3 Types of Magazines

2) Music Magazine
Example: Mixmag
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Mixmag April 2009

Mixmag is a music magazine that focuses mainly on dance music and culture. It is a monthly magazine that has features and interviews with dance DJs and artists, as well as reviewing the best new music in every style of dance music,reporting on nightclubs across the U.K and the dance fashion trends. The front cover is typical for this type of magazine as it has a bold, simple masthead, a large, striking image to represent the magazine's main feature story and very colourful plugs and cover lines. Mixmag has a lot of advertisements for dance music festivals, club nights, clothing brands and new singles/albums, including the exclusive free mix-tape CD that the magazine is sold with. 

3) Art/Fashion Magazine
Example : Nylon
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Nylon Mag September 2010

Nylon is a magazine that combines fashion, art and music in a unique way that appeals to girls aged around 15-21. It has some of the conventions of a typical fashion magazine as it has glossy pages, a lot of fashion related advertisements e.g. perfume, and reports on all the latest trends. Nylon gives readers make up tips, music recommendations and compares various high fashion brands. The language used is not very complex, and is written in a colloquial style as Nylon has a very informal mode of address. There is always at least 3 or 4 multiple page interviews with relevant celebrities including the main interview with the cover girl. The front page has a large colourful masthead and banner with a big glamorous picture of the cover girl, surrounded by lots of cover lines about the main features of the magazine.