CMJ SPOTLIGHT: Free Energy @ The Stereogum/Believer Showcase, 10.20.09

SHELF LIFE: On the Eve of Their New Co-Op Shop, Mexican Summer, Captured Tracks and Sacred Bones Share Their Favorite Limited Edition Records

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

PEEP SHOW: Watch 15 Live Flaming Lips Clips From Over the Years, Including Cover Songs (Black Sabbath, Queen, Elvis) and One-Night-Only Collabs (The White Stripes, Peaches, Beck, Cat Power)

F#CK CMJ: Presenting 7 Reasons Why Glasslands Is the Only Place You Need To Be Next Saturday

OSCILLATIONS Returns To (Le) Poisson Rouge With a CMJ Bill That’s Been Pre-Approved By Pitchfork, The New York Times, Kanye West & More

MICROWAVE ONLY: Santos’ Party House? More Like Monotonix’s Party House!

1MM: Beth Ditto Is “Not a Cunt,” And Other Important Observations At Gossip’s Terminal 5 Show With MEN and Apache Beat

SO MANY PEOPLE: Parklife In Perspective (Part II), Featuring Photos of Busy P, Sherlock’s Daughter, Metronomy & Lots of Australians In Heat

ALL THE PEOPLE: Parklife In Perspective (Part I), Featuring Photos of The Rapture, Little Boots, Erol Alkan, Empire of the Sun and More

A QUICK TALK WITH LOU BARLOW ABOUT … Bromances, Angry White People, and Ghostbusting

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

IN THE MOMENT: The Twilight Sad’s Singer Emerges As the Scariest Scotsman Since Begbie At Feedback-Flinging Bowery Ballroom Show

1MM: Live @ Austin City Limits With Dirty Projectors, The Dead Weather, Them Crooked Vultures, Phoenix, Kings of Leon, Mos Def & More