In the early 2000s New York City served as the unlikely stage for a radical renaissance where
bands like the Strokes Yeah Yeah Yeahs Interpol the Moldy Peaches LCD Soundsystem and
others who had been honing their craft in obscurity suddenly became reflections of a newly
flush newly booming town determined to recover from the devastation of September 11. Meet Me
in the Bathroom explores how during this era the music industry was dismantled and then reborn
via technology?first by Napster and later iTunes?and by evangelist bloggers and edgier
journalistic upstarts like Vice and Pitchfork. As the reshaping of the city?technological
aesthetic cultural and physical?spread from downtown Manhattan to Williamsburg Brooklyn
bands like MGMT Vampire Weekend TV on the Radio Grizzly Bear and Dirty Projectors became
the new stars remaking the idea of New York in their own nerdy image and establishing ?I
heart Brooklyn? as the mantra of a new generation. Crafted from nearly two hundred original
interviews and curated by a writer who remembers the hangovers herself Meet Me in the Bathroom
charts the first decade of the 2000s in all its epic and reckless glory. It is a brilliant
portrait of a city an industry and a generation on the verge of seismic change.
