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MUSICIANS / MANAGERS / LABELS / PROMOTERS et al
GOT GAME? Then you need to send us your musical stuff. Yeah, you can blitz us with info via the social networking sites below, but we're old school and like our music experiences to be visceral and tactile. In other words....CDs, press kits, homebaked cookies, and swag.
Send anything and everything that you feel will help us notice you to:
Jaimie Vernon
180 Station St., Suite 53
Ajax, ON L1S 1R9
Canada And if you think you're going to sneak up and surprise us in person, think again. The address is a mailbox. It's maintained by two elderly ladies with large guard dogs. Think of them as 'screeners' if you will. They'll take your package, but will not allow you direct contact with the writers at this magazine just in case you want to drop off more than hugs and kisses. Mailing it is always the best. Then there's no hard feelings.
Please be advised that we cannot/will not/dare not return anything to you unless you also enclose a really big envelope and postage enough for one of our interns to be shipped back with it.
Otherwise your stuff becomes the property of GWNtertainment to be used against you when you release that 'serious' record 10 years from now and don't want anyone to know you were once the lead singer in a Culture Club cover band. Or had sideburns.
In return, we promise to include you in our monthly issue. We will also attempt to be kind, gentle and respect you in the morning. But we're not promising to be anything but brutally honest in our assessment of your music for review or discussion. Critiquing is what we do. Read our pages ahead of time and make sure you're willing to put up with our brand of scrutiny.
GWNtertainment reserves the right to pass on anything hateful, harmful or in substandard taste -- we've got pretty thick skin, but our readers and advertisers may not. And at the end of the day, THEY pay our bills.
NB: If your submissions are time sensitive (like club listings), get 'em to us before the 25th of any given month. But feel free to send us anything all month long. The magazine is a living document and we'll be adding content in each month as it progresses...so it's possible to sneak things in on a daily or weekly basis for priority notifications as time allows.
FELLOW JOURNALISTS
We're constantly being approached by people who want to write for us. We're flattered. We'll gladly take anything that will give our readers additional news and perspective, and we're sure you'll appreciate your resume scoring more notches than Paris Hilton's headboard. But we're also trying to run a cottage industry here. No one's getting paid yet cause it's very early days and no one has quite figured out how the Internet generates money (go figure).
So if you're looking for nothing more than exposure (the legal kind) and some recognition, give us the goods. But please observe these rules:
1) Content must be written BY you and not extracted, folded or mutilated by degrees from some other source (if you lift from Wikipedia for any of your text we'll fire your ass on the spot....well, first we'd officially hire you...then we'd fire you!)
2) Read our articles and comments to make sure you understand the tone of GWN. We're pretty irreverent most of the time and we can be sarcastic as shit. We also don't care that it's the lowest form of humour...recent studies have shown that those that don't understand sarcasm show early signs of de-generative memory loss later in life (look it up, it's true!). Basically, get and/or keep a sense of humour in your pieces when it's appropriate...and be dead serious when it's also called for.
3) Don't send us a dissertation about the resonant tonal qualities of The Beatles 'Revolution 9'. We don't care. And we certainly won't subject our readers to that. Why? Because that's just boring as hell to everyone on the planet -- even members of The Beatles. However, we're all for fluff pieces that are written well and either enlighten or entertain with alliterate appreciable aplumb. Non-fluff pieces go without saying. Your magnetic writing style alone should sell it....right? RIGHT?
4) Try and keep your articles or reviews (album, concert, DVD) to the following per word lengths: Interviews: Under 1,000 words; Commentaries: Under 500 words; Reviews: Under 200 words.
5) GWNtertainment reserves the right to edit or refuse content at our discretion. If you're uncomfortable with us tampering with your text, we suggest maybe submitting your materials elsewhere. GWNtertainment believes in the voices of those who are gracious enough to write, but also requires the confidence of those writers in allowing us the ability to make content changes to improve and/or highlight GWNtertainment Magazine's established public voice. In other words, if we think you're going to make a fool out of yourself...or us...or the readers....then the material may need some adjusting. Of course, you would have final say on any corrections, but we want it understood at the outset that not everything will be published 'as is'.
6) All submissions must be sent via email (along with photos or other back-up documentation) as .TXT files to
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BEFORE the 25th day of the month so that we can include it in the next issue.
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Submissions
