Our Mission

Our mission at this site is to promote an artist, a group, a CD, a song that you might have passed by. Unless you have a major record company promoting your newest release it’s hard to get noticed. In today’s rapid on-the-go world it’s hard to find the time to discover that artist that falls between the cracks. There’s a lot of good music out there that deserves a wider audience and that’s the goal of this site. We want to help you find that music.

We’re not here to be hip and find the next “Big Thing.” We’re probably as far from hip as possible. While sometimes we might stumble across someone that will end up as the “new thing” that’s not what we’re looking for. We’d be thrilled for some of these deserving artists to become Big Names, but we also live in the real world and realize that’s probably not going to happen. So every person that we can turn on to these undiscovered gems will be one more person listening and hopefully buying their music.

We plan to be positive on this site. Our main goal is the weekly features that showcase a new artist. Inbetween these weekly features we’ll pass along news and tour information, maybe do some album reviews and even a concert review here and there. Our plan is to pass on the good and if we come across things we don’t like we’ll do what our Mom told us when we were kids, “if you can’t say something nice, than don’t say anything at all.”

An add-on in the Weekly Feature will be a sample of the artist's music. We hope to include one song for every artist that we talk about, so you can get an idea of what they sound like. It won't always be the newest track, but one we feel really showcases their sound.

We’re not a site that hates an artist just because they’re a Big Name and have a Big Record Company behind them. Indeed we love quite a few Big Name artists, but they don’t need our help in getting the word out. They have a lot of people behind them already doing that. We want to try and help those guys and girls that don’t have quite that many people behind them in their quest in delivering their music.

We hope to keep our sidebar fairly small but there are a few items on it that deserve mention. Click on the Unsigned button and you’ll go to a site that features unsigned artists of every genre with samples of their music and bios and other information about them.

Another is the Music in Your Future widget. This brings you to a site that lists just about everything that is coming out in the music business and the date of its release. I’ll be pulling some of these upcoming release dates and probably running a maybe monthly post highlighting albums I feel deserve special notice, but if you’re wondering when your favorite album is coming out this is the place to check.

And on a personal note we’ve included the link to TopBlogMag where this site got its start as a weekly column. The column no long appears on a weekly basis but this site is a good place to check out for some great writing.

We also have a few ads here and there on this site. The ads serve a twofold purpose. After each weekly feature we hope to have a few ads where you can purchase either downloads or albums from that featured artist if you’ve liked what you’ve read or heard so far. Plus we would be lying if we didn’t admit that each click and purchase from said click didn’t drop a few cents in our coffers.

There’s also a Voices to hear cafépress shop where you can help promote this site by wearing some cool apparel with the logo splashed across the shirt or hat. Wear some of these shirts with the names of these great artists and let people know what good taste you have in music.

Hopefully you’ll like this site and find some great new musical artists. We hope to update the weekly feature every Monday. We’ve got a backlog of old columns that we plan to drop in so not every week will be a new feature until we run out of the backlog. We’ve started off with a half dozen features already here to give everyone an idea of what we’re doing.

If you like us spread the word. Link to us. Tell others about us. But more important, give these artists a try, buy something from them and tell your friends how good they are.