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Rod Stewart Announces Vegas Residency

Last week Rod Stewart announced his two year residency at the famed Caesar’s Palace resort in Las Vegas. The show entitled “Rod Stewart: The Hits” will feature Stewart’s classics including “Maggie...

Two Is Better Than One

Alison Krauss and Union Station’s first album in seven years was released this week, and reviews suggest that the album, Paper Planes, was worth the wait. This award winning and much beloved blues-...

Rock On, Smart Women

While Tina Fey is not technically a rock star, she does rock our worlds weekly as the writer and star of, uh, “30 Rock.” Fey, the first female head writer at “Saturday Night Live,” has also written...

It's Beer Day!

From 1920 to 1933, alcohol was illegal in the United States. Yes, you read that correctly. It’s no small coincidence perhaps, that Prohibition and The Great Depression overlapped one another....

Baseball’s Greatest Hits

The 111th major league baseball season began last Thursday. In belated honor of Opening Day and all that it means in terms of sunny afternoons at the ballpark, national hot dog consumption, and sin...

On 4/5, a History of the 45

The 45 rpm record was born more than sixty years ago, and for years this miniature vinyl format was the favorite method of consumption for music fans. Although 45s became obsolete with the invent...

It's Festival Season!

Spring and summer mean music festivals, and music festivals mean smorgasbords of music from all time favorite acts and up-and-comers alike. The summer 2011 festival season is rife with coast to coa...

Arcade Fire Play Surprise Show in Haiti

Arcade Fire delighted a tiny audience with a surprise set at a hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on early last week. The 45 minute show included covers of The Rolling Stones’ “The Last Time,” Blondie’...

April Fools!

No joke, it’s April 1! The origins of April Fools Day date back to medieval times, and the yearly celebration of hoaxes and pranks spawns good natured humor on a worldwide scale. In honor of April ...

VSQ Featured in Series Finale of HBO's "Big Love"

HBO's Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated "Big Love", ended its five-year run last week. And what better way to close out the series than with a little VSQ? The quartets version of Moby's "God Moving...