NME
The New Musical Express magazine is the longest running music magazine and has been published weekly in the UK since the early 1950's. It originally started its life as a newspaper but the format changed to a magazine in the 1980's. It was also the first magazine to include a UK singles chart, featuring the top 12 best-selling singles. NME is currently published by the publishing house IPC media, which is the UK's leading consumer magazine and digital publisher. NME's readers are usually Indie Rock fans, which features heavily in its content, and they are around the ages of 20-25.
RAY GUN
Ray Gun was originally published as an American alternative rock and roll magazine in California in 1992. Ray Gun explored typographic design, giving it it's, not always readable distinctive design. Ray Gun was also distinctive in its content, featuring cutting-edge advertising, edgy pop culture icons and artists that were typically ahead of the curve. Ray Gun produced over 70 issues from 1992 through to 2000.
Next steps - start drafting your front cover, either digitally or as a paper copy that you scan and upload to your blog, and include the conventions from existing texts that you want to use in your magazine. Start planning your magazine article and write the body copy.
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