The four members from the rock-band Virginia Coalition — singer Andrew Poliakoff, multi-instrumentalists Paul Ottinger and Jarrett Nicolay, and drummer John Patrick — met in junior senior high school in Alexandria, VA, in music class. Within the springtime of 1998, they began a local hype by self-releasing their debut record, The Colors from the Audio. Townburg implemented in 2000, assisting Virginia Coalition (affectionately termed VACO by their supporters) to expand their pursuing towards the East Coastline as well as the Midwest, and men started regularly offering out locations in Washington, DC. Their third record, Rock & Move Party was found for distribution by KOCH upon its discharge in January 2003 and reached Billboard’s Internet graph. The band’s ever-invigorating live present didn’t harm the band’s developing group of fans either — through person to person, they were able to sell over 60,000 copies of the records. They performed 250 displays around the united states in 2003, and in August, the group gained the Reader’s Choice Prize to discover the best music group in Washington, D.C., in the Washington Post, an honor they received another year aswell. THE BRAND NEW York-based indie label bluhammock music released their 4th album, OK to look, in Sept 2004, that was made by Matt Wallace (Maroon 5, the Substitutes). Virginia Coalition’s initial live record, Live on the 9:30 Membership, was recorded on the DC membership on January 6, 2006 and released to get that Sept. Tour times through fall adopted as well.