Meet me in the bathroom : rebirth and rock and roll in New York City, 2001-2011

Meet me in the bathroom Rebirth and rock and roll in New York City, 2001-2011

Elizabeth Goodman, 1980-

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Subjects
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Musical group)
Strokes (Musical group)
White Stripes (Musical group)
Rock groups > New York (State) > New York > Interviews.
Rock music > New York (State) > New York > 2001-2010 > History and criticism.
Rock musicians > New York (State) > New York > Interviews.
New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Interviews.
Genres
Interviews
Published
New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow [2017]
Language
English
Main Author
Elizabeth Goodman, 1980- (author)
Edition
First edition
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
xvii, 621 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780062233097
  • Cast of Characters
  • Introduction: "Youth and Abandon"
  • Part I. Nostalgia for an Hour Ago
  • 1. "The Place Where Anything Can Happen"
  • 2. New York Bands Aren't Cool
  • 3. "A Sad Day for the Parents"
  • 4. "They Looked Like These Preppy Kids on Acid"
  • 5. "Alcohol, Blow, Crack, Death"
  • 6. "A Bunch of Little Bands Starting to Creep Up"
  • 7. "Ain't Nobody Here for Bottle Service"
  • 8. Dance Music Will Save Us All?
  • 9. "That Was Really the Birth of DFA"
  • 10. "Tomorrow Never Knows"
  • 11. "Nobody Was Going to Get Paid. Nobody Was Getting Any Cash."
  • 12. "What's the Value of Being a Band?"
  • 13. This Whole Web Thing
  • 14. "I Mean, We Were Just Stoned"
  • 15. Cabs Won't Even Go There
  • 18. "They Got Signed for How Much Money?!"
  • Part II. The Class of 2001
  • 17. "Those Guys All Go So Far Back"
  • 18. Some Pretty Good Musical Chemistry
  • 19. Like a Gang
  • 20. A Girl That Sings Quiet Folk Songs
  • 21. The Freak-Folk Fringe
  • 22. "The Return of the Rock Stars"
  • 23. "Shit, I'll Be in That Band"
  • 24. Anarchy in the UK
  • 25. "Party in a Bag"
  • 26. "I Don't Know Who Was Paying for the Drugs. It Wasn't Me."
  • 27. "Just Trust Me"
  • 28. "British People Are Crazy"
  • 29. All Eyes on NYC
  • 30. September 11, 2001
  • 31. "That Now-Legendary Halloween Strokes Show at Hammerstein"
  • 32. "Is Anybody Outside of New York Talking About This?"
  • 33. "Cats Started to Get Out of the Bag"
  • 34. "It's Our Time..."
  • 35. "Troubled Souls"
  • 36. La Zona Rosa
  • 37. "That $2 Bid Show... Oof"
  • 38. "My New York Is Interpol"
  • 39. "We Successfully Managed to Make Our Business 100 Percent Impractical"
  • 40. "We Got Away with Murder"
  • 41. "House of Jealous Lovers"
  • 42. "Losing My Edge"
  • 43. "Maps"
  • 44. "A Thing That Doesn't Work but Does"
  • 45. The Uncool Kids
  • 46. "You Could Say We Had No Rules"
  • 47. Strokes Versus Stripes
  • 48. "I Like This Internet Thing"
  • 49. Rock Is Sack?
  • 50. "Taking All Our Britpop Tricks and Selling Them Back to Us"
  • 51. "These Guys Are Going to Be Bigger than Everybody"
  • Part III. The New Global Underground
  • 52. The End of One Era, the Beginning of Another
  • 53. "The Famous-as-Fuck Strokes"
  • 54. "A Hi-Hat Is Like Working with a Cellar of Exotic Wines"
  • 55. "Heroin Just Kind of... Crosses a Line"
  • 58. "If You Believed What You Read, Williamsburg Was the New Village"
  • 57. Soviet Kitsch
  • 58. The Southern Strokes
  • 59. The Columbia Hotel
  • 60. "I'm Only Sixteen and I've Already Had Crabs Three Times"
  • 61. The James Murphy Show
  • 62. Room on Fire
  • 63. "There's Definitely Some Bad Feelings There"
  • 64. The Wrestler
  • 65. "So People in Their Forties in Boston Are Listening to Interpol!"
  • 86. "The Internet Rules, Fuck It"
  • 67. Disneyfication
  • 68. "When the President Talks to God"
  • 89. "We Were All Starring in Our Own Nightlife Type of Reality TV"
  • Part IV. Birth of Brooklyn
  • 70. "Record Collection Rock"
  • 71. "There Is a Lot of Confrontation but I Think It Does Come Back to Faith"
  • 72. "The Creative Process, While It Can Definitely Reward the Ego, It Can Fucking Bruise It, Too"
  • 73. Selling Out Is So Passé
  • 74. "We Could Be That Big"
  • 75. "Breezier and Lighter and Quicker"
  • 76. "Erudite as Fuck"
  • 77. "They Came from the Ashes of Jonathan Fire*Eater"
  • 78. "It Doesn't Actually Make Any Sense to Describe Music as Preppy"
  • 79. "It Wasn't Like We Were a Party Band"
  • 80. Halsey House
  • 81. The Speed of Buzz
  • 82. "I Wanted to Get in There Like a Motherfucker and That's What I Did"
  • 83. Consider Yourself Served
  • 84. "When My Mojo Phase Has Passed, I Don't Think That I'll Stop Making Music and Start Gardening"
  • 85. "We Warmed It Up for You Fuckers"
  • Part V. "New York, I love you but you're bringing me down"
  • 86. "I Mean, What's More Rock and Roll than Madison Square Garden and a Mic Drop?'"
  • 87. The Last Rock Stars
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In this gossip-fueled, engaging oral history, fashion and music journalist Goodman traces New York's tempestuous rock revival at the turn of the 21st century. Although the Lower East Side was rapidly gentrifying by the mid-1990s, with Williamsburg following soon after, they still provided a fertile matrix of affordable rent, bars, clubs, drugs and sleaze for art-school kids and other malcontents who wanted to rock. By 2000, the breakthrough of the Strokes and Interpol brought mainstream attention to downtown music for the first time since Talking Heads. Soon enough the Moldy Peaches, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, and LCD Soundsystem, among others, were gracing the covers of pop magazines and headlining tours. In roughly chronological order, Goodman tracks the scene through the tragedy of the 9/11 attacks and the transformation of the music industry by way of file-sharing and the Internet, with particular focus on DFA Studios and the Strokes. For keyhole gazers, the tales of rock-star substance abuse alongside snark and sniping between the principals will provide welcome shivers. In chapters with titles such as "I'm Only Sixteen and I've Already Had Crabs Three Times," Goodman's subtle editing deftly shapes disconnected voices into clear narratives and a seemingly coherent whole. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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