Meet Me In The Bathroom Book Review

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. Quick Review "Meet Me in the Bathroom" is an enthralling oral history of NYC's music scene from 2001 to 2011. The book details the transformation of iconic rock bands after 9/11.

Lizzy Goodman captures the chaos and creativity surrounding bands like The Strokes and LCD Soundsystem." Title: Meet Me in the Bathroom Author: Lizzy Goodman Genre: Music, Nonfiction, Biography, History Pages. New York remains the lead character; sanitised by its Prohibition-style 90s crackdown, changed forever by 9 ⁄ 11 (the book's most gripping section) then the internet as the Lower East Side is swallowed by gentrification, leading to today's flourishing Brooklyn scene. Every generation of New York rockers romanticizes its era.

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In the juicy new book Meet Me in the Bathroom, the early 2000s was the golden age. The resulting 600-page tome, Meet Me in the Bathroom, is a thrilling, hilarious, gossip-fueled account of the city's musical renaissance post-9/11, from the rise (again) of rock'n'roll on. Basically, Meet Me in the Bathroom is the history of the gentrification of rock 'n' roll, or what became of it, or what's (not) left of it.

My beef is with the bands, music and style (or lack thereof), not with the book itself. What makes Meet Me in the Bathroom extraordinary is the way the story is told. It's a collection of interviews with people who were there - the artists, the record company people, journalists, bloggers, DJs, producers the whole works.

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(If you've read Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, this is the non-fiction equivalent in style.) What Lizzy Goodman has done is compile. A fantastic oral history that contextualizes a lot of my childhood nostalgia and delivers a great perspective on what makes this music so special. On one hand, it's the typical collection of "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" stories, but it's elevated by its treatment of NYC as a central, unifying character in its narrative; the interviewees' comments on 9/11, cultural identity, and.

Meet Me in the Bathroom is an oral history of a game changing decade for the Big Apple. Beginning with The Strokes and ending with Vampire Weekend, journalist Lizzie Goodman has assembled a painstakingly detailed account of what it was like to witness the rebirth of garage rock as well as the rise of electro and all the other weird little bands. 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.

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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.