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 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:

• 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 will have a music industry directory search portal established during Q1/07.
• Press releases: we do not currently accept press releases except from companies established in the music industry (e.g., record labels, music instrument manufacturers, software companies, etc.), and we are NOT a free news posting site or free wire service.

  We do select stories we like from the Send2Press® Wire Service (Send2Press.com). If you would like your news to appear on this site, you should consider using Send2Press as an additional component of your music promotion and PR program(s).

• 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.

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.