We know that this site hasn't been keeping up with it's announced goal of a weekly Spotlight and for that everyone here at Voices to Hear apologizes. (It's actually pretty easy to get us all on the same page, even though we're using the "royal" we, it's just me putting this site together.) I could make a long list of what's been going wrong and a million and one other excuses, but that still doesn't get the Spotlight out on a weekly basis, so I'll skip the excuses and offer my sincere apology and promise to do better.
It's a new year and we promise to try and do better this year. Our goal is to present a Spotlight every week, hopefully on Monday or as close to that day as we can make it. We have a long list of artists that we hope to feature in forthcoming Spotlights.
We also have lots more new features for the site. Hopefully our interview "Simply Six" will expand and feature more artists. Lily Holbrook actually sent hers back, but there was a mess up with the computers and it didn't come through, so she's re-doing it. We're expanding it out, sending it to more artists in the hope that we'll get more back.
Soon we'll be introducing a new feature called "Buried Treasures". This feature will showcase music from the past that we feel should not go unnoticed and warrants some attention. As always our aim with this feature will be to featured some music that is slightly off the radar from the majority of the music buying public. Hopefully we'll introduce you to some great older music that you might not have heard.
Also this year looks to be full of concerts. The New Orleans Jazz Fest will be here before long and lots of great music inbetween than. Our concert reviews will be featured more frequently.
And last but not least we hope to start featuring album reviews. There's a lot of great albums out there that we want to bring a little attention to. Sometimes we try to make our Spotlights come out when that featured artist has a new album coming out, but we don't always make it, so some great albums are slipping through the cracks.
While we said that the above was the last we also are hoping to run a round up of some of the best music from the last year that shouldn't go unnoticed or unheard. So we have an ambitious slate ahead of us for the coming year.
We'd like to hear from anyone that actually reads this site. Please leave some comments. Tell us what you think works and what doesn't. Give us your feedback on certain artists, let us know what you think about them. At the end of each Spotlight we link to mp3's for a handful of songs from said artist, give them a try, these are some great songs.
We also have a cafepress shop where you can buy some neat things with the VtH logo on it. We plan to expand this also and offer more goodies for you to spend your hard earned money on.
And finally, yes we really mean it this time, pass this site on to a friend. If you like it tell someone else. The purpose of this site is to push great music from artists that don't get the recognition they deserve, in other words - The Best Music You've Never Heard - so let as many people know about this site as you can so more people can hear them.
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Sunday, October 28, 2007
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.
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.
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