It’s the end of an era. Today (April 30), Local Natives founding member Kelcey Ayer took to social media to announce his departure from the band. Ayer has been a part of Local Natives for nearly two ...

Meanwhile, we’ve been asking bands what they’ve been listening to during quarantine and Local Natives’ Nik Ewing has made us a playlist that includes tracks by LCD Soundsystem, FKA twigs, Frank Ocean, ...

Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can ...

Sometimes it takes a decade-plus to remember what you’ve had all along. For Los Angeles-based rock ‘n’ roll band, Local Natives, ideas of friendship and the importance of familial bonds have been the ...

Here's a taste of things to come in 2010. "Sun Hands", the forthcoming single from the Rising L.A. band Local Natives, starts out quietly: a delicately florid guitar, a subtly Fugazi-esque bassline, a ...

Founding member, guitarist and co-frontman of Local Natives, Taylor Rice, joins Cindy Howes’ Basic Folk podcast for a conversation on the band’s history, their collaborative spirit, feminism and their ...

Local Natives have announced their first tour in three years. It begins with festival appearances at Osheaga and Lollapalooza, and from there hits Minneapolis, Boulder, San Francisco (Outside Lands), ...

When Kelcey Ayer meets me for coffee in Los Feliz, he’s nothing but smiles. As soon as we recognize each other, he waves and his eyes light up. “This is Tasha,” he says like a proud dad, introducing ...

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 ...