Contact

Pick a desk

Mail sent to the right desk gets handled by the person who can do something about it, so it is worth a moment choosing.

• A factual error in an article, a story idea, or a question about a piece — [email protected]
• Republishing, translation, permissions, or a copyright concern — [email protected]
• Access, correction or deletion of your personal data — [email protected]
• Advertising and partnerships, or anything that fits none of the above — [email protected]

The corrections desk

This is the address we most want used.

If an article on Brakkus gets something wrong, write to the editorial desk and we will deal with it. You do not need to be sure, and you do not need to be diplomatic — “the section on recoupment has this the wrong way round” is exactly the right message. Include the page and the passage, and if you can, what you think the correct position is.

Confirmed factual errors are usually amended within one or two working days, and the correction is noted on the page rather than folded in invisibly. Where something is contested rather than plainly wrong, it takes longer, because establishing what is true matters more to us than closing the thread quickly.

Story ideas

The pitches that turn into articles almost always describe a mechanism rather than an event. Something like: this part of the process works in a way that surprises people, and here is the reason. If you work inside a corner of the industry that is routinely explained badly, that is exactly the mail we want.

Some things we will decline, so that you do not spend the effort:

• Release announcements, EPKs and promotional campaigns — we do not run press material as editorial
• Requests for reviews or coverage of a specific artist or record
• Rumour, gossip, and anything about musicians’ private lives
• Leaked or embargoed material about unreleased music

We read every message. We cannot reply to every message. If an idea becomes a piece, you will hear from us before it publishes.

Working in the industry?

If you do a job we have written about — or one we have not — and something we published is incomplete or misleading from where you sit, we would like to know. Practitioner corrections are the most valuable mail this site receives, and several articles exist because someone wrote in to say that the standard explanation of their work is wrong.

We are happy to keep a correspondent’s identity out of a piece where that is necessary. We cannot publish confidential contract terms or anything that would breach an agreement you are bound by, and we will not ask you to.

Rights and permissions

Quoting a short passage with a link back needs no permission — please go ahead. Republishing an article in full, translating it, or using our material commercially does, and the legal address above is where to ask.

If you hold rights in material appearing on this site and believe it is being used without authorisation, write to the same address with the page, the specific material, and enough information to identify what you hold. Those messages are acted on, not filed.

Privacy and data

Requests to access, correct, export or delete personal information go to the privacy address and are handled on the timelines set out in our Privacy Policy. Writing from the address your request concerns saves us both a round trip on identity.

Advertising

Advertising enquiries are welcome. Two boundaries stated up front, because they save time on both sides: editorial coverage is not for sale, and we do not publish advertiser-written material under a house byline. Sponsored content, when it appears, is labelled as sponsored at the top of the page. Within that structure we are glad to talk.

What we cannot do

Brakkus is an independent magazine. We are not a label, a publisher, a management company, a promoter, a collection society or a ticket seller, and we have no relationship with any of them beyond writing about how they operate. That means we cannot pass a message to an artist, get a demo heard, resolve a royalty payment, chase a ticket refund, or intervene in a contract dispute. We know those problems are real and frustrating; we are simply not the party who can fix them.

How long we take

Corrections: acknowledged within one working day, usually resolved in one to two. Everything else: within five working days. If a week passes with no reply, send it again — mail does occasionally go astray, and a second message is welcome rather than an imposition.