Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQJoining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands.In the second half of the twentieth-century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk sce...

A SUNDAY TIMES, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO AND UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARNew York, 2001. 9/11 plunges the US into a state of war and political volatility-and heralds the rebirth of the city's rock scene. As the old-guard music industry crumbles, a group of iconoclastic bands suddenly become the voice of a generation desperately in need of an anthem.In this fascinating and vibrant oral history, acclaimed journalist Lizzy Goodman charts...

Da questo libro è uscito, nel 2022, l’omonimo documentario diretto da Dylan Southern e Will Lovelace. Alla fine degli anni Novanta, New York aveva ormai abbandonato il ruolo di avanguardia musicale, sostituita da Seattle e Londra. Anche i colossi dell’industria della musica erano in caduta libera, insidiati dalle nuove forme di tecnologia e dall’aumento del mercato immobiliare che costringeva gli artisti a cercare città più abbordabili. Poi ci fu l’11 settembre 2001. L’intero paese precipi...

L'histoire du rock à New York de 2001 à 2011 racontée par ceux qui l'ont faite.Lizzy Goodman dépeint la renaissance de New York comme capitale mondiale du rock post 11 septembre à travers 200 interviews croisées de ses protagonistes : musiciens, producteurs, managers, journalistes, photographes et DJs.Les Strokes, les White Stripes, Interpol, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend et tant d'autres se livrent sans fard et partagent souvenirs et anecdotes entre les...

Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQJoining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands.In the second half of the twentieth-century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk sce...