There's one every year, and this years NME-trumpeted craze is "New Rave"...kids are starting to wear flurescent clothing and wave glowsticks at guitar bands

has anyone heard much of it? I've heard a couple of things by the klaxons, but that's about it. Can't hear much of a rave influence. What's the best the scene has to offer?

*DEATH*

I called this in September of last year in my Dancefloor Report thread. But it's already played out though (and heads already called it out for a hoax) in New York.

But to be honest with ya NME created the whole scene (they even said it themselves), it NEVER EXISTED before NME conjured it. Which is pretty fucking corny.

YOU KNOW SHIT IS MAD CORNY WHEN A MAGAZINE CREATES A MUSIC GENRE AND MAKES UP AN ENTIRE SCENE OVERNIGHT BY BANDS WHO ARE JUST USING IT TO GET IN "THE BIG ISSUE."

Welcome to the corporatization of YET another musical movement. Remember Woodstock II & III? VODAFONE and CINGULAR are now gonna teach you how to NEW RAVE BABY!

Don't get me wrong, I like the Klaxons' "Gravitys Rainbow" and I saw them live when they opened for Soulwax last year, but all they are is HYPE. Everything they are falls apart in a live show -- it's so funny, I tell other online folks they suck live and are only palpable on a studio album but a lot of kids are so prepossessed by the HYPE. The band formed in early 2006 for Pete's sake.

And, to keep it real, a lot of what the Klaxons are doing musically has been going by other names anyway here in NYC and London -- and the REAL heads in the UK who know the Business already pulled NME's hoe card. Plus, heads have been wearing neon colo[u]rs before MTV UK and NME jumped on it. The media and industry rats co-opting movements, that's what kills the shit in the first place.

You still have muthafuckas who think "Breakdancing" ended in 1985 and Voguing lived and died with Madonna.

That's the industry for ya.

Watch: all these people who couldn't give a fuck otherwise about current dance music walk in and shit on neon, future-retro, Rave and dance music in general. Thanks, NME!
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[Edited 4/5/07 14:06pm]

I miss Grunge

MikeMatronik said: