Music for a Cause @ Le Royale

View Gallery Last night at Le Royale, our nightlife columnist Steve Lewis recounted prison parables to attentive ears, comparing his nine-month stay to a pregnancy. “The last three months, you can’t wait for that baby to drop,” he said. Behind him, Takka Takka began their set of space-rock, kicking off our own rendition of a CMJ showcase. See, when we do it, it’s for something. Music for music’s sake is just a good time. But music for something can be a revolution, man. That's the modus operandi of Music in Motion, and while no despot was overthrown, we did manage to raise a few bucks to help out rebuilding efforts in New Orleans. See the full gallery, and hit the jump for more details.

The leggy Lissy Trullie played the middle slot, and she sang with the swagger of someone who’s as cool as she probably is. Emerging New York band Young Lords finished it off with some proud American rock. In between sets, Andy Rourke, former member of the Smiths, fiddled around on a laptop in the DJ booth and managed to extract songs from it, including his own classic “How Soon is Now.” Five of our editors designed their own Patrón-based cocktails, with names like the “Anna Winter” and the “Argentine Ice Tea.” The latter editor who designed that is, indeed, an Argentine. The former thinks he’s Anna Wintour. But the drink of the night, alas, was Patrón Silver straight, on the rocks, with a squeeze of lime. All of the proceeds went to Music in Motion, and all of the leftover party people went to Lit.