Genre

The genre I choosing as a basis for my music magazine is rock and roll to give a very brief description of the genre I have included a Video within this blog post Entitled Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know. The Artic Monkeys are a very well known rock and roll band and have won many awards since the beginning of their career.

The most used Instruments within Rock and Roll are Drums, Guitar, Bass. Rock and roll began as a reaction to Jazz music as the earliest forms of rock and roll were similar to the Jazz genre, it wasn't until bands started changing the sound slightly after and during the second world war in the 1950's -1960's that rock and roll became its own true genre. Elvis Presley is often hailed as The King of Rock and Roll as he is seen as one of the true founders of the genre, Elvis had millions of followers around the world and would be equal to artists such as Justin Bieber of this generation. Rock and roll has always been seen and thought of as controversial especially during its first real burst onto the scene, as many people thought it was too loud and caused people to act out violently. Many other world famous rock and roll bands include, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and ACDC.

Without rock and roll its likely that many other mainstream band genres such as Hip-Hop or rap would not be as big and well known as they are today, rock and roll opened up a gateway for other artists to find their own genres at which to showcase their talents, Rock and Roll just laid out the plans.
The reason that I am choosing to base my magazine around the genre of rock and roll is because most music magazines especially the most well known ones such as Q and NME tend to focus around bands from this genre therefore its easier to form an understanding of a band that I am going to use predominantly on my front cover and double page spread if I use a band of the same genre shown by the other biggest magazines available at local newsagents