Indie Artist Elza Mueller-Roemer Isn’t Just Another Pretty Voice.

This is a guest post by Lauren Salkin

Every time Elza takes the stage, she channels the music of her South Carolina roots in her songs, a mix of blues, jazz, and folk-rock she likes to call “Acoustic Soul.” Her voice, a disarming combination of strength and vulnerability, has elicited comparisons to Joni Mitchell and Bonnie Raitt. “ . . . A voice that is unmistakable.” — The Acoustic Radio Sampler.

“ . . . You’d have to hear it to believe it. Live, she’s the second coming of Joni.” — Don Menn, founder of Guitar Magazine.

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The other day, while pondering through the videos that live on YouTube I came across one that got me thinking about embarrassing moments, so I thought I would take this opportunity to start a discussion, which I don’t do that often …. Or do I?

Anyhow on to the post at hand, we have probably all been in those predicaments where we have forgotten something or someone and found it quite embarrassing..  Now I am going to ask you all to keep this clean, I know there are those out there with a mind so dirty that a bin lorry looks clean compared to their minds, so you have been warned!

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Hi I wanted to Thank Karen for letting write a post about why I always like to add videos to my post. Now right off the bat you may think about increasing your bounce rate and I never really knew or cared about how long someone stays on the site  but it does seem like an easy way to increase the time someone is on your site. But what I like about it is maybe I think I haven’t really got my message across or I’m trying to cast a certain mood on the post. Videos let me add one more dimension to my message , it hopefully adds to the emotional impact I’m trying to have people reach.

Sometimes if I’m pumped up I will add a song from youtube that I just heard on the radio, this is cool because you often get to add videos that just came out and people haven’t seen yet . I like vodpod because it’s easy to grab the code off there especially when the  song has been blackedout on youtube.

I also recently noticed vodpod gave me my own little video vault . I don’t spend much time on there and all that but Vodpod does have a community on there of mostly young hip music buffs. Karen is down with the music scene so vodpod seems like a great spot to launch a video to get feedback on. Check it out Vodpod ‘s a cool site.

The main point I’m trying to get at is  I found adding the right video especially if it’s a song that inspired me to write the post adds some extra flavor and hey if it helps your bounce rate all the better.

Ideally videos that YOU made using camtasia uploaded to youtube with your links in the sidebar then used tubemogul would be better but adding music videos has worked for me so  give it a shot Thanks everyone

John Sullivan

PS now this post may seem silly and common sense but the reason I wrote it is because I don’t see many people doing it

Peace

After the success of the Blogger Interviews on my blog I decided to do the same with artists/bands and having known a few bands over the years through my own electronica music, I asked several of them if they would mind having an interview on Blazing Minds so they could get the word out on their music perhaps get some new fans.

Quite a few decided they would like to do the interview and these are the ones that are listed in this post, though a few never got back to me, which was a real shame, but for those that did I do hope that the interview that they have had posted has helped their fan bases a tad..

If you are in a band or are a solo artist and would like to have an interview with Blazing Minds they just contact me for more info

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Well the guys have actually pulled it off and have hit the number one spot, which is awesome, not only have they toppled the X-Factor winner Joe McElderry from the top spot, but they have chalked up a Christmas number one record, you guys rock!!

A group based on Facebook called “RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE FOR CHRISTMAS NO.1” have asked fans to download the single “Killing in the Name” in a fight to get  the X-factor winner away from the number one spot and almost 1 million fans have come to the call to help RATM hit the spot. Read the rest of this entry »

Now this has probably been done already, but, I thought I would have a bit of a giggle with my Twitter friends today, so I’m going to start a new hash tag #AltSongTitle.

Early today I was tweeting away with @John_C and I tweeted this:

So I though we could all have a bit of a laugh and post alternative song titles.

Just tweet your alternative song title and add the #AltSongTitle hash tag to your tweet and lets see how many good ones we can get out there

UPDATE

Just started a Twub for the AltSongTitle HashTag, so please stop by and join in with the fun

Those of you that read my blog will have read at sometime a collection of Blogger Interviews and Artist/Band Interviews, sadly these have now come to an end with the last Blogger Interview been posted this Thursday.

So now the call goes out to those of you who have blogs and read Blazing Minds, if you are a blogger then give me a shout by either contacting me or leave a comment the same goes for artists/bands.

Then I can get the questions to you so you can be included in either the Blogger Interviews or the Who’s The Band feature, so hope to hear from anyone wanting a bit of promo