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A couple of weeks ago, an excellent new Local Natives track surfaced on the web via Aquarium Drunkard’s L’Aventure sampler. The Los Angeles band covered Television’s “Careful” from their 1978 album, Adventure, as part of an 8 track project to raise money for The Silverlake Conservatory of Music. The album is now available in full, [...]

The sun just came out and there’s a new, free Local Natives track on the internets? Not bad, Tuesday. LA based music blog, Aquarium Drunkard, is getting ready to release L’Adventure, a digital album of LA artists covering tracks from Television’s 1978 classic, Adventure. Proceeds of the album will go to the Silverlake Conservatory of [...]

Yeah; Picnics, kiddie pools, sunshine, Frisbee. Hard to resist. “World News” via Gorilla Manor via the Best of 2010 (via P4K premiere). Local Natives are currently on a US Tour with a lot of “Sold Out” stamps on it, and come home to LA on June 4 at the Troubadour. Craigslist. Good luck.

Local Natives (via the #2 Best Album of 2010?) made their late night debut on Craig Ferguson last night to perform Gorilla Manor single, “Airplanes”. Lead singer, Taylor Rice, looks overly multi-tasked doing those drum parts while singing and playing the song’s piano parts, but all turns out flawless. (P4K)

Local Natives sounding better than the record in this performance of “Wide Eyes” on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” yesterday in LA. You can watch the entire session over at KCRW’s site. Gorilla Manor is out now and is one of the best albums of 2010.

In the tradition of being the most awesome, NPR Music is offering up streaming audio of every band’s full sets at their SXSW parties this week. Included in the bunch are Best-of-2010-ish artists, Local Natives, Broken Bells, and Surfer Blood. My Poproks is currently streaming Local Natives half-hour set from NPR’s Day Party at The [...]

Above, an excellent new video from LA based band Local Natives. The track “Airplanes” is from their debut album, Gorilla Manor, and is due February 16 in the US. The band are currently touring Europe through the spring, including the Route du Rock Winter Festival in France with Beach House and The xx. So, the [...]