Lainna Fader

There's always that someone in your family or group of friends or entourage (this is LA we're talking about after all) who is a little intimidating come Holidays gift season. They're way into music, but they're into music in an obsessive way that seems to say "you'll never be able......

X December 15, 2010 House of Blues Last night seminal L.A. punk band X celebrated the 30th anniversary of their debut Los Angeles at the House of Blues by playing the album in its entirety, along with "X: The Unheard Music," the 1986 documentary about the band. Thirty years after......

Sweaters Spaceland December 13, 2010 Another packed house for Sweaters, who were joined by fellow White Iris artists El Sportivo and The Dead Trees for the second night of their Spaceland residency. Sweaters brought a few special guests this time, and even had their producer, Fool's Gold's Lewis Pesacov, sitting......

On Saturday night, Cornerstone Research Collective presented "The Way of the Infinite Harmony," its first holiday benefit at the historic Masonic Temple at Hollywood Forever, boasting a lineup packed full of L.A. heavyweights Madlib, J. Rocc, Flying Lotus, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Quartetto Fantastico, Austin Peralta, DJ Nobody, Blank Blue, Mia Doi......

Warpaint played two sold out shows at the Troubadour this weekend, Friday with Aska and Sunday with Cc: and Drug Cabin. It took Warpaint six years to release their debut album The Fool, which came out on Rough Trade in October, but going slow is okay if you can still......

If you're equal parts design nerd and audiophile, I've found the perfect gift for your Christmas list: the Boom Case, a creation from a Mr. SiMo that synthesizes quality design and geeky music technology. SiMo repurposes vintage suitcases, transforming them into unique portable speakers for your iPhone/Ipod or any device......

Neon Indian brought in electronics wizards Lars Larson and Edward Leckie to construct their trippy new video for "Mind Drips" in which a girl is swallowed whole by her bed with a gigantic teddy bear and falls through ceilings......

Gary Wilson, the weirdo king of Endicott, New York, just premiered his new music video for "In the Night" from Electric Endicott, out now on Western Vinyl. As predicted, it's freaky and groovy, full of doll heads and odd body parts, teenagers dancing the sand with beach balls, and nostalgia-filled......

HANNI EL-KHATIB, "BUILD. DESTROY. REBUILD." 7" (INNOVATIVE LEISURE) "Build. Destroy. Rebuild" is the second fuzzy single from Hanni El-Khatib's upcoming debut album Will The Guns Come Out, which I've been anxiously awaiting ever since I heard his first 7" months ago. "Build. Destroy. Rebuild." hints that Will The Guns Come......

David Lynch: visionary filmmaker and....pop star? Lynch just released two new singles on Sunday Best Recordings, the electro-pop "Good Day Today" and blues-y "I Know." While Lynch has worked on his own soundtracks and other music projects in the last few years, these tracks are quite a departure. What can......