garage that people don t see, you have to put the hours and, the sacrifices. emma started out riding on the family farm in lincolnshire when she was little. rather different, the flat landscape dad to the mountains, rocky terrain in the hills near barcelona, going up rock races that many climbers would be worried about, let alone doing it on a 300 cc motorbike, with all of that power in your hands. as soon as i could walk i was on a bike. just family, really, always enjoyed riding with the family on the farm and just took it a bit further than everyone else. 0nly it a bit further than everyone else. only on the balcony really appreciate the skill in controlling such power at your fingertips with such power at your fingertips with such precision. softer tyres help give you extra bounce but at first it is just about keeping your balance while standing up because you may have noticed that something is missing. there no seed, you don t sit down
the strokes in terms of new york artists is interpol and yeah yeah yeahs. these are strange people. they re countercultural by nature. karen oh, she s this violent, swaggering rock boy. and this heartbroken teary rock girl. pack up i m straight and maps is one of those tracks that launched a thousand young female singers in their bedroom somewhere. wait they don t love you like i love you wait they don t love you like i love you so you have this resurgence of rock but you also have this resurgence of brooklyn and indie music. please welcome tv on the radio. tv on the radio, they were a multiethnic, multiracial band coming out of the brooklyn rock scene. you know, they were scholars of music.
when yellow came out a lot of the hipster alternative kids were like i love this, and i was one of them. your skin turns to something beautiful it felt great. it s like here s radiohead and u2 put together in a pop-friendly package that s catchy rock music. i want to run through the halls of my high school i want to scream at the top of my lungs john mayer was this virtuosic guitar player that wrote these sentimental love songs. and if you want love we ll make it he was huge. swim in a deep sea of blankets your body s a wonderland i use my hands in the 2000s rock itself becomes numb and weirdly apolitical for a time when the country was at war.
in the 2000s that totally disappeared. rock with me rock with me there s all these songs that became iconic primarily through their use in ipod commercials. one, two, three, four tell me what you re looking for now indie culture was cool and you could market yourself as part of this new global indie community. glamorous indie rock n roll is what i want you ve got the killers or you got kings of leon. and of course the white stripes. they all step into the role of capital r rock star. a seven nation army couldn t hold me back people thought the strokes were going to save rock.
post-9/11 some believe familiar music will sell well this holiday. and i ve been wrong i ve been down to the bottom of every bottle nickelback, they had bigger hits than anybody. everybody s welcome in the nickelback club. we ve got a big club. yeah, yeah a lot of rock is not really doing what it used to do, and it s almost like it lost its will to fight. unless you re talking about green day. don t want to be an american idiot you can t undersell how shocking it was that the definitive statement on george bush s america came from green day. welcome to a new kind of tension all across the alien nation everything s meant to be okay it was kind of like a rock opera. you had to listen to it from front to back because it told the entire story of what was going on in the decade.