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\h\h-

Yeah.

Day upon day,

and year upon year, O city,

walking your streets.

Give me faces and streets!

\h\h\h\h\h\hGive me comrades
and lovers by the thousands!

Let me see new ones every day!

\hLet me hold new ones
by the hand every day!

Give me such shows!

Give me the streets
\h\h\hof Manhattan!

People, endless, streaming,
\h\h\h\hwith strong voices,
\h\h\h\hpassions, pageants.

\h\h\h\h\hManhattan streets,
with their powerful throbs,

with the beating drums, as now,

the endless and noisy chorus.

\h\h\h\h\h\hManhattan crowds with
their turbulent musical chorus.

Manhattan faces and eyes
\h\h\h\hforever for me.

Welcome to New York City.

♪ Sleeping in a van
\h\hBetween A and B

♪ Sucking dick for ecstasy

♪ Paid a 70 year old hooker
\h\h\h\hTo make out with me

♪ Now the get-high shack
\h\h\h\his just a memory

♪ Downloading porn with Davo

♪ Downloading porn with Davo

♪ Put a latch on the door
\h\h\h\hSo Mama don’t know

-Perfect!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Perfect!

You guys wanna be
in a documentary?

We’re making a documentary.

-Documentary that’s-- All right.
-Cool.

It’s a documentary
\h\hof the hallway.

-Yeah.
-Great.

How you doing?

Hello. I’m your new neighbor.

You guys be our audience.
\h\h\h\h\hWe’re singing songs.

All right. Cool.

-We’re singing songs.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Cool guys!

\h\h\hWho left you people
\h\h\h\h\halone tonight?
That’s what I wanna know.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hADAM:
\hMy parents thought of us
as a delusional experiment

\h\h\h\hwhere we didn’t know
how to play our instruments.

We came to New York
\h\hto try to prove
we were a real band,

The Moldy Peaches.

Tonight, we’re going
\hto a birthday party

\h\h\hfor the Queen
of fucking France.

We just wanted to find
\h\h\h\ha place to play music.

Hi!

Hi.

-Hi. Hi.
\h\h-Hi.

The Lower East side
\hwas more or less barren,

delis and boarded up places.

\h\h\hKIMYA: Most places
\h\hwe found were sort of
a more bougie club scene.

We’d walk into these rooms
\hand be like, "Oh, oops."

\h\h\hIt felt like
all of that wild,

\hweird eclecticness had
drained out of the city.

\h\hADAM: I remember thinking
maybe New York isn’t the kind
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hof city anymore

that produces iconic bands.

\h\hEven MTV was filled
with super dry pop-rock.

\hAnd the winner
for best rock is
\hThe Offspring!

\h\h\h-Blink 182.

Limp Bizkit, Rollin.

AUTOMATED VOICE:
Friday, 2:12 p.m.

Hey, Adam, what’s up?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIt’s...

\h\h\h\hADAM: Somebody told me,
\h\h\h\h\h"You should check out
the open mic at Sidewalk Cafe,

and that’s where we found
\h\h\hthe anti-folk scene.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yeah.

This community
\h\h\h\h\hof musicians

that didn’t have
a place to play.

Oh, yeah.

♪ There’s a car traveling down
a lone Texas highway

♪ Rams into a giant back

♪ Spirit of the bat fills your
fragile eggshell mind

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKIMYA:
Maybe we could fit in here.

♪ When the worlds
\h\h\hgot you down

♪ Rainy Sundays, sunny town

♪ Tropicana, canned foods

♪ Botulism, damaged goods

♪ See the hipsters in the park

♪ Hair so styled,
\hclothes so dark

♪ Prefab molded hamburgers

\h♪ I don’t want
a bite of yours

♪ These burgers are crazy

\h\h\h-
\h\h\h\h-Let’s hear it
for The Moldy Peaches!

\h\h\hKIMYA: We were
immediately embraced.

...send the tip jar around.

It became our home.

This shy girl
\h\h\h\hcalled Karen

lived across the street
from the Sidewalk Cafe.

\h\h\hShe’d come down
\hto play these quiet
acoustic guitar songs.

I was grateful
\h\hplaying at any venue
\h\h\hin New York City,

but it just wasn’t
\h\h\hexciting me.

\h\h\h\h\h\hI was skulking around
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe music scene
trying to sniff out some blood.

\h\h\hThe last big wave
\h\h\hof New York bands
was a long time passed.

\hI wanted something
explosive to happen

without understanding
\h\h\h\hwhat that was.

\h\h\hADAM: One day,
\h\hme and Kimya were
at our friend’s party.

This drunk guy called Julian
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hcomes over...

and he’s in the bathroom doing
drugs with this young lady,

he breaks the shower.

Somebody said he was
\ha singer in a band
called The Strokes.

\h\h\h\hThis guy’s crazy.
I’ve gotta see this band.

We’re sitting
\hhere with The Strokes live
\h\h\h\hin WF Music Studios.

You guys were hot last night.

-Scorching!
\h\h-

Yeah.

\hRADIO JOCKEY: Hey, Jules,
when did you guys start up?

We started playing
\h\h\h\hNew York a year ago.

\h\h\h\hThe last few months
we’ve been tearing stuff up.

You’re looking
\h\h\hpretty serious.

I am serious, man,
I’m always serious.

\h\h\h-Am I ever not serious?
-You’re more serious...

I don’t know what’s fuck--

That felt good.

\h\hNow it’s my turn
to break the camera.

\h\h\h\hALBERT HAMMOND:
The way I met this band,

\h\h\h\htoo many things
happened exactly right,

\hthat it seems so hard
for it to be just luck.

Four, three, two! Oh, shit.

-Hey, Julian.
\h\h\h\h\h-Oh, man.

I ran into Julian
\h\h\h\h\h\hon the street

\h\h\h\hseven years
\hafter I’d met him
in boarding school.

Then I met everyone.

I just felt it.

The closeness.

We were like brothers.

They were so tight
\h\h\h\h\h\hand together,
and are such good friends.

\hIt just feels like
\h\hthe five of them
make up one person.

Just one solid person on stage.

By now, most people
have heard of Y2K,

the anagram shorthand
\h\hfor the year 2000
\h\hcomputer problem.

Americans have proven
\h\h\hthey can handle

even the most devastating
\h\h\h\hnatural disaster.

But can we survive a man-made
\h\h\htechnological meltdown?

It’s now time
\h\h\h\h\h\hto begin stockpiling
\h\h\hessential survival items.

Military meals,
\h\h\h\h\h\hgas masks to knives.

When your kids are standing
\h\h\hthere cold and hungry,
\h\h\h\h\h\hand they come up

to you and say, "Mommy, Daddy,
\h\hwhy didn’t you get ready?"
\hWhat are you gonna tell them?

\h\h\h\hFEMALE REPORTER 2:
\h\h\h\h\h\hWith every tick
of the clock toward midnight

\h\h\h\h\hin Times Square,
\hemergency officials are
watching for Y2K problems.

The dawning of a new millennium
now just minutes away.

We celebrate the future.

\h\hWhat will the story
of the 21st century be?

Ten, nine, eight,
\h\h\h\hseven, six, five,

four, three, two, one...

\h\h-

\h\h\h\h\hFEMALE REPORTER:
From the City Command Center
\hat the World Trade Center,

the Deputy Mayor Joseph Lhota
\h\h\h\hsaid computer systems
\h\h\h\h\h\hhave been checked.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThe city
is functioning normally.

A friend of mine
\h\h\h\h\hhad a big crush
\h\h\h\hon this guy Nick.

\h\hShe dragged me
\hto the Mars Bar
where he hung out.

I felt this very visceral
\h\hreaction towards him.

I needed to be connected
\h\h\h\hto this person.

She talked
\h\h\hlike a valley girl

\h\h\hbut said that
she was from Jersey.

Every other word was "dude".

\h\hI’d never met
anybody like that.

When you’re young
\hand in New York

\h\h\h\hand you find
like-minded people,

\h\h\hyou just end up doing
things together every night.

Karen played me songs
that she had written.

I was just completely
\h\h\h\h\hblown away.

♪ I may be dead, honey

♪ But I was left with my eyes

♪ And underneath, sugar

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hNICK:
One night, Karen said,

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"Trust me.
We should start a rock band."

We’re the Yeah Yeah Yeahs,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand, um...

we’re from New York City,
\h\hBrooklyn, and, um...

We, uh...

We’ve, um...

-Do you wanna continue?
\h\h\h\h-

In one night,
we wrote six songs.

We were bragging about
\hhow amazing we were
\h\h\h\hto our friend

who was The White Stripes
\h\h\h\h\h\hbooking agent.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hHe called our bluff
and offered us the opening slot

for The White Stripes show
\h\hin the Mercury Lounge.

Karen was really insistent

that we get her friend
\hBrian to play drums.

I was really nervous,

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand I had
four margaritas lined up.

\h\h\h
Knocking one back
\hafter the other.

Something was
\hcompletely unleashed,

I was shocked.

I grew up in New Jersey,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hvery shy,

half Korean, half white.

\h\h\h\hAnd when you’re a halfie,
you don’t feel like the whites,

\hyou don’t fit in
with the Koreans.
\h\h\h

\h\h\h\hI was just used
to being on the outside.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hBut on stage,
I was free of that feeling.

Once I’d had tasted that,
\h\h\h\h\h\hI just wanted
\hto lose myself in that.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou guys
should get a manager, you know.
\h\hDo you guys have a manager?

\h\h\h\h\h\hHe’s over there,
you should point the camera--
\h\h\h\h\hIt’s Ryan Gentles.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hMALE REPORTER:
\h\h\h\h\h\hThat’s not a manager,
that’s, like, a cute little kid.

\h\hRYAN GENTLES:
\h\hThe first time
I saw The Strokes,

\h\hI was watching a band
that just was born a band.

\h\h\hI was the booker
at the Mercury Lounge,

the best club for local bands
\h\h\h\h\h\hin New York City.

I booked them immediately.

We’re live here
\h\h\hwith The Strokes.

I know you guys
are really hot.

\hThey’ve been playing
every Wednesday night

\h\h\h\h\hin December
at the Mercury Lounge.

\h\h\h\hJULIAN: Hello, yeah,
\h\h\h\h\h\hwe’re The Strokes
and we’re from New York City.

You just felt it.

The audience was excited
\h\h\h\hthat we existed.

\h\hADAM: Me and Kimya
opened for The Strokes.

\h\hThe first week,
we also played with
the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

So, it was The Moldy Peaches,
\h\h\h\h\hthe Yeah Yeah Yeahs
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand The Strokes.

\hKIMYA: More people
crammed in each week.

There was a hysteria
\h\h\h\h\h\hin the audience.

These guys were like sex gods.

\h-MAN: Suddenly, there were
bands everywhere in New York.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-

\hADAM: The Strokes
launched a fireball.

\h\h♪ New York City
is like a graveyard

It all happened so fast.

\h♪ All the corpses like
the way I play my guitar

Totally DIY.

\h\h♪ You gotta be cute
if you wanna get far...

Zero interest
\hfrom record labels
\h\h\hor magazines.

\h\h♪ New York City
is like a graveyard

♪ All the tombstones
\h\h\h\hsky scrapin’

♪ All the rock stars
\h\h\hdouble dating

♪ Blue eyes last forever

♪ Real light it never fades

♪ Real life is a gamble

Pardon me?

I desperately
\h\hwanted to participate
\h\h\h\h\hin the scene...

\h\h\hBut I’m working
at Yeshiva University

in the admissions office
\hstuffing envelopes...

\hKnowing there’s five
\h\h\hdudes out there
that are cool as fuck,

writing insanely awesome music

\h\hand they are cooler
and better than you are.

\h\hI was also the singer
in a band called Interpol.

\h\h\h\h\hWe sent our demos
to every single record label
\h\h\h\h\hI could think of.

\h\h\h\h\h\hNo record label
showed any interest at all.

It was like all of those
\h\hguidance counselor meetings

\h\hwhere they’re, like,
"What do you wanna do?"

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAnd I said,
"I wanna be a rock star,"

\h\h\h\hand they said,
"Don’t be a jackass."

\h\hI was experiencing
very deep depression.

\h\h\hI felt like
\h\hI was slipping
out of existence.

♪ Surprise sometime

♪ Will come around

♪ I will surprise you sometime

♪ I’ll come around

♪ I will surprise you sometime

♪ I’ll come around

Get in the fucking van!

Hello, The Strokes!

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hRYAN:
I sent The Strokes’ demo

to everyone I could think of
\h\hin the industry saying,

"This is the best
\h\hunsigned band
in New York City."

\h\h\h\hGeoff Travis at Rough Trade
called the day he received it.

He said, "I wanna sign this
and fly the band to England
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor a tour."

It was insane!

It seems so weird.
We’re going to England
\h\h\h\hto play music.

Let’s go to England!

Oh...

You don’t wanna
get too carried away.

\h\hI’m, like, I’m trying
to like just hang with it.

Pretty exciting.

American tourist in England.

Fuck.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hADAM:
Me and Kimya went on tour
\hopening for The Strokes.

\h\h\hKIMYA: We would always
\h\h\hjoke around and be like,
"We’re The Strokes fluffers."

♪ Take your passion

♪ And make it happen

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h

\hKIMYA: I was quite
a bit older and sober.

I would say to those guys,
\h\h\h\h\h\h"Are you sure
\h\hyou wanna get wasted?

"You don’t wanna remember
\h\h\h\hhow cool this is?"

We’re ready, right team?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hGo team.

-Go team. All right.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yay.

Strokes, hello.

-Hello.
\h-Hi.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Hello.
-I think,
\h\h\h\h\h\hfirst off,

\h\hbecause you’re unknown
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin the U.K.,
just introduce yourselves.

\h\h\h-Julian.

\hKIMYA: Julian was dealing
with a lot of nervousness.

\h\h\hI was, like,
"How is he scared?
\h\hHe’s so good."

\h\h\hBut he wrote
all of the songs.

His nervousness came out
\hof that perfectionism.

\h\h\h♪ Last night she said
Oh, baby, don’t feel so down

♪ Oh, it turns me off
\hwhen I feel left out

♪ So I

♪ I turn around

\h\h\h\h♪ Oh, baby
gonna be all right

♪ It was a great big lie

♪ ’Cause I left
that night, yeah

\h\h\h\h\h♪ Oh, people
They don’t understand

\h\h\h

Not before coming here. No.

Oh, it’s just so weird.

I don’t even know what’s
going on right now, man.

I’m just, you know,
\h\h\h\hit’s all...

\h\hIt’s all crazy and cool
and bizarre and-- you know.

-What’s going on?
\h\h\h-MAN 2: You gotta
\hget off here, please.

Keep going. Keep going.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Please, please.

Holy shit!

\h-

\hMAN: Get up! Get up!
Get up! Get up! Get up!

\h-

-Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-WOMAN: What?

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hMALE REPORTER:
\h\h\h\h\hMayor Giuliani, I wonder
if you could give us an update?

\h\h\h\h\hMAYOR GIULIANI: Well,
the first thing I’d like to do

\h\his take this opportunity
\h\h\h\h\h\hto tell everyone
to evacuate Lower Manhattan.

Mayor Giuliani,
\h\h\hdo you have any sense

of the order of magnitude
\hof injuries and deaths?

\h\h\h\hMAYOR GIULIANI:
I do not, except to say
\hthat it’s horrendous.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hPAUL:
When the buildings fell,

my impression was clearly
\h\hthere won’t have been
\hpeople in that building.

We walked in the ashy streets
\h\h\h\h\h\hpicking up papers.

\h\h\hOnce they said on the radio,
"You should go to the hospitals

"and try and give blood,"
it started to dawn on me.

Thousands have lost their life.

It’s 1-800-GIVE-LIFE.

For blood.

You can call up to give--

\h\hPAUL: I remember feeling
how fragile life actually is.

♪ There’s anthrax
\hin the envelope

♪ I opened in my dream

♪ Dream the sky is red

♪ And little kids are running
\h\h\hscreaming in the street

♪ I try to run and save them

♪ But I have molasses feet

\h\h♪ I keep having nightmares
and I’m scared to go to sleep

♪ In Montreal I got so mad

♪ Someone broke into the van

♪ Stole my guitar
\hand Aaron’s bag

\h\h\h♪ Then we turned on CNN
watched the towers fall again

♪ Realized that our lives
\h\h\h\h\h\haren’t so bad

\h\h\h♪ The air is filled
with computers and carpets

♪ Skin and bones and telephones
and file cabinets

♪ Coke machines, firemen
Landing here and cement

\h

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O:
I was grieving for my city.

I felt deep trauma.

\h\h\hBut when I perform,
I could be somewhere else.

\h\h\h\hAlmost, you know,
like a split personality.

♪ You’re pretty
\hYou’re pretty

\h\h♪ You make we wanna
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

\h\h♪ You make we wanna
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

\h\h♪ You make we wanna
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

\h\h♪ You make we wanna
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

♪ Hey, hey

Fear and anxiety
\h\h\h\hhave become a very real
\h\h\h\h\hpart of American life.

This, of course is Halloween,
\h\h\h\h\h\ha day when fright
\h\h\his manufactured for fun.

\h\h♪ You make we wanna
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

\h\h♪ You make we wanna
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

♪ You look like shit

♪ You take your time
\hYou take your time

♪ You take it

♪ T-T-T-Time

♪ You take your time
\hYou take your time

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-

\hMALE REPORTER:
At Fort Campbell,
\hKentucky, today,

\h\hPresident Bush rallied
the army’s 101st Airborne

\h\h\hheading off
to support the war
\hin Afghanistan,

and carved up a turkey, right
\h\halong with Osama Bin Laden
\h\h\hand his Al-Qaeda forces.

\h\h\h\hWe will never tire,
and we will hunt them down!

A grim task of trying to find
\h\h\hremains of those killed.

Anxiety and fear--

\h\h\h\h\hMALE REPORTER:
Terrorist training camp--

FEMALE REPORTER 2:
\hCruise missiles--

-Holy war--
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Mass murder--

-Casualties-
\h-MALE REPORTER 5: Taliban--

\h-MALE REPORTER 6: Airstrike--
-Terrorists--

Destroyed.

\hMAN: New York felt
really claustrophobic.

So much paranoia.

Everyone’s confused and scared.

The artists and musicians
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hmoved in droves

\h\h\h\hout of Manhattan
across to Williamsburg.

A lot of people
\h\h\h\hquit their jobs,

\hand just were like,
\h"Fuck it, I’m gonna
play music full-time."

The rent was so cheap
\h\h\hthat you could afford
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto take risks.

\h\h\h\hYou could fail
and it didn’t matter.

\hBRIAN CHASE: There is
a big difference between
Brooklyn and Manhattan.

\h\hBrooklyn was about
potential and freedom.

\h\hAbandoned buildings
\h\h\h\h\hand warehouses
became practice spaces.

Outside of public attention
\h\h\h\h\h\hand expectation.

That’s what nurtured us.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h
\hWe could all be weirdos
in the best way possible.

\h\h\h\hThe main bands were
the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Onida,

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand Sightings,
Liars, and TV On The Radio.

\h\hThis is an excuse for us
to hang out with our friends
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand...

Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.

Yeah, this guy.

\hCome and bust our balls
during an interview, man.

He said, "Can you play drums?"
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"Yeah, maybe."

Whatever drummer--

\hTUNDE ADIBIMPE:
Whatever, drummer.

What brought
\hTV On The Radio together

is the fact that
we’re all nerds.

I’m not a very social person,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI don’t go out.

\h\h\hWhen I became
friends with Tunde,
\h\h\h\hhe was like,

"You have no clothes
\hand no furniture,

\h"but you have pain
and drum machines."

\h\h\hI was, like, "Yeah,
that’s kind of the vibe."

\h\h\hTUNDE: I always
wanted to make music.

\hWhen you’re the offspring
of immigrants, and you say,

"I wanna be an artist,"
\hyou might as well say,

"Thanks for all of this
\h\hbut I’m gonna put on
a pair of clown shoes."

But I’ve gotta get whatever
\h\henergy that’s in me out.

\h\h\hWriting music
felt like a prayer.

♪ Your ooh

♪ Slim frame

♪ Your eager eyes

♪ Your wild mane

♪ So they keep me

♪ Where I belong

♪ I’m strung out in song

♪ Oh, I will be your accident

♪ If you will be my ambulance

\h\h\h\h♪ So I will be
your screech and crash

\h♪ If you will be
my crutch and cast

\h♪ And I will be
your one more time

\h♪ If you will be
my one last chance

\h\h\h\h\h\hNARDWUAR:
Julian of The Strokes,

\h\h\h\hthere is an element
\h\h\h\h\hof make believe,
isn’t there, in the band--

\h\h\hThere’s an element of
make believe, isn’t there?

\h\h\h\hSwiss schools,
elite modeling agency?

\h\h\h\h-Yes.
-Lee? What--

There’s an element
of make believe in the band.
\h\h\h\h\hThat’s pretty cool.

Meeting at Swiss schools,
\h\h\h\h\h\hthat’s cool.

That’s like realistic,
it’s not make believe,

it’s not pretend,
it’s not fiction.

It’s true to life.

I think that’s really cool
\h\h\h\hthough, like Swiss.

I’ve never been to a place
\h\h\h\h\hthey call Swiss,

but you guys have,
and you met there,

and your dad is, like,
\h\h\hJohn Casablancas.

\h\h\hThat’s pretty cool
and I think he’s in some
\h\h\hhot water now, eh?

I don’t know. I think...

I don’t know, it’s weird.

\h\hI live with my mom,
you know, they divorced
\hwhen I was young, so.

I think just-- I think life felt
a little more normal.

That was the weirdest part.
That was the weirdest stage
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hof my life.

And it’s my great pleasure
\h\h\h\hto introduce to you

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe President
of the Elite Modeling Agency,

-Mr. John Casablancas.
\h\h\h-

Julian wasn’t really
\hcomfortable with fame.

He was always talking about
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hhow he wanted
\hto make underground music.

\h\h\hBut he also wanted
the music to be popular.

He had this tension
\h\h\hinside of him.

So, we’re in the U.K.

I have to say...

It’s a party in the U.K.,
\h\h\h\h\h\hI have to say.

You rock.

What’s more important, Dave,
a good sound or a good time?

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-A good time.
-Yeah, I agree, do you agree?

\h\h\hSounding good
having a good time.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O:
Every woman fronting a band

\h\hin, like, the 30 years
\hbefore me were pioneers
and I felt like a pioneer.

\h\h\h\h\h\hFor men in rock,
\h\hthere’s a fucking code,
there’s a way you do things.

I just realized for me,
\h\h\h\hthere’s no code.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h

\h\hI could do whatever
I wanted to do up there.

I didn’t give a fuck.

♪ Oh, I’m rich

♪ Like a hot noise

♪ Rich, rich, rich

♪ I’ll take you out, boy

♪ So stuck up

♪ I wish you’d stick it to me

♪ Flesh ripped off

♪ Ha

♪ Ah

♪ Turn it beating no beat

♪ The walls are
always speaking

\h\h\h\h\h

\h\h\hBRIAN: On the very
first night in the U.K...

it was pandemonium.

\h\h\h\hEvery club
that we would play
would be sold out.

\h\h\h\h\h\hPeople knew
our songs word-for-word.

It was super crazy.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-$5...
-Which shirt
\h\h\h\hdo you want?

\h\hThis one is the last one.
Let me, uh, sign it for you.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Hope you had
\h\h\ha good time tonight?
-It was fandabidozi.

All the magazines
\h\h\h\hare saying you
are the best band ever.

Right. You are fantastic.

\h\h\hThose are, uh,
those are big words.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hMAN:
They’re fucking right though.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O:
It was extremely exciting,

\h\hand we were all so drunk
on that ravenous fanaticism.

\h\h\h-MAN: ...funny.
-What’s that?

\h\h\h\h\h-Where’s Brian?
We need Brian to sign it.
\h\h\h\h-MAN: Oh, oh, oh.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O:
Brian, you wanna sign this?
\h\h\hIs Brian back there?

Write an essay on my shirt.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI am girl.

I know this band’s the future.

My name’s Carlos, uh,
\h\h\hCarlos D. Uh...

I play bass in Interpol.

\h\hDANIEL KESSLER: So, we pooled
\h\h\h\hall of our money together
and forced this tour of the U.K.

I’d never been to England.

\h\h\hThis is where
The Smiths are from.

This is where New Order
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\his from.

I was on fire.

\h\h\h\h\hDANIEL: Somehow,
we got booked to play this,

like, little festival
\h\hcalled Crucifest.

\h\h\h\h\h\hDANIEL: Next,
we’re booked in Manchester
\h\h\h\hon fucking Easter.

You don’t play at Uni town
\h\h\h\h\h\hon a holiday.

\hThere was, like,
five people there.

Oh, you know what,
\h\h\hit’s not on.

\h\h\h\hMAN: Every person
\h\h\h\hthat we met said,
"Do you know The Strokes?

\h"Are you friends
with The Strokes?"

♪ She says it helps
with the lights out

\h\h\h\h\h\h♪ Her rabid glow
is like braille to the night

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h♪ She swears
I’m a slave to the details

\h\h\h\h♪ But if your life
is such a big fuckin’ joke

\h\h\h\h\hCARLOS: No one knew
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwho we were.
We shouldn’t have been there.

Where do we go from here?

The year after 9/11,

the Parking Lot Show
was a manifestation
\h\hof appreciation

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand love
for the Brooklyn Community.

A real assembly
\h\h\h\h\h\hof the best
\hof the Brooklyn bands.

Liars played just before us.

\h\h-

♪ That child...

♪ Oh

♪ That child...

♪ That child throws...

♪ Just throw it out
\hJust throw it out

There he is!

There he is!

\h\h\h-And next!

\h\h\hKAREN O:
There have been
times in my life

\h\h\hwhere I really wanted
to fit in and I just didn’t.

\h\h\h\h\hBut you could feel
the love from the community.

\h\hKAREN O: It was just like
a current flowing through me.

\h♪ It’s our time
Our time, our time

\h\h\h\h♪ It’s our time
Our time, it’s our time

♪ To be hated, all right

♪ Well, it’s the year
to be hated, all right

♪ You know it’s the year
\hto be hated, all right

\h\h\h♪ It’s the year
to be hated, all right

\hJAMES MURPHY: All the stuff
\h\h\h\hwe were hearing about
what was going on in Brooklyn

and we were in Manhattan.

I was never really
part of any scene.

I’d been recording bands
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor years.

\h\h\h\hI had engineered some
perfectly engineered records,

\h\h\h\h\h\hbut people
didn’t really hire me.

Loads of crap.

Suddenly this big named
\h\h\h\hIrish techno DJ

\h\hshows up in New York
\h\h\hto make a record.
And that’s David Holmes.

When I was DJ,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI was Iggy Pop.

Just living it.

David didn’t seem
\h\h\hto know how to play
\hany musical instruments.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hDAVID:
James didn’t understand
\h\h\h\h\h\hdance music.

And I’m super
\huptight about this.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hTIM GOLDSWORTH:
\h\h\hJames had been in a few
second-tier Indie Rock bands.

He lived in the office.

He had a small stereo system
and an inflatable mattress.

That decade had defeated him.

The first thing
\h\h\h\h\hI wanted to do

\h\hwas make a record
that sounded like Can.

Wait a second.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hCan were people
that worked at the Mozartian.

\h\hThe most prestigious
classical music school.

\h\h\h\h\h\hHerman Smidt won
the young conductors award,

\h\h\h\h\htraveled to New York,
seized The Velvet Underground,

blew his mind,

went back and formed a band
with the best free jazz drummer
in Europe.

\h\h\h\h\h\hThey live
in a weird old castle.

They played together
\height hours a day.

\h\h\h\hYou’re gonna sit there
and sample your way into Can?

\h\hAt this point,
I’m going insane.

\hBut the truth is,
without David Holmes

DFA, LCD, none of that
\hhappens, none of it.
\h\h\h\h\hNone of it.

\h\h\hREPORTER: New York,
how’s the scene happening.

\h\hAre you conscious of being
a part of something right now?

\h\h\hWell, everyone says
that there’s the scenes,
\hso that’s kind of cool,

you know, and I feel very proud
to be put into the same sentence
or whatever with those bands.

\h\hPAUL: Out of the blue,
we got given a record deal.

I just couldn’t believe it.

This was actually happening.

Finally making a record.

The only studio
\h\h\hwe could afford
\h\h\hwas in the attic

of someone’s house
\hin Connecticut.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIt really was great
\h\h\h\h\h\hto get out of the city
and get away from distractions.

Be it alcohol or cocaine
\hor girls, or whatever

and just focus on the music.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hBut social life
was very important to Carlos.

He didn’t wanna miss out.

\h\h\h\h\hWhich is why
I’m very, very obsessed

\hwith the movie
Leaving Las Vegas.

\h\h\h\h\h\hBecause to me,
Nicholas Cage in that movie

almost embodies me.

\h\h\h\hCARLOS:
\hI wanted to be
in New York City

where, like, everything
\h\h\h\h\hwas happening.

Everybody’s name is on it?

\h\h\h\h\hWOMAN:
Don’t you have...

\h\hPAUL: There was a lot
of tension in the studio.

We couldn’t have
\h\h\h\h\h\ha conversation
\hfor more than 10 minutes

without telling each other
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto fuck off.

\h\h\hPAUL: The fact that
this was a collaboration,
\h\hI really didn’t care.

\h\hThe most important thing
was the song writing dynamic
\h\h\hbetween me and Daniel.

The best moment
\h\h\h\hreally were when
\h\hwe just didn’t talk.

\h\hPAUL: And when Carlos played,
it just negated anything else.

\h\h\hCARLOS: I remember being
in the studio the last morning

listening to what we had done.

Wow.

I just couldn’t believe
\h\h\h\hhow good it was.

\hPAUL: Driving home from
Connecticut to Manhattan,

\heverything felt
totally different.

♪ When I was 17

♪ It was a very good year

♪ It was a very good year

♪ For small town girls

♪ And soft summer nights

♪ We’d hide from the lights

♪ On the village green

♪ When I was 17

\hMALE REPORTER: New York
is bracing itself tonight
for one massive blizzard.

♪ When I was 21

♪ It was a very good year...

♪ It was a very good year
\h\h\h\h\h\hfor city girls

♪ Who lived up the stair

♪ With all that perfumed hair

♪ And it came undone

-Whoo!
-Yeah!

-Hallelujah!
\h-All right!

Halle-fucking-lujah, man!

\h\h\hJULIAN: The way
we’ve been portrayed.

\h\hNew York City
good looking dude.

-A bunch of rich kids...
\h\h\h\h\h-JULIAN: Who think
\h\h\h\h\hthey’re really cool.

If I heard of a band like that,
I’d think they were assholes.

\h-Excuse me. Excuse me.

\h\hDAVID: In New York,
I was like a wild animal
\h\h\h\hout of its cage.

\h\h\h\hMy gang was just getting up
to no good five nights a week.

I don’t dance,
\h\h\hI barely drink.

\h\hI don’t wanna
embarrass myself.

\hDAVID: I remember
talking him into it.

\h"You gotta try it.
This is gonna change
\h\h\h\heverything."

People were touching me,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hchanting my name.

I’m experiencing this music
\h\hin this totally new way.

I really enjoyed dancing.

It is not the drug.

This is actually me...

\h\h\h...and my life
is forever changed.

Tim was the producer
\h\h\h\h\h\hand programmer.
\h\h\h\h\hfor David Holmes.

He and I would be the ones
\h\h\h\hstuck in the room

having to sort through the shit
after everyone’s left.

\h\hHe taught me how to use
the computer to experiment.

Working with him
\h\h\h\h\h\hwas perfect.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES:
After watching what Holmes
\h\h\hcould wind up doing,

it just seemed obvious to us.

What if we did something
\h\h\h\h\h\hof our own?

Something that
\hmakes people

who didn’t normally
\h\h\hdance, dance?

\h\h\hJAMES: But if we were going
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto be a label,
we really needed to find a band.

A band that we believed in.

\h\h\h\h\hWOMAN: So,
the name of our band
\h\h\his The Rapture.

The name of our band
\h\h\his The Rapture.

-What’s your name?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Matt.

-And your name?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Gabriel.

\hVITO ROCCOFORTE: The band
started on the west coast.

We lived in this suburb
\h\h\h\h\hof San Diego,

where there’s nothing
\h\hgoing on.

\h\hWe just decided
to pack up the band,

\h\h\h\h\h\hbook a tour
to get out to New York.

\h\hMATTIE SAFER: I mean,
I was legitimately, like,
\h\h\h\h\h\h19 years old.

Very green.

\h\h\h\h\hWe were broke.
We had no money at all.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE JENNER:
\h\h\h\h\hI came to New York
as a complete leap of faith.

New York, it’s almost like
this white chalk outline,

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hit’s like,
"Do whatever you want in here,

\h\h"be as, like, as free
and as angry as you want."

I would go on Avenue A
to this magazine store

and buy copies of "NME"
\h\h\h\hand I’d be like,

"Dude, like, this is all
\h\hhappening around me

\h\h\h\h"and eventually
they’re gonna find me."

♪ One, two, three, four

♪ Five, six, seven

♪ Come dance with me...

\h\hJAMES: The first time
\h\h\h\hI saw The Rapture,
I was completely smitten.

\h\hLuke looked insane
and had this amazing,
\h\h\h\h\hweird voice.

He was super charismatic.

James Murphy and Tim
\hwere just fuckin’ nuts.

And I loved that.

\h\h\h\h\h\hMAN 2: We were
a punk band that was trying
\h\h\h\hto make dance music.

We had similar goals,

\h\hjust coming at it
from different angles.

\hMAN 3: James and Tim felt
like the only other people

\h\h\h\h\hon the planet
who had the same ideas.

And DFA was like
\h\ha clubhouse.

Euphoric party nights.

\h\hWe’d listen to records,
wrote songs, drank too much.

We felt like we were
\hgonna take over the world.

MTV wanted The Strokes
\h\h\h\h\hto play a concert.

\hA 30-minute live
broadcast special.

It was a big deal.

It was exposure.

But a lot of those things
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hcome with,

"Well, if you don’t do this,
\h\h\hyou’re never gonna get
\h\h\hplayed on here again."

It’s not working.

Just...

I would just remember
there will be people
\h\h\h\h\hbehind you,

\h\hso just don’t forget
to address the back, too.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWOMAN:
Ten, nine, eight, seven,

six, five, four, rolling.

Ladies and gentlemen,
\h\h\hhere they are.

The Strokes.

\h\h-

♪ No choice now
\hIt’s too late

♪ Lisa said take time for me

\h\h♪ Dropping him
down to his knees

♪ He knows it’s justified
\h\h\h\hto kill to survive

\h\h\h♪ He then in dollars
makes more dead than alive

♪ Let’s suck more blood

♪ Let’s run three hours a day

\h\h♪ The world is over
but I don’t care ’cause

Take two.

Rally forward!

Guys, take three.
\hRally forward.

Rally forward.

-Take five.
-Four. Two.

\h\h♪ The first time
it happened too fast

\h\h\h♪ The second time
I thought it would last

\h\h

\h\hKAREN O: The first
"NME" cover that we did,

\h\hthe caption was
"Cool! Sexy! Drunk!"

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThree words
that don’t just make much
\hsense together.

\hAnd one of the things
that started to surface

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith the press
was a sort of predatory gaze.

Photographers were boys
\hbeing in the front row
\h\h\h\h\hat our shows.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hArm outstretched,
weird expression on their face,

trying to get like
\h\h\hcrotch shots
\hunder my skirt.

I just remember feeling
\h\hvery protective about Karen.

Being a woman
\hfronting a rock band,

I was sensationalized.

But I was also struggling
\h\hto be taken seriously
\h\h\h\h\h\has an artist.

That costume
\hthat you were wearing,

\h\h\hthe yellow,
\hit’s almost like
an Elvis jumpsuit.

-That was sort of--
-Have you ever
had the same sex experience--

\h-INTERVIEWER 3: Do you have
\h\hany thoughts on chastity?
-Chastity?

\hINTERVIEWER 4:
Karen, have you ever experienced
Madonna syndrome?

\h\hINTERVIEWER 5: Do you
remember your first kiss?

Is it a tough
\hkind of thing to be so cool?

\h\hINTERVIEWER 7: Have you
received any death threats?

\h\h\h\h\h\h-INTERVIEWER 8:
\hWhat’s your favorite meal?
-My favorite meal?

So, let me, uh, let me hear all
\hthe ladies out there tonight.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAll right.
Let me hear all the boys
\h\h\hout there tonight.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hOkay, let me hear
all the men out there tonight.

\h-

\h\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O:
I’m here to represent
\h\h\hfor the ladies.

It’s all or nothing.

\h\hLUKE: When we made
House Of Jealous Lovers

\hit wasn’t necessarily
like fun in the studio.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES: First,
we recorded everything live.

\h\h\h\hAnd then Tim and I
started ripping it apart.

\hI can get really anxious
\h\h\h\h\h\hif I feel like
I’m compromising my music.

I feel compulsion
to make the music

\h\h\hexactly the way
I think it should be.

\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE: James was
\h\h\hthe first person I met
who was more alpha than me.

\hI had all these ideas
\h\h\h\h\hin the studio,
he had all these ideas.

I couldn’t bulldoze him.

\h\h\h\hJAMES: I was
never good at friends.

\h\h\hI was so lonely
and so self-conscious.

I wanted connection
\h\h\h\hand friends,

\h\hbut I’d always
end up in fights.

\h\h\h\h\hThere was just
something wrong with me

that wasn’t wrong
with other people.

So, I made music
\hfucking alone.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE:
He was really pushing me.
\hI was in a lot of pain.

Get rid of the drum,
\h\h\h\h\h\hface the bass...

\h\h\h\h\h\hGet rid of
the guitar completely.

\h\hLUKE: Me and Tim
just kept telling him

and everyone around him
\h\h\h\h\hwas just like,

\h\h\h"You’re domineering,
\h\h\hand you need to make
your own fucking record!"

There was a part of James
\hthat wanted to be in the band.

Wanted it to be his band.

He didn’t have his own outlet.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES:
They really freaked out
\habout the production.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThey thought
\heveryone was gonna hate
that it was a house song.

He was really just like,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"No. It’s perfect,
\h\h\h\h\hwe’re not fixing it."

♪ House of jealous lovers

♪ House of jealous lovers

\hJAMES: People went
fucking crazy for it.

People just called us
\h\h\h\h\hthe disco Strokes.

Goldsworthy
\hand engineer James Murphy

are the production team whose
\hfusion of minimal electronic

and post-punk rock
continue to thrill

critics and listeners
\h\h\h\h\h\hworldwide.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou know,
\h\h\hhalf the people, you know,
someone told them it was cool.

You know what I mean?
"Cause theoretically,
\h\h\hwe’re... cool.

\h\hJAMES: Nobody else
was playing the records
\h\h\h\h\hI was playing.

That was like my thing.

♪ One hand ties the other

Pure idolism,
\h\hridiculous mess.

I had my first E,
\h\hand lost my virginity
\h\hat the same DFA party.

We weren’t downtown
\h\h\h\hNew York cool kids,

and we weren’t Brooklyn
Art School kids either,

\h\hbut somehow,
we had a scene.

How do you guy
\hsit down and write a song?

because I know you write
\hthe lyrics, but do you-

No, Julian does the lyrics.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yeah.
-He writes the song.

-Oh, and the songs?
\h\h\h\h-Oh, yeah.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Okay--
-And the guitar solos,
\h\h\heverything, dude.

\h\h-Really?
-Sure. Yeah.

That’s-- Yeah.

\h\hALBERT: I always
wanted to write songs.

The most frustrated
\h\h\h\hI ever got,

\h\h\h\h\h\hI had a song
\h\hand thought it could
really work in the band.

I was super-excited about it.

\h\h\h\hBut Julian had
a very precise vision.

The only thing
\h\h\hI have control on
\his having good songs.

Even if everyone loves it,
I always go home thinking,
\h\h\h"Is it good enough?"

It’s a struggle.

It was a lot
of pressure on Julian

\h\h\h\h\h\hto get another album
out there as soon as possible.

We had been praised
as "Rock’s Saviors",

but all we had ever recorded
\h\hwas a half hour record.

Ready?

\h\h\hALBERT: We got back
from touring and spent a month
in our rehearsal space...

and just worked.

Why were we rushing?

\h\h\h\h\hINTERVIEWER:
What is the ideal place

for somebody to listen
\h\hto your new record
\hfor the first time?

I hadn’t thought of that.

Read their last rights.

No, I don’t know.

Nikolai, man, help me out.

\h\h\h\hI don’t know, man,
we just finished it today,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hyou know.

How do you guys
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfeel about it?

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-I--
-Tense but confident.

\h\h\hINTERVIEWER: You sound
incredibly down on yourself.

\h\h\h\h\hIt’s odd to hear
you guys feel intimidated.

\h\hFeel like you guys aren’t
gonna end up sizing up and...

think that you guys
\h\hare ultimately
gonna be forgotten.

\h\hI don’t wanna
let people down.

\h-Karen rules--
-She’s very good.

-She’s the coolest person
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hon earth-
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-And Nick.

-And she’s a God.
\h-Nicks amazing.

\hShe just does
what she wants,

-and she doesn’t care
\habout anyone else.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yeah.

She’s sexy!

-Her hair, her face, everything.
-Her voice.

I’d do her.
\h

\h
I’d do her.

She seems shy, like, offstage,
\h\h\h\h\hbut she puts on this
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hcrazy character.

\h\hMAN: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
are going on in five minutes.
\h\h\hCan you please return?

\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O:
I had set myself up
\has being a pretty

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hspectacular
self-destructive persona.

\h\h\hI was needing
to live up to that,

and I was beating myself up
out there night after night.

\h\h\h\hNICK: I was seeing
the fanaticism around Karen.

The press, freaky fans.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAnd just seeing
how fragile she was off-stage...

I was worried.

Ah, this fuckin’ hurts.

Do you know what I’m saying?

It’s like fucking shit!

\h\h\h\h\hWho the fuck cares?
Do you know what I’m saying.

Do not fucking tread on me!

I really did want
\h\h\h\hto speak to someone

\h\h\hwho could relate
to how I was feeling.

\h\h\hBut my experience
\h\h\h\hwas so different
from the men around me.

It was incredibly lonely.

It’s just wearing me down,
\h\h\h\h\h\hthe lifestyle,

the physical aspect of it,
\h\h\hthe repetition of it.

\h\hThe business of it
and the bullshit of it

\h\h\hand the press
and the attention.

Can we have sound, speed?
\h\h\h\h\hRoll cameras, please.

Roll joints.
\h\h\h\h\hDo speed.

Ready.

We’re still waiting
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor the...

\h\h\h\h\hIt’s a rehearsal
so let’s just do it, right?

Do you need to play?

It’s just a rehearsal.
\h\hCan we just start?

Okay, we are rolling.

\hNICK: Julian had dreams
that he just maybe assumed
\h\hwe’d all just follow.

\h\hFABRIZIO: Room on Fire
sold, like, 650,000 records

\h\h\hand everybody wants
\h\h\h\h\h\hto write about
what a big failure it was.

By what it was built up to be,
\hit was supposed
to sell millions.

\h\hNICK: That’s when
friends, girlfriends,

strangers started coming in.

"Julian’s slowing
\h\heveryone down.

\h"You should be
a bigger band."

I felt that distance
\h\h\h\hbetween me and Julian.

-Well, its Ryan Adams.
\h\h\h\h\hLook at you.
\h\h\h\h\h\h-Hey, man.

-The most difficult man
\h\h\hin rock and roll.
\h\h\h\h\h\h-Oh, geez.

Ryan Adams was really,
\hreally into The Strokes.

Enamored by them.

We’re gonna play a song
\h\h\h\hby The Strokes
\h\hcalled Last Night.

Yeah, it’s our best song.

\h\hALBERT: He’d always come
\h\hand like wake me up at two
in the morning to have drugs.

\h\h\h\h\h\hSo, I would just
kind of, like, do the drugs
\h\h\hand kind of numb out.

\h\h\h\hI remember Julian
threatening to beat him up
\hif he hung out with me.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hRYAN:
I knew I would shoot up drugs
\h\h\h\hfrom a very young age.

When it came, it wasn’t, like,
"What am I doing here?

It was kind of like,
\h\h\h\h"I made it."

I was home.

Number one.

\h\h\h\h\h\hThe win immunity,
we’re number one, watch this.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE:
After House Of Jealous Lovers
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hblew up,

we had all this attention.

\hBut we were touring
the world on a single.

It was so fun.

\h\h\h\h\h\hThe Rapture,
me and Tim were a gang.

We felt invincible.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE:
\h\h\hWe had just finished Echoes,
this album that we really loved.

\h\h\hAnd then compound that
\h\hwith the music industry
feeding frenzy in New York,

\h\hand it was just
this perfect timing.

\h\hBut in the beginning,
DFA was more about concept

\h\hthan an actual
functioning label.

\h\h\hMAN: DFA spent a year
trying to find a distributor

and failed to do so.

The clock was ticking.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES:
I wish we had just put
\hfucking Echoes out.

That was a fucking mistake.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThe songs
that are on the record,

we’ve been playing them
\h\hout for like a year
\h\hand a half, like...

So, it’s just like...

\h\h\h\h\h\hIt’s just time
for it to come out, like...

I was more scared
\h\h\hthan I’d ever been
\h\h\hin my entire life.

It’s gonna fucking disappear,
\h\h\h\h\hit’s gonna be over.

I know they had to,
\h\h\h\hbut when they left,
\h\h\h\h\h\hthe crushed me.

I cried.

I just cried.

We were Rapture Records.

That’s what DFA was.

But they left.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE:
We didn’t want to leave DFA.

\hThose were, like,
our closest friends.

\h\h\h\hBut we needed
to get our record out.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hPAUL:
We hit 40,000 records sold.

Our record company
was, like, "Whoa!"

We had this incredible
\h\h\h\h\h\h\henergy between us,
\h\h\h\h\h\hthis kinetic energy.

\hPAUL: We nailed
the second record
\h\hstraightaway.

This is the record
that we’ve been waiting for.

\h\hThree months before
\h\h\h\h\hrelease date,
we were out at some bar.

\h\h\hA complete stranger
comes along singing lyrics
\hfrom the second record.

What the hell’s going on?

The record had leaked.

\h\hI couldn’t believe that
this was actually happening.

\h\h\h\h\hJAMES: I went
to this club, Brownies,

which I used to play at
\h\h\h\h\hall the time.

There was a kid DJ-ing,
\h\h\h\h\h\hplaying ESG,

\h\h\h\h\hand he plays
a Liquid Liquid song.

What the fuck?

\h\h\h\hThese records
took me years to find,

\h\h\hand now some kid
can just download it?

Wait a second.

You didn’t write them,
\h\h\h\hyou just play them,
\h\h\h\h\hyou just own them,

\h\h\hyou can’t be
proud of yourself
\h\hfor owning it.

But I know that kid
\hwas at one of my parties.

\hMAN: Even if this person
went to one of our parties,
\h\h\hI have no rights here.

It’s the fucking
\hclosest I’ve ever been
\h\h\hto cool in my life

and this fucking kid
\h\h\h\hcan take it?

I was playing
\hthat six months ago.

First of all,
it’s not your record,
\hyou didn’t make it.

What’s worse
\h\h\hthan that guy?

I’m disappointed
\h\h\h\h\h\hwith myself.

\h\h\h\h-MAN 8: Its stupid
\h\h\h\h\hand embarrassing.
-I’m a total hipster

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hjackass,
I have been my entire life.

I’d really wasted
\h\h\h30 years of my life.

\h\h\hAnd I would
lock the studio...

\h\h\h\h\hsing a song
about losing my edge.

♪ I’m losing my edge...

How humiliating it is to be me.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h♪ To the kids
From France and from London

♪ I’m losing my edge

It was the first time
\h\h\h\h\hI made music

where I wasn’t trying
\hto be another thing

\h\h\hthat I thought
I’m supposed to be.

♪ Yeah, I’m losing my edge

♪ I’m losing my edge

♪ To kids

♪ I’m coming up from behind

♪ But I was there

♪ I was there in 1968

♪ I was there at the first
\h\h\hCan show in Cologne

♪ But I was there

♪ I was the first guy playing
\h\hDaft Punk to the rock kids

♪ I played it at CBGB’s

♪ Everybody thought
\h\h\h\hit was crazy

♪ We all know

♪ I hear everybody
\h\hthat you know

\h\h\h\h\h

\h\h\hI came upstairs
and played it for Tim.

\h\hJAMES: He said,
"You don’t wanna put
\h\h\hthis out, man.

"You really don’t want people
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto hear this."

But I’ve lived in fear
\h\h\hmy whole life...

and I had nothing to lose.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hALBERT:
\h\hJulian always wanted
the whole band together.

I’d show up late
\hin the studio.

And smoke too much crack
\h\h\h\hbefore coming in

\hand had to take
\ha bunch of pills
just to calm down.

I wasn’t playing that well.

I’ve tried everything
\h\h\h\hto get fired.

\h\h\hCOURTNEY LOVE:
\hRemember that girl
that was downstairs,

\h\h\h\hthat said she didn’t care
about The Hives and The Strokes,

\hand she just wanted
like a big rock riff?

I think that ought to do it.
\h\h\hWe are, um, we’re back.

\h\h\h\hWe had a little nap,
and we are really staying up
\h\h\h\h\hfor 24 hours and...

\h\h\h\hnot many people
in this room do drugs.

We’re in a corporate
\h\h\h\henvironment.

Come here, come here.

Courtney Love
was doing a take over
\hof MTV for 24 hours.

-Show us your .
-Come on!

\h\h\h\h\hCOURTNEY: Yes!
I’ll do it if you do it!

She texted me,
"Do any of The Strokes
\h\h\h\hwanna pop up?"

I called Albert.

You’re fucked up
\h\hand the idea’s funny.

\h\hOh, yeah, I’ll go up there
and, like, see Courtney Love.

Wait, what are we doing?
\h\h\h\h\h\hWhy are we?

I was so fucked.

\h\hFABRIZIO: Her and Ryan
were just doing their thing
\h\h\hwhat Ryan always does.

\h\hFABRIZIO: When things go bad,
you just want it to get worse.

When the band catch you
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hout of it.

I can be sitting here
\h\hwith my eyes open
\h\hand just... gone.

\h\h\hALBERT: There’s so many times
where I was just so close to...

to dying.

\h\h-

It could be over.

We could be over, you know.

Out of nowhere
\h\h\h\hI got an offer
\h\hfrom Arthur Baker.

\hHe’d heard our record
and he wanted us to come
\hplay a show in London.

There’s no way I can do this.

I can’t do it.

I don’t have a band.
\h\h\h\hIt’s just me
and a toy boom box.

\h\h\h\hI did the only thing
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI could do,
call the people that I knew.

Tyler, the base player
\h\h\h\h\hin Out Hud,

\hPat, the drummer
in Les Savvy Fav,

Phil Mossman, guitar player,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwho had done
\hthe David Holmes’ record,

\h\h\h\h\hand Nancy,
\hmy drinking buddy,
took piano as a kid.

\h\h\h\h\hNANCY WHANG:
Deciding to start a band

\hin your 30’s
seemed absurd.

\h\h\h\hWe only had
10 days to rehearse.

\h\hThis was his first time
\h\h\h\h\h\h\has a front man
singing in front of people.

\h\h\hNothing terrified me like
watching footage of John Lydon.

\hIt made me feel
so uncomfortable.

\hI realized
this would be
\hmy problem.

The people that are dancing...

\h\h\h\h\h\hand he just
doesn’t exude himself.

Oh, my God.

\h\h\h\h\hI don’t know
what to do with myself.

\h\h\hNANCY: James wanted
to set up very, very close
\h\h\h\htogether on stage.

\h\h\h\h\hSo, he was
totally surrounded.

Protected.

Go ahead--

♪ Well, Daft Punk is playing
\h\h\hat my house, my house

♪ I’ll show you the ropes kid,
show you the ropes

♪ I got a bus and a trailer
\h\h\hat my house, my house

♪ I’ll show you the ropes kid,
show you the ropes

♪ ’Cause Daft Punk is playing
\h\h\h\hat my house, my house

♪ You’ve got to set them up,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hset them up

♪ My house

♪ My house

♪ You’ve got to set them up,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hset them up

\h\h\h\hINTERVIEWER:
The song "This is it,"

\h\h\h\h\h\h\his that
a sarcastic reference
\h\h\hto The Strokes?

No, no, no, no, no!

\hI’ve heard that
from many people
\hand it’s like,

"Damn, if I were gonna write
\h\ha song about The Strokes,

"I would probably go
\ha little further."

That’s just the name
\h\h\h\hof the song.

\h\h\h\h\hBut I can see
why people think that.

\hIt goes to show you
\h\h\hhow influential
The Strokes guys are.

That these guys
are just great.

Hello.

\h\h\h\hI wanted to ask you
about this before we left.

I think it’s awesome.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-What?
-Yes... The holster.

Well, thanks, thanks a lot.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hINTERVIEWER:
And I don’t know if anyone’s
\h\h\hever done that before.

Um, to my knowledge,
\h\h\h\hthey haven’t.

\h\hBut it wasn’t, you know,
me trying to be an innovator.

\h\hIt wasn’t me trying
to be an innovator to--
\hto wear the holster.

If I get followers, so be it.

\h\h\hYeah, so be it, exactly.
I’m not gonna, like, stop them.

\h\h\h\h\hWe’re Interpol,
and you’re watching MTV2.

\hYou’ve had stuff’s
thrown at you, like,

\hthere’s been panties
thrown at you, Carlos?

Uh, there was an occasion
\h\h\h\h\h\hwhere panties
\hwere thrown at me, yes.

\h\h\hINTERVIEWER: It seems like
you’ve been touring constantly.

it seems like you’ve hardly
\h\h\h\hreally had a break.

\h\h\h\h\hINTERVIEWER 2:
What’s fans reactions been
\h\h\h\hto this new album?

Wherever we’ve gone,
it’s been just kind of, like,

\h\h\h\ha similar sort of
excitement and enthusiasm.

Before Napster,
\h\hwe would have made
a shit load of money.

But actually...

I didn’t really care.

\h\h\h\h\h\hBecause people
from all around the world
found out about our music.

\h\h\h\h\h\hI remember thinking
\h\h\h\h\h\hback to all of those
guidance counselor meetings...

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwhen I said,
"I wanna be a rock star."

♪ Yeah, but nobody searches

♪ And nobody cares somehow

♪ When the loving
that you’ve wasted

♪ Comes raining from
\h\ha hapless cloud

\h\h\h♪ And I might stop
and look upon your face

\h\h\h\h\h\h♪ Disappear
in the sweet, sweet gaze

\h♪ See the living
that surrounds me

♪ Dissipate in a violet place

\h\h♪ Can’t you see
\h\hwhat you’ve done
to my heart and soul

♪ This is a wasteland now

♪ We spies, we slow hands

♪ Put the weights
\haround yourself

♪ We spies, oh, yeah
\h\h\hWe slow hands

♪ We retire like nobody else

\h\h\h\h\h♪ We spies
intimate slow hands

\h\h\h

\h\h\h\h\h\hAfter falling
from the stage in a show
in Australia last month,

Karen O, the tough front woman
\h\h\h\hof the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

\h\h\hstill managed to
compose herself enough
\h\h\hto perform Maps.

♪ Pack up

♪ I’m straight

♪ Enough

♪ Oh, say, say, say

♪ Oh, say, say, say

♪ Oh, say, say, say

♪ Oh, say, say, say

♪ Oh, say, say, say

♪ Wait, they don’t love you
\h\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you

♪ Wait, they don’t love you
\h\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you

♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

♪ Just wait

♪ They don’t love you
\h\h\hlike I love you

♪ Wait, they don’t love you
\h\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you

♪ Wait, they don’t love you
\h\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you

♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

♪ Just wait

♪ For they don’t love you
\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you

♪ Wait, they don’t love you
\h\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you

♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

♪ Just wait

\h\h-I’m so annoyed
\h\hwith this dude.
-What dude?

So, here it’s just things like,

\h\h\h\h\h\h"I’m sad because
I had a show booked with LCD.

"The date, like, all U.S. dates
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hgot canceled."

There was no fucking U.S. tour.

We never had a U.S. tour.

Are you responding to it?

\h\h\h\h\h\h-JAMES: Yeah.
-What are you gonna say?

\h\h\hJAMES: I have to say
this shit sounds a lot like
\h\h\ha fucking guilt trip.

What are you, my mother?

Eat it.

Fucking baby.

\h\h\hWhy are you
getting so angry?
\h\h\h\h

I-- Just the concept
\h\h\hof emailing somebody
\h\h\h\his so alien to me.

\h\h\hINTERVIEWER:
So, you’re tied up?

Oh, I don’t wanna do this.
\h\h\hI hate this so much.

James, I’m serious,
lip sync to a different song.
\h\h\hSing a different song.

\hI’m doing that now.
It’s called talking.

I can talk all day.

\h\h\h\h\hJAMES: Those years
were the big bang of my life.

I finally found my friends.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES:
Can we do claps again?

Yes!

I felt safe.

The Brooklyn Waterfront
will likely be getting
\h\h\h\h\h\ha makeover.

\h\h\h\hMayor Bloomberg wants
to rezone part of the area...

The neighborhood
has had a rebirth

and now it’s a choice location
\hfor commerce and for living.

\h\hMALE REPORTER:
\h\hIt is no longer
a well-kept secret.

What began with a trickle
\h\h\h\h\hhas turned into
\ha flood of Manhattanites

\hcrossing the East River
\h\h\h\h\hinto Brooklyn’s
Williamsburg neighborhood.

\h-Many of them drawn...
\h\h-DAVE: Our rent had
tripled in three years.

The landlords cleared out
\hwhole fucking buildings.

Pushing families out.

\h\h\hKAREN O: I was grieving
the dissipation of the scene.

I don’t want to stick around
\hand just watch it go away.

I left New York City.

I felt too nostalgic for it
\hwhen everything happened.

See now, everybody
\hwas just playing music,
you know what I’m saying.

\h\h\h\h-KAREN O: It’s nuts,
yeah, good music. Everywhere.
\h\h\h\h\h-NICK: Yeah, yeah.

\h-NICK: Yeah.
-Yeah.

It was like a flash.

When we first met,
that’s what we bonded over,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIt was...

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe belief
that we could accomplish
\hanything we wanted to.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES:
Everything was so innocent,

\h\h\h\h\h\hand somehow
you lose it through time

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand then
\h\hyou spend a lot of time
chasing that same innocence,

\hthat feeling of
just being young.

Day upon day,

and year upon year, O city,

walking your streets,

Keep your splendid silent sun.

Keep your woods, O Nature,

and your corn-fields
\h\h\hand orchards.

Give me faces and streets!

\h\h\h\h\h\hGive me comrades
and lovers by the thousand!

\h\h\h\h\hLet me see
new ones every day!

\hLet me hold new ones
by the hand every day!

Give me such shows!
Give me the streets
\h\h\hof Manhattan!

People, endless, streaming,
\h\h\h\hwith strong voices,
\h\h\h\hpassions, pageants.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hManhattan streets,
\h\h\hwith their powerful throbs,
with the beating drums, as now.

The endless and noisy chorus.

\h\h\h\h\h\hManhattan crowds with
their turbulent musical chorus.

\h\h\h\h\h\hManhattan faces
and the eyes forever for me.

♪ Many years since I was here

\h\h\h\h\h♪ On the street
I was passing my time away

\h♪ To the left
and to the right

♪ Towers tumble to the sky

♪ It’s out of sight

♪ In the dead of night

♪ Here I am again in the city

♪ With a fistful of dollars

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h♪ And, baby,
you better believe I’m back

♪ Back in the New York groove

♪ I’m back

♪ Back in the New York groove

♪ I’m back

♪ Back in the New York groove

♪ I’m back

♪ In the New York groove

♪ In the New York groove

♪ In the back of my Cadillac

\h♪ A wicked lady
sittin’ by my side

♪ Sayin’, "Where are we?"

♪ Stopped at Third
\hand Forty-three

♪ Exit to the night

♪ It’s gonna be ecstasy

♪ This place was meant for me

♪ I feel so good tonight

♪ Who cares about tomorrow

♪ I’m back

♪ Back in the New York groove

♪ I’m back

♪ Back in the New York groove

♪ New York groove

♪ I’m back

♪ Back in the New York groove

♪ New York groove

♪ I’m back

♪ In the New York groove

♪ New York groove

♪ I’m back

♪ Back in the New York groove

♪ New York groove

♪ I’m back

♪ Back in the New York groove

♪ New York groove

♪ I’m back

♪ Back in the New York groove

♪ New York groove

♪ I’m back

♪ New York groove

♪ New York groove

\h\h\h- New York groove

♪ New York groove

\h\h\h- New York groove

♪ New York groove

\h\h\h- New York groove

♪ New York groove

\h\h\h-