The latest issue of Jockey Slut has an article about the longevity of Electroclash grouping together artists like LCD Soundsystem and Soulwax. I may be wrong but I never thought of LCD Soundsystem or Soulwax as 'Electroclash'. It's just another poor attempt by PR's and magazines to create and continue a so called scene which has ultimatly suffocated the music. I agree that a homegrwon scene can be a healthy thing but, when it's just randomly created and tagged with a combiword name by PR's and magazines to produce some sort of frenzied bandwagon jump and hype machine then it just reeks. Great bands/artists get completley overlooked because they don't fit in to one of these so called scenes. It means there are more undiscoverd gems out there than ever. This is probably why major music magazines in Britain are completely suffering, with Bang coming and going within the space of 12 months, Jockey Slut going quarterly, and rumours abound that Swinstead's other title X-Ray's going the way of the shredder. Anyone remember Trash, don't blame you because that was only around for 1 measly issue. I have however noticed a few more independent music magazines cropping up (lets hope these manage to stick around) and some that are aimed at an older demographic like Word or Ink. The music magazine market is flooded with badly written and sometimes almost farcical titles. I think there is definately a niche for a high quality unpretentious PR ignoring magazine. How about journalists ignore PRs completely unless they're absolutley essential? A record company executive aquantance of mine was discussing with me why he decided to change a bands PR, their previous press officer was a nice lady but she didn't have enough "juice" he informed me. Unfortunatly many other PR's seem to be able to wank their juice all over the music industry.