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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 […]

Oslo, Norway–October 23, 2006– Steffen Nicolaisen (guitar & vocals), Arild Steinsrud (bass), and Nils H. Maehlum (drums) are Nickels & Dimes. The band formed in 1987 and in 2003, the original lineup reformed as Nickels & Dimes, then wrote and recorded their most recent and fourth album Midnight Overdrive.
This trio is a devout Hendrix worshipper […]

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 […]

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 […]

Clearly, ELO was a progressive band, although most people never looked upon them as that because of their long run on the pop charts. They had it all going for them-a unique brand of rock music with parts of an orchestra mixed in and a singer/songwriter/guitar player on level with the best in the world. […]

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 […]

As you visit the hundreds of music podcast and MP3 blog sites you’ll notice that most them feature something called PODSAFE MUSIC. For this article I have gathered information from various internet sites in order to help clarify what podsafe music is and how it can become another helpful tool to place into your marketing […]

Do you get excited or do you break out in cold sweat when you hear the word “open mike?” Tom Heany has some great advice on how to prepare yourself for bearing your soul in front of an audience.
Here’s a cool idea: Openmikes.org is an online database of Open Mikes occurring in the US and […]

Very often the key to getting tracks to sit well in the mix or be heard without over powering the other parts lies in the playing and not the tone, effects, gain, etc…Color your roots.
It isnt always necessary to play full chords. Very often you muddy the mix by doubling the bass part. When working […]

The Reading and Leeds music festival took place over the weekend and luckily quite a few acts were televised this year, including the band The Subways. I’ve been hearing about them for awhile now, but hadn’t really paid much attention until I saw them performing at Reading.
The three-piece band puts on a great live show, […]

When is the last time you heard a band from Norway that sounded like the Jimi Hendrix Experience playing blues-rock as if they came from suburban America? Nickles & Dimes is that band. The have released albums every three to four years since 1993. So they do have a record of accomplishment as […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 21, 2006 – Calgary, Alberta — Bluessmyth may be Canada’s answer to ZZ Top after the release of their sizzling new album Bluessmyth. In the tradition of that little old band from Texas, they are a power trio with the drive and authority that makes people stand up and take notice. […]

Colorado-based Jazz chanteuse Mellani Day announced the release of her first full-length, genre-breaking album ‘Mostly True’, co-produced by renowned jazz pianist Eric Gunnison. The original vocal jazz-centric tunes feature a rich mix of genres from smooth jazz & blues to reggae & calypso, as well as a bluesy version of Huey Lewis’ hit, “I Want […]

Artist: Variant
Title: Beyond Jargon
Genre: Progressive Rock-Metal
Label: Independent
CD Baby Link
Variant Website
The cover of the new Variant CD suggests that what they have to offer inside is Beyond Jargon. As I found out rather quickly, it lives up to its title. Jargon, defined as vocabulary of a group, is something every group has, in a […]

Johnny Gee & Step By Step - (LP/Cd)
He’s the man who made the Midwest the legendary Northern Soul spot that it is, and has scored 14 chart hit songs during his long career, but Johnnie Gee remains something of a “Legend” to many R&B and Soul fans who know his songs by heart but often […]

August 2006 Edition
* Electronic/Dance Act Returns With New Projects
* Schizophrenology Downloaded Over 4,000 Times Since Releasing Last Week
* Matt O’Ree Wins Guitarmageddon
* The Brooklyn House And Trance Company Releases Their Debut Album “Carry US Through”
* Sonoma Wire Works Launches RiffWorks Standard
* Blue Scout Music Announces Online Music Catalog
* MyxerTags Enables Independent Musicians To Sell […]

Artist: Bluessmyth
Title: Bluessmyth
Genre: Blues-Rock
Label: Arges Records
Bluessmyth Website
Indie Pool Link
Canada’s answer to ZZ Top has arrived. They are a raw and energy fill trio called Bluessmyth. This killer blues rockin’ trio is the Yaholkoski brothers, Chris and Jason, and Calvin Becker. Chris leads the way with his beefy lead guitar chops, a deep voice […]