Vitamin String Quartet


Vitamin String Quartet is an American musical group from Los Angeles known for its series of tribute albums to rock and pop acts.
VSQ is a series of string quartet projects developed and produced by CMH Records, an independent record company based in Los Angeles. The CMH team works with an evolving cast of arrangers, producers, string players, and other creatives on each project. Their albums are released through Vitamin Records and are primarily performed by a string quartet, although other instruments have been used. "Vitamin String Quartet is about applying rock n' roll attitude to classical technique," said Tom Tally, a violist and arranger who has performed on and produced over 50 Vitamin String Quartet albums.
Their albums feature various genres, including pop and rock, metal, emo, punk, techno, country, and hip-hop, and a wide variety of groups, such as the Beach Boys, Gorillaz, The Beatles, Iron Maiden, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, the Smashing Pumpkins, and Lana Del Rey, among others. Their discography includes over 400 albums.

History

The group began in 1999 "as an experiment in transforming rock and pop songs with classical instruments." It later expanded to include a variety of popular music.
From 2012 until 2014, their music was played 24 hours a day on the FM broadcast station WWHK in Concord, New Hampshire.
In 2008, VSQ contributed a recording of "Jack and Sally Montage" to Nightmare Revisited, on which the original score for the 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas was reinterpreted by bands like Tiger Army, the All-American Rejects, Plain White T's, Rise Against, and DeVotchKa.
In June 2009, they branched out by including a few original songs on their album Perversions, which also included covers of bands such as Broken Social Scene, No Age, and Sigur Rós.

Movie features

Vitamin String Quartet covered INXS's "Never Tear Us Apart" and Pat Benatar's "We Belong" in the 100th episode of Gossip Girl.
Vitamin String Quartet's cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Something I Can Never Have" was featured in the fifth episode of the first season of the HBO series Westworld, "Contrapasso", and their cover of Radiohead's "Motion Picture Soundtrack" was featured in episode six, "The Adversary".
Vitamin String Quartet's cover of the Red Hot Chili Peppers "Scar Tissue" was featured on the soundtrack of King of Staten Island in 2020.
Vitamin String Quartet has many covers featured in the Netflix series Bridgerton, such as Nirvana's "Stay Away" and Robyn's "Dancing on My Own". Covers of Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy" and Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" were used in the 2024 Doctor Who episode "Rogue," serving as an homage to Bridgerton.

Partial discography

0–9

  • The String Quartet Tribute to 3 Doors Down
  • ''The String Quartet Tribute to 311''

    A

  • Back in Baroque: The String Quartet Tribute to AC/DC
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs AC/DC
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs Adele's Skyfall
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs Adele
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs Adele's Rumour Has It
  • The String Quartet Tribute to Aerosmith
  • String Quartet Tribute to AFI
  • The String Quartet Tribute to Alice in Chains
  • Precious Things: The String Quartet Tribute to Tori Amos
  • Pieces: The String Quartet Tribute to Tori Amos, Vol. 2
  • String QuaTributeibute to Animal Collective: Banshee Beat
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs As I Lay Dying's An Ocean Between Us
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs Arcade Fire
  • String Quartet Tribute to Arcade Fire's Funeral
  • String Quartet Tribute to Atreyu
  • String Quartet Tribute to Audioslave
  • String Quartet Tribute to Avicii's Wake Me Up
  • ''String Quartet Tribute to Avenged Sevenfold''

    B

  • The String Quartet Tribute to Bad Religion: History Repeating
  • String Quartet Tribute to Bastille's Pompeii
  • The String Quartet Tribute to The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
  • The String Quartet Tribute to The Beatles
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs The Beatles Vol. 2
  • The String Quartet Tribute to Björk
  • The String Quartet Tribute To Björk: The Remixes
  • Ice - The String Tribute To Björk
  • The String Quartet Tribute to Black Sabbath
  • The String Quartet Tribute to Blue October
  • The String Quartet Tribute to Bob Dylan
  • The String Quartet Tribute to Bon Jovi: Count Me In
  • The String Quartet Tribute to Breaking Benjamin
  • The String Quartet Tributes to Bright Eyes' Beautiful in the Morning
  • The String Quartet Tribute to Jimmy Buffett
  • The String Quartet Performs Bush
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs Blink 182
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs Bon Iver
  • ''VSQ Performs The Black Keys''

    C

  • String Quartet Tribute to Casting Crowns
  • An Evening with Diablo: The String Tribute to Chevelle
  • String Quartet Tribute to Coheed and Cambria's In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
  • String Quartet Tribute to Coldplay
  • String Quartet Tribute to Coldplay, Vol. 2.
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs Coldplay's Viva la Vida
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto
  • String Quartet Tribute to The Cure
  • ''Vitamin String Quartet Performs Chandelier by Sia''

    D

  • String Quartet Tribute to The Dark Side of the Moon
  • The String Quartet Tribute to Dashboard Confessional: B-Sides of the String Sessions
  • Songs You Have Come to Love The Most: A String Quartet Tribute to Dashboard Confessional
  • String Quartet Tribute to Daughtry
  • String Quartet Tribute to Dave Matthews Band
  • String Quartet Tribute to David Bowie
  • String Quartet Tribute to David Gray
  • Ghost: The String Quartet Tribute to Death Cab for Cutie
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs The Decemberists
  • String Quartet Tribute to Deftones
  • String Quartet Tribute to Depeche Mode
  • String Quartet Tribute to Dido
  • Are You Breathing: The String Quartet to Disturbed
  • String Quartet Tribute to The Doors
  • The String Quartet Tribute to Dream Theater
  • String Quartet Tribute to Duran Duran
  • String Quartet Tribute to DragonForce
  • String Quartet Tribute to DragonForce: Through the Fire and the Flames
  • Crenshaw Classics: The String Quartet Tribute to Dr. Dre
  • ''The String Quartet Tribute to Disturbed''

    E

  • String Quartet Tribute to The Eagles
  • String Quartet Tribute to Eric Clapton
  • Immortalized: The String Quartet Tribute to Evanescence
  • The String Quartet Tribute to Evanescence
  • The String Quartet Tribute to Elliott Smith
  • ''The String Quartet Tribute to Eminem''

    F

  • String Quartet Tribute to Fall Out Boy
  • String Quartet Tribute to Fall Out Boy Vol. 2
  • Strung Out on Fiona Apple: A String Quartet Tribute
  • String Quartet Tribute to Finger Eleven
  • String Quartet Tribute to The Flaming Lips
  • String Quartet Tribute to Fleetwood Mac
  • Rumours: The String Quartet Tribute to Fleetwood Mac
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs the Tribute to Flyleaf
  • The Magnificent Seven Series: Strung Out on Foo Fighters
  • Shape and Colour of My Heart: The String Quartet Tribute to Foo Fighters
  • ''Unravel: The String Quartet Tribute to The Fray''

    G

  • String Quartet Tribute to Peter Gabriel
  • String Quartet Tribute to Garbage
  • String Quartet Tribute to Godsmack's Godsmack
  • Anthem: The String Quartet Tribute to Good Charlotte
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs Gorillaz
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know
  • Vitamin String Quartet performs Green Day's American Idiot
  • String Quartet Tribute to Green Day's When I Come Around
  • String Quartet Tribute to Guns N' Roses The Dutchman
  • ''String Quartet Tribute to Guns N' Roses''

    H

  • String Quartet Tribute to PJ Harvey
  • Arteries Untold: The String Quartet Tribute to Hawthorne Heights
  • String Quartet Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
  • Uninhibited: String Quartet Tribute to Hinder
  • Leave Nothing Behind: Strung Out on Hoobastank - The String Quartet Tribute
  • ''The String Quartet Tribute to HIM''

    I

  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs Imogen Heap
  • VSQ Performs Imagine Dragons
  • String Quartet Tribute to Incubus
  • New Skin: The String Quartet Tribute to Incubus Vol. 2
  • Vitamin String Quartet Tribute to Incubus Vol. 3
  • Anatomy of Evil - The String Quartet Tribute to Iron Maiden
  • Interstellar: The String Quartet Tribute to Interpol
  • ''Strung Out on INXS: The String Quartet Tribute''

    J

  • String Quartet Tribute to James Blunt
  • String Quartet Tribute to Jane's Addiction
  • String Quartet Tribute to Jet
  • String Quartet Tribute to Elton John
  • String Quartet Tribute to John Lennon
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs Jason Mraz
  • Vitamin String Quartet Performs Jason Mraz's I Won't Give Up
  • VSQPerformss the Hits of Michael Jackson
  • ''String Quartet Tribute to Jeff Buckley''

    K

  • The String Quartet Tribute to Kanye West
  • String Quartet Tribute to Kasabian: Processed Strings
  • The String Quartet Tribute to The Killers
  • String Quartet Tribute to Kiss
  • ''Hurt Inside: A String Quartet Tribute to KoЯn''