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Rock Goes Orchestral: Our Favorite Bands Performed With An Orchestra

In recent years a lot of great bands have done the orchestral thing and decided to play some shows backed by a symphony orchestra. Sometimes it’s great, sometimes it’s a bit ridiculous. But when di...

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 Most Anticipated Releases of 2010

Music is a funny thing, like water and insanity it comes in waves. Remember that whole boy band thing in the late 90’s? What was that all about? How did that even happen? Either way 2009 was an o...

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...

VSQ Employee Mixtape: Digital Department

Jim C works in the digital department at CMH. Since he turns real music into 1's and 0's all day, his opinion doesn't really matter. Just kidding! Somehow he convinced the Vitamin String Quart...

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 ...

The VSQ Study Hall Companion

DOWNLOAD If you still want to rock out to your favorite songs but fear being shushed in the study hall, The Vitamin String Quartet has transformed dance party anthems into sophisticated string ar...

Radiohead Jacket Made From Recycled Plastic PET Bottles

Just received an email from Waste.uk.com, about the new Radiohead jackets. What makes these jackets cooler than any other Radiohead jacket? Because they are made from 100% certified recycled pl...

Stuff We Life: Radiohead Deluxe Reissues of Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief

Just because Radiohead ditched their record label and are taking to newer ways to distribute music doesn't mean Capitol can't bank on the success of their previous albums.  While we relish any ch...

Stuff We Like: Radiohead In Rainbows CD 2

Among all of the buzz about Radiohead's In Rainbows pay-what-you-want download scheme, you may have skimmed over the fact that their was a second part to the album. If you are a huge fan like us,...