Indie/Pop

To get help of what indie and pop really was I searched the internet and this page helped me a lot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_pop.  It showed me the types of people involved and the things that you need to be part classed as indie/pop.


- NME were one of the first magazines to pick up on indie as a brand and London's Rough Trade Records were one of the first labels to produce a CD of anything indie.


To help define my band as well this helped me a lot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_indie_pop_artists.  It is a list of all indie/pop artists, it helped me by looking at pictures and things about certain people associated to the label as well.  It was very useful in helping me think of how to make my pictures look and how my band should look as well.


- Lily Allen
- Florence and the Machine
- Lady Gaga
- Spice Girls (pop)
- Girls Aloud (pop)





Media Institutions...

Publishers like:

Bauer Media Group


The Bauer Media Group represents magazines like Q and KERRANG.  As well as that it has a number of music channels as well like; Q TV, 4Music, Kiss TV, Kerrang! TV, The Box, Magic TV, Smash Hits TV.  This gives it a wide set of people and places to target.  All different kinds of music not focussing on one.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauer_Media_Group

As it represents music magazines like Q and KERRANG.  Although who I am targetting for my music magazine is in not the same as the music magazines in which the Bauer Media Group represent does not mean that wouldn't want a change in appearance.  They might want to target a whole new demographic.  However you know that they are not picky as they have a wide variety of music channels which they represent.



IPC Media

Although IPC media is not known for music magazines, it has been known to be linked to NME magazine.  It is also a leading publisher selling many hundreds of thousands worth of magazines a year.  As it is a British publisher as well it will be better for the magazine as it will be central and as they have magazines which are known in Britain, then it could get good advertisement.

IPC Media groups titles under five magazine divisions: Women's weeklies e.g. Now Magazine, leisure and specialist, men's lifestyle and entertainment, women's lifestyle and home interest and portfolio of television titles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPC_Media