WORKING ON THE RAILROAD

Local Natives were in the Windy City for the Pitchfork Music Festival a few weeks ago. They found time to do a little railroad acoustic session for Pitchfork TV and even caught a robbery in the process.

LOCAL NATIVES LIVE AT THE BOWERY BALLROOM

Watch the full concert at baeblemusic.com

Local Natives are back in L.A. after a stop at the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago this past weekend. The boys have a few weeks off before they are back at it in August for a few more dates & in September with another set of dates just added.

You can now watch their performance at the world famous Bowery Ballroom in NY. Check it out!


Tour Dates

9/17 - Henry Fonda Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
9/19 - Belly Up Tavern - Solana Beach, CA
9/20 - SOHO Music Club - Santa Barbara, CA
9/22 - Fillmore - San Francisco, CA
9/24 - Showbox at the Market - Seattle, WA
9/25 - Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR
9/28 - Fox Theatre - Boulder, CO
9/30 - The Waiting Room - Omaha, NB
10/1 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
10/2 - Metro - Chicago, IL
10/3 - The Blue Note - Columbia, MO
10/5 - Academy of Contemporary Music - Oklahoma City, OK
10/6 - House of Blues - Dallas, TX
10/7 - House of Blues - Houston, TX
10/9 - Austin City Limits - Austin, TX
10/11 - Tulane University LBC Quad - New Orleans, LA
10/13 - Work Play Soundstage - Birmingham, AL
10/14 - Cannery Ballroom - Nashville, TN
10/15 - The Masquerade-Heaven Stage - Atlanta, GA
10/16 - Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall - Asheville, NC
10/19 - Mod Club - Toronto, ON
10/20 - La Tulipe - Montreal, QB
10/23 - Paradise Rock Club - Boston, MA
10/27 - Trocadero - Philadelphia, PA
10/28 - Nightclub 9:30 - Washington, DC

THE INTERFACE: LOCAL NATIVES

Local Natives performed a few numbers and gave an interview for The Interface on Spinner.com. It's a great intimate performance...check it out!

ROAD TRIPPIN' WITH THE ICE CREAM MAN: BONNAROO

This week Ice Cream Man takes Bonnaroo by storm, cooling down the crowd and then heating them up again with amazing performaces from Norah Jones and Local Natives.

IT'S FRIDAY. TIME TO DANCE.

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LOCAL HEROES

Local Natives have been busy touring since their debut album, GORILLA MANOR dropped back in February. The band just finished up a stint at Bonnaroo and are currently in the UK performing at Festivals.

The band will be back to the states in September, kicking it off in their homeland of Los Angeles. Presale tix just went on sale for their L.A. show at the Music Box (Fonda) in Hollywood and will tour until late October.

The band also released "Careful" on Aquarium Drunkard's LA Music Tribute of Television's Adventure, benefiting the Silverlake Conservatory of Music.

Due out June 22nd: L'Aventure-- A Los Angeles local sampler featuring eight L.A. bands each
covering a track off Television's second LP, 1978's Adventure

Following up last year's RAM On LA, Justin Gage of Aquarium Drunkard, gathers up eight of his
favorite L.A. artists in an effort to highlight Los Angeles' disparate music scene.

L'Aventure will be a suggested‐donation digital compilation with 100% of proceeds going to
the Silverlake Conservatory of Music similar to RAM on L.A. which benefited No More
Landmines.


About Silverlake Conservatory of Music:
The mission of the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, a non- ‐profit organization, is to facilitate basic music education. Our primary focus is on the youth of the community but all are welcome and encouraged to participate. The Conservatory offers private music lessons at a reasonable cost and grants scholarships to children in need, providing free lessons and instruments. The study of music enriches the life of the student as well as the community and society.

Tour Dates:

9/17 - Henry Fonda Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
9/19 - Belly Up Tavern - Solana Beach, CA
9/20 - SOHO Music Club - Santa Barbara, CA
9/22 - Fillmore - San Francisco, CA
9/24 - Showbox at the Market - Seattle, WA
9/25 - Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR
9/28 - Fox Theatre - Boulder, CO
9/30 - The Waiting Room - Omaha, NB
10/1 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
10/3 - The Blue Note - Columbia, MO
10/5 - Academy of Contemporary Music - Oklahoma City, OK
10/6 - House of Blues - Dallas, TX
10/7 - House of Blues - Houston, TX
10/9 - Austin City Limits - Austin, TX
10/11 - Tulane University LBC Quad - New Orleans, LA
10/13 - Work Play Soundstage - Birmingham, AL
10/14 - Cannery Ballroom - Nashville, TN
10/15 - The Masquerade-Heaven Stage - Atlanta, GA
10/16 - Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall - Asheville, NC
10/19 - Mod Club - Toronto, ON
10/20 - La Tulipe - Montreal, QB
10/23 - Paradise Rock Club - Boston, MA
10/27 - Trocadero - Philadelphia, PA
10/28 - Nightclub 9:30 - Washington, DC

SASQUATCH DAY 2 - LOCAL NATIVES

PHOTOS:CORY RADKE

THEY ARE SASQUATCH!

Local Natives make soaring, sky-scraping harmonies, dreamy orchestral melodies, and throbbing tribal beats that bash their way into your soul. Theirs are songs you can dance to almost as well as you can swoon to them. Drawing a line from the vocal stylings of Crosby Stills Nash & Young and the Zombies through the more esoteric edges of post-punk and Afro-beat, this California five piece have communally crafted a brand of indie rock all their own.

For Local Natives everything is a collaboration, from song writing duties to the band’s self produced artwork. The three part harmonies come courtesy of keyboardist Kelcey Ayer, guitarists Ryan Hahn and Taylor Rice. Then there’s Matt Frazier on drums and Andy Hamm on bass, who look after the band’s equally impressive graphics and artwork.

One of SXSW 2009’s biggest success stories, the band drove for two days to get from Los Angeles to Austin in order to play nine spectacular shows that saw them sprinting, instruments in hand, from one gig to the next. Their hectic schedule paid off as Local Natives left Austin with the attention of the UK music Industry.

Based in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles, three of the five-piece originally hail from Orange County. Kelcey, Ryan and Taylor attended neighboring high schools and hooked up with bassist Andy a year after they graduated, later meeting drummer Matt. They’ve been playing – and evolving - together for three years. Last year, however, the band realized that the new songs they were writing were the sounds of a new project entirely.

It was in December 2008 that the band decamped to Silver Lake, where they all live in the same house. But the Silver Lake digs isn’t the first house the band have shared. They lived together in Orange County too, in a place affectionately known as Gorilla Manor. “It was insanely messy and there were always friends over knocking around on guitars or our thrift store piano,” says Ryan, “it was an incredible experience and I’ll never forget that time.” The original Gorilla Manor, where the band wrote the majority of their record, had such an impact that the band has paid tribute to the house by naming their debut album in its honor.

The self-funded Gorilla Manor was recorded by Raymond Richards in West Los Angeles. Richards produced the record with Local Natives in his own Red Rockets Glare Studio.

Featuring twelve sumptuous slices of dappled California sunlight and beguiling percussive rhythms, the album kicks off with the moody, driving, ‘Wide Eyes’. Says Ryan, “It’s about people’s obsession with the miraculous and disastrous…with witnessing extraordinary events”. The effervescent, mandolin boasting ‘Airplanes’ follows, which Kelcey explains is about “longing to have met my grandfather, a great man and pilot, who died before I was born.” Also included is the glorious ‘Sun Hands’, which was released as a limited edition single on Chess Club back in July. According to Taylor, the lyrics describe “that all too familiar feeling of wanting what you can’t have – especially when you once had it.” There’s a cover version in the mix too, a barely recognizable version of Talking Heads’ ‘Warning Sign’. “We’ve basically flipped the song on its head,” says Matt, explaining how they switched David Byrne’s original yelped vocals into a beautiful three-part harmony.

Sunday, May 30 1:30pm to 2:15pm Bigfoot

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