All the Mastheads shown are consistently placed in the skyline of the magazine so that readers automatically see and establish what company the magazine is. NME, Q, Rocksound & Billboard all use red within the masthead as this is a striking colour and grabs the readers attention as it often contrasts with the background colours used. Kerrang! on the other hand sticks to a black and white masthead and sometimes even red, which connotes the simplicity of the magazine. All of the magazines uses Sans-serif in the masthead which depicts the informality of the music magazines.
In my magazine I will aim to create a bold masthead, perhaps with some red colour in it to make it stand out just like these magazines.
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What is evident through all these examples of fonts is that Capital letters are constantly used all throughout as this 'shouts' at readers, especially with magazines that have a Rock or Indie genre.
Main colours used all throughout these examples are black, red, white and yellow which seem to be recurring themes as these colour are very bright.
Although I am doing a Grime magazine instead of a Rock/Indie magazine, I will still use capital letters on my front cover yet in a simplistic way as this seems to be a general convention of front covers.
My Magazine:
Use a bold, possibly red font for Masthead
Capital Letters all throughout front cover- BUT keep it simplistic
Use colours such as Red, Yellow, White & Black- Key colours used in my examples