To contact our writers about anything:

Email writers at 402 productions dot com

You can also email our editors (editor-in-chief being Ryan Gabos) at editors at 402 productions dot com.

please indicate what the email is in regards to (e.g. band review, interview, love/hate mail). Usually, the most appropriate nomenclature for the subject line is who you are and what you’re promoting (i.e. Nate Pavlot and the Finley’s releasing debut album Nick’s Our Boss in May).

Although some emails may get lost in the spam filter, we usually respond to most of my emails. If you don’t receive an email back, however, that’s most likely because we are usually swamped with emails or work in our real lives… so if you don’t hear from us within a week or two, feel free to send us another email if you need to.

At times, we will pass an email to an available staff writer (usually either Nate Pavlot or Adam Finley). If this happens, you can continue to contact them for everything you need.

To bands and artists looking for a review

We love new bands and artists looking for a review. If you have a digital copy of your album, email me a link with any other info and we’ll listen it up. But please, only valid music media formats. All questionable formats will just be discarded. Attach at your own discretion. Also, we don’t want to download massive .flac files, so try not to send me intense uncompressed/lossless sound files either. Also, EPKs are usually helpful if you have them. If not, we’ll have to dig around for info (time consuming, which usually means delayed reviews from us). YouTube channels and BandCamp pages are also VERY helpful, as we use embedded media for almost all my reviews.

Remember that 402 Reviews tries to focus on the LATEST music, which we define as of this current year. If you are submitting an album that came out last year then we will most likely not review it. We are trying to promote the latest releases from relatively unknown bands and artists (which are normally new bands and artists), so please try to refrain from sending us albums from last year.

To anyone else looking for a review of something

Whether it’s a live show/festival you want covered or your friend’s middle school band they just threw together, we will need a LEGAL copy of music sent to me, or an acceptable press pass of some sort if it’s an in-person show/festival. The more information the better. At any given time, we’re swamped with at least 20 albums to listen to, on top of other requests not relating to album reviews. If you’re album has a release date coming up soon, or a show needs to be promo’d via a review before you get to San Francisco, then let me (Nick Wan) know and hopefully we can work something out.

A short list of things we can do

-Review albums (studio or live)

-Review live shows (single dates, multiple dates, festivals, etc.)

-Review books (preferably music related, but not necessary)

-Conduct interviews (transcript, audio, and/or video)

-Film live shows/studio sessions

-Review movies (preferably independent releases)

-Tweet incessantly (that’s really just Nick Wan)

Please don’t feel shy about sending us anything to review. We’ve done food reviews, book reviews, TV show reviews… everything, just about. We are always interested in the new, so submit whatever you want.

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