Webistes

Last.fm was very helpful in discovering a genre for my magazine. I wanted it to be one I would know and enjoy writing about. As you can create a library of music, I looked through my own to discover some electro, female vocal and indie artists. Many of these artists overlap and create many different styled songs and these were the ones that I felt could create a really interesting, new magazine.

I had originally leant towards the alternative, indie mags such as Q and NME, but Mojo's intersting, new artists and range of music inspired my search to look for some lesss known artists. Today is a time where the internet can decifer your future, and you don't need a record label to get your sounds heard and your popularity to increase.

Myspace is the number one place for new inspired artists. They are able to create their own pages, publicise their name and style and add their own music for users to hear. It was really interesting to read how they advertise themselves and how they communicate online with one another. It seems like a great place to start a musical career and I may include this later in my production. The idea of independent artists is one that I think my magazine will be about as this is a new and interesting idea that I could run with.

Dafont.com is an amazing website for fonts and I have collected many from there for my magazine in both my preliminary task and this one. By collecting samples of the fonts, you can get feedback on which other people could suggest and reccomend.