As soon as this book was announced I knew I was going to love it, and I did love it. If you love alternative music, particularly the music of the early 2000’s and on, you’re going to love this book. The context it provides around the music scene in New York, the folklore around the bands it cultivated, and the amazing interviews from the people that were in the scene, the bands, and the media at the time compile a incredibly fascinating timeline and historical accounting of the music that truly came to define my adolescence, and I’m sure countless others.