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A brand new year brings brand new music and Indie hit Cas Jones is, for once, conforming to trends. Cas, also known as CASSLE, is unveiling her new album, Feel, which is going to be hitting shelves by mid June, according to her label, Coconut Records. Since the star found fame in early 2016, there has been no shortage of material to keep her fans crazing all over social medias.
Her first single in February of the same year was influential in the Indie scene for its innovative nature and for its experimental use of country sound with certain elements of house. This style was originally met with distaste from critics but gained a strong youth following soon after, presumably due to her style resonating with the lives and thoughts of younger audiences. Given how fast Cas has climbed the Indie ladder, it is hard to imagine what could be done from here. That is, until you ask her. “Write better music”, says Cas. “I’ve got to start piecing things together and improve my work and better myself”.
The star has mentioned that after this year’s success she aims to run with the momentum and be as active with her community as possible. Cas has openly spoken further about her music, recently, in an interview with The Independent; “It’s how I feel. It’s a projection of how I feel about things in life today”. When asked for the plans for the year ahead, the answer was succinct: “Make the audience happy”.
        The Indie star has also revealed the hardship in her work, “Trying to put my thoughts in a way that people enjoy isn’t the easiest, it’s like playing a documentary in a disco and making it enjoyable ... You get into a flow though, used to constantly thinking of new things”.
“I feel like I really thrive off the challenge though, when you start by yourself and build up to be the best you can be at what you do, anyone can do that but it doesn‘t make it less special”.
Shortly after Cas’ quick beginning, fans have been asking for live shows in some form and have yet to be answered succinctly. It is widely speculated that there will not be any word on this for some time simply because of the lacking responses from the star and all associates. While not common, it is certainly not unheard of for independent artists such as Cas to go on tour so early in their career, but with such a great demand for it many are hopeful to bring a chance of mind. The international exposure has been somewhat limited
without a proper label but still, many countries have shown great interest in the new style of music booming from the UK.
After a successful year and into another, CASSLE prepares to impress and seems hopeful for the future. She’s one to watch out for considering what’s been said and  if you didn’t know her before, here’s your wake-up call.

Sub-genre Codes & Conventions

Cover:

• Masthead in top left corner in bold font
• Masthead in larger font than other headings
• Cover lines opposite pugs and linking to contents of the magazine
• Pugs promote magazine, somewhat exaggerative
• One image, usually of the band in a medium close-up
• Casual mise-en-scene
• Main cover line attached to image
• Plain, bright backgrounds
• Constant use of black and red fonts
• Date, issue number, and price shown by barcode in bottom right corner
• Make sure follows house style colours

Contents Page:

• Title of "Contents" at the top of the page in similar font to masthead
• Potentially an image in the centre of the page
• Image different to main image on cover
• Casual mise-en-scene
• List content of magazine with page number and possible description of the page
• Have magazines logo somewhere on the page, most likely in top corner
• Make sure follows house style colours

Double Page Spread:

• Main image representing what the article is talking about, usually a band or parts of it
• Casual mise-en-scene
• Quote or name of band in large font as introduction
• Pull quote from artist to draw attention to something said
• Byline at end of article
• Magazine logo in small in corner or page
• Make sure follows house style colours

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Institution Notes

          There are many suitable publishers that are familiar with the rock genre but I believe that the three most suitable for this magazine would be: Anthem Publishing, Team Rock, or Editions Freeway. Anthem Publishing are well known for publishing a wide range of music magazines as well as already publishing a magazine within the rock genre but of the vintage sub-genre as opposed to indie. They also are Britain's fastest growing publisher by copy sale revenue, as well as being an independent publisher, which suits this magazine's overall theme of independent musicians and bands. This is the publisher I believe should publish the magazine I have created.



          Team Rock have four main magazines that are all music oriented; Classic Rock, Metal Hammer, Prog, and Blues Magazine. This means they have a strong pedigree for music magazines such as my own. They, however, publish magazines contain very broad genre definitions in terms of the entire metal genre in Metal Hammer as opposed to a sub-genre as they with with Classic Rock and the sub-genre of the same label.



          Editions Freeway are a French company that are most well known in the UK for their publishing of Rock Sound magazine. They have lots of international publishings that are not necessarily focused on music. This gives the impression of little familiarity with music oriented magazines such as this. This makes this publisher less suitable than the others as they may not entirely understand how to efficiently and effectively publish a music magazine.