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 technologyfirst by Napster and later iTunesand by evangelist bloggers and edgier journalistic upstarts like Vice and Pitchfork. As the reshaping of the citytechnological, aesthetic, cultural, and physicalspread 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.

Lizzy Goodman has produced an instant classic...All the Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Ryan Adams gossip youve ever wanted to know is right here in this epic, loving look at a very different New York City. (Rolling Stone)

The first great history of new yorks 21st century rock scene...thoroughly entertainingengrossingMeet Me in the Bathroom is a wonderful reminder that the next big thing can be right around the corner. (Spin)

An evocative and gossipy oral historyNot only was Ms. Goodman therebut as our revelatory tour guide, she shrewdly jogged the memories of her protagonistsThe result is an affectionate, idiosyncratic narrative of the rock scenes erratic evolution. (New York Times)