Up and Coming...Fast: Local Natives at Antone's (GIVEAWAY!)

photo by Gareth Jackson from band MySpace

Local Natives at Antone\’s
Friday, April 23
Antones (213 W 5th St)
Late show (doors@10)
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Few bands have developed a devoted following as suddenly as Local Natives seem to have—the under-the-radar Euro release of their album Gorilla Manor last year registered barely a blip on the screen in the U.S., but since the American drop of the same album the band has seen themselves graduate in a hurry from unknown to being one of the biggest buzz bands of this year's SXSW, and if you saw one or more of their half dozen or so shows that long, long ago week in March, you'd know why. Their lush arrangements, harmonizing vocals, and sensitive-but-not-toooooo-sensitive California five-piece approach give energy to their passionate, tightly-wound pop songs, and it's no wonder that not only did this show, a mere six weeks since their SX blitz, have to be moved from Emo's inside to the much larger Antone's, but that the show (a late one, and opened by Suckers) is dead straight sold out. So best of luck to you in corralling a couple tickets to this one. That said, do your best: it's pretty much guaranteed that this show is going to make for a fantastic evening, and, who knows, at the rate they're going, it may be the last time you can catch them before their crowd doubles yet again.

Local Natives [MySpace] [Official] Suckers [MySpace]

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