S/T SURVIVED … Two Throbbing Gristle Sets at Brooklyn’s Rather Cultish Masonic Temple

I WAS THERE: The Dead Weather Blow Through Most of Their Debut At Bowery Ballroom

WORKED UP SO (A)SEXUAL: An Open Letter to The Faint, As Inspired By the Band’s Webster Hall Show

HYPE CHECK: Amazing Baby Drop the Backup Singer Bullshit, Focus on Straight-Up Rocking

I WAS THERE: The Wrens Make Us Wish We Were From New Jersey (For An Hour At Least)

HYPE CHECK: Lissy Trullie—Cute Girl With Guitar or a Reason to Care About Lower East Side Rock?

HYPE CHECK: Crocodiles Push Play for “Unplugged” Performance at Bowery Ballroom

I WAS THERE: Gui Boratto and Ellen Allien Celebrate Bpitch Control’s 10th Anniversary At Studio B

HYPE CHECK: Micachu & The Shapes Test Our Patience For Noise Pop At Pianos

S/T Survived … Getting Our Knees Slammed Into the Stage (Repeatedly) At Converge’s Europa Show

I WAS THERE: The Prodigy Make All Of Our Regressive Raver Dreams Come True, Including That One Involving “Out of Space”

S/T Survived … A Whole Lotta Trying-Too-Hard (And Annihilation Time!) At Vice’s Annual Late-Night SXSW Party

I WAS THERE: Peter Bjorn and John Perform First ‘Living Thing’ Set For Parker Posey, Zach Condon and a Room of Heavily-Intoxicated Socialites

S/T Survived … One of Thurston Moore’s Noise-Slinging Temper Tantrums (Guest-Starring Carlos Giffoni and Eric Copeland of Black Dice!)

LISTENING STATION: A-Trak Shares Five of His DJ Set Staples, From a Get Physical Anthem to a Boys Noize Remix