Magazine Playlist

Side A

1. The XX - Angels. 

2. Laura Marling - Devils Spoke 

3. Laura Mvula - Like the Morning Dew  

4. Night Beds - Ramona 

5. Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood 

6. Duffy - Serious

7. Kodaline - Perfect World 

8. Florence and the Machine - Kiss with a Fist

9. The Lumineers - Slow it Down 

10. Mumford and Sons - Timshel 

11. Noah and the Whale - Blue Skies 

12. The Wombats - Little Miss Pipedream 

Side B

1. Milo Greene - 1957

2. Evaline - There There 

3. Zoom - Last Dinosaurs

4. Coldplay - Hurts Like Heaven

5. The Killers - Dustland Fairytale 

6. The Vaccines - Aftershave Ocean 

7. Alex Trimble - Caliban's Dream 

8. Foster The People - Don't Stop (Color On The Walls) 

9. Friendly Fires - Live Those Days Tonight

10. Sniffy Dog Ft. Adrien - Little Boxes 

11. Miles Kane - First of my Kind

12. Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know

Magazine Draft- 'Deck'.

Front Cover.

Contents Page. 

Double Page Spread. 

The name of my artist.

When thinking of a suitable name for my artist I decided it seemed appropriate to look at the names of other artists within both the Indie and Folk genres.

A lot of those in the Indie Genre are comprised  by two unconnected words and phrases being combined together, such as Friendly Fires, Two Door Cinema Club and Bombay Bicycle Club. Their somewhat random nature creates a simple feel, without one that is trying to hard to be something it's not.

 

(Friendly Fires, Two Door Cinema Club and Bombay Bicycle Club.)

Also a lot of Indie bands names are also created with two words, the first being 'The' and then the second having an element of punch and power to it. Such as The Strokes, The Libertines and The Wombats. The punchy names create a sense of dominance and a bad attitude these bands try to create.

 

(The Strokes, The Libertines, The Wombats.)

In addition Folk bands often create their names by using animals, such as Noah and the Whale, Fleet Foxes and Dog is dead. The use of the animals names matches the organic feel often created by Folk music because it is not synthesised or auto-tuned and is created from scratch.

 

(Noah and the Whale, Fleet Foxes and Dog is Dead.)

As well Folk artists often just use their name such as Ellie Goulding, Benjamin Francis Leftwich and Damien Rice. The use of their actual name gives the artist a fresh identity, as well as an honest one with the name showing that they are not trying to be something they are not.

 

(Ellie Goulding, Benjamin Francis Leftwich and Damien Rice.)

Therefore when creating my artists name I looked at all the possible options and decided to go with the idea of putting 2 unconnected words together. Such as Friendly Fires, which like my artists name is 'Drone Pixies'. They are both oxymoron's with the two words having no relevance and being quite different. So this was my inspiration for the name of my artist for my Music Magazine.

Band Profile- Drone Pixies

Band Profile 

Name: Drone Pixies

Music Style: Guitar, acoustic, Vocal, Indie/Folk.

Influences:  Florence and the Machine, The Lumineers, Two Door Cinema Club, Friendly Fires, The Wombats, Of Monsters and Men, Laura Marling.

 
 

(Florence and the Machine, Laura Marling, The Lumineers, Of Monsters and Men.)

Members: Female- Vocals similar to Florence and the Machine, Laura Marling, Friendly Fires.

Cover:  Only Emily in order to avoid overcrowding.

Style: Female: Red hair, Loose hair, Minimal make up, Buttoned up shirt, Denim Jacket, Green and black striped jumper.

Audience Research.

The target audience for my final piece magazine will be aimed at consumers who are interested in both Indie and Folk Music. I have established that these people are aged from around 16 to 30. This tends to be because at the age of 16 people are given more freedom to express themselves, whilst at the age of 30 people are likely to settle down and have other more urging priorities than reading a magazine. I have therefore realised that everything from my photos to the fonts I choose in the magazine must suit this audience. Therefore they will need to be current and associated with current trends.

Although this magazine is a music magazine, this age group will also have many other interests, which could prompt them to but other magazines instead. They will be interested in film/TV, Showbiz (especially females), fashion and sports (more the males). So to keep audience interest items such as these will have to be interwoven into the magazine, enhancing the magazines appeal. Such as fashions of artists in the magazine, films that involve music artists, for example Plan B being in 'The Sweeney'. Or having a chat with Kasabian about Leicester City. Anything that has the possibility to further grow the target market, as well as keeping the existing body is essential to making the magazine a success. 

Meanwhile I will have to keep the magazine current and link items to the latest styles, trends and events. Such as focusing on festivals during the Festival Season.  This will also keep the readers who will go elsewhere if the magazine isn't topical and relevant, due to the short attention spans and fickle nature of young people. 

The magazine will also need to be affordable, especially as it will be aimed at a lot of students, who are on tight budgets, so there is no point targeting a magazine at young people if they are unable to afford it. 

I would like to aim my magazine at people who read the Indie Music Magazine 'Clash' and the popular music Magazine 'NME. Clash is priced at £3.99, whilst I would like my magazine to be  one to two pounds cheaper. Meanwhile the NME is priced at £2.20 and comes out every-week, more of the price I would aim for.  Whereas CLASH is a monthly publication therefore it's price is acceptable. But young people can be impatient and will often prefer a magazine every-week, as opposed to once a month. 

Furthermore the Issues of the CLASH and NME pictured below are in styles that I both admire and would take inspiration from. I especially like the use of Yellow on CLASH and the John Lennon NME. Whilst the use of a calm blue with the greys on the Laura Marling NME I think looks really good.  All the magazines use just a few colours to create a calm effect, which doesn't over complicate or ruin the magazines appearance. 

They also all have bold clear mastheads and throughout use clear fonts, similar to  the style I would like to adopt for my magazine. As well the structures they use with the Loose text on the cover is something I will use. 

I feel these magazines appeal to young people for all of these reasons and is the reason why I like them so much. They are simple but effective, yet still achieve a stylish outcome. But also choose colours and styles that seem like they wouldn't work, but when put together hit it off. This is much similar to the styles of my Target Market., therefore it is clear why these are popular and also reassures me I have chosen the right genre and inspirations for my Target Market. 

The following print screens are from a website called. UK Tribes . The website collates and groups people by their lifestyle choices, such as shopping and TV habbits and was essential during my audience research. The print screens below are of the groups I best feel suit my Indie Genre and helped me most to produce accurate and detailed audience research. 

Music Style Research.

I have chosen to use the genre of Indie for my Music Magazine. I very much enjoy listening to this type of music, as well as liking the styles associated with it, from clothes to album covers and magazines.

I hope for my magazine to appear current and modern, but I don't want it to appear to cheap or manufactured  I want it to be authentic and have a genuine feel. Which is why I may use an element of Folk combined with the Indie genre to create authenticity, as I believe that Indie Rock and Alternative can appear fake. 

The Genre- Indie

Indie is the shortened version of Independent Music.The music is produced independently from the major commercial record labels, as well as any of their subsidiaries. This is often achieved by a 'do it yourself approach' to both recording and publishing of music.

However nowadays when Indie is referred to as a genre term, it may in fact be including music which is not produced independently.

Furthermore because Indie artists create a whole variety of music, these can all themselves fit into different genres.

Also people and items are often called 'indie' referring to the individuality of an action or item possessed.

Indie Artists

The Wombats, Two Door Cinema Club, The Vaccines, The Libertines, The Strokes, and Friendly Fires.

The Wombats.

The Genre- Folk

Folk music includes both traditional folk music  as well as the genre that evolved from it during the 20th Century folk revival.

The actual term first came about in the 19th century, though is often applied to some music which is older than that.

Folk Artists

Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Young and Eva Cassidy.

 Joni Mitchell.

The Genre- Folk

Indie folk is a music genre that arose within the 1990s from many singer/songwriters in the indie rock community who were influenced by the folk music scenes of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, as well as country music and indie rock.

Indie Folk Artists.

Ellie Goulding, Wye Oak, The Lumineers, Fleet Foxes, Noah and the Whale, Mumford and Sons, Of Monsters and Men, Laura Marling, Damien Rice, Johnny Flynn, Ben Howard, Frank Turner, Florence and the Machine, Dog is Dead, Bombay Bicycle Club and Benjamin Francis Leftwich.

The Lumineers.

In Summary

Folk artists are often categorised as Indie Folk and will produced music defined as 'Indie. However Indie artists are unlikely to produce anything of a Folk style. Therefore the Genre's do form a joint genre, however this is Folk Merging into Indie, not Indie Merging with Folk.

Meanwhile the styles of artists from both Genre's may be similar, as of such they are not mainstream.