"I just hope you invite us back for the victory party!" said Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos at Tuesday night's Barack Rock benefit show at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg. And as evidenced by the evening's general ebullience, Obama's Brooklyn contingency expect to have reason to plan that celebratory bash.

If anything was emblematic of Martha Wainwright’s show last night at the Highline Ballroom, it would have been the weather. While the skies vacillated between softly humid and fiercely torrential, Wainwright delivered her unique blend of tender and rough in a crowded and intimate setting.

With the mercury rising on a strangely balmy January evening, Ravens & Chimes' whimsical performance at Mercury Lounge Monday night (Jan. 7) was particularly pertinent. Led by earnest frontman Asher Lack, the indie pop six-piece served up a set of danceable and frequently ethereal

CMJ's label showcases are characteristically a mixed bag of artists and tunes, and thankfully, Bowery Ballroom's Friday night (Oct. 19) offering was no exception. Running the gamut from '60s folk and psychedelia to contemporary Swedish power pop, the bill felt like an inventive seven-course meal, each dish standing out on its own for the audience's palate.