Our Mission Statement

I think I want to reprint two early posts in the life of this site.

Why My Music Is Better Than Yours

 Well, not really. You might be a rock guy. Or maybe a country girl. Or an alternative chick. Maybe a blues boy. Perhaps a bluegrass dude. Punks don't like rock, rock doesn't think much of country, alternative thinks very highly of themselves. Everyone has different tastes. Just because you don't care for something that doesn't make it worse than what you like.

 I've never been a big country fan, but I find that the more I explore music and listen to the past I've come to a grudging love of a lot of what would be considered country music. There's still some of it that I can't stand, but there's a lot more that I do like. And just because a music critic thinks something is great, doesn't mean it's all that. Or by reverse, just because an album gets one star doesn't mean you should ignore it. If it's something you like, listen to it and don't worry about what others think of it.

Early reviews of Led Zepplin from such leading rock journals as Rolling Stone called their music terrible, but try and find a bad review of that music in the magazine today. It just goes to show no one knows anything.

 We've made it our mission statement on this site to be positive about what we write about here. We want to introduce our readers to some great music. Do we think you'll enjoy song of the day we feature, every artist that answers our Simply Six, every singer that we spotlight? Of course not, but hopefully there will be some that we mention that you will hear and want to investigate further, perhaps buy their album, go to one of their shows, support their music. It gets harder and harder everyday to discover new music and at the same time it's never been easier. The internet puts a vast catalog of music at our fingertips, but sometimes it can be hard to find something new. We're here, hoping that we can help a little with that. But remember just because you don't like that last artist we spotlighted it doesn't mean they were bad, they were just meant for someone else.

And this one is our statement of purpose. Not much has really changed here, so I thought I'd re post it.

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.