Photos: CMJ 2009 at the Levi's/The Fader fort on October 24

For the final day of CMJ this year (which of course thankfully befell on a Saturday), we met up with homegirl Sheena Beaston and headed over to the Ace Hotel--which is the only time we've ever heard that hotel name uttered about, ever--for the Levi's/The Fader fort featuring a line-up that wouldn't leave anyone nonplussed to be there. Free drinks and free music usually equals fights and/or people not paying attention to the music, but that didn't happen Saturday. The audience was pretty much rapt (we were too, obviously) from start to finish, with performances that roused all from Restless People, MNDR, The Temper Trap, Jenny Wilson, Chauffeur (that mega-group of Mark Ronson, Theophilus London and Sam Sparro), VEGA, Midnight Juggernauts, Florence And The Machine, Pill and special guests Rain Machine. We skipped out after VEGA to rest up aka get doused in rain and charge batteries before that night's other goings-on. The whole day was sweat-filled, gleeful and reckless. Standard fare for one of the best day events of the festival.

(mp3)    NightWaves - She's Electric (VEGA Italo dub)

(mp3)    Jenny Wilson - Only Here For The Fight

Godspeed!