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Voilà! is a music blog that favours well written articles over industry gossip. It all started off in October 2007 in reaction to all the other music blogs cropping up who had sucky authors no sense for journalistic integrity or talent with the written word. They also pretentiously featured bands, and that was getting old.
Voilà! focuses itself firmly in the midst of music, literature, and independence. The intention of Voilà! is to make a difference in the online music community with thought-provoked, well written articles; articles that are keen on their understanding and use of eloquent language, without the clouding over of the opinions of the authors. The result is (ideally) a very well produced, astute, humble, diligent collaboration between friends from all over, speaking on the one thing that unites all of us: the unfathomable joy and love we all hold for music, in all its permutations.
Voilà! works best as a collaboration: a collection of musically inclined writers who all have a say and an opinion on the music styles and genres of their choice. All of our writers have their own style of discourse. They write about whatever they choose to write, however they choose to write it, and express their passion for whatever music they listen to; this collective mindset allows Voilà! to divest a sense of bias, for a sense of communal acceptance of all forms of music. This is what makes Voilà! so cool, fool.
Voilà! is a passionately independent music blog. Music journalism should be free of the constraints of advertising and promotion. So we're entirely non-profit, and don't schmooze with businesses whatsoever. We also have a love for the atypical. The mainstream of music culture is something of a stagnant swamp, so Voilà! intends to offer up musical artists flowing to their own current. You can expect to see many foreign and independent musicians being featured, along with creative kooks who've got a musically inclined talent.
Finally, Voilà! is always intrigued in gathering some new writers who are as intrigued as the rest of us are. If you'd like to write for Voilà!, we accept submissions! Send an email to chris.voilamusic@gmail.com titled "Submission," include a brief summary of the article at the beginning of the email, and we'll give it a look over. If you want to join the Voilà! team, drop an email telling us so at chris.voilamusic@gmail.com. We'll send you an application. If you're wanting to get some journalism cred and experience, we can be an excellent reference. And the fun part about writing for Voilà! is that our editors are lax and you can pretty much say anything you want! It's worth it, promise.
