Music Mondays: Spring Fever
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Listen to our "Spring Fever" playlist on Spotify now!
What are some of your favorite tracks that put you into "full spring?" Share below!
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Lessons Learned: 2011
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The Flaming Lips To Release New Songs Each Month of 2011
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To keep their music coming all year round, The Flaming Lips will be releasing a new song for free during every month of the New Year. Much like Kayne West’s GOOD FRIDAYS last year, where a new song was released each Friday for a number of months, the Lips will be making new tunes to be released each month throughout 2011.
Lead singer Wayne Coyne told Rolling Stone that traditionally creating a new album seemed a bit too complicated at the moment:
"Not that I think the old way was boring, but to spend another two years with the same 13 songs, it's just like fuck. I think we're going to just start to do things and put it out. Once we get 11 or 12 songs together, maybe we'll do something else with it. We want to try to live through our music as we create it instead of it being a collection of the last couple years of our lives."So how will these songs be released? Well that’s the question currently at hand. Coyne noted,
"The dilemma is whether we're going to release it on vinyl, cereal boxes, or some of it on toys that we make. Sometimes, the music is the simplest part of any of these things. We'll be making these little videos that connect in the end to a bigger movie we'll be making next year as well."Keep your eyes on the band’s website for more details.
VSQ Employee Mixtape #5: Customer Service Dept.
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Chrissy H. came to CMH as a lowly intern and has since blossomed into a Customer Service superstar. Not only does she have a winning personality, but has the musical taste to ehttp://www.thevitaminstringquartet.com/blog/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=735nsure all your purchases are the right ones. Her mix-tape is a surefire winner with everything from the eclectic to straight up dance pop. If you ever see her boppin’ around Los Angeles, buy her a drink and she’ll sing you a song. She’ll try not to sing out of key.
1. Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me
from String Quartet Tribute To Van Morrison
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2. The Roots - The Seed
from String Quartet Tribute to The Roots
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3. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1
from String Quartet Tribute to The Flaming Lips
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4. Get Your Hands Off My Woman
from String Quartet Tribute to The Darkness
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5. Hello, Goodbye
from String Quartet Tribute to The Beatles
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6. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Ohio
from String Quartet Tribute to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
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7. 2Pac - California Love
from String Quartet Tribute to 2Pac
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8. Death Cab For Cutie - Sound of Settling
from Ghost: The String Quartet Tribute to Death Cab for Cutie
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9. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
from String Quartet Tribute to David Bowie
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10. Kanye West - Flashing Lights
from The String Quartet Tribute to Kanye West
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VSQ Employee Mixtape #2: The Art Department
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Please welcome the second installment of our new series of employee playlists, designed by the experts themselves - the VSQ staff! Like we said in our first post, we designed this series to help fans discover VSQ tracks they may have never found otherwise - and show off our impeccable and discerning musical taste! Last week we visited Taylor in the Marketing Department to see what was on her iTunes rotation. This week, lets check out what the art department is spinning.
Mixtape #2: Art Deparment Deep in the bowls of this ship we call “the art department” lies the desk of graphic designer Steven (aka PONG). If you had the chance to go through his itunes library you’d see he(I love referring to myself in 3rd person) is into a lot of music. There’s so much in the VSQ catalog, and narrowing down the fav’s is not a task for the faint at heart(look at me ma! I’m blogging!).
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
String Quartet Tribute to The Smiths
Superstar
String Quartet Tribute to Sonic Youth
(even though it’s really a carpenters song, this cover of a cover is great!)
Bizarre Love Triangle + She’s Lost Control
String Quartet Tribute to New Order & Joy Division
Another VSQ album that is a must!
Caribou
Vitamin String Quartet Tribute to Pixies
Wish You Were Here
Vitamin String Quartet Tribute to Pink Floyd
10:15 Saturday Night
The String Quartet Tribute to The Cure
Cannonball
Vitamin String Quartet: Alternative Hits of the 80's and 90's Vol. 2
Hit Me Like You Did The First Time
The String Quartet Tribute to The Flaming Lips
Heroin
The String Quartet Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico
Seriously, just buy this album every song kicks ass!
Everyday Is Like Sunday
String Quartet Tribute to Morrissey
Aww, to be in high school once more
The Man Who Sold The World
String Quartet Tribute to David Bowie
VSQ Employee Mixtape #1: Marketing Department
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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 we didn't even know existed and we'll be sharing this valuable information with you in weekly installments of playlists from the experts themselves, The VSQ Staff. So get your headphones ready because we're about to take you on a tour through the best, the classic and the weirdest Vitamin String Quartet tributes to be found.