Friday, 11 January 2013

Deciding on a genre for a music magazine

BIG CHEESE MAGAZINE 1996-2013
Created in 1996, the mission statement of Big Cheese is the same as it was that sunny day in August fifteen years ago: to embody the culture we write about rather than just aspire to it and to innovate rather than imitate. Leading the way with the covermounting of full albums (such as with Issue 102’s The Rabble CD), patches (giving away an exclusive My Chemical Romance one to coincide with the release of their last album), wristbands (to promote the release of Green Day’s last album every reader received a free Green Day-branded wristband) as well as being one of the first magazines to utilise downloadable content (back in 2006 giving away a downloadable compilation available through our website), we continue to stand at the forefront of popular and underground music, be it punk, metal, ska, indie, hip hop or rock or lesser covered genres such as rockabilly, psychobilly and garage rock, covering it from the ground up, from up-and-coming bands to established acts, from their music to their style and everything in between.
 
Inside the issue: 
BLINK-182

20th anniversary special issue – hits, splits & two decades of pop punk! Exclusive new interview & rare photos! The Mark, Tom and Travis show finally returns to the UK with a vengeance in June. Mark Hoppus talks to us about the band's long history, the break up, the triumphant return and playing until they're seventy!

BLINK-182 POSTER PULL OUT!

Elsewhere this month, the world dominating LINKIN PARK talk about their epic new album 'Living Things', we talk to a whole host of bands playing the WARPED TOUR about its heritage in the USA and its long-awaited return to the UK later this year, we hit the road with SKINDRED, BLACK SPIDERS and more for the madness of the JAGERMEISTER MUSIC TOUR, seminal punks HOT WATER MUSIC give us a track-by-track guide to their comeback album 'Exister' and Justin Pierre of MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK gets reflective about his life and fifth album 'Go'. Also, we catch up with KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES to talk label problems and some scorching summer festival plans, YOUNG GUNS' Gus Wood tells us about his childhood years, JETTBLACK explain why GUNS N' ROSES are their favourite band and we get chatty with everyone from GOJIRA, DESTINE and PENNYWISE to CATTLE DECAPITATION and BASTIONS! 



There's also live reviews of the festivals GROEZROCK, HIT THE DECK and THE CAMDEN CRAWL, as well as album reviews of new releases from ARCHITECTS, THE HIVES, BOUNCING SOULS, MISS MAY I, TURBONEGRO and loads more! Want more? Then have a BLINK-182 poster pull-out with two classic pics and two new ones. Which will you choose?

NME
he New Musical Express, popularly known by the initialism NME, created by Theodore Lloyd-Jones, it is a music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles chart, in the 14 November 1952 edition. In the 1970s it became the best-selling British music newspaper. During the period 1972 to 1976 it was particularly associated with gonzo journalism, then became closely associated with punk rock through the writing of Tony Parsons and Julie Burchill.


Inside the issue:
There’s trouble in town! Liam’s back and leading the pack for NME’s first part special preview of all the albums you must own in 2013. Exclusive in-the-studio reports on Vampire Weekend, Noah & The Whale, Johnny Marr, Queens Of The Stone  Age, These New Puritans, A$AP Rocky, Everything Everything, Katy B, AND MORE.













Q Magazine
Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.
Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were dismayed by the music press of the time, which they felt was ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology. Q was first published in October 1986, setting itself apart from much of the other music press with monthly production and higher standards ofphotography and printing. In the early years, the magazine was sub-titled "The modern guide to music and more". Originally it was to be called Cue (as in the sense of cueing a record, ready to play), but the name was changed so that it wouldn't be mistaken for a snooker magazine. Another reason, cited in Q's 200th edition, is that a single-letter title would be more prominent on newsstands.


In the issue:
Q319 February 2013 

Perfect playlists for ever occasion picked by Noel Gallagher, Bat For Lashes, Robbie Williams, Paul Weller, Kasabian, Manics, Jake Bugg & more...
Plus 2013 preview featuring the likes of Beady Eye, Foals, Biffy Clyro, Haim, Vampire Weekend, Palma Violets, David Bowie...