Wednesday 28 December 2016

Drafting and Planning: Complete Article

In preparation for creating my magazine, I need to create an article to go on my double page spread. The first draft of which follows:
Second Passing is back! Fans of the British Alt-Rock band Second Passing took to twitter to welcome back the band after an almost 2 year hiatus following the revelation that the lead singer, Rachel Basset, was struggling with an addiction to cocaine.

Back in March 2015, Second Passing’s management announced the band’s hiatus to “Focus on the wellbeing of the band members and to take a break from the spotlight of the industry”. It was revealed that the lead singer, Rachel Basset had been admitted into a rehab centre to recover from a cocaine addiction. On her personal twitter the day of the announcement, he stated “yes the rumours are true I am being admitted to rehab for cocaine I would like to thank Second Passing for being with me through my recovery” followed by a tweet on Second Passing’s account saying “We are proud of Rachel for taking this step towards getting better, we ask that you all support him during this difficult time”.

Now, almost 2 years later, and with a fully recovered Rachel, Second Passing are back. On her personal Twitter, Rachel said “I would like to thank everyone who helped me during my time of need. I would also like to thank the wonderful staff at the centre I was treated at. I met some amazing people with some amazing stories. Hopefully, this will encourage anyone who is struggling to get help, you’re not alone!”
Second Passing has released a teaser of their upcoming 3rd album, in fact as you are reading you can pre order “Clear Head” on iTunes!  It is said that 25% of the profits raised from pre-orders will be going towards charities that helped Rachael.


This is the article that will be going down the right hand side of my Double Page Spread.

Tuesday 27 December 2016

Organisation: Photo Shoot Planning

 For my music magazine, I need to take photographs, in total; I will need between 4 and 5 different photographs for my cover, contents page and my double page spread. For my cover, I may need to take my photographs on a solid background that will be easy to crop out. Because of this I may need to use a white background.

For my Contents page, my photography will be surrounded in a black border and so I am freer with the background that I use. However, I will be using a red page number on top of the image so I will need to take that into consideration.

For my double page spread my background does natter all that much as my text will have a white background and so I will only need to ensure that my artists are not covered by text.

Monday 26 December 2016

Drafting and Planning: Table of Contents Layout


Above is my Table of Contents that will be positioned on my Contents Page. As you can see, I have split articles into 4 different sections: News, Featured, Regular and Album Reviews.

“News” includes stories that may be seen as big news in the alternative music industry. I have kept this section small as my magazine is monthly, and not every month has masses of news. Furthermore, because of my target audience, I feel if I was to include too much “News” it may feel boring to read.

“Featured” includes all the artists listed on the left hand side of my cover. I have put the featured second to top because that is what will be the selling factor to my audience.

Below that I have “Regulars”. These are the articles designed to keep the reader interested and encourages repeat custom.

I took the idea of “Album Reviews” from Rock Sound. On their contents page they have a number of “Album Reviews” which are displayed at the bottom of the table of contents. I have only set these to be one page long because I feel like a Double Page Spread of these would bore the reader.
As you can see from the page numbers, I have mixed all of the features (except for the Album Reviews) throughout the magazine as I wanted to give the reader a variation of content, as personally, I find it boring when there is a strict format, e.g. all Features, then all Regulars, etc.

Wednesday 21 December 2016

Organisation: Band Profile

The band I will be using on my front cover is called “Second Passing”. They are a made up band consisting of 3 female artists. They include: Rachel Basset – Lead Singer, Jess Simmons - Bass and Guitar, and Ruby Oldwood – Drums.


Second Passing originates from Birmingham, UK and was founded by Rachel Basset, when they were in school. The band started out small doing shows for free but were soon spotted by Lab Records Limited who signed them and brought them to the attention of the alternative scene. From there, Second passing grew rapidly, producing their first album “Thoughts of a Full Moon” under Lab Records within a year of being signed, which sold over 5000 physical copies and over 50,000 Digital copies, including iTunes, Spotify and YouTube. Following the release of Thoughts of a Full Moon, Second Passing was invaded to support Neck Deep on their UK tour in the summer of 2013. A successful first album was followed by their self-titled second album under Hopeless Records in 2014, which brought them into the American Alternative scene. In 2015 they announced a hiatus to “focus on their band members and family” following their lead singer’s admission to a rehab centre.

Tuesday 20 December 2016

Research into Target Audience: Expectations

There are several expectations from the Target Audience of an alternative music magazine. These include:

  • ·        Dark clothing: while this is not the case 100% of the time, there is a large stereotype that alternative artists wear dark, often black, clothing which connoted the emotion that is portrayed in many alternative songs.

  • ·        Strong body language: it is common that, on the front cover of alt-rock magazines, that the cover stars have strong and defensive body language. For example, arms crossed, standing at an angle (which gives a person a sturdier balance)

  • ·        Direct address: Direct address is a very important aspect on the front cover of an alt-rock magazine. This is because direct address from one of more cover stars intimidates the reader into investigating the magazine, possibly encouraging them to pick up and purchase the magazine.

  • ·        Language: Strong, short and snappy wording for my cover lines are commonly found on the cover page of an alt-rock magazine. The use of bold statements will match the attitude of the genre.



To ensure my magazine is as realistic as possible, I will make use to include all of these points within my photography on my cover page.

Monday 19 December 2016

Drafting and Planning: Article Drafting

In preparation for creating my magazine, I need to create an article to go on my double page spread. The first draft of which follows:
Second Passing is back! Fans of the British Alt-Rock band Second Passing took to twitter to welcome back the band after an almost 2 year hiatus following the revelation that the lead singer, Rachel Basset, was struggling with an addiction to cocaine.

Back in March 2015, Second Passing’s management announced the band’s hiatus to “Focus on the wellbeing of the band members and to take a break from the spotlight of the industry”. It was revealed that the lead singer, Rachel Basset had been admitted into a rehab centre to recover from a cocaine addiction. On her personal twitter the day of the announcement, he stated “yes the rumours are true I am being admitted to rehab for cocaine I would like to thank Second Passing for being with me through my recovery” followed by a tweet on Second Passing’s account saying “We are proud of Rachel for taking this step towards getting better, we ask that you all support him during this difficult time”.

Now, almost 2 years later, and with a fully recovered Rachel, Second Passing are back. On her personal Twitter, Rachel said “I would like to thank everyone who helped me during my time of need. I would also like to thank the wonderful staff at the centre I was treated at. I met some amazing people with some amazing stories. Hopefully, this will encourage anyone who is struggling to get help, you’re not alone!”
Second Passing are said to be working on their third album. It has been rumoured that the profits from the sale of the album will be going to charities similar to those that helped Rachel during her difficult time.

At the moment, this is just a rough draft of my article, and so this is not enough to fill my double page spread and will need to be altered to make it longer.


Wednesday 14 December 2016

Drafting and Planning: Basic Magazine Layout


Above is my first version of my magazine cover. This is only the basic layout of my cover, currently, I have not taken photographs to use on my magazine and so, the colour scheme is subject to change, I used pink temporarily as it is a neutral colour that is similar to a skin tone, allowing me to see what the elements of my magazine would look like with a cover star present. I have used a skyline, which again is subject to change but I wanted to get a feel for what the skyline will look like. Currently, without a cover star, the main headline looks odd, but it will look better with a main image behind it. I have used fonts that I have featured in a previous blog about the typography, including Andre Light SF and Chanson Heavy SF.


Tuesday 13 December 2016

Organisation: Location

When I come to take photographs for my magazine I will use the school’s Drama studio, using the black walls as a background. I will use these images as my main imagery on my front cover. By using a black background I will be able to crop around my artist with ease, with as little blocky areas as possible. This will give my magazine a smoother look. 

 

For my contents page and my double page spread, I will take photographs outside. I will try to take some photographs on a set of stairs. As you can see below, it is common pose for alternative bands to take photographs on stairs; these photographs will look good on my contents page or on my double page spread.

  

Monday 12 December 2016

Drafting and Planning: URL Positioning


One of the features commonly seen on a magazine is a URL to the magazine’s website. A URL is usually found written below or integrated into the masthead. I made 6 different mastheads all with the URL in a different position (above). The top, centre and bottom left mastheads are all the same size fonts, positioned next to, on top and below the masthead. Top and middle Right are similar, however top right is a bigger font size, which allows it to be more prominent. Finally, bottom right is the most different out of the 6 because it is positioned in the arrow with a white font.
My favourite out of the 6 is top right as I feel as though it looks most realistic. While I like bottom right a lot, I feel like it wouldn’t be used on a real magazines as it looks quite distant from the others.

Wednesday 7 December 2016

Drafting and Planning: Masthead Design

In preparation for creating my magazine, I designed some mastheads that I could use on my front cover. Having an effective masthead is important for any magazine as many shops and outlets that sell magazines have too many to display to be able to put them out on the shelf next to one another. Because of this, having an effective Upper left third masthead is the best way to ensure your magazine is seen by everyone who looks.
When designing my mastheads I decided to keep the colour scheme as Red fill with black outline (this may change later) to give myself a fair comparison between all of my designs.
Designs 1, 2, 3 and 4 are simply different fonts (1: Amelia BT 2: Cinema Gothic BTN Shadow 3: Annie BTN 4: Agency FB) with the same colour scheme, while design 5 is a mixture of Times New Roman and Agency FB however, the O and the arrow coming off the O was my own design. I decided to use an arrow in this design as the word “Outre” comes from the French word “Outré” meaning “unusual and typically rather shocking.” Or “Out of the norm” – Something that I feel represents the Alternative music scene. After looking over these 5 designs, I prefer my own design, number 5 as it is unique, but also captures the meaning behind the name.

Tuesday 6 December 2016

Drafting and Planning: Double Page Spread Layout Draft

In preparation for creating my music magazine, I decided to plan the layout of my double page spread. I decided to position my main image over more than one page, by doing this I will be able to give my artist dominance over the rest of the content on the page. I decided to position my title over the main image, and again over half the page, I did this to make it prominent on the page, however, I don’t want it to dominate the main image, which is why I will position it completely inside the main image. My main body of text will go across the right hand page, with half of the text wrapped around the main image. I will include a pull quote to full space at the top right of the page.


Monday 5 December 2016

Drafting and Planning: Contents Page Layout Draft

In preparation for creating my music magazine, I decided to plan my contents page. I decided to take inspiration from an NME contents page here, even though I am using RockSound for the majority of my inspiration, this layout stood out to me because of the large main image and the big cover line. I also liked my idea for a title for my contents page, “Inside Outré” as they are both contrasting words and I feel like they flow nicely together. I like the side bar design, which I again took inspiration from the NME contents page. At the foot of the contents page I decided to put an advertisement section, where I may advertise a new album. Finally, I decided to include an image of the front cover at the top of the page.


Wednesday 30 November 2016

Organisation: Photography Planning


Looking at example photography (above) I know that when it comes to taking photographs for my magazine by looking at 3,4 and 5 you can see the many different ways bands are positioned on the front cover of different magazines. 4 goes for a more “in your face” type of shot – usually taken from a low angle. 3 goes for more of a straight on shot with the lead singer at the front, and 5 goes for a wide angle shot with each member of the band on the same level – almost as though not one is more important than the other, however 5 again uses a low angle shot which shows the many ways a low angle shot can be effective.

1 and 2 are more suited to double page spreads or contents pages, this is because they are more designed to show the surroundings. These two images look like they are designed to portray the artist’s style and tone – for example, shot 1, of Green Day, has a warmer feel to it due to the warm, yellow lighting that has been used. Whereas shot 2 uses more cold, dull colours which portrays Linkin Park’s tone.

Tuesday 29 November 2016

Drafting and Planning: Remake - Remodel Self-Assessment



I presented our Remake-Remodel tasks to the group and explained the choices I made. Here is some of the critique I received:
  • Part of the wall behind the cover star has not been removed fully.
    • Furthermore, some areas are cropped dodgy
  • The red font face for “Red Hot Chili Peppers” has been lost in the dark clothing.
  • The “Plus” section is too small and could do with a few more cover lines – currently it looks out of place.
  • The cover stars are a little too big; they could do with being shrunk just a little bit as they dominate the masthead.


In the future, I will refer back to this task to help me when creating my real magazine. This task is useful for learning the software and making mistakes now so I don’t have to make them when making my real magazine.

Monday 28 November 2016

Research into Target Audience: Questionnaire Results

To get an idea of my target audience for my magazine, I created a questionnaire on SurveyMonkey.com. Here are my results:

Question 1 was “What is your age”. I asked this question to give me an idea of my target age range. From my results I can see that my target audience is 16-21 year olds. This information allows me to focus my attention on this age range when creating my magazine.

Question 2 was “What is your gender?” I asked this to grasp what the majority of my target audience’s gender was, allowing me to customize my magazine to suit their needs. From my results I can see that the majority of my target audience are female. Because of this I will have my magazine lean more towards a feminine feel, however to not exclude the other 30% of my audience, I will have to ensure my magazine isn’t too feminine.

Question 3 was “Do you listen to Alternative Rock?” from my research I know that 80% of my audience do listen to alternative rock, so this tells me that it is a good genre to make a magazine on.

Question 4 was “What colour scheme would you expect to see on an Alternative-Rock magazine?” from my research I know that 60% of my audience prefer the idea of a different colour scheme depending on the cover star. Because of this, I will need to ensure that my mast head is able to change colour to match the cover star. This will allow me to create symbiosis between my audience and my magazine.

Question 5 was “Should the magazine’s language be: Formal or informal?” 80 of my audience prefer informal language for music magazines. Because of this, I will use informal language when writing articles. However, I will also use formal language sometimes to account for the other 20%

Question 6 was “How frequent should an Alternative Rock magazine be published?” 60% of my audience suggested that a monthly magazine is best for my music magazine.

Question 7 was “What content would you expect to find in an alternative rock magazine?” from looking at the above results, I noticed that interviews, news, events, band information, etc. were all popular answers from my audience. Because of this, I will be sure to include these features.

Question 8 was “Should the magazine be advertised on social media?” 100% of my audience said yes to this question. This means that my magazine should have social media links on it.

Question 9 was “Should an online version of the magazine be available?” 100% of my audience replied “Yes” meaning that an online version of the magazine will be ideal; this will allow my magazine to not be made redundant in the future if paper magazines go out of fashion.

Question 10 was “How much would you be willing to spend on a magazine?” 9% said £3.50 - £5.00, 18% said under £2.50 and 73% said £2.50-£3.50. This tells me that people are more willing to spend a mid-range price for a magazine. This is the range that I will price my magazine.









Wednesday 23 November 2016

Drafting and Planning: Remake - Remodel Task



This was my response to a task set called “Remake – Remodel”, in which we had to use our own photography and our own cover star to make a realistic looking cover of an existing magazine.


For my remake – remodel I chose Rocksound as I am taking influence from them in my real magazine. I like that Rocksound don’t stick to one, rigid colour scheme and are not afraid to use vibrant in-your-face colours when it is useful, which is what I chose to do here. I was originally planning on having a simple house style, but this changed when I took my photographs and decided that this was more of a “fun” type of band. I took my photograph from a low angle to give the band some prominence on the cover; however I chose to have one of the artists to be crouched at the same level as the camera to give a sharp direct address. I feel it is this point that draws the eyes of the reader the most. I chose to use a light blue background to create some symbiosis with one of the members of the band, but to also contrast the red text. (Learn more about the contrast here: Here). The Rocksound masthead turned out to be black and white “fuzz” which was an accident when exporting the cover from PagePlus, however I liked the affect this gave the magazine – so I chose to keep it. Finally, with the anchorage text, I was struggling to find a location to position it where the text, no matter what colour it was, didn’t blend into the main image. To contrast this, I decided to use a background on the text to make it stand out.

Research into Similar Products: Other Magazine Styles




Even though this magazine does not fit my chosen genre of music or my magazine style, I like it for many reasons. The main reason I like it is the simplicity of the entire cover – it is not too much, yet not too little, it is just enough to get the point across. The mast head is kept as small as it can be, while still operating as an upper left-third masthead. This makes way for the main cover line to stand out, making it the core focus for the reader. The use of a simple colour scheme is also effective as all colours used are gradients of either black or white, meaning it is easy on the eyes to look at.


I think it will be useful for me to look back on this cover when I design my own magazine as I like the simplistic feel of it.

Tuesday 22 November 2016

Drafting and Planning: Cover Page Layout Draft

In preparation for creating my magazine, I decided to plan the layout I would like to use for my cover page. I’ve decided that I am going to use a skyline at the top of my cover to advertise posters. I will have secondary cover lines positioned in a bar on the  left hand side of the page, I want to do this to dedicate the main portion of the cover to my cover star, and to reduce clutter. This will mean that it will be easy for the readers to see who is featured without being overwhelmed by masses of text all over the cover. I will use the bottom right corner of my cover as an area for “Also Inside” for things like CD’s, games, quizzes, etc. My main image will take up ¾ of the page to ensure that it is the first thing the reader notices. Finally, my main cover line will be slanted slightly to make it seem more prominent. I will position my anchorage text at the bottom of my main cover line to draw the reader’s attention to the “Also Inside” box below it.


Monday 21 November 2016

Research into Similar Products: Band Names

To help me decide on a name for my cover star, I googled “Alternative Band Names”, this provided me with a link to a Wikipedia page that listed the names. From looking at the extensive list of names, I noticed the word “the” was a popular one – showing up on about 250 occasions, because of this, “T” was the most popular letter.
Some names that stood out to me on this list included:
  • ·        Faith No More
  • ·        Enter Shikari
  • ·        I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness
  • ·        Ima Robot

For more inspiration I visited “www.bandnamemaker.com” – a useful tool for creating rock, punk and other music genre names. Here’s some I found without using key words:
  • ·        Upon Humor
  • ·        Church Enterprise
  • ·        Unplugged Falcon
  • ·        Enter Abyss
  • ·        Void Society


I like the name “Enter Shikari” as it sounds strange and unknown, which gives it a sense of mystery. “Shikari” means “a hunter” which may connote to being hunted. The words “Enter” and “void” stood out to me on bandnamemaker.com and so I will use them to create the name of my cover star. To make the name more realistic, I will add “The” between both the words to sound like an edgy alternative rock band,


Enter the Void

Wednesday 16 November 2016

Research into Similar Products: Potential Colour Schemes



Red
When looking at “Alternative music magazines” I noticed the colour red showed up more than any other colour. Red is a god colour to use as part of a masthead or as something you wish to make stand out as it is a vibrant colour that catches the eye of the reader. Red brings text and images to the foreground, used as an ancient colour to stimulate quick decisions. The colour red has connotations with fire and blood. It is also associated with energy, danger, strength and power, as well as passion and love.
Red is a very emotion intense colour which suits the emotional section of the alternative genre.  

Pale Blue
On the colour wheel, the opposite (and therefore best accompanying colour) to red is Pale/Light Blue. The colour blue is associated with cold, damp and slow compared to Red. Therefore, the blue will sit as a background for the red’s vividness. While red has connotations with danger and energy blue is seen to be peaceful and cool. Because of this, the colour combination of blue and red will work well together.
Grey

Similar to blue, grey contrasts red. Grey is seen as a cool, neutral, emotionless colour. It is typically associated with dullness and dirty, but also as formal and sophisticated. Grey is also associated with loss or depression, which could link with the genre of the magazine.

Tuesday 15 November 2016

Research Into Similar Products: Cover stars

To get an idea for what my photography from my magazine should look like I looked for magazines of a similar genre to take inspiration from. As I am taking the majority of my inspiration from Rock Sound I decided to see how they present their cover stars. I found that the majority of their covers include an entire band as the main image, with the front man/woman at the front and the rest of the band behind him/her. When you look at the body language and facial expressions of the cover stars, every single cover star is making direct address with the reader.




All of the covers have one or more element of dark colours on them, this matched the “emo” side of the alternative genre, and in most cases it is the cover stars’ clothing that is black. From this I know that my cover stars should wear dark colours on the day I take the photographs for my magazine. Alternatively, I could ha have my cover stars wearing white or bright colours to contrast a black background.

Monday 14 November 2016

Drafting and Planning: Fonts


When looking for fonts for my masthead I wanted something simple but punchy to match the shortness of the name of my magazine. Because of this, many of my shortlisted masthead fonts are bold, blocky fonts with little to no exaggerated elements – with one exception, Adventurer Light SF. When I typed in one of the possible names for my magazine and saw how it looked in this font, I liked how the “u”, “r” and “e” were presented, I feel like it matched the meaning behind the word “Outre”.

With the body fonts, again I wanted a simplistic font that has little to no obvious features. I wanted this to not distract the reader from the rest of the magazine. My favorite out of the 5 I shortlisted was Century Gothic. I liked this one because while the others were quite bold, Century Gothic remained slender. I found that Century Gothic was the easiest to read for a long period of time because of this.

Tuesday 8 November 2016

Drafting and Planning: Possible Magazine Names

In preparation of making my real magazine, I want to decide my magazine name in advance so that I don’t waste time when it comes to making it.

For inspiration, I went to Google and searched “Alternative rock definition” and to which I found: “The definition of alternative rock is music outside of the mainstream that includes elements of various types of music including punk, heavy metal and folk music.” I like the idea of having subliminal messaging/meaning behind names for things like magazines, TV shows, etc. In response to this definition I went to www.thesaurus.com and searched “uncommon” (the opposite of mainstream). I looked through the list of Synonyms and one that stood out for me was “Outré” – the definition of which is “passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper” which I feel almost matches the definition of “Alternative”

In a similar manner I found the word “Eccentric” which is the Greek word for out of centre. This could represent how the genre of alternative rock doesn’t follow uniform codes to define “alt-rock” as bands/artists in this genre don’t necessarily sound at all alike. For a name of a magazine I feel it is too long of a word so I could shorten it to “ECent” or something similar. This again will give the name of my magazine a subliminal message.
The word “Slant” is obviously when something that is in a direction other than horizontal or vertical, however the word “slant” also means to have a bias towards a particular topic. I feel this too could make for a great name for my magazine as it is a snappy word that also has the underlining subliminal message of “out of the ordinary”.

Other notable Possibilities:


  • ·        Idiosyncratic – from the Greek word idiosyncrasy meaning behaviour or way of thought peculiar to an individual. [Shorten to Diosync?]

Monday 7 November 2016

Research into Target Audience

For my magazine, I have chosen to get inspiration from Rock Sound magazine as I like their stylish approach on their covers – using a large amount of symbiosis within the colour scheme they use. Furthermore, each issue of Rock Sound (from what I have seen) is unique in the colour scheme they use. What I love about Rock Sound’s covers is they are not afraid to use vivid colours and then in the next issue use dark, gloomy colours – I feel like this keeps the reading experience fresh.


   This contrasts magazines such as Kerrang or Q who keep an almost rigid design and similar colour scheme. Furthermore, I feel like the front cover of Kerrang is too “in your face” with screamers and imagery all begging for your attention - something I find distracting and unpleasant when reading. One other thing I like about Rock Sound over Kerrang is that Rock Sound uses the entire band as the cover star, while Kerrang only uses the lead singer. I don’t personally like this as I feel it makes the other members of the band seem less important. Kerrang only featuring the Lead vocalist as caused some bad relations between the magazine, the band and ultimately the audience/fans of the bands. To avoid these bad relations, I will try to include a full band where possible.
   



Because I have chosen Rock Sound to be my inspiration for my magazine, it means that my target audience is made up of 59% females, and 72% 15-21 year olds. Because my target audience is majorically female, I will be more likely to use a male cover star and use bright house colours, however I don’t want to exclude males from wanting to purchase the magazine so I need to find the right balance. Furthermore, as my target audience are mainly made up of 15-21 year olds, I will use lots of imagery within my magazine, and few large bodies of text, as 15-21 year olds are less likely to enjoy reading long articles. Also, because my magazine will be aimed at a young audience, whom may have little to no income, my magazine should be priced reasonably enough that I would benefit as well as the audience – a good price generally is £3.00-£4.50 as anything over £4.50 will most likely be too expensive for my target audience, while a price lower than £3.00 may give off the impression that the magazine is cheap (in terms of quality).

Sunday 6 November 2016

Drafting and Planning: Research Into My Magazine Genre

For my music magazine I have chosen to do Alternative/rock music. 

Alt-Rock emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became popular in the 1990s and 2000s. The term “Alternative” highlights the sub-genre’s distinction from mainstream rock music. Alternative rock music has stylistic origins from the likes of Punk-Rock, Post-Punk Rock, New wave and Hardcore Punk – meaning it is a hybrid of Punk and Rock music. Alternative rock bands tend to consist of a vocalist, electric guitarist, bass guitarist and a drummer.
The Alternative-Rock genre emerged in the UK in the 1980s with a Manchester band – “The Smiths” – being the most notable of the time.

The alternative-rock genre lost its popularity in the 1990s following the death of Nirvana’s lead singer Kurt Cobain in 1994 and Pearl Jam’s lawsuit against concert venue promoter Ticketmaster, which in effect barred the band from performing in most of the major venues around the United States, in addition to the fall in the number of grunge bands and the Hiatus of the popular alternative-rock Lollapalooza festival

However, during the late 1990s early 2000s alternative rock bands emerged including the likes of “The Strokes” and “The Rapture” - which took inspiration from the post-punk and new wave establishing the Pop- Punk revival movement. Preceded by the success of bands like “The Strokes”, an influx of new alternative rock bands emerged on the scene. Owing to the success of these bands, Entertainment Weekly declared in 2004, "After almost a decade of domination by rap-rock and nu-metal bands, mainstream alt-rock is finally good again.”

Well known Alt-Rock Bands:
·        Red Hot Chili Peppers
·        Nirvana
·        Twenty One Pilots (TØP)
·        Green Day
·        Radiohead
·        Foo Fighters
·        R.E.M
·        Linkin Park
·        Blink-182
·        My Chemical Romance (MCR)
·        & many more