Aim: To analyse ,music magazines, considering how their genre is conveyed and the typical features of a front cover.

Music magazines I've heard of:
-NME
-Mojo
-XXL
-Kerrang!
-The source(local Brighton music scene)
-The source(Hip Hop)
-Uncut
-DJ
-Mixmag
Music magazines I have read/bought
I have never bought or read a music magazine.

Textual analysis

-Magazine title:NME

-Publisher: Tracy Cheesman

-Target audience(age, gender, lifestyle):I believe the target audience for  magazine NME is teenagers up to about the age of 20-21. I believe this because they are the type of people who go to more gigs and music festivals so they want to read up on bands so they know the latest news. I think that the gender target of NME is both as the wide variety of bands can appeal to both genders. Most of the NME readers are most likely a bit scruffy unlikely to have an independent life with a job.

-Genre: NME have mainly been focused on Rock, Alternative and Indie music throughout most of its time. Although its not really the magazine that's changed, its purely been evolving based on the popular music of the time.
-main bands featured: Nirvana, Laura Marling, ST Vincent, Girls, Marina And The Diamonds, The Drums

-A selection of article subjects: The high majority of articles in the NME magazine are music bands, solo musicians, gigs, festivals and some background information about the musicians.

-Description of 3 male photos-how are they 'represented'?: There is a male photo on the front cover of the band Nirvana in this picture they look scruffy and relaxed. One of them is also smoking in the picture. Another image of Nirvana that takes up two full pages is a image of them under water with their instruments. There are loads of images of men partying getting drunk and generally messed up.

-Description of 3 female photos-how are they 'represented'?: All of the images of women in the NME magazine are relatively smart and sophisticated this includes the musicians and the fans. The first image of a female is of a women sitting on a chair wearing only an over sized jumper which could be for sex appeal. In pretty much all the images of females they have an instrument for instance there is an image of a women in what looks like a jungle with a guitar. She id represented in a very emotional way with how she is looking at the camera and the fact that everything in the image is natural.