i aligned with mm over nme at the time but there was so much over-hyped stuff w former as well, actually it was mm's role to kick up the hype from the 'underground' looking up, while nme just cornered the more established indie/britpop/grunge etc market
i mean before even going into nwotnw and silly new-romo and general sniggery 'let's kick off a scene from nothing' huckstering dreamed up in some camden pub
lots of energy and earnest, frothy prose expended on really average postrock/lofi bands for instance
but all those writers were fun to read, knocking ideas around, helpfully pretentious for a young'un looking for pointers..
yeah the contemporary music was almost incidental for mm at times, new-romo was just an excuse to hype up a missing strand of pop, and to write about quentin crisp and 'new gold dream' and whatever..
but i'm being pretty generous here