This document summarizes key details about several rock music magazines, including Kerrang, Rock Sound, Classic Rock, NME, and Q. It provides information on price, frequency of publication, typical issue size, regular content sections, and how feature articles are structured for each magazine. The magazines vary in price from £2.20 to £5.50 and are published weekly or monthly, with issue sizes ranging from 70 to 200 pages. Regular content includes reviews, interviews, tour dates, and letters. Feature articles typically profile the artist or band featured on the cover.

1. Rock music magazine

2. Initial ideas
• I am going to produce a rock magazine.
• My magazine doesn’t have a target audience it
is aimed at all fans of rock music

3. Kerrang music magazine
Prices of magazine; £2.20
Frequency of publication; weekly
Issue size; 70 pages
Regular content; Reviews of CDs, radio, TV and
gigs, new album releases, upcoming gig
information, tour dates, letters from readers.
Feature articles; linked to the artist/band on
the front cover

4. Rock sound music magazine
Price; £3.99
Frequency of publication; monthly
Issue size; 200 pages
Regular content; double page spreads
linking to the front cover(sometimes 3
pages), Tour dates, advertising new
albums, advertising new
bands, posters, exclusive information, letter
from the editor, ‘plus’ section.
Feature articles; linked to the artist/band
on the front cover.

5. Classic rock music magazine
Price; £5.50
Frequency of publication; Monthly
Issue size; Range from 120-180
Regular content; Doesn’t have any regular
content that they stick to, the bold
headings change in every issue
Feature articles; The feature articles are
kept to a minimum number of about 8 or 9
and each one uses a singer or a bands
name as a heading.

6. NME music magazine
Price; £2,20
Frequency of publication; every week
Issue size; 70 pages
Regular content; News, review, radar, live, letters
from readers and features
Feature articles; These normally have interviews
and features on specific artists, along with a page
for letters from the readers. Further on in
NME, there is also a section dedicated to reviews
which comments upon new albums, singles and
concerts of the week. In addition to this, near the
end of the magazine, the pages are filled with
adverts for upcoming tours and gigs as well as
competitions and a crossword.

7. Q rock music magazine
Price; £5.44
Frequency of publication; monthly
Issue size;
Regular content; Q quiz, cash for
question’s, last requests, Q50, Q hero, soap
box, my record collections, access all areas.
Feature articles; Bands or artists names this
will probably be on a double page spread.