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Notoriously fickle NME Editor Conor McNicholas, who two years ago ditched dance music to launch The Strokes, hinted at a new editorial enthusiasm this week, in a revealing interview with the Guardian's Media section.

"Reading music magazines is now kind of a job thing," he complained.

"As a total alternative, I am really into cars, so I read Auto Express and Autocar religiously. Because they are both weeklies and are both in a world concerned with new releases and old releases, you can see parallels between them and music magazines."

McNicholas first made his name as editor of now defunct dance magazine Muzik, championing progressive trance relentlessly before turning on the genre with a cover feature declaring "Prog Is Dead; Official" (published just before he quit to take over NME).

"I've openly said to many people it was our misguided enthusiasm for all things progressive that lead us all up a bit of a blind alley," McNicholas told Skrufff at the time.

"Too much enthusiasm, not too little."
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