Name a band from the last 10 years that it would be genuinely interesting to read a book about in twenty or thirty years

Pink

oh wait Pink put her first records out like15 years ago

two seperate but very similar completed recordings overlaid on top of each other.

there's an early version of "It's Time to Party" out there that seem to have the same backing tracks but less fleshed out, and the vocals are very, very different-- higher in pitch and far less gruff. I'll see if I can find it.

you can hear it in this weird Steev Mike commercial from, I guess, before IGW came out

http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=Andrew+W.K.+Steev+Mike+Radio+Commercial

Surely the obvious answer here is "lit-pop" titans The Decemberists

St Vincent teaching soccer tricks would be good read
http://vimeo.com/85067428

Re: awk there's a series of videos where awk personally teaches you to play awk songs

I'm not sure why, but I just can't imagine an interesting book being written about any band that came out after 2000. I can't imagine the personal narratives of these bands being interesting enough, or the music being worthy enough of such a detailed dissection.

Isn't this because music acts close to us in time either have lives that resemble our own, or have lives that we know a lot about?

My money would be on Girls Aloud and other acts that came together through TV talent competitions in the 2000s being of most interest in the future – even the current biography ('Our Story') is fascinating.

New answers? I arbitrarily said upthread that 2003 might be a good cutoff, but as I think about it, I think the real cutoff might be when we lost our musical monoculture. Is it the lack of a monoculture that makes most bands seem less interesting these days? Does the general availability of information about them make them less mysterious? Or are they genuinely less interesting nowadays? Or am I just old?

animal collective
dan deacon
ariel pink
grouper
xiu xiu

I'd read a Miley Cyrus autobio.

Queens Of the Stone Age (didn't precisely come out after 2000, but that was their decade of relevance)

wayne rooney

Who's smoking crack these days? Just follow the freebase and there's your book.

even the mysterious ones are probably not that interesting, aside from making great music (e.g. Burial). maybe it's just that few musicians make enough money to really fuck their life up in an interesting way?

With very few exceptions the first ten years in any musicians bio are the only interesting ones. Just throwing that out there.

I'd read a book about Sturgill

I would be interested in a book about the inner workings and roles of the New Pornographers, but not because they're particularly interesting people. Nor would I expect anyone else would want to read that.

Outkast + reunion?

Andre seems much more boring than he thinks he is

Queens Of the Stone Age (didn't precisely come out after 2000, but that was their decade of relevance)

Not a book, but Josh Homme's interview on WTF seems to fill this.

the WK book was good

kanye west!

kanye west
rae sremmurd
adele
amy winehouse
charli xcx
nicki minaj
lil b

lots of people! lol xpost

even the mysterious ones are probably not that interesting, aside from making great music (e.g. Burial). maybe it's just that few musicians make enough money to really fuck their life up in an interesting way?

weirdly, i think you might be onto something here

imo the definitive Interpol biography would consist of this one sentence "Four boring douchebags had a band" but then I must admit I'd have said the same thing about, say, the JAMC were I 20 years older and it was 20 years ago.

I'd read and even watch a biopic of the following bands from the 00s (not bands or artists I necessarily love but would be interesting to see):

Broadcast
Ariel Pink
Antony and the Johnsons
YYYs
Godspeed you black emperor
The books
Destroyer
Joanna newsom
Animal collective
The Knife
Avalanches
Broken Social Scene
Liars
Paavoharju
Fennesz
Four tet
Burial
Devendra banhart
Fiery furnaces
Sebastien tellier

Specially interested in a Paavoharju and Tellier documentary.

Also could make interesting biopics in lesser degree:

M.i.a. (and Diplo)
Flying Lotus
vampire weekend
Chromatics
William basinski
Janelle Monae
Tame impala
Sufjan stevens
Bon iver
Lcd soundsystem
Madvillain
Bonnie Prince Billy
The strokes
dizzee rascal
Matmos
Tv on the radio

And

Sunn o))
Gorillaz
Boris

And

Pussy Riot

Too many to be honest pick what you like.

i'd read a fucked up bio. would probably be more interesting than their music.

Definitely the Libertines.

Tanya Tagaq.