{"product_id":"meet-me-in-the-bathroom-rebirth-and-rock-and-roll-in-new-york-city-20012011-isbn-9780062233097","title":"Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and \u003cem\u003eGQ\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoining the ranks of the classics \u003cem\u003ePlease Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCan’t Stop Won’t Stop\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMeet Me in the Bathroom\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eFrom the clubs of New York’s Lower East Side to the warehouses of Williamsburg—a time that changed music, and the city, forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the twentieth century drew to a close, New York City felt played out as a cultural capital. A flood of new money had turned downtown into a museum of what used to be cool, a playground for bankers and the dot-com crowd. If you wanted the rock-and-roll life, New York City was the last place you’d move. And yet, in the decade that followed, it would serve as the stage for a radical pop-cultural renaissance. How exactly did this happen? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this riveting oral history told by those who were actually there, playing the music, pouring the drinks, signing the checks, and writing the cover stories, journalist Lizzy Goodman chronicles the rebirth of New York rock. In the early 2000s, the Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, the Moldy Peaches, LCD Soundsystem, and others, who had been honing their craft in obscurity, suddenly became reflections of a newly flush, newly booming town determined to recover from the devastation of September 11. As kids around the world began to dress like they’d been thrifting on Avenue A, it became clear that New York had not only reclaimed its signature rock-and-roll swagger, but had also exported this new incarnation of American cool globally. A second generation was eagerly waiting in the wings: Franz Ferdinand, the Killers, and Kings of Leon, who’d all but given up on breaking out of their provincial corners of the world, got the message that rock was back, and used grotty New York clubs as launching pads on their way to selling out arenas around the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMeet Me in the Bathroom\u003c\/em\u003e explores how during this era the music industry was dismantled and then reborn via technology—first by Napster and later iTunes—and how traditional publications like \u003cem\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSpin\u003c\/em\u003e were pushed to compete with evangelist bloggers typing feverishly in their underwear, as well as with edgier journalistic upstarts like Vice and Pitchfork. Meanwhile, as the reshaping of the city—technological, aesthetic, cultural, and physical—spread from downtown Manhattan to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, bands like MGMT, Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Grizzly Bear, and Dirty Projectors became the new stars, remaking the idea of New York in their own nerdy image, and helping ensure “I heart Brooklyn” would become the mantra of a new generation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrafted from nearly two hundred original interviews and curated by a writer who remembers the hangovers herself, \u003cem\u003eMeet Me in the Bathroom\u003c\/em\u003e follows in the great tradition of the beloved classic \u003cem\u003ePlease Kill Me\u003c\/em\u003e by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain. Charting the first decade of the 2000s in all its epic and reckless glory, here is a brilliant portrait of a city, an industry, and a generation on the verge of seismic change.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“In the page-turning tradition of \u003cem\u003ePlease Kill Me\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eI Want My MTV\u003c\/em\u003e, Lizzy Goodman’s new oral history, \u003cem\u003eMeet Me in the Bathroom\u003c\/em\u003e is a post-mortem of rock’s last gasp...You don’t read a book like this. You demolish it whole, like a bag of Funyuns.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLas Vegas Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Spectacular.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eMeet Me in the Bathroom\u003c\/em\u003e is an impressive document of the time . . . she’s managed to extract admissions and reflections that are genuinely poignant . . . distilled into a tome that captures the messy, glorious chaos of New York.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNoisey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As far as I’m concerned this book is one of the truly great New York stories.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRob Sheffield, The Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An evocative and gossipy oral history…Not only was Ms. Goodman there…but as our revelatory tour guide, she shrewdly jogged the memories of her protagonists…The result is an affectionate, idiosyncratic narrative of the rock scene’s erratic evolution.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“beautifully paced, vivid, informative and compelling… a book primarily built on passion, love and homage – a drawled rock’n’roll sonnet to the music, the bands, the city, the scene, the triumphs, the screw-ups, and, of course, ‘the moment’.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lizzy Goodman’s extremely comprehensive oral history of the 00s NYC rock scene is hilarious, sordid, fascinating, and infuriating—all at once....\u003cem\u003eMeet Me in the Bathroom\u003c\/em\u003e is more than a success.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There’s warmth and kindness…and great stories about people taking too many drugs...A wonderful book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeth Meyers, Late Night with Seth Meyers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lizzy Goodman’s deliciously over-reported oral history of early-aughts New York rock, was a monument to the scuzzy magic that occurs when youth, hedonism, ambition, and talent coincide.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sharp, funny and dishy oral history...Goodman does a wonderful job of sketching out and filling in this singular time and place...It is a blast...” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAustin American-Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Meet Me in the Bathroom is the juiciest book on rock’n’roll in years…a thrilling, hilarious, gossip-fueled account”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePitchfork\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003cem\u003eMeet Me in the Bathroom\u003c\/em\u003e] will make any rock ‘n’ roll fan who came of age or lived in New York in the aughts...feel all sorts of warm and cozy nostalgic feelings.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“full of fantastic gossip and dreamy anecdotes about the city’s last mythological guitar boys” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Verge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“a compelling non-stop wealth of information that will be inspiring to those familiar with New York and not...this read is a can’t-miss.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUproxx\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I devoured \u003cem\u003eMeet Me in the Bathroom\u003c\/em\u003e . . .That’s what it feels like to read this oral history, as if you’re in a bar or living room with all these people reminiscing and eavesdropping on all the juicy details. A perfect beach read, if there ever was one.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaia Garcia, Lenny Letter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In her terrific new book, Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City, 2001-2011, author Lizzy Goodman has meticulously traced the story of that revival” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaste Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A vivid, kaleidoscopic, extremely fun ode to a moment in time that only just became the past.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] gossip-fueled, engaging oral history” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The first great history of new york’s 21st century rock scene...thoroughly entertaining…engrossing…\u003cem\u003eMeet Me in the Bathroom\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful reminder that the next big thing can be right around the corner.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lizzy Goodman has produced an instant classic...All the Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Ryan Adams gossip you’ve ever wanted to know is right here in this epic, loving look at a very different New York City.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dey Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888707367141,"sku":"NP9780062233097","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062233097.jpg?v=1730229668","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/meet-me-in-the-bathroom-rebirth-and-rock-and-roll-in-new-york-city-20012011-isbn-9780062233097","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}