THE UNICORNS turns 24 Y.O.! 🧷🎛🎸🎧📻 Every once in a rare great while a new music genre comes along that fulfills in its own particular niche. Every promised of the often harassed new medium. Such a band, were genuine artists, fronted by all around deities… (2000.) ● READING TIP ● 📖📚📜
‘Meet Me in the Bathroom’: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001–2011, by author Lizzy Goodman takes viewers to a beautiful time in NYC’s & LA’s ‘manically joyful’ 2000s indierock scene including #TheUnicorns
Named after a song by our favorite boys, “Goodman’s saga details the birth of a music scene in post-9/11 World — one of the final true breakout moments for old-school meets new American rock and roll.
The book follows some of the decade’s most influential musicians (#TheStrokes, #Interpol, #HotHotHeat, #ArcticMonkeys, #LCDSoundsystem, #OfMontreal, #Gossip, #TheFaint, #TheRapture, #YeahYeahYeahs, #TheHives, LateOfThePier, #TheWhiteStripes, #TheVines, #Goldfrapp, #KaiserChiefs, #FranzFerdinand, TheBravery, #Muse, #TheKills, Jet, #Kasabian, #ArcadeFire, The Stills, #MovingUnits, The Sounds, #FriendlyFires, Spinnerette, The Libertines, ClapYourHandsSayYeah, Gerling, Pop Levi, The Streets, Le Tigre, The Subways, Elefant, The Ting Tings, Dead Disco, New Young Pony Club, Digitalism, #Santigold, Alice In Videoland, Ben Kweller, The Rifles, Wolfmother, The Departure, PARKA, Stefy, Whitey, CSS, Rooney, Noisettes, The Love Makers, INEEDTODISCOVER, 1990s, Superfamily, REVEREND & THE MAKERS, Blood Red Shoes, The Cinematics, White Rabbit, The Tough Alliance, Thunder Birds Are Now, The Blow, The View, The Olivia Tremor Control, Wolf Parade, B.C. Camplight, Robbers On High Street, Bright Eyes, The Rakes, Audiobullys, Ok Go, Metric, The Sights, Whitey, Editors, Mando Diao, Art Brut, Architecture In Helinski…. ) in an oral history compiled of over 200 original interviews.”
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