1. Conventions of Music Magazines There are a variety of genre a music magazine can be linked to, each have different conventions.

2. ‘Rock’ Magazine An example of a rock magazine is Kerrang, a weekly music magazine published in the UK aimed at a teenage audience. We can see it is a rock magazine because of the somehow, distorted rough masthead and through the poses of the musicians. This genre of magazine uses bright colours in contrast to the large amount of black included in the masthead, banners and outfits of the musicians.

4. It is aimed at teenagers, aged fifteen to eighteen.

6. They are targeted at a young, female audience (age ten to fourteen).

7. They will general have a popular girl or boyband on the cover.

9. This genre of music is generally aimed at an older audience in their thirties and forties upwards.

11. It is aimed at and older audience, eighteen upwards.

12. As it is a mainstream magazine, its house style is quite simplistic so it does not convey one particular genre of music.

13. Inside the magazine there will be interviews with a variety of musicians as well as a large review section covering various genres of music.