Meet Me in the Bathroom details the rise of New York's music scene post-9/11. The book details both influential musicians of the decade and the culture that surrounded them, including the declining music industry, internet culture, and the booming real estate market in Lower Manhattan and Williamsburg. Meet Me in the Bathroom follows some of the most prominent musical artists of the period, including the Strokes, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, and Interpol.

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. 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.