As NME feature a lot of different genres in their magazines, this one contains 'rock' content as you can tell from many things, hence the colours, picture and stories around it which I will go into detail with:
The photograph contains the famous band 'Paramore' which will appeal to the audience of this paticular genre especially, and the shot that they've formed is a midshot for the main singer and the rest behind her, so it's like a mastershot but capturing all their expressions due to them being close up (medium shot). The attitudes they give off are quite stubborn and fierce which suites this genre and theme. They don't have a smiley look, or a happy look, it's just bland and very eye-catching, especially with the female as the colours of her hair and makeup stand out and express her emotions more - not forgetting her hand gesture.  Clothing used within this picture is black, to fit into the three colour theme, and promote it so that it fits in with everything. They're also bland clothing, and just colourised so the front cover doesn't look too busy and drag the attention away from the actual main stories - it just gives the background a bit of colour and theme.
Fonts are used in all different sizes here, but none are small, so they all stand out and as usual the NME follows the theme of the main story having the largest font, appealing to their audience for this paticular content in the magazine this time. Both bold colours red and pink contrast paticularly well with black backgrounds as the clothing of the  band making it stand out.