Final Music Style Decision

After completing my research, I have decided to focus my magazine on the genre of shoegaze music; due to my interest in the genre, I feel that it would be the easiest (and most fun) style of music to choose. The colour palette and fonts for my magazine can be easily adjusted towards shoegaze, and the artists that feature will derive from my own personal music taste. As well as this, I could also include elements of indie/alternative for other artist features.

Style of Music Magazine 2: New Music

My second idea for a music magazine would be one that focuses on new music - featuring a wide variety of genres (alternative/indie, emo, hip hop etc). This is because it would allow for a flexible approach: I wouldn't be forced to meet a specific style of music, and could instead focus on a look that is more broad. Ultimately, I could make an easier final decision for photography and my articles could be far more diverse.

Some examples of new music magazines include:

Clash Magazine:

DIY Magazine:

Wire Magazine

Magazine Appearance

From looking at these new music magazines, there is a very obvious trend: simplicity. Each mag features simple, spaced out text that is clear to read. The front covers are highly clean - with a significant lack of annoying boxes of text. This is the approach I want to take with my magazine, as I feel it would suit the choice of music nicely, as well as looking great! My aim, therefore, will be to find a bold and spaced out font for the mast head, and a sleek and simple font for other text. In terms of colour palette, the text for these magazines is often black or white - and the overall colours for the magazine are minimal and simplistic, instead of being garish and flashy.  

Music 

Here are some examples of the music that could feature within the magazine - it will be broad, to symbolise how the magazine will have a variety of different music genres.