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Rock the Casbah: Famous Music Venues

The spirit of the infamous but now defunct New York music club CBGB will be reborn this summer, in the form of a music festival and movie. Originally intended to showcase the music styles it was na...

We Hardly Knew Them

I hate to see a good band go. It sucks when they're big players, like the end of R.E.M. or Rilo Kiley, but it's even worse when a band break ups on the cusp of breaking out. At best, we get an al...

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...

R.E.M.'s Greatest Hits

September 21st marked the end of an era. No, we’re not talking end of summer, we’re talking the end of the world as we know it; after thirty years together, R.E.M. has decided to disband. In an ann...

Seven Things to Know About The Decemberists

Vitamin String Quartet will release an album of Decemberists covers this coming March. The track list for this album is as follows: Down By the Water O Valencia! Sixteen Military Wives HereI...

VSQ Employee Mixtape #1: Marketing Department

We created this unofficial series to help you uncover the precious gems that are buried in the depths of our impressive and seemingly endless catalog. While creating our lists we've found tributes ...