Music magazines: Genre & Representation

The main audience for music magazines are male. Music magazines are dominated by a male audience; NME(65%), Kerrang(60%), Metal Hammer(66%), Mixmag(72%). The look of these magazines are quite masculine and not very feminine at all, which isnt very appealing for a female audience. But because females still want to read about they're favourite bands they buy these magazines because they're the only magazines that are available for this genre of music.