Lainna Fader

Chad Brown is an L.A.-based DJ and the singer/guitarist in CB Brand, and he may well know more about country music than anyone you're likely to encounter in this city. He is a true historian who recalls the backstories of each record in immense detail--from how he found it to......

ORANGE JUICE, COALS TO NEWCASTLE (DOMINO) Coals to Newcastle is a seven-disc anthology covering Glasgow's Orange Juice's six-year recording career. This box set offers a look into one of most underrated and under-appreciated groups of all time. Six CDs and one DVD contain the band's entire discography, originally released on......

On Saturday night the House of Blues on Sunset hosted the final stop on the five-week-long Magical Properties tour--featuring Teebs, Samiyam, Free the Robots, the just-profiled Gaslamp Killer, and Daedelus, with psychedelic visuals by Dr. Strangeloop. Brainfeeder indeed is the champion sound, and these five proved why the L.A. beat......

The show was sold-out and the place was packed before the first opener even took the stage. The first band was Belle Brigade, a seven-piece band fronted by siblings Ethan and Barbara Gruska who sound like a country-tinged New Pornographers. AWOLNATION followed with an odd jumble of soul influenced pop......

Mahssa Taghinia of B-Music/Finders Keepers Records is a DJ and record collector whose specialty is long-lost '60s and '70s Iranian pop, psych, and funk gems. Her Pomegranates compilation--available now from Finders Keepers--shows off the best of her finds from flea markets in Tehran and family favorites handed down to her......

STEREOLAB, NOT MUSIC (DRAG CITY) Twenty years and 12 albums in Stereolab gives us Not Music, a record derived from the same sessions that produced 2008's Chemical Chords and released during their self-imposed hiatus. This mix of "new" songs and remixes of "old" ones is fantastic, but if you're a......

L.A.'s beloved nonprofit web radio station dublab is celebrating their 11th year of existence, and needs your support! Their bi-annual Sounds of Symmetry Proton Drive fundraiser is well underway, but you've still got til the 19th to tune in and donate. Give a Proton Grant to help keep dublab running,......

Friday night The Blank Tapes' Matt Adams returned to L.A. to play Spaceland for probably the millionth time, this time with "combating teams" of the Bay Area and Orange County musicians he played with on his recent tour of Brazil and a fantastic mustache that enveloped his entire face. They......

Tonight Michel Gondry's coming to Family Books on Fairfax to sign copies of his new book/DVD My New New York Diary, a collaborative project with cartoonist Julie Doucet that merges autobiographical illustrations and cinematic storytelling. My New New York Diary is a hardcover volume from PictureBox that includes a DVD......

Being a selective selection of some of today's new releases--this week, we'll look at a modern lover, a man you think you really know, a new take on Congotronics and soul songs with the spirit of the Beach Boys' SMiLE......