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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Cast of Characters
Introduction: “Youth and Abandon”
Part I: Nostalgia for an Hour Ago
1. “The Place Where Anything Can Happen”
2. New York Bands Aren’t Cool
3. “A Sad Day for the Parents”
4. “They Looked Like These Preppy Kids on Acid”
5. “Alcohol, Blow, Crack, Death”
6. “A Bunch of Little Bands Starting to Creep Up”
7. “Ain’t Nobody Here for Bottle Service”
8. Dance Music Will Save Us All?
9. “That Was Really the Birth of DFA”
10. “Tomorrow Never Knows”
11. “Nobody Was Going to Get Paid. Nobody Was Getting Any Cash.”
12. “What’s the Value of Being a Band?”
13. This Whole Web Thing
14. “I Mean, We Were Just Stoned”
15. Cabs Won’t Even Go There
16. “They Got Signed for How Much Money?!”
Part II: The Class of 2001
17. “Those Guys All Go So Far Back”
18. Some Pretty Good Musical Chemistry
19. Like a Gang
20. A Girl That Sings Quiet Folk Songs
21. The Freak-Folk Fringe
22. “The Return of the Rock Stars”
23. “Shit, I’ll Be in That Band”
24. Anarchy in the UK
25. “Party in a Bag”
26. “I Don’t Know Who Was Paying for the Drugs. It Wasn’t Me.”
27. “Just Trust Me”
28. “British People Are Crazy”
29. All Eyes on NYC
30. September 11, 2001
31. “That Now-Legendary Halloween Strokes Show at Hammerstein”
32. “Is Anybody Outside of New York Talking About This?”
33. “Cats Started to Get Out of the Bag”
34. “It’s Our Time . . .”
35. “Troubled Souls”
36. La Zona Rosa
37. “That $2 Bill Show . . . Oof”
38. “My New York Is Interpol”
39. “We Successfully Managed to Make Our Business 100 Percent Impractical”
40. “We Got Away with Murder”
41. “House of Jealous Lovers”
42. “Losing My Edge”
43. “Maps”
44. “A Thing That Doesn’t Work but Does”
45. The Uncool Kids
46. “You Could Say We Had No Rules”
47. Strokes Versus Stripes
48. “I Like This Internet Thing”
49. Rock Is Back?
50. “Taking All Our Britpop Tricks and Selling Them Back to Us”
51. “These Guys Are Going to Be Bigger than Everybody”
Part III: The New Global Underground
52. The End of One Era, the Beginning of Another
53. “The Famous-as-Fuck Strokes”
54. “A Hi-Hat Is Like Working with a Cellar of Exotic Wines”
55. “Heroin Just Kind of . . . Crosses a Line”
56. “If You Believed What You Read, Williamsburg Was the New Village”
57. Soviet Kitsch
58. The Southern Strokes
59. The Columbia Hotel
60. “I’m Only Sixteen and I’ve Already Had Crabs Three Times”
61. The James Murphy Show
62. Room on Fire
63. “There’s Definitely Some Bad Feelings There”
64. The Wrestler
65. “So People in Their Forties in Boston Are Listening to Interpol!”
66. “The Internet Rules, Fuck It”
67. Disneyfication
68. “When the President Talks to God”
69. “We Were All Starring in Our Own Nightlife Type of Reality TV”
Part IV: Birth of Brooklyn
70. “Record Collection Rock”
71. “There Is a Lot of Confrontation but I Think It Does Come Back to Faith”
72. “The Creative Process, While It Can Definitely Reward the Ego, It Can Fucking Bruise It, Too”
73. Selling Out Is So Passé
74. “We Could Be That Big”
75. “Breezier and Lighter and Quicker”
76. “Erudite as Fuck”
77. “They Came from the Ashes of Jonathan Fire*Eater”
78. “It Doesn’t Actually Make Any Sense to Describe Music as Preppy”
79. “It Wasn’t Like We Were a Party Band”
80. Halsey House
81. The Speed of Buzz
82. “I Wanted to Get in There Like a Motherfucker and That’s What I Did”
83. Consider Yourself Served
84. “When My Mojo Phase Has Passed, I Don’t Think That I’ll Stop Making Music and Start Gardening”
85. “We Warmed It Up for You Fuckers”
Part V: “New York, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down”
86. “I Mean, What’s More Rock and Roll than Madison Square Garden and a Mic Drop?”
87. The Last Rock Stars
Acknowledgments
Index
Photos Section
About the Author
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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