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VSQ Guilty Pleasure Movies

Did you see Fast Five last weekend? That’s not a trick question. Millions of people did, making this fifth installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise something of a surprise box office smash...

Best Upcoming Summer Releases

Summer is almost upon us and many of VSQ’s favorite artists are releasing albums just in time to make our backyeard BBQ playlists. Here are the best of early summer’s album releases. Raphael Sa...

Vitamin String Quartet Performs Decemberists

Description: The Decemberists have earned their spot as forerunners in the indie music scene with their alt-country, folk and baroque pop. Whimsical or epic, each song  is a grand tale in itself ...

Vitamin String Quartet Performs Gorillaz

Description: Gorillaz have easily become the world’s most famous virtual band and Vitamin String Quartet takes on their innovative orchestrations, touching on alternative hip hop, rock and pop – ...

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...