Stuff We Like

Do you love a good remake or does the thought of a copycat make you cringe? Cover songs have been either angering or pleasuring our ears for decades.  Most popular artists produce cover songs as a form of artistic expression, a tribute to the original artist, or as perhaps a way of saying, “whatever you [...]

Lexington, KY’s favorite music blog You Ain’t No Picasso has started posting more of a rapidly popular Covers Archives for select indie artists. These posts not only point out all the covers and who they originate from, but they also offer each one for free download.
At this time, there are only a few, but with [...]

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 [...]

If there’s one musical act that could embody the modern fairytale of the no-name artist-turned-internet-sensation-turned-major-label-golden-child, it would have to be Owl City. The synth-pop project of Minnesota native Adam Young, Owl City went sounds in a Midwestern basement to a MySpace phenomenon seemingly overnight; teenage girls (and okay, boys too) were flocking…and the record industry [...]

Wu Tang Clan and the Beatles: do either demographic of listeners even crossover? I suppose they do, it’s hard for any type of person to not be in some way affected by the Beatles’ staggering catalog of music that they pieced together in a few short years. In Tom Caruna, the Brighton, England producer who put together this mashup at the tender age of 28 believes there’s a lot of crossover. “Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers” is his 27-song mashup that features such titles as “Save Me Dear” or “Forget Me Not”. Each song features several samples from bands that either covered Beatles songs or demos from the band themselves. The instrumentals and the album are available at his website http://teasearecords.net/ since early January.

After this month’s earthquake catastrophe in Haiti, celebrities having been going all “We Are the World” like crazy. And that’s not to make light of the disaster, nor to dismiss the outpouring of generosity from Hollywood; the world would probably benefit if those who were flush with good fortune and the power to sway the [...]

We admit, we may be getting a little ahead of ourselves here since the album will not reach our ears until the 22nd. And no, Flaming Lips are not technically a cover band. But when we heard about Flaming Lips covering Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon we knew instantly that it would be [...]

We were excited when Pixies headlined Coachella in 2004 and we are ecstatic now that they have began touring again in support of their 20th anniversary of Doolittle’s release. It’s not very often you get a chance to watch one of your favorite bands play their most classic album in its entirety.
To celebrate, they’ve done [...]

We love cool and interesting covers here at VSQ Blog, for obvious reasons, and this one is a doozy. Portsmouth Sinfonia was an experimental British orchestra that elevated amateur playing to an artform.

Alice In Chains’ first new album in 14 years is finally out and we were really excited to check it out. The gorgeous first single, “Black Gives Way to Blue” is about the band’s legendary lead singer Layne Staley, who died in 2002. Drummer Sean Kinney wrote on the band’s blog: “There’s not a day [...]