Music Magazine Ideas - Main Task

Background information

Music Magazine: They are a magazine dedicated to music and music culture. Such magazines typically include music news, interviews, photo shoots, essays, record reviews, concert reviews and occasionally have a covermount with recorded music.
They were very prolific in the United Kingdom, with the NME (short for New Musical Express) leading the pack since its first issue in 1952. NME had a longstanding rival in Melody Maker, an even older publication which had existed since 1926, however by 2000 falling circulation and the rise of internet music sites caused the Melody Maker to be absorbed into its old rival and cease publishing. Several other British magazines such as Select and Sounds also folded between 1990 and 2000. Current UK music magazines include Q, Kerrang! and Mojo (all published by EMAP). Magazines with a focus on pop music rather than rock and aimed at a younger market include the now-defunct Smash Hits and the BBC's Top of the Pops, which outlived the television show on which it was based.
Major music magazines in the United States include Rolling Stone (founded in 1967) and Spin (founded in 1985). Clash Magazine was voted 'Music Magazine of the Year' in 2004 and is the second largest UK online presence, Clash was also Awarded Magazine of the Year at the PPA Scotland Awards. Among classical music magazines, Diapason is the most read in France.

My ideas

I want to create a magazine devoted mainly to the genre of rock, with perhaps a little bit of pop music. If I cannot create a magazine devoted mainly to the genre of rock, then it will mainly be based on the genre of pop, with perhaps a little bit of rock.

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Based on the research I have done, I especially like the images from Kerrang Magzine that I have used, this is mainly down to the fact that I want my music magazine to be based on something around the idea that Kerrang have been running with for years, however, I shall try and include ideas from the other magazines my research is based on like NME and Q.