research for alternative rock

native rock bands;

• Linkin park
• 30 seconds to mars
• The kooks
• My chemical romance
• Radiohead
• Two door cinema club
• Green day
• Muse
• Coldplay
• You me at six
• Arctic monkeys
• Biffy clyro
• Foo fighters
• The vaccines
• The fray
• Kasier chiefs
• Kings of leon
• The wombats
• Oasis
• Snow patrol
• The script
• Razorlight
• Paramore

Analysis:
Kerrang is a very busy sort of magazine with all of its imagery and writing that they use to entice the reader into buying there magazine. They have two tag lines one at the top and one at the bottom of the page which gives you an insight into what there is in the magazine. The main image is of the alternative rock band “YOU ME AT SIX” that’s sort of squished on to the top half of the magazine which has the main strapline going across their bodies. The main strapline firstly tells you who the band is (if you didn’t already know). At the bottom left of the page there is a picture with a sub title on it saying “free poster special” this is called a plug. These are design to make people buy the magazine and they tend to work because of the fact it says “free”. They also have another plug which has a picture of the lead singer in “disturbed” which gives the reader another indication as to what the magazine will contain. The house style of “kerrang” magazine is white and black which most people would associate with the genre of music that kerrang magazine talks about. The main image in the middle of the page and the main headline being at the top of the page. The title ‘YOU ME AT SIX’ writing is cerif because it’s pointy at the start and end of every letter which makes it stand out even more.


Kerrang! Is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music published by Bauer Media Group. It was first published on 6 June 1981 as a one-off supplement in the Sounds newspaper. Named after the onomatopoeic word that derives from the sound made when playing a power chord on an electric guitar, Kerrang! Was initially devoted to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and the rise of hard rock acts. In the early 2000s it became the best-selling British music newspaper.
Alternative rock a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s. The meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their collective debt to either the musical style, or simply the independent, D.I.Y. ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music. At times, "alternative" has been used as a catch-all description for music from underground rock artists that receives mainstream recognition, or for any music, whether rock or not, that is seen to be descended from punk rock. By the end of the 1980s magazines, college radio airplay, and word of mouth had increased the prominence and highlighted the diversity of alternative rock, helping to define a number of distinct styles such as gothic rock, jangle pop, noise pop, C86 and industrial rock. But most alternative bands' commercial success was limited in comparison to other genres of rock and pop music at the time. With the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became commercially successful.

On kerrang’s double page spread they tend to put an image on one page and then do all the writing on the other side. The main feature of this double page spread is the image of the rock band ‘all American rejects’ with little images around the main image. The house style tends to suit the band they are reviewing or just writing about. There is a puff at the top left which makes the article a little more attractive to the reader when they glimpse at ‘dirty little secrets’. I like the idea of having the main image in the middle of the double page spread and putting all of the writing around the image. I might incorporate this into my double page spread because I think there’s a good contrast between the amounts of writing to pictures.

The contents page on kerrang’s magazine always tends to be white, black and yellow with several pictures on the page with little quotations saying who/what they are and on which page there on. The biggest picture is obviously the main feature in that edition of the magazine. There are plugs down the right hand side of the magazine telling you what else there will be in the magazine. this is basically the main points of a contents page because what else does there need to be.