Meet Me in the Bathroom

In the tradition of beloved, now classic music tomes like Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azzerad, and Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff Chang, comes an oral history of the last great moment in rock and roll in New York City. Charting the first decade of the 2000s, journalist Elizabeth Goodman tells the story of the rise of indie darlings, The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol and Vampire Weekend and how their music became the soundtrack of the last gasp of the old guard music industry, the final throes of a music scene in Manhattan, how Brooklyn became the epicenter of all that was new and cutting edge, and which artists made it through to today and why.