Photos: mtvU's Woodie Awards after party

We're not going to go into too much detail (we're not into live-blogging), but let's just say that this year's mtvU Woodie Awards was quite the exercise in restraint.  On our part, that is.  The performances were, for the most part, very well done.  Lykke Li doing "Can I Kick It?" with Q-Tip and Chromeo doing their own vocoder assistance to (gulp) Vampire Weekend's "The Kids Don't Stand A Chance" were the highlights, and some band called All Time Low was just flat out terrible.  What's happened to rock music?  Dear Fugazi, please come back.  Please?

The awards themselves were terribly long and arduous to get through, even if we were all VIP'd up and whatnot.  No one read from the prompters (good luck editors!!), everyone was drunk as fuck, total douchebaggery was felt all around (Ed. note: we're looking at you, Boys Like Girls) and Chromeo were the only performers who actually won anything.  The Cool Kids, to open the show, brought a bunch of hangers-on onstage with them for "Delivery Man" and that was pretty much a signifier for what was to come.  No one could hear anything that anyone said and we were at our happiest when the video screens cut "Womanizer" out to bring on a Rick-rolling.  We didn't take any photos during the show (go fig), but here's about three dozen shots from the only-going-to-gorge-on-free-food-and-booze after party.

(mp3)    Chromeo - Rage!

(mp3)    Lykke Li - Complaint Department

Godspeed!