RESEARCH

These are a few music magazines I found in my local supermarket, they are some of the most recognisable and popular music magazines(Mix Mag, Q, NME).

Mix Mag
This magazine is my ideal genre for my music magazine. This is the one I will really focus on and deconstruct since I want to do electronica/dance. Mix mag is the biggest dance music and clubbing destination as sourced to its website. It is a British electronic dance music magazine published in London. It was launched in 1982 in the United Kingdom and the magazine covers dance events, and reviews music and club nights.
The first issue was printed on 1st February 1983 as a 16 page black and white magazine published by Disco Mix club, a DJ Mailout service. The first cover was the American music group Shalamar, the first editor DMCs Tony Prince and the first advertiser was a company called Technics Panasonic. When house music began editor and DJ Dave Seaman turned the magazine from a newsletter for DJs to a magazine covering all dance music and club culture. It covered acid house, the subsequent rave era, the rise of superstar DJs and Ibiza. The magazine claims to have coined the terms superclub and trip hop and to have launched the first dj legal mix tapes and the Mix mag live series. Later Mixmag in association with its original publishing company DMC publishing released a series of CDS under the Mixmag live heading.

NME
New musical Express (Shortened to NME) is a UK Music publication first issued on the 7th march 1952. It originally started as a music newspaper but gradually shifted towards a magazine format in the 1980s changing from newsprint in 1988. An online version of NME, NME.COM was launched in 1996. It is now the worlds biggest standalone music site, with over 7 million users per month. NME devised the first UK singles chart.
NME concentrates on mainly guitar and rock music. In a typical version of NME you would expect to see interviews e.g. On the left with Simon Cowell (an influential music model) or famous iconic bands, Nirvana, The Rolling Stones, Oasis. NME has a variety in its contents such as feature articles music news, events, interviews, chart album and more. Also there is a section dedicated to fans, as they publish fan mail, and music reviews. NME gives out a free poster nearly every issue in the centrefold.