![]() ![]() ![]() Plus, for me, it was a slice of recent history that I lived through and was, very peripherally, part of: I was writing about a lot of those bands at the time, but being in Hartford at the Courant, I didn't get to see many of them unless they came through Connecticut. Goodman traces the backstory into the mid- to late-'90s, long before hipsters had discovered Brooklyn, when the New York City rock scene in Manhattan was pretty barren. It's also a unique account of what was happening in music right as the bottom fell out of the record industry. ![]() There's plenty about the book that is fascinating for fans of pop culture. (Yeah, I know the book came out a year ago - I have small children, so it's a wonder I had time to read it at all.) Here's the problem with "Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011," Lizzy Goodman's oral history of the indie revival that included the Strokes, Interpol, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem and so on: it's exclusionary as hell. ![]()
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