US V. THEM: THE AGE OF INDIE MUSIC AND A DECADE IN NEW YORK (2004-2014) - HARDCOVER - BOOK
A sweeping and in-depth history of the Brooklyn music scene over ten years in Bloomberg's New York, from a writer and concert producer who had a front-row view of it all
In the tradition ofĀ Just KidsĀ andĀ Our Band Could Be Your Life, Ronen GivonyāsĀ Us v. ThemĀ chronicles the generation of young artists who came to Brooklyn in the mid-2000s: a small but seismic scene that coalesced under a billionaire mayor, a series of forever wars, and a music industry in free fall.
In tandem with the impresarios and unlicensed venues that lined the Williamsburg waterfront, combining elements of noise and pop, a few became unlikely superstars. Meanwhile, countless flared and vanished, reminders of an unusually fertile momentāthe age of indieāthat now means little more than a term of marketing.
Through reporting, research, and interviews with musicians, industry insiders, and individuals fromĀ Pitchfork, Vice, Scion, and the Red Bull Music Academy,Ā Us v. ThemĀ examines the rise and fall of indie music in a post-Napster landscape, marked by vast disruption in technology, politics, economics, journalism, and patronage.
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A sweeping and in-depth history of the Brooklyn music scene over ten years in Bloomberg's New York, from a writer and concert producer who had a front-row view of it all
In the tradition ofĀ Just KidsĀ andĀ Our Band Could Be Your Life, Ronen GivonyāsĀ Us v. ThemĀ chronicles the generation of young artists who came to Brooklyn in the mid-2000s: a small but seismic scene that coalesced under a billionaire mayor, a series of forever wars, and a music industry in free fall.
In tandem with the impresarios and unlicensed venues that lined the Williamsburg waterfront, combining elements of noise and pop, a few became unlikely superstars. Meanwhile, countless flared and vanished, reminders of an unusually fertile momentāthe age of indieāthat now means little more than a term of marketing.
Through reporting, research, and interviews with musicians, industry insiders, and individuals fromĀ Pitchfork, Vice, Scion, and the Red Bull Music Academy,Ā Us v. ThemĀ examines the rise and fall of indie music in a post-Napster landscape, marked by vast disruption in technology, politics, economics, journalism, and patronage.
