Change in Genre of my Music Magazine

Pop Genre

• The genre I initially choose for my music magazine was Pop I chose this is because pop music is universal and I would find it easy to develop a pop magazine because I have knowledge in pop culture. I research Pop music magazine the models I used were Blender, Top of the Pops, We (love) Pop and Billboard.

Changing my Genre to Indie/Alternative Music

• After my Pop music magazine research I decided to change the genre of my magazine to some thing more challenging and non commercial. By doing this I would need to do more in depth research. When looking for Indie music magazines I was unable to find a wide variety of magazines, this lead me to find NME and Indie/Alternative music magazine, The Fly an Indie/Alternative music magazine , AP magazine which covers under ground Indie Music and Spin magazine who genre is Indie/Popular music. As indie music is fairly new I wanted to create a music magazine which cover stories with in the genre and increase its popularity.

NME

• The New Musical Express, popularly known by the initials NME, is a music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. starting out as a newspaper the paper moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s. An online version of NME, NME.COM, was launched in 1996. It is now the world's biggest standalone music site, with over 7 million users per month. The publishers of NMM are IPC, IPC Media is owned subsidiary of Times Inc. is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the UK with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. They publish magazines such as Inspire a men's monthly magazine, Connect a women’s magazine and South Bank an Up market women’s magazine.

AP (Alternative Press)

• Alternative Press is an American music magazine based in Ohio. It generally provides readers with band interviews, photos, information on upcoming releases, and music charts. It was founded in 1985. The first issue of Alternative Press was simply a photocopied fanzine, distributed at concerts in Cleveland beginning in June 1985 by AP's founder, Mike Shea, who disliked the music then broadcast on radio stations and believed that bands playing underground indie music should be given more media coverage "all in the same spot“. AP’s publisher is Alternative Press Magazine Inc.

THE FLY

• The Fly is a free music magazine published monthly in the UK. The magazine is published by the HMV owned MAMA Group. The magazine started as a listings leaflet in Camden, north London, for the Barfly music venue on Chalk Farm Road. In 1999 it went national. The Fly re-launched its website in April 2008 with both a virtual magazine section and an online archive of all previous issues. MAMA Group Limited is a live venue and artist management company which was founded in 2002 and is owned by the HMV Group. It is a parent company of a range of music and marketing businesses.

SPIN

• Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr. In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college-oriented rock music and on the on going emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard. On February 2012, Spin re-launched the magazine in a larger, bi-monthly format with reviews being seen on the website and on Twitter rather than being read in the magazine which now does longer, extended editorials and interviews featuring up and coming talent. Spin magazine is published by Spin Media LLC.