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Joining the rates of the classics Make sure you Kill Me, Our Strap Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Prevent Won’t Quit, an interesting oral history of the post-9/11 drop of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the brand new York rock scene, led by several iconoclastic rock bands.

In the second half from the twentieth-century New York was the foundation of new sounds, like the Greenwich Village folk scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But mainly because the end from the on the subject of Match Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Stone in New York City 2001-2011 millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began growing from Seattle, Austin, and London, pushing NY further from your epicenter. The behemoth music market, too, found itself in free of charge fall, under siege from technology. Then 9/11/2001 plunged the country into a state of uncertainty and war-and a dozen NEW YORK bands that had been honing their sound and design in comparative obscurity suddenly became icons of glamour for a, web-savvy, forward-looking era in need of an anthem.

Meet Me in the Bathroom charts the change of the New York music scene in the initial decade of the 2000s, the rings behind it-including The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, and Vampire Weekend-and the cultural forces that shaped it, from the web to a booming market that forced performers from the Decrease East Part to Williamsburg. Drawing on 200 primary interviews with James Murphy, Julian Casablancas, Karen O, Ezra Koenig, and many more musicians, performers, journalists, bloggers, photographers, managers, music professionals, groupies, models, celebrities, and DJs who lived through this explosive time, journalist Lizzy Goodman presents a fascinating family portrait of a time and a place that gave birth to a new era in contemporary rock-and-roll.