num_pages: 622
description: 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 warand 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 itincluding The Strokes The Yeah Yeah Yeahs LCD Soundsystem Interpol and Vampire Weekendand 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.
language: English
title: Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
publisher: Dey Street Books