Words and interview by Kyle Rother
Photos by JENZ

Southern California’s Local Natives make it hard to draw comparisons. There are similarities here and there — Broken Social Scene and Fleet Foxes are among the contemporary names thrown around — but the Natives’ style is less erratic than BSS, more ballsy than the Foxes. Their harmonic style is indicative of the influence of hazy beach bums of 60s SoCal and Zombified Brit pop, while their percussion philosophy derives from somewhere more natural: a unifying connection between the five-piece developed over hours spent living together in their own guerilla hideaway in Silverlake, Calif.
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[Photo of J. Mascis by Cliff Samaniego]

With: J. Mascis, Angel Deradoorian, Bearsuit, Best Friends Forever, The Beets, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Desolation Wilderness, Evangelicals, Golden Boots, Harlem Shakes, Kurt Vile, Local Natives, Muggabears, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head, New Villagers, Ryan Anderson, The Intelligence, Themselves, Wallpaper, Wild Moccasins.
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