Aim: Analyse music magazines considering how their genre is conveyed and the typical features of a front cover

Music magazines I've heard of:

• NME (New melody express)
• Q
• XXL
• Kerrang!
• Source (Brighton)
• Source (HipHop)
• Mojo
• MixMag

Textual analysis:

• Magazine title: NME
• Publisher: IPC
• Target Market audience: 14 - 30-Because there doesn't contain any explicit content that would offend a young audience, however it remains to be an adolescent style magazine with grown-up content that would appeal an older age, male or female people who have a rocker lifestyle because there contains articles that would be appealing to both females and males if the females are more to a "Tom-boy" nature, and there lifestyle would be rocker because the theme of the magazine is quite crazy and all over the place just like their lives.
• Genre: Rock and Indie
• Main bands featured: Arctic monkeys, Muse, The Killers, John Lydon, Patti Smith, Liam Gallagher, Paul W eller, Manic street and Preachers.
• A selection of Article subjects: 60 years of NME, it talked about how the magazine has been alive since 60 years ago, the juvenile activities of bands that the magazine closely follow.
• Description of 3 male photos: A single leader of a band is taking control and burning a magazine that you are reading with his posse behind him, John Lydon is sitting on a chair reading the magazine whilst looking abnormally into the camera, Liam Gallagher is looking into the camera with a menacing look projecting the attitude that he doesn't care and he's holding up the magazine like its a police mug-shot.
• Description of 3 female photos: A group of 4 girls are leaning against a windowsill and one is looking directly into the camera whereas two others are looking to the floor and the last member is looking up point her chin to the camera. A single girl is standing in a doorway with doorway beads hanging down from the door frame, she's standing in-between them and looking up into the air with her eyes closed. A woman is posing in the magazine naked, whilst covering her breasts and avoiding the reader from seeing anything private or inappropriate.
• What views and points are put across: The magazine implies that it is cool to be a rebel by having the models and artists posing in a rebellious way, for examples Liam Gallagher posed holding a magazine and holding his index finger and middle finger up in an aggressive manor.
• Summary of products advertised: Sky broadband - this is primarily for the older readers because younger audiences would not be interested in broadband, "3" SIM cards - this can attract teenagers and older audiences because they all use sim cards for their phones and in this day and age younger people know more about phones then older people in some cases, Gothic junk - this consists of toys, clothes and miscellaneous items that would attract people who are part of the "Goth" clique, its good because most of the readers of NME are gothic style because rock music fits into Goth and Emo cliques.