Lizzy Goodman

Meet Me in the Bathroom

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Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands.
In the second half of the twentieth-century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But as the end of the millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began emerging from Seattle, Austin, and London, pushing New York further from the epicenter. The behemoth music industry, too, found itself in free fall, under siege from technology. Then 9/11/2001 plunged the country into a state of uncertainty and war—and a dozen New York City bands that had been honing their sound and style in relative obscurity suddenly became symbols of glamour for a young, web-savvy, forward-looking generation in need of an anthem.
Meet Me in the Bathroom charts the transformation of the New York music scene in the first decade of the 2000s, the bands behind it—including The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, and Vampire Weekend—and the cultural forces that shaped it, from the Internet to a booming real estate market that forced artists out of the Lower East Side to Williamsburg. Drawing on 200 original interviews with James Murphy, Julian Casablancas, Karen O, Ezra Koenig, and many others musicians, artists, journalists, bloggers, photographers, managers, music executives, groupies, models, movie stars, and DJs who lived through this explosive time, journalist Lizzy Goodman offers a fascinating portrait of a time and a place that gave birth to a new era in modern rock-and-roll.
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768 printed pages
Publication year
2017
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  • Bulat Latypovhas quoted4 years ago
    JENNY ELISCU: The thing we shared was the Beastie Boys. The oldsters got the Beastie Boys and the youngsters got the Beastie Boys. But the other stuff they would get excited about, it was just sort of like, “I guess you had to have been born in the sixties or something.” Circa ’94 to ’99 the thing you thought of when you thought of a rock band from New York—you might think of a hardcore band or a punk band. Otherwise there wasn’t much. It would sort of be like, “Oh, they’re from here? Bummer.”
  • Ariadnehas quoted4 years ago
    That town can have hundreds of personalities—not the people, the town itself. I like it better from afar, but I’m always thankful it exists
  • Ariadnehas quoted4 years ago
    JIMI GOODWIN: We wrote a song called “New York.” It was about New York as an idea. A place where anything is possible, a place where you can find complete artistic freedom. We wrote that song on a fucking Scottish island in the middle of nowhere, before we’d ever been to the city; that’s how powerful it is

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