CMJ SPOTLIGHT (EDITOR’S CHOICE): Broadcast @ (Le) Poisson Rouge, 10.20.09

HYPE CHECK: Washed Out Goes From Depressing to Slightly Danceable In the Span of One Strange Santos Party House Show

SUPPORT THIS: We Were Promised Jetpacks Deliver Breakthrough Set At Bowery Ballroom

I WAS THERE: Sufjan Stevens Beckons Us To Come On and Feel The Ill Noise At Bowery Ballroom

LISTENING STATION: Starkey Shows Us the Meaning of “Street Bass” With Some Choice Selections From Joker, Eprom and More

LISTENING STATION: Dixon Gives Us a Hint of What to Expect At His Market Hotel Gig, From a Peak Hour Lykke Li Edit to an Exclusive DFA Single

HYPE CHECK: Mayer Hawthorne

STUCK IN A SETLIST YOU CAN’T GET OUT OF: U2 ‘Rocks’ New Jersey, Albeit Professionally And Predictably (With Bonus Video Footage!)

I WAS THERE: Fever Ray Freaks Out Webster Hall With Laser Canons, Smoke Monsters, and Satanic Jim Henson Costumes

I WAS THERE: ‘That Moody Guy From Interpol’ Delivers a Decent Guggenheim Set, Makes Us Reach For His Julian Plenti Record

S/T Survived … Smoke Machines, Laser Claws, A Howling Hungarian, and 90 Minutes of Relentless Riffage At Sunn O)))’s Masonic Temple Show

I WAS THERE: Jamie Lidell Switches to Mad Scientist Mode At Le Poisson Rouge’s Warp Anniversary Party, His First Solo Show In Forever

SUPPORT THIS: Flying Lotus Slings Radiohead Samples and Jittery Jungle Breaks At Warp’s 20th Anniversary Party

HYPE CHECK: Here’s Your Woodstock, Ang Lee! Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros Bring Tent Revival Vibe To Music Hall of Williamsburg

TEST PRESSING: Today’s Must-Hear MP3s, From the Molten Metal of Pelican to the Noir Rock of The Black Heart Procession