Researching magazines

The magazines that i have chosen to research are NME, Rock sound and Kerrang!. I have chosen these to research becasue they fit in with the genre of my magazine, and are all very different types of magazines.
NME: First for music news. NME stands for the new musical express and is one of the best selling music magazines known. It is not known to be a magazine, but more of a music paper. Focussing on punk rock, old school and indie it is very compared to Rolling stone magazine. NME is very succesfull, not just by selling papers, but by having their own music channel and radio station, making them more well known. NME foucusses on the importance of new music, and old music, as it refers to bands like The Beatles often. It gives a new outlook on the music world, and is known all over the world. The style of NME is very old fashioned and is layed out like a newspaper.
Kerrang!: Where life is loud. Kerrang! is known for it's onomatopoeic title, which relates to music as kerrang is the noise made when playing a power chord on a electric guitar, giving the audience immediate knoledge of the genre of the magazine. Kerrang! tends to focus on more unknown and upcoming bands. It is not just known for it's magazine, but it's radio station, tv channel and very succesfull Kerrang! tour, which is held at the start of each year, and tends to have a big headline band. The genre that Kerrang! tends to focus on is a mixture between rock, punk, metal and emo. Giving people a wide choice to read about, whatever music you listen to. The style of Kerrang! is very modern and tends to keep the colours red, black and yellow throughout each issue, showing the colours associated with music.
Rock sound: Rock sound is a magazine that is less commercial and fouccuses on alternative music. It is not as well know as NME and Kerrang!, but is just as good with its content and features. It does not have a wide range of media as it only has a magazine, not like Kerrang! and NME, where they have radio stations and tv channels. Rock sound channels around new alternative bands.