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Twilight Reboot + Five Day Giveaway (Day 4)

CLOSED! Thank you to everyone who participated and congratulations to our winner: Paco. We will be contacting you soon with your full download of Vitamin String Quartet Performs Bon Iver Welcome ...

One-Man Bands

I recently read a quote (from the early 1900s) in which the speaker theorized that the rapid growth of technology would lead to a world in which people would only have to work two or three hours ...

Available Now! Vitamin String Quartet Perfroms Bon Iver

Bon Iver’s intimate and beautifully haunting songs have made Justin Vernon a standout among new indie rockers, and Vitamin String Quartet Performs Bon Iver is a nod to both his intricate albums. ...

Lessons Learned: 2011

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 t...

Predicting The 54th Grammys

It wasn't too long ago that the nominees for the 54th Grammys were announced, and it looks like a crowded field out there. In the interest of blogging, here's a look at the four big categories, t...

Our Favorite Musical Videos of the Moment

Haven’t spent much time trolling the internet lately? Here are the five best videos you may have missed. Post ‘em to your Facebook for instant cool points. Bon Iver Performing “Holocene” on ...

Best Upcoming Summer Releases

Summer is almost upon us and many of VSQ’s favorite artists are releasing albums just in time to make our backyeard BBQ playlists. Here are the best of early summer’s album releases. Raphael Sa...

Peter Gabriel Gets His Indie On, New LP Scratch My Back

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 immen...

Top 10 Songs By New Artists that Should Be Covered By Older Artists

While the common practice is for new artists to cover old ones, I find it much more interesting when it’s the other way around. In fact, there are a lot of old crooners that are doing contemporar...