Over six years, Goodman conducted more than 200 original interviews for the book with members of these bands as well as other musicians, artists, journalists, bloggers, managers, music executives, groupies, DJs, and other prominent voices from that time period.

[2] Goodman's assistants in the editing and transcription process were Maggie Rogers and Eva Hendricks, both of whom were students at New York University Tisch School of the Arts' Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at the time, and would later become known as musicians in their own right.

[3] Meet Me in the Bathroom was critically praised by both literary and music publications, with SPIN calling it "the first great history of New York’s 21st-century rock scene".

[4] The piece featured interviews with Ryan Adams and Strokes members Julian Casablancas, Albert Hammond Jr., Fabrizio Moretti, and Nick Valensi as well as various journalists and affiliates of the music industry.

This claim generated controversy which came to a head on July 31, 2017, when Adams lashed out to The Strokes on Twitter.