Sub-Genre of Music Magazine.

 Sub-Genre of Music Magazine.

The sub genre of music I wish to use in my magazine is Indie Rock/Electronic because I enjoy listening to this particular genre; artists would include Bombay Bicycle Club, Passion Pit, Bloc Party, Foals, Flume and Kodaline. This is a less popular genre than Hip-hop or pop but still serves a fan base, being less popular and less known has its challenges but I believe that once shown through my magazine what an interesting and fun genre it is, its fan base will soon increase. All is needed is publicity to which my magazine will bring.

Magazines that cater with such a genre include, The Wire, who do not directly cater for this particular genre but cater for independent groups, Clash and Flux. As you can see below they all have a very basic colour scheme and and the font is very basic because Indie music is simple and doesn't need thrills to make it interesting unlike pop music. The simplicity is attractive to their audience because indie music is simple.

The Wire magazine uses a light pallet for its colour scheme; light shades of blue and white, with simplistic font, to which really represents how indie music doesn't need dressing up like hip-hop or pop music where the covers use bright colours and bold, eccentric font treating their audience like magpies. Attempting to entice them with colours where as the Wire doesn't need to, breaking away from the usual characteristics of music magazine, with little writing on the cover because it more focused on the photography of the image. XLR8R is a real example of rebelling against the conventions of a music magazine with just a few lines of text and the masthead, you are forced to look at the main image, to which is edgy and quite intimidating. This is because XLR8R focuses mainly on electronic music to which is why the front cover is so edgy because electronic is so fast pace and like the cover break a lot of rules. Under The Radar, out of the three, sticks most to the conventions of a music magazine, the main image is quirky and somewhat fun. It links to the main article quote, "Wasted On The Youth" as the main image shows an infant child.

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