Indie rock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Although I am basing my music magazine around House music I also looked at some alternatives. Indie Rock was one of these options. Indie rock was very popular in the 90s and still is today. Acts like Kasabian, Artic Monkeys and Kaiser Chiefs perform big concerts all over the world in big music festivals. They attract very big crowds of all ages, mainly ranging from ages 18- 35. On the two magazine covers I have above I noticed the pictures of the acts Kasabian and Artic Monkeys aren’t very colourful, this is because indie rock music can be known to be quite gothic and gothic music is associated to being very loud and hard-core. The writing used isn’t very colourful either this also represents being gothic. On the NME magazine with Kasabian on the front the word ‘insane’ is used not only is the font put in a gothic way the word represents the type of music it is as many indie rock music fans would describe the concerts as being ‘insane’. I also noticed that in Indie rock magazines the masthead isn’t very big and most of the headlines are pushed towards the bottom of the cover page I believe this is because they want the picture to stand out.