fill in the spaces with the artists Vitamin String Quartet has covered in their most recent releases. Be the first to send us [...]

The challenge of the remix, as opposed to the cover, is that you can’t just do the same thing as the original except use your own voice and a different guitar. The remix culture demands reimaginings, not renditions, and that is at once freeing and challenging. It’s freeing because, source material be damned, if you [...]

The corporate world often makes strange soundtrack choices when advertising their wares. Most timely and recent is NBC’s use of The Clash’s “London Calling” for the London Olympics promos, which may also be featured in the opening ceremony. One only needs to skim the lyrics to see why this is an odd pairing. It’s not [...]

Kings of Leon Cover Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind?”

Kings of Leon got this one right – from the distorted guitar lines and hauntingly high “ooohs” to the simple drums and vocals on edge. It’s no wonder the band covered this Pixies staple in several concerts throughout its 2010 tour. Whether you know it from the [...]

It’s been four painfully long years, but The Killers are back and they’ve got a full-length album to prove it. Their forthcoming effort, Battle Born,  marks the end of the band’s short-lived hiatus and is slated to drop September 18th. Don’t worry, you won’t have to salivate over the next two months waiting to get [...]