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♪ ♪ [rock music] - all through the '90s if you were a band from new york, you could count on getting laughed out of the room pretty much anywhere else in the country. - new york was just a place where rock and roll was thought ofof as dead.. - - in the 200000s, the predomominant musisic generaly is hip-h-hop, and ththat's ththe case in n new york.. no one's's thinking g about new york a as the centnter fofor interesting rock music anymore. but after 9/11, we've had all these bands who o were kind d of bubbling bebeneath the e surface who o start popppping up andnt realally starts s with the s st. - - ♪ last t night she e sai♪ ♪ oh baby i feel so down it turn me off ♪ - after 9/11, the city was burning. itit was smoldldering. - ♪ so i, i t turned arouound♪ - vulnerability, anxiety, all this became how the country felt. we needed that sense of defiance,