Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 is an oral history which details the rebirth of the New York rock scene in the new millennium, written and compiled by music journalist Lizzy Goodman. It was published in May 2017 by Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. [1] The book is named after the Strokes song of the same name from their 2003 album.
Amazon.com: Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011: 9780062233097: Goodman, Lizzy: Books Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQ 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. - Austin American-Statesman "Meet Me in the Bathroom is the juiciest book on rock'n'roll in years a thrilling, hilarious, gossip-fueled account" - Pitchfork " [Meet Me in the Bathroom] 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. Meet Me in the Bathroom explores how during this era the music industry was dismantled and then reborn via technology.
Guardian (Summer Reads Recommendation) Critic Reviews Meet Me in the Bathroom, an oral history by Lizzy Goodman, who arrived in New York from her native New Mexico in 1999 and was evidently immersed in everything that happened. Her interviewees - there are 161 - beautifully capture the era, and illustrate its tensions and contradictions. 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. 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. Books Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 Lizzy Goodman Faber & Faber, Aug 1, 2017.
Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQJoining 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.
