Joining 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 scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But as the end of the millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began e...
When I was a teenager growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I had a cutout of the New York City skyline on the ceiling above my bed. In the same way that you sometimes buy a dress as a reminder to become the person who would wear it, the image of all those anonymous buildings lit up at night was a visual placeholder for my future self.