5. Q
• I wish to make my magazine based around Q as it covers rock and pop genre’s from all
different decades which is the kind of style I am hoping to achieve.
• Q is a popular monthly magazine that is published in the UK. It aims to appeal to both older
and younger audiences as most music magazine around nowadays do not do this and only
cover contempory music. It was first published in October 1986 producing high quality
photography and articles.
• It has an extensive review section featuring new releases, concert reviews, compilations, and
also radio and TV reviews. It is also well known for its compiling lists such as "The 100
Greatest albums" to the "100 Greatest '100 Greatest' Lists".
• They also give away promotional gifts such as cds and books.
• Every issue has a different message on the spine, which then has to make the reader think
about what is inside. This changes every month.
• Its current editor is Paul Rees and comes from the publishing company Bauer.
• Q also has a history of being linked with charitable organisations.
7. Articles featured in Q
• Interviews
• Reviews on music
• Feature articles giving information on artists
and albums.
• Pictures
• Activities (crosswords
• Album releases
9. NME
• NME stands for New Music Express
• It has been published every week since March 1952.
• It was the first British paper to include a singles chart
and in the 1970’s was the top selling music magazine.
• Is mainly closely associated with punk rock.
• It is published by IPC media.
10. History of NME
• During the 1960s the paper championed the new British groups emerging at the time. The
Beatles and The Rolling Stones were frequently featured on the front cover.
• By the early 1970s NME had lost ground to the Melody Maker as its coverage of music had
failed to keep pace with the development of rock music, particularly during the early years of
psychedelia and progressive rock.
• After sales plummeted, Alan Smith was made editor and was given a short period of time by
IPC to turn things around quickly or face closure. As a result the paper's coverage changed
radically from an uncritical and rather reverential showbiz-oriented paper to something
intended to be smarter, hipper, more cynical and funnier than any mainstream British music
paper had previously been (an approach influenced mainly by writers such as Tom Wolfe and
Lester Bangs). In order to achieve this, Smith and his assistant editor Nick Logan raided the
underground press for its best writers, such as Charles Shaar Murray and Nick Kent, recruited
other writers such as Tony Tyler, Ian MacDonald and Californian Danny Holloway .By the time
Smith handed the editor's chair to Logan in mid-1973, the paper was selling nearly 300,000
copies per week and was outstripping its other weekly rivals, Melody Maker, Disc, Record
Mirror and Sounds.
11. NME...
• However in the 1980’s sales dropped again and was in danger of closing and by the end of
the decade, Danny Kelly had replaced Alan Lewis as editor.
• The start of 1990 saw the paper in the thick of the Madchester scene, and covering the new
British indie bands and shoegazers.
• By the end of 1990, the Madchester scene was dying off, acid house was suffering from being
the subject of a vigorous campaign to outlaw it by the John Major government, and NME had
started to report on new bands coming from the US, mainly from Seattle. These bands would
form a new movement called Grunge and by far the most popular bands were Nirvana and
Pearl Jam.
• From the issue of 21 March 1998 onwards, the paper has no longer been printed on
newsprint, and more recently it has shifted to tabloid size: it has full, glossy, color covers.
• In 2002 Conor McNicholas was appointed editor. With a new wave of photographers
including Dean Chalkley Andrew Kendall, James Looker and Pieter Van Hattem, and a high
turnover of young writers. It focused on new British bands such as The Libertines, Franz
Ferdinand Bloc Party and the Kaiser Chiefs who emerged as "indie music" continued to grow
in commercial success. Later, Arctic Monkeys became the standard-bearers of the post-
Libertines crop of indie bands, being both successfully championed by the NME and receiving
widespread commercial and critical success.
12. NME..
• In May 2008 the magazine received a redesign, aimed at an older readership with a less
poppy, more authoritative tone. The first issue of the redesign featured a free seven-inch
Coldplay vinyl single. Circulation of the magazine has fallen continuously since 2003. In the
first half of 2010, the magazine's circulation was 33,875, 53% down on a 2003 figure of
72,442.
• In 1996 under the stewardship of NME editor Steve Sutherland and then NME publisher
Robert Tame, the NME started its website NME.COM. Its first editor was Brendan Fitzgerald.
Later Anthony Thornton redesigned the site, focusing on music news. In November 1999 the
site hosted the UK's first webcast, of Suede 'Live In Japan'. In 2001 the site gave away a free
mp3 of The Strokes debut single "Last Nite" a week before its release. The site rallied around
The Libertines after their debut single "What A Waster" dropped from playlists due to its
profanity - giving away the single as a free mp3 download.
13. Articles featured in NME
• News
• New bands
• Gigs
• Reviews
• Interviews
• Pictures
14. Articles featured in Vibe
• Interviews
• Articles
• Style
• Playlists
• Editors letter
15. Artists/bands that have been featured
in NME, Q and Vibe.
• Adele • Usher
• Rolling Stones • Eminem
• Coldplay • Beyonce
• John Mayer
• Snow Patrol
• Chemical Romance
• U2 • Foals
• Adele • Lady GaGa
• Madonna • Florence and the machines
• Rihanna • Mark Ronson
• The Drums
• Oasis
• Amy Winehouse
• Lily Allen • Kasabian
• Arctic Monkeys • The Killers
• The Beatles • Foo fighters
• The Clash • Nirvana
• Mumford and Sons
• Cheryl Cole
• Jack White
• Take That • The Strokes
• Katy Perry • Muse
• Alicia Keys • Pete Doherty
• Bruce Springstein
• Noel Gallagher
16. Possible names
• RAR (rock and roll)
• Wave
• Stop
• GT
• TrueMusic
• Go
17. Possible genres
• I want to cover a wide range of things in my
music magazine as I would like to cover
rock/pop music from different times such as
The Rolling Stones to the more modern types
of bands such as Snow Patrol and Coldplay.
18. Idea’s for articles
• Interviews with bands
• One main girl on the front cover- new artist releasing her album-double page
spread interview with her inside
• Contents-show interviews, articles on bands, top 10 albums of the year, offer for
subscription, masthead featured, date, price, follow the rule of thirds layout, one
main image.
• Front cover- also follow rule of thirds, one main image(medium close up image of
girl) subheading for other articles and interviews.
