DJ Olive

"Williamsburg really had this alternate [reality where] you didn't know what day of the week it was. It had this feeling of permanent vacation that I've never experienced anywhere else."

I wrote a book about 60 years of New York City rock music scenes called This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Spaces in New York City (it comes out on July 11! Pre-order it here). Naturally, in the course of writing a book about New York City music scenes, I interviewed a lot of New York City musicians, deejays, club workers and owners,…