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VIRGINIA COALITION
Andrew Poliakoff: lead vocals, guitar, percussion
Jarrett Nicolay: guitar, bass guitar, banjo, vocals
Paul Ottinger: guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, percussion, vocals
John Patrick: drums, vocals

Listen to “That’s What You Said”
Listen to “Gates of Wisdom”
“Yes, we feel like gettin’ it on!”
– 1,300 VACO fans, chanting on Live at the 9:30 Club
It was the day after New Year’s, 2006, […]

Angela Ortiz has an album titled All About You and it serves as a very descriptive lead in to what is inside the CD sleeve. This recording seems to be a biographical and storytelling adventure. I suppose its all in the perception of the listener as it would be with any album. It is hard […]

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October 25, 2006 — Jimi Hendrix died more than 35 years ago, without a will and with a year left on his Yameta agreement. There has been no A-list film on his life and music in spite of the fact that he has been recognized as one of the greatest musician/guitarists of all […]

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October 25, 2006 - Elvier von Lear of DragonSlayer Films LLC and Lawrence Miller of Purple Haze Records Ltd explained to Raymond Millien of Ocean Tomo why the Michael Frank Jeffery Estate does not own the rights of Jimi Hendrix, as claimed by Ed Chalpin, the Administrator of the Estate.Raymond Millien of Ocean […]

New York, NY–October 23, 2006–The spirit and drive of producer/actor Emmitt Thrower allowed him to start his production company Wabi Sabi Productions.
In August 2001, Thrower had a brain stem stroke that left him unable to speak, eat, walk, stand up, or even sit up due to his affected balance. He was unable to […]

New Music Weekly magazine has nomimated singer/songwriter Miko Marks as “Best New Country Artist 2006″ for the 2006 New Music Weekly Awards being held on November 18th in Hollywood. Miko recently released the third single and first music video “Mama” (featuring Grammy winning Erykah Badu in the title role) from her full-length album “Freeway […]

Los Angeles cult rock band Bluebeard has reformed and released it’s first album of new material in over 25 years, “Deluxe With Reverb.” Produced and published by new independent music label Shelter From the Storm Records, “Deluxe With Reverb” features a selection of new material, re-recorded and re-mastered songs from the band’s […]

Sugar Land, Texas–October 12, 2006– Ed Maly is a Texas original. He was born and raised in the Longhorn state and began playing guitar at the age of five. After paying dues in many bands during his high school days and at local clubs, Maly started releasing recorded music in 1995. Six […]

Laurens Vernot is a multi-talented musician that has dubbed himself as The Lava Province and his recent release Strangeway explores his affinity for crafty melodious rhythmic pop-rock with lyrics that are easily assimilated. Does this sound like your cup of tea? It certainly sets me right. This music reminds me of favorite 70s bands like […]

Los Angeles–CA–October 09, 2006– Still Waters do indeed run deep on Louise Setara’s maiden voyage into the world of recorded music. Louise has been singing since the tender age of three, and fifteen years later-a culmination of an entire lifetime jells into one impressive debut album.
Still Waters was released September 12, 2006 and it features […]

Boise, ID–October 2, 2006– Jimmy Trip and David Miller (AKA Buttons Magoo) crossed paths one day and found that they were kindred spirits meant to create music together. Having similar backgrounds and tastes was the start for the duo then when they ventured into the studio, one thing led to another, and now […]

Eleven years is very long time between albums but some people can get away with it and pick up where they left off, like Bob Seger.
Face The Promise is a fantastic new album from Seger. This is the deluxe set with a DVD. What I learned about Bob in the DVD, besides watching some choice […]

Not too long, after the release of this Kansas set, long time violinist and vocalist Robbie Steinhardt left the band again and David Ragsdale replaced him, again. The release of Works In Progress is ironic in that it documents a configuration of the band with Ragsdale on violin. The reason that the band decided to […]

Louise Setara is a very mature looking 18-year-old female. When I discovered this after reading about it on her website, I was stunned. The first picture I saw of her was very different, her hair was down, and actually, she looks like a different person. This picture was on a special three-song sampler I received […]

Matthew Fogg & Nicole Hajj had a history before this album came together. They met and found a mutual admiration and respect for one thing, the art form of jazz.
It is unusual to release a debut album as a live recording, but the duo decided this was the best way to present their music at […]

Artist development in the music industry has evolved over time, leaving most of the early progress to the artist themselves. For the most part, the days are gone when a record label developed up and coming talent. The question continuously arises for those young artists, “where do I start”? With the advent of the Internet, […]

Ventura, CA–September 25, 2006– The Soupy Sales 3 DVD Box Set Collection was such a great success that Morada Vision was overwhelmed with emails and phone calls for the early black & white Soupy Sales shows. They had to dig into the archives and unearth the early Soupy shows to produce the Collector’s […]

Pete Teo plants a seed then it steadily germinates with the warmth of his music, just like the sun and the rain help a flower to grow. This is the best way to explain how this music made me feel. I loved Rustic Living For Urbanites, Teo’s previous release that came out in 2004, […]