Local Natives at Walt Disney Concert Hall
featuring a 23-piece orchestra
Tonight was fantastic. I’d never been inside the Frank Gehry-designed building before tonight. The concert hall was much smaller and intimate than I anticipated, creating a wonderful atmosphere for this one-off performance.
They started out backed by a four-piece string quartet playing Wide Eyes, Warning Sign (Talking Heads cover), Cubism Dream, Cards & Quarters, Careful (Television cover), Camera Talk and Sticky Thread. After an intermission they returned with the full 23-piece orchestra for Stranger Things, Shape Shifter, World News, Airplanes, Who Knows Who Cares, and encored with Sun Hands.*
I’m so glad that guitarist/singer Taylor Rice got to achieve his dream of playing WDCH, just 2.5 years after visiting the space on an architecture class trip.
*set list is from memory, there is likely a mistake or two
La Blogotheque & Watch Your Steps present:
Who Knows Who Cares by Local Natives
a Take Away Show - uncut version——
As of now, there is not a proper write up in English, and the Google page translation is not very helpful. However it does produce comical gems like this:“Since we do not let loose, and all are now pleased to offer the second Take Away Local Natives of these shirts to California questionable, but the wonderful music.”
But with my magical powers I figured out that this was shot at Palais-Royal in Paris — the former home of Cardinal Richelieu.
My favorite part of this and other Take Away Shows is the Sorkin-esque walk and
talkplay. Marching bands play on the move, but most other live music — even when band members jump around a lot or join the crowd for part of a song — are confined to a stage, rendered relatively static. I love watching bands walk through streets or buildings playing stripped down versions of their songs.Can’t wait to see them w/ the LA Phil in 2 and a half weeks!
Local Natives @ Music Box
Sticky Thread (Daytrotter Sessions) by Local Natives
Local Natives tumble into love and find themselves gasping some, at the end of silence, distance or wet eyes. They paint the picture, with three and four-part harmonies that could butter bread and with a revelatory rhythm and pulse that makes you perspire, your heart race like a filly just thinking about it. The band arranges songs in ways that force you to behave differently, to change a little inside, while listening to and inevitability joining in on the harmonies, before too long. But even beyond, just the way that they move within the structure of the song, you have those words that are being so beautifully sung… The new arrangements of these three songs here are more testament to the ability and melodic inventiveness of this very promising band, showing even more so, the vibrancy of their tongues and spirits. — Sean Moeller
original version of “Sticky Thread” appears on Gorilla Manor.
previous session: March 12, 2009
via daytrotter
Wide Eyes remixed by Teen Daze
originally by Local Natives
Careful by Local Natives
originally by Television
Aquarium Drunkard will be digitally releasing L’Aventure on June 22, featuring 8 Los Angeles bands each covering a track from the 1978 Television LP, Adventure.
- The Henry Clay People: “Glory”
- Foreign Born: “Days”
- The Happy Hollows: “Foxhole”
- Local Natives: “Careful”
- The Deadly Syndrome: “Carried Away”
- Imaad Wasif [ft. Lykke Li]: “The Fire”
- Dirt Dress: “Ain’t That Nothin’”
- Growlers: “The Dream’s Dream”
AND IN THE BLUE AND GLOWING DAYS
an indieandyy mix
- Good Feelings by Light Pollution
- Summer Came From Nowhere by Power Animal
- Chinatown by Wild Nothing
- Seasons by Medications
- Cinco by The Ruby Suns
- Take It Easy by Surfer Blood
- Desire Be Desire Go by Tame Impala
- Bright Lit Blue Skies by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
- Sun Hands by Local Natives
- All Day Day Light by The Morning Benders
- Interim by The Sticks
- I Was Thinking… by Gauntlet Hair
- Going Away Party by 1,2,3
- Surrounded By Your Friends by Hooray For Earth
- Candy Season by Librarians
- Drunk Girls by LCD Soundsystem
- Free Energy by Free Energy
- Howlin’ For You by The Black Keys
- It Only Takes One Night by Dum Dum Girls
- Up In the Dark by The New Pornographers
- Davey Crockett by Fang Island
Download: direct | mediafire | megaupload
If you like what you hear, you should do what you can to support these bands. Buy their records however you prefer: digitally, on vinyl, or even a CD if you still use those things. Even better, catch them live when they swing through your area. Live music is good for you.
You can follow some of the bands on Tumblr: Fang Island; Power Animal; 1,2,3; The Morning Benders.
h/t: I got some music and inspiration from a few great Tumblrs for this: Derek (theduty), Mark (yvynyl), Jimmy (headunderwater), and Dave (davidseger).
Lastly, find my past mixes here.
