In the tradition of  Just Kids  and  Our Band Could Be Your Life , Ronen Givony's  Us v. Them  chronicles the generation of young artists who came to Brooklyn in the mid-2000s: a small but seismic scene that coalesced under a billionaire mayor, a series of forever wars, and a music industry in free fall. In tandem with the impresarios and unlicensed venues that lined the Williamsburg waterfront, combining elements of noise and pop, a few became unlikely superstars. Meanwhile, countless flared and vanished, reminders of an unusually fertile moment—the age of indie—that now means little more than a term of marketing. Through reporting, research, and interviews with musicians, industry insiders, and individuals from  Pitchfork , Vice, Scion, and the Red Bull Music Academy,  Us v. Them  examines the rise and fall of indie music in a post-Napster landscape, marked by vast disruption in technology, politics, economics, journalism, and patronage. At once a social history and an eyewitness account of an improbable decade,  Us v. Them  gives a critical analysis of what indie music was, is, and will be again in New York City.