Music Magazine Research

There are a lot of different music genres around. They all have magazines based on the genres of music. The music industry has created many different genres to satisfy many people.

Indie – Independent music is shortened to indie music or ‘indie’. It is more commonly known as ‘indie’ to most of the population. Indie is a term to describe independence from major commercial record labels and a Do-It-Yourself approach to recording and publishing.  An example of an indie artist is Drake he is number 9 on the indie charts. This is an example of an indie magazine, it is called NME and is well known around. It is quite a big filled magazine with a lot you need to know about the latest music coming out.

Rock – Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1960’s. It has roots in 1940’s and 1950’s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and others. Most rock bands, the music is based on the electric guitar, bass guitar, drums and keyboard instruments such as Hammond organ, piano or since the late 60’s, synthesizers. An example of a rock band is Panic! At the disco this band revolves around guitars drums and singing. Panic! At the disco are at number 9 on the 100 modern rock songs. This is a well known rock music with a lot you need to know about recent, new rock music. Its cover is based around three colours: black, red and white. This makes the magazine look good and bold, for example the mast head, black on a white background. Also the photograph used is a band and it has their band name across their photo clearly showing who they are, the people are dressed in black and white and links in with the magazines colour scheme. There is one person in white clothing and he is at the front and stands out from the others as they are in the back and in black, this suggests that the one in white is the main singer.

Hip Hop - Hip hop music is a musical genre that developed as part of the hip hop culture and is defined by four key stylistic elements such as rapping, DJing/scratching, sampling (or synthesis) and beat boxing.  Hip hop began in the South Bronx of New York City in the 1970’s. The term rap is often used with hip hop but hip hop also denotes the practices of an entire subculture. An example of a hip hop artist is Bruno Mars he is at number 2 in the urban charts.

Dance  - dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can either be a whole musical piece of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, he major categories are live dance music and recorded dance music.