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        The Strokes in 2011
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        Explore The Strokes' First Years In New Rock Book strokes-new-york-rockers-early-years-revealed-new-photo-book

        The Strokes: New York Rockers' Early Years Revealed In New Photo Book

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        Music photographer Cody Smyth's new book will provide an intimate look into the first days of New York rockers the Strokes
        Brian Haack
        GRAMMYs
        Aug 30, 2017 - 12:10 pm

        New York City during the first decade of the 2000s was a wellspring of young bands eager to spit in the faces of music critics who'd been quick to call radio's transition from the largely Seattle-based sounds of grunge and post-punk alternative into the bubblegum pop sounds of the new millennium the dying gasps of guitar-driven rock.

        Leading the charge during that period, the Strokes were one of the biggest of the "local" bands playing the club circuit, and also one of the first to really break out onto the global scene and sign a huge deal with a major label. This era of raucous rebellion has been recently documented in Lizzy Goodman's fantastic compilation Meet Me In The Bathroom: Rebirth And Rock And Roll In New York City: 2001-2011, which chronicled the various bands – the Strokes chief among them – who were central to that rising movement.

        A new catalogue of moments from that singular time will also arrive this October: music photographer Cody Smyth has compiled his best stories and photos from his years embedded with the Strokes into a forthcoming volume titles The Strokes: The First Ten Years. The book will be the "first authorized visual record" of the band's early years, and is being heralded as, "a peerless window into the group through the lens of a close friend who was there before it even began."

        The Strokes: The First Ten Years is due out on Oct. 10.

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        The Strokes, Vampire Weekend: New York rock's modern history

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        Music journalist's new book compiles interviews from New York rock iconoclasts who hit the scene in the early aughts
        Brian Haack
        GRAMMYs
        May 23, 2017 - 5:00 pm
        GRAMMY.com

        The period from 2001–2011 saw an unexpected music revival sweep through New York City. Spurred on by world-changing events — the attacks on Sept. 11 and the 2008 global financial crisis chief atop the list — and the continuing shift toward a more connected digital world that left many feeling more isolated than ever, this musical resurgence spoke to some of us in ways the previous generation of music could not.

        Equal parts earnest, pained and faux-ironically disaffected, the crop of New York rockers that came up during the decade of nothing were a breath of fresh air for music fans who couldn't find a home among the bubblegum feel and plastic sheen of the pop sounds of the preceding years.

        Journalist/author Lizzy Goodman has taken the initiative to capture the forgotten energy and wasted 3 a.m. moments of that decade, collecting more than 200 original interviews with the members of the bands that lived at the forefront of the culture war that helped craft their hits.

        Her book, Meet Me In The Bathroom: Rebirth And Rock And Roll In New York City 2001–2011, compiles interviews and commentary from James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem), Julian Casablancas (the Strokes), Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend), among others, with additional perspective from A&R reps and label executives who helped shepherd their careers through these definitive years.

        The book comes was released May 23 during a special signing ceremony at Strand Bookstore in NYC with Goodman, Murphy, Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), and music journalist/author Rob Sheffield in attendance.

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        Yeah Yeah Yeahs in 2015

        Yeah Yeah Yeahs'  Karen O and Nick Zinner

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        Lizzy Goodman's 'Meet Me In The Bathroom' Set For Rock Doc Treatment

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        Acclaimed book spotlighting the 2000s' New York indie rock scene is being adapted into a 4-hour doc series
        Brian Haack
        GRAMMYs
        Dec 7, 2017 - 1:30 pm

        Well-known music journalist Lizzy Goodman's acclaimed "dirty time capsule" of the early-aughts' New York indie rock scene, Meet Me In The Bathroom, will be adapted for a new documentary series, Billboard reports.

        Spotlighting the rises, occasional falls, and storied lifecycles of bands like LCD Soundsystem, the Strokes, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the book has garnered critical acclaim for its unflinching fly-on-the-wall view of this exciting and notably prolific era of music.

        Noted directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern — best known for their work on LCD Soundsystem's intended swan song, Shut Up and Play The Hits, and the GRAMMY-nominated Blur documentary No Distance Left To Run — have been tapped to helm the four-hour documentary series based on Goodman's book.

        "At various points during the six long years it took to bring Meet Me In The Bathroom to life, it occurred to me what an incredible documentary this would make," says Goodman of the announcement. "At the time it seemed like a total fantasy but it now feels like fate that the team behind Shut Up And Play The Hits, the show that gave me the idea to write this book in the first place, would be the ones to bring Meet Me In The Bathroom to the screen."

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        Jerry Garcia, of Grateful Dead

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        New Photo Book Chronicles Grateful Dead's 30-Year Tour Run

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        'Eyes Of The World: Grateful Dead Photography 1965 – 1995' contains pictures of Jerry Garcia & Co. that were taken by some of rock's best-known photographers
        Brian Haack
        GRAMMYs
        Dec 1, 2017 - 12:57 pm

        The 30-year long, strange trip that saw the Grateful Dead elevate themselves from ubiquitous San Francisco Bay Area bar band and perennial in-house entertainment for Ken Kesey's famous Acid Tests to a nationally-recognized institution of American counterculture and eternal fixture of the psychedelic jam touring scene generated a massive body of recordings and photographs.

        More than 200 of the best photos from the Dead's archives have been compiled for a new book chronicling the band's original three-plus-decade run from 1965 to 1995.

        Eyes Of The World: Grateful Dead Photography 1965 – 1995 comprises shots taken by more than 60 photographers, including Annie Leibovitz, Mark Seliger and Jay Blakesberg, who not only circulated within the band's orbit but would go on to join the ranks of the most famous rock photographers to ever pick up a camera.

        No doubt a must-have holiday gift for any Dead fan, the volume is available now from Rock Out Books.

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        Chuck D, of Public Enemy, in 2017

        Chuck D

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        Chuck D's Hip-Hop History Book "Could Have Been 3,000 Pages Long"

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        Learn what the iconic rapper has to say about his latest written overview of hip-hop's storied roots
        Brian Haack
        GRAMMYs
        Nov 8, 2017 - 12:04 pm

        Rapper, activist and Public Enemy co-founder Chuck D has made cataloguing the ins and outs of hip-hop's 40-plus year history a pet project since first falling in love with the genre.

        "The first hint I got of the music itself was as a teenager in New York," Chuck D told Billboard of his first encounter with rap in the mid-'70s, "I was like 'What is this Muhammad Ali-type stuff on top of music?' The technology aspect of it bit me."

        Chuck previously wrote at length about his thoughts on the state of rap in his 1997 book, Fight The Power, but the idea of distilling the collected history of the musical form and its associated subgenres into a definitive play-by-play of its progression and development — and making it approachable and accessible even to the uninitiated or casual fan — has remained on his bucket list. Chuck D Presents This Day In Rap And Hip-Hop History seeks to do just that.

        "It could have been a series," he said regarding the breadth of ground he had to cover. "But the thing you learn when doing something like this is the gift of truncating and balance."

        "The book could have been 1,500 to 3,000 pages," he adds.

        With so much history condensed into just 352 pages, Chuck D confessed that part of the difficulty was remaining neutral and not allowing personal nostalgia to shift too much focus to the early years of rap history, when so much change and development has taken place in the past decade.

        "You can't have any biases," he said. "You've got to be astute enough and have respect for all periods of the music in order to make great parables and comparisons to the classic stuff that’s already revered."

        Chuck D Presents This Day In Rap And Hip-Hop History is out now, and is available in print or digital version wherever books are sold.

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