With the release of the 'Meet Me in the Bathroom' documentary about the '00s indie rock scene in New York, author/producer Lizzy Goodman explains what the most essential music venues in the scene. The documentary, Meet Me In the Bathroom, charts the era of the Strokes, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and their insane NYC peers. The trailer for Meet Me in the Bathroom (2023).
Before indie's "sleaze" era, the New York music scene exploded in the early years of the 2000s, with bands such as LCD Soundsystem, Interpol. Meet Me In The Bathroom arrived in as much of a hurricane as the scene it eulogises did. Released in 2017, Lizzy Goodman's oral history of NYC's garage rock scene in the early noughties.
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Meet Me in the Bathroom wonderfully captures the creation and dynamics of early 2000s New York City. Whether viewers lived through this time or only distantly know the music that marked this era, the immersion and energy of the film makes all audiences feel at home. James Murphy, Karen O, Julian Casablancas, Matt Berninger - Meet Me in the Bathroom holds the juicy stories about the legends that built NYC's rock revival in the '00s.
The Strokes and The Moldy Peaches meet for the first time in a bathroom and soon after tour together, exhibiting nothing short of the brilliance of the early 2000s music world in New York City. There is a palpable sense of what it meant to be in that scene. Capturing the rise of New York's indie rock scene in the early 2000s, Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern's Meet Me in the Bathroom is sure to strike a chord with anyone seeking noughties nostalgia.
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Based on Lizzy Goodman's 2017 oral history of the music scene that birthed The Strokes, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, and Interpol, this documentary takes us back to the dawn of the new. 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. Meet Me in the Bathroom Takes Us Back to the Early-'00s NYC Garage Rock Revival-and Far Beyond Journalist Lizzy Goodman discusses the new documentary adaptation of her 2017 oral history of the scene, and how the stories it follows are much more timeless than they may appear to be.
