The contents directly follow the front cover and play a key part in securing the sale of the magazine. The content heading follows the house style of the Rolling Stone magazine and the white on red look gives a classy look and finish to the magazine. The fonts are consistently serif throughout the contents and front cover and maintain three main colours of white, black and red.
Down the left-hand side are three pictures relating to the articles we know are found in the magazine as they are mentioned opposite in the contents. The images are striking in their own ways and can draw the reader in. Once drawn in, the reader can find the article the picture is associated with as the page numbers can be found on the image. The three pictures emphasize the diversity of Rolling Stone magazine. One is of female hip hop artist M.I.A., another is of Led Zepellin band member of Robert Plant and the other picture is of a wild bird in the Gulf of Mexico, suffering from the controversial BP oil spillage of 2010. This shows that the magazine covers different genres of music and also other things, like current affairs.
The more detailed writing on the right-hand side shows the three main concepts of the magazine: features (stories featured on the cover etc.), national affairs (the news/informative/political issues discussed) and departments (music and other media forms, like film). The diversity shown in the choice of cover stars for Rolling Stone showed a ranging covering of styles and genres which is reiterated by the different reading offered inside. At the bottom there is a guide to the pages at which different sections start, offering a good guide for the reader to be able to find the articles they wish to see.
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