In retrospect5/5/2023 Gentrification makes the Lower East Side unaffordable to musicians, forcing many to relocate across the bridge to Williamsburg.Īll the while, James Murphy is cutting his teeth producing for Belfast DJ David Holmes when he cracks on the idea for a label called DFA and, eventually, his solo project LCD Soundsystem. New York’s changing urban landscape takes a toll. ![]() We duck in and out of the Strokes's thread to link up with those other acts riding the wave. Their bemusement about all this, and the steep trajectory to superstardom that followed, is evident. No sooner have they signed to UK label Rough Trade than the band is far from home playing a sell-out tour in Britain. The Strokes’s residency at the Mercury Lounge in December 2000 is the igniting spark for the entire scene. Y2K tension coincides with a fidgety generation of misfits such as Karen O and Nick Zinner, Interpol’s Paul Banks, and The Moldy Peaches. Condensing the source chronicle into that space would be an unenviable task, even without the involvement of Goodman herself, who serves as executive producer. Originally pitched as a four-part series, they settled on a 100-minute feature. That the release of their white-hot debut Is This It was followed weeks later by the 9/11 attacks only heightened the sense of the New York quintet embodying an uncanny cultural moment.įilmmakers Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace ( Shut Up and Play the Hits) got hold of an advance of Goodman’s book and quickly saw its potential in the visual format. The five doe-eyed, finger-clicking New Yorkers with surnames like Casablancas, Hammond Jr and Valensi arrived seemingly fully formed, their staccato, Velvets-esque lo-fi a welcome antidote to the nu-metal and bubblegum pop that was bafflingly popular at the time.
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