Success has come quickly to the Los Angeles-based indie rock band the Local Natives, but not as quickly as it may seem at first glance. Although the band released its debut album, Gorilla Manor, on ...

Album Preview Local Natives: Gorilla Manor Silverlake’s Local Natives created waves at SXSW in 2009 when they performed as an unsigned act. The band drove for two days to get from Los Angeles to ...

My love for this band is well documented on this blog and among anyone I’ve talked to about music in the last couple of years. Local Natives’ full length debut “Gorilla Manor” was on my top 10 best ...

Local Natives One of the most welcome trends in rock the past few years has been the return of serious harmony vocalizing, and few bands are in the same ballpark as Los Angeles’ Local Natives at doing ...