Stuff We Like

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Friday, March 15th, 2013

Attention, Lads and Lassies! St. Patrick’s Day is this Sunday and why not celebrate it with some Irish music, VSQ-style. We’ve put together a playlist of some of our favorite artists who hail fromIreland, including Snow Patrol, The Cranberries, and U2. Enjoy, and be sure to wear your green this weekend!
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VSQ’s Black Friday Sale Starts Today!

Friday, November 23rd, 2012

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! Not to full to pick up some VSQ tunes though are you?
Today kicks off our Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sales. Now through Monday, all of Vitamin String Quartet’s physical CDs are available for 50% off! Yep, that means half off all of your VSQ favorites including tributes to Arcade [...]

Upcoming Black Friday/Cyber Monday Weekend Sale

Monday, November 19th, 2012

Black Friday/Cyber Monday Weekend Sale!
All of VSQ’s physical CD releases will be 50% off this Friday, November 23rd , through next Monday, November 26th. Yes, that means half off on VSQ tributes to Muse, Radiohead, Lady Gaga and many more. Start making your list to prepare for this limited time offer!
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Happy Halloween from Vitamin String Quartet

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

Happy Halloween, Everyone!
To get into the spirit, we’ve gathered VSQ’s most frightful and menacing renditions for our Haunted Halloween Playlist.
Play it while you’re preparing for your All Hallow’s Eve festivities or put it on at tonight’s Halloween gathering! Either way, these tunes are sure to coax out the things that go bump in the night [...]

Vitamin String Quartet Halloween Pumpkin Carving Stencil

Wednesday, October 10th, 2012

1. Click stencil of choice to download.
2. Print out on 8.5″x11″ paper.
3. Cut out the dark areas of the design with blade or scissors.
4. With wet cloth or spray bottle, wet the pattern on pumpkin (that you’ve already hollowed out) until it molds to the pumpkin’s form.
5.Using a pushpin, or a poker tool, make pinpoint [...]

Between The Covers: Bob Dylan Edition

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

The Moondoggies –“You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”

This song’s easily singable country chorus inspired many covers, from The Byrds in 1968 to Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova in 2007 for the Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There. It’s fairly impossible to even find the original song on YouTube. This one by Seattle folk rockers The Moondoggies has [...]

From the Vault Friday: Metallica

Friday, June 8th, 2012

Say Your Prayers, Little One: The String Quartet Tribute to Metallica

Loyal head-banging Metallica fans, prepare to mosh for joy. The nine-time Grammy Award-winning band just announced that they will be headlining their own music festival called Orion Music + More on June 23rd and 24th in Atlantic City. Metallica will be performing the “Black Album” [...]

From The Vault Friday: No Doubt

Friday, May 11th, 2012

No Doubt fans, rejoice! Last week, the band announced their new album’s release date, (the first since 2001,) which is slated for  September 25th.
While we eagerly await the album’s arrival, the group is documenting the process of the albums completion with a mini-webseries. You can check out the first installment here, which features snippets of the [...]

Between The Covers

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Mr. Little Jeans Covers Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs”

From upbeat indie shuffle to soothing electric pulse, Mr. Little Jeans’ cover of “The Suburbs” is almost unrecognizable from Arcade Fire’s more naturally instrumented original. More traditional instruments are replaced with shimmering synths and drum machines that lie underneath apathetically sexy female vocals, which sensually warn of a [...]