Music Genre

For the magazine that I am going to produce, I decided that my music genre would be alternative rock as there are a few examples that I can look to for inspiration on how to go about different aspects of my magazine. I also think that this would be a good genre to go for as I believe there is a lot of interest in my target audience range for that genre of music.
In this genre you find that the artists play their own instrument, write their own music and lyrics and are really passionate about music. They can range from a two piece band like The White Stripes to having a grand total of nine members like SlipKnoT. But normally you would find that it's a five piece band made up of a singer, lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist, bassist and drummer. They tend to dress in quite an edgey way, normally not highstreet fashion - skinny jeans, other bands tshirts, big trainers or sandshoes. The females tend to have very distinctive hair - black, white or as bright coloured as possible. It's hard to define what their lyrics are generally about, but you could say a lot of the time you could say they are about hope, a huge range of feelings including rage, sadness and happiness. I think a lot of the time, bands in this genre tend to write about real life experiences that their fans can relate to. Fans of bands of this genre look up to the musicians a lot, and if they don't play instruments themselves, they take image ideas from them and develop a similar style and dress sense.
The magazines that are currently in publication that cover this genre, in my opinion are Kerrang! and Rocksound in England and Alternative Press in America.