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Unusual Collaborations

With a vast variety of genres in the music world, it’s inevitable that unusual crossover collaborations will arise – for better or for worse. Pop legend Tony Bennett and modern soulstress Amy Winew...

Songs Through Time: I Go to Sleep

Certain songs have an inherent appeal that makes them popular covers. They infect the brains and resonate with artists of any era, inspiring their own rendition. It's one of the purest example...

Civil Rights Music

With Black History Month well underway, it would be appropriate to reflect on the civil rights era that changed America. In service to that ideal, I've compiled a brief look at the movement's mos...

Songs for Working Out

One of the most popular new year's resolution is the goal to get in shape, put on muscle, or drop some pounds.  As we make our way past the first month of the new year, however, we see a definite...

Coachella Under the Microscope

The biggest music news last month was the revelation of the 2012 Coachella line-up. The gaudy fakes from last year have cleared, and what we have left looks to be one of the most stacked festival...

Peter Pan Complex: Growing Up Through Blink-182 Songs

In the 1990s, it was normal for 13-year-olds to listen to 25-year-olds singing about the joys of never outgrowing TV, parties and all the small things. Years later, those 13-year-olds have grown i...

From Stage to Screen: Movie Soundtracks by Musicians

A great movie or song, alone, can inspire powerful emotions. But combined, sounds and images can amplify the sensation. The Smiths' guitarist Johnny Marr, who worked on the soundtrack to Dennis Ho...

Available Now: Vitamin String Quartet Performs Blink-182

High school is rough. Falling out with friends, break-up's, bullies, failing classes, parents are fighting again; nothing going the way you'd hoped it would. For so many of us, escape came...

Vitamin String Quartet Featured on 100th Episode of Gossip Girl

Did you catch Monday night’s episode of Gossip Girl? If you did, chances are you heard Vitamin String Quartet’s lush string arrangement of INXS' "Never Tear Us Apart" throughout the lavish weddi...

Is Rock & Roll Dying? A Response to Patrick Carney

If you've been in a long supermarket line recently, you've probably seen the leather jacketed members of The Black Keys gracing the cover of this month's issue of Rolling Stone. You may even be p...