Problems that occurred with my first music magazine draft

I asked a few of my peer members to look at my first draft of my music magazine and most of them told me;

1. Front cover: My colour scheme came across as quite simple, also the colours that I used against the background never blend well to some people however they understood why my front cover was black, yellow and green because the genre of my magazine is 'Bashment' which originated from Jamaica.  The quality of the main image was poor, when some of them looked at it they never felt a connection with the artist and the photo itself looked as if not enough input was put in for example lighting and angle shots. Not enough sub headings which meant that the magazine would less likely be able to attract an audience. There was no date of the magazine 
2. Contents page: Not enough contents. The format of a magazine is not the same as the front because i used a red stroke behind the typography which was not used on the front cover nor did it link in with any of the colour scheme or pictures. Most  magazine usually have two or more columns underneath each other and my contents were diagonal from each other.  An image of my artist was not placed on my contents page which made him seem insignificant. Not enough pictures present. The font that i used was not very sophisticated meaning my font was unprofessional, the typography that occurs in most magazines are Arial.  
3.  Double paged spread:  I did not use a  range of different angled shots, such as high angled/low angled shots of the artist. The pictures i used did not blend well with the text, the text did not go around the pictures. the font i used was not the average 12 font size it was bigger than that. I had no pull quotes which is not really needed but it usually attracts viewrs who read an article. No use of effect on the images used