Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 Audiobook (Free)

Named a Best Reserve of 2017 by NPR and GQ

Joining the ranks of the classics Make sure you Eliminate Me, Our Group Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Stop Won’t Prevent, an interesting oral history of the post-9/11 decrease of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the brand new York rock and roll scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock rings.

In the next half from the twentieth-century NY was the source of new sounds, like the Greenwich Village folk scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But mainly because the end from the about Match Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began emerging from Seattle, Austin, and London, pressing NY further in the epicenter. The behemoth music industry, too, found itself in free of charge fall, under siege from technology. After that 9/11/2001 plunged the country into a condition of uncertainty and war-and twelve New York City bands that were honing their audio and style in relative obscurity suddenly became icons of glamour for a young, web-savvy, forward-looking generation in need of an anthem.

Meet Me in the toilet charts the change of the New York music picture in the first decade from 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 web to a flourishing real estate market that forced performers out of the Decrease East Aspect to Williamsburg. Drawing on 200 primary interviews with Wayne Murphy, Julian Casablancas, Karen O, Ezra Koenig, and many more musicians, artists, journalists, bloggers, professional photographers, managers, music professionals, groupies, models, movie stars, and DJs who lived through this explosive period, journalist Lizzy Goodman presents a fascinating portrait of a period and a location that gave delivery to a fresh era in contemporary rock-and-roll.