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(Please see our Press Relations statement below.)
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Press Relations
JIVE Magazine's Mission Statement
Conventions, Festivals, Concerts, Club and Other Events: All official JIVE Magazine press entry requests for event coverage will come from the Directors directly, and only if we are doing a feature or need photo clearance. Staff and contributing writers are not authorized to request press or courtesy entry into events as official representatives of JIVE Magazine. Please notify us immediately if you are contacted by any contributor requesting event entry or guest list spots.
Review Materials: Please do not send promotional review materials directly to individual staff members at JIVE Magazine unless this has been cleared with the Directors of JIVE Magazine. All promotional materials are to be sent to JIVE Magazine's licensed business office for proper assignment and logging of release dates and approval of editorial calendar inclusion. We appreciate your cooperation in ensuring your materials are reviewed in a timely manner.
We currently can accept professional promotional materials and press kits for consideration. We ask that your review materials come with a professional press release, release dates, tour dates or event dates, and track listings, in the case of music reviews. We prefer the data and releases be in ELECTRONIC FORMAT (on data disk or via email), but will accept hardcopy formats as well.
Publicity photos should be provided with proper photographer credit as required. Without photographer credit submitted with the press kit, all photography will be listed as "courtesy of" the record label or public relations firm.
Review materials should be mailed to the following address:
JIVE Magazine
PO Box 2635
Lilburn, GA 30048
Please note that submission of press review materials does not ensure a feature on you / your artist / your product / your release item. We have a lengthy editorial calendar scheduled during any given month and the features we publish are chosen based on their timeliness, proximity to release dates or tours, existing market appeal per JIVE Magazine's demographics and the PR representative's and artist's availability and cooperation, including accessibility.
By contacting JIVE Magazine, we are assuming that you have reviewed our market demographics and you are aware of what we feature. JIVE magazine is an independent publication that covers niche topics such as electronic, urban and alternate or alt-entertainment culture. We feature widely read articles on video and console games, Anime and Manga, film, alternate literature, electronic-cultural art and photography, graphic arts, electronic culture, underground culture, and niche music.
MUSIC
JIVE Magazine covers interesting music styles and genres such as Dance/DJ mix sets, Industrial, Experimental, Synth, Electro-Rock, Indietronica, Urban, Hip-Hop, Drum and Bass, House, Trance, Techno, Downtempo, Gothic Dance/EBM, EDM, IDM, World Music, Movie Soundtracks, Anime Soundtracks, Game Soundtracks, Indie-Rock, Dance-Rock and Retro or Vintage. We also cover some Jazz (especially Jazz-Electro Fusion), Downtempo, Chill, and breakthrough, obscure or vintage R&B. JIVE Magazine does not cover commercial or charted "Pop Music".
To summarize, we like to cover "breakthough", "underground", "niche" and "urban" music. If it's widely played on college radio we'd probably like to give it a listen.
Unfortunately, due to our
backlog, we do not cover local
or regional DJs, demos for bands or musicians unless it is a part
of a special or series feature. Please do not send
demo music unless we asked you for it.
Any music sent to us must be on CD or vinyl with a professional press package. As a courtesy, we ask that all release information be in electronic format on disc such as any high resolution publicity photos and Microsoft Word docs or text files that we may republish as we see fit to enhance our reviews or features. Please provide all photography credit. Without photography credit, all photography will be listed as "courtesy of" the record label or public relations firm.
Please do not send CDs/DVDs that will not play in a PC CD-ROM, a stereo CD disk changer, portable CD player, AND a standard car stereo. Please send promotional releases in advance of release dates, not after release dates. JIVE Magazine will not review software-installing or spyware-installing CDs/DVDs. If we received your press review AFTER the release date, there is a good chance you will not get coverage.
If you are sending vinyl to be reviewed, please ensure that you package it securely to prevent any damage in the mail. We received hundreds of bent, melted, or damaged LPs each year due to improper packaging. Please provide the purchase link information for the vinyl release being reviewed, as we like to provide purchasing information to our readers.
GAMES
JIVE Magazine covers all major commercial releases of all console, mobile/portable and PC gaming formats promoted for retail sales.
ANIME, MANGA & LITERATURE
JIVE Magazine covers all quality titles we deem of interest to our market demographic. This includes adult viewers and adult themes. JIVE Magazine does not typically review children's animation series or children's cartoons, unless it has an adult appeal as well.
MOVIES
JIVE Magazine covers any title we deem of interest to our market demographic. We accept press screening requests upon inquiry. We are especially interested in reviewing art film, major motion pictures, and documentaries based on the other areas of our multi-media coverage, such as cultural topics, music and games. Please contact the Content Director with any screening requests.
FASHION & ART
JIVE Magazine fashion and art presentations are produced by the Art Department. Please contact the Art Director for all inquiries and designer solicitations for features. We are always looking for new up-and-coming designers in fashion, interiors, gear, and art expression.
OTHER FEATURES & COLUMNS
JIVE Magazine provides other human interest features and columns that we believe pertain or would be of interest to our market demographic. We can accept submissions from media relations representatives and freelance writers upon inquiry to the Content Director. Submission of an article or press release does not guarantee publication on JIVE Magazine's website or in print.
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