Language Advisory: This is a live concert recording, and may not contain language suitable for all audiences. One of the breakout bands of 2010, the L.A.-based quintet Local Natives plays briskly ...

The music boasts soaring, sky-scraping harmonies, complex absorbing melodies, and throbbing beats that lovingly bash their way into your soul. It’s big music, but with an intimacy that draws you close ...

Did you know you can download podcasts of our Morning Becomes Eclectic performances? We offer a new session about every two weeks and Local Natives is up until Thursday, June 3. Sign up now and grab ...

When Kelcey Ayer announced in 2024 that he was leaving Local Natives, he explained he had “my own music and my own interests that I’d like to see flourish.” Well, they’re flourishing: He has a new ...

Local Natives On January’s Hummingbird, Local Natives continues to carve a niche for itself among other NPR-wave indie groups: prominent tenor vocal harmonies; rich production from The National’s ...