Thank you for your interest in Music Industry Newswire™, an online magazine covering business, entertainment and technology news in the music entertainment and recording industry. This “publication” is a unit of Neotrope®, established 1983 in California, USA.

We do not accept telephone calls regarding this publication. To send story ideas, product announcements, or music or gear for review please first review the information below, and THEN contact us by e-mail (see below).

You may email us at: support @ neotrope.com, provided you do NOT query us regarding any of the following (read info below BEFORE you contact us!):

• Comments about articles: all comments regarding articles or news items should be referred to the company mentioned in the story and NOT this Website, except as follows:

  • HOW TO COMMENT ON STORY:
    At bottom of each story you may submit a comment about a story using a simple feedback form (all feedback is moderated and self-promotional “comment spam” will be deleted and will not show up on our site). Our system requires you to enter your real name with valid e-mail address, and verify you’re a real human by entering an anti-spam word provided at random. Again, all comments are moderated, and held for review prior to publication to prevent “comment spam.”
• Link trade/exchanges: we do NOT accept or support link trades at this time. We have no interest in hosting your content. Use of our content is subject to license and our Terms of Use.
• How to Submit Press Releases
  Our editorial department will currently accept press releases from music instrument manufacturer companies established in the music industry and which have broad appeal to our audience; but not bands, events, or similar. Use of any submitted news will be used at our discretion just as with any industry journal. However, we are NOT a free news posting site or free wire service. For all other news, see options that follow:
  
  For bands, companies, agencies, or other recording industry news, you may submit a news announcement properly formatted to AP style, for a flat fee of $29.99 with an image (recommended). Release must be in MS Word format and image must be JPG/TIF/BMP no larger than 2MB in size (we will resize to size/formats needed for our system); maximum of 600-800 words in length.
  
  Payment is made via the Neotrope/Send2Press Secure Order System using either a credit card (or PayPal if you want to use your checking account or account balance). Our newswire appears in Google News, search engines, social networks (DIGG, Yahoo Buzz, Reddit, Delicious, Wikio), MassMediaContent.com, and systems like Blogburst for further syndication online.
  

  Order Press Release Posting via Music Industry Newswire

  You can order a press release using the Neotrope/Send2Press Secure Order System. After payment simply email us your MS Word file and jpg/tif/bmp photo (if applicable). Story will post online and to social networks and Google News the next business day.

  CLICK HERE TO GO TO ORDER SERVICE

  OPTIONAL: We do select music industry stories we like from the Send2Press® Wire Service (www.Send2Press.com). If you would like your news to appear on this site, you should optionally consider using Send2Press as an additional component of your music promotion and PR program(s), and as a way to get your news on this site automatically. Plans start at $89 for placement across our network which generates 10-15 million page views (not hits) per month, with true Direct-to-Editors™ national media dissemination available. Member BBB.

• Articles: we do not accept unsolicited (not asked for) manuscripts. However, if you are interested in writing about music entertainment, or the music and recording industry, we’d love to hear from you. We have no interest in “advertorial” material. We do want interviews with bands, artists, new labels, music trade show reports and video, and the like.
• Partnerships: We are open to partnerships with music oriented Websites (except personal blogs) that have both an established readership base and unique content. Our news headlines (but nor articles/columns) can be repurposed, upon approval, for legitimate music sites that wish to expand their content or trade content to promote mutual goals in the music business. Inquire.

About Us
We are located in Torrance, California, USA (Los Angeles county). Music Industry Newswire is part of the Neotrope® News Network and is a trademark and service mark of Neotrope. Our company was established in 1983 by Christopher Laird Simmons and was formerly known as Mindset.

Visit our staff page to learn more about our editorial team.

MUSIC CDs FOR REVIEW
We do accept artist and band CDs for review, and promotional kits for music software applications, and related. These should be sent with cover letter and contact information to our street address (below). Tech savvy folks can include a separate data CD with digital files of album art, promo photo(s), and the like. It really helps to include a sheet with the “main info” such as band/artist title, record label, UPC code for album, where it’s available, producer, engineer, band members and instruments and identify if there is a single or featured song on the album. Also note who the album art should be attributed to (e.g., © My Music Company) since we will show that with all reviews.

We do not accept electronic press kits, e-mail blasts, "spam" or other materials by e-mail.

All other queries should be sent to the PO Box.

MAILING ADDRESS:
Permanent Mailing Address:
Neotrope, PMB 822 PO Box 7000, Redondo Beach, CA 90277-8710, USA.

Physical Street Address:
(NOTE: no walk-in or drop-by allowed)
Neotrope, 4332 W. 230th St., Torrance, CA 90505, USA.

Reminder: we do NOT accept phone calls regarding this site. Do not call us to pitch story ideas to our editorial staff.