Native

Sargent House has taken over Made Of Chalk all this month with 9 live video premieres coming including three from Native. Here is the first of the Native videos -  “Coin Toss” featuring a nice Dave Summers cameo. Shot live in Chicago at Beat Kitchen. Big thanks to Made of Chalk for making these.

I have to review my favorite song performed by Native on March 25th, 2013, in Montreal at L’Escogriffe. This favorite Montreal dive bar, at first, seemed like a peculiar location to film a killer video, but it became clear this was home. The vibe and lighting accompanied Native‘s tension and rebellious attitude. These cats were so real and nice to the Spread crew, I was blown away. Also, the connection between them and another band close to my heart, Tomorrow, St. Peter, was too big to ignore, having played together at the Straight Edge Coalition‘s loft in Sweden. I found myself analyzing every piece of music as if it would save my tired soul. Watch the video before you read, so you really get how big this is. I promise to deconstruct this song and the writing approach just for you guys. The recipe behind the production of this timeless and perfect track. It was not by chance, nor was it a fluke, but masters at play.

Is it just me or are these crazy bastards playing to the tempo of children playing and other vocal samples. I’ve only seen this type of thing in Powerviolence and it’s a style that always impresses me as a listener. It’s the rare time that I don’t know where a song is going. Playing with tempo instead of time signatures. Hmmmmmmmm…..

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Thanks to Quiet Country Audio for having Native in for a live session. Above are two songs from the forthcoming new album out on Sargent House this Summer.

SEE FULL FEATURE AND PHOTO GALLERY HERE

Pure, inborn, and Native, This band is heavy, trippy, and has a wide sound that melts into liquid gold. Always straight to the point, the songs capture the personality of each member at all times. This clash of egos creates an “end of the world” type of tension and depth. Just like Close to the Edge and Fragile, they are a constant, gyrating, overlapping machine that is made up of each member’s intent to try and overpower the last. This formula births the most sincere approach to playing music and really leads to a new, original, and unpredictable sound. The mixing of peculiar attitude and teasing the ones you love, only on stage. These guys are nice, polite, young, intellectual, political, and opinionated among many other things, and we love it all. The combination is an explosion of awareness. Native have started to stand up for what they believe in. Listen to the new album this summer and join the revolution. These are songs for tomorrow written before yesterday. In between the lines, that narrow channel bridging life and death. It’s the only way one can go that far and not be afraid for their life. Not even with nn-DMT, folks.

Music. The trance involved in it. We see this let go and we surrender to Native‘s live performance. We leave it all behind and embrace the inner experience we all carried yet forgot to tend to. We really enjoyed this show. It became clear to us pretty quickly that their sound cannot be contained. Five years later, Native return to their favorite Montreal venue to shed their skin and show us their souls. This was a special night and I’m glad we were able to capture it on tape.
Thanks Native for having us as a guest at your trip down memory lane. Aren’t we all looking for our purpose?

Ren Walker Sits Down to Talk with Dan and Ed of Native

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Native have just added a few new headline shows before and after they meet up with Caspian for their tour together that starts on March 1st in Los Angeles.
Above, check out a newly posted video live from Paris of them playing a new song called “Kissing Bridge”. Stay up to date on all things Native on Instagram HERE and updates on their own tour blog HERE .

NATIVE 2013
Feb 25, 2013 - Oklahoma City, OK @ The Conservatory
Feb 26, 2013 - Albuquerque, NM @ The Gas Works
Feb 27, 2013  - Tempe, AZ @ Tempe Women’s Club
CASPIAN & NATIVE 2013
Mar 01, 2013 - Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex also w/ Junius
Mar 02, 2013 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar And Lounge
Mar 03, 2013 - San Francisco, CA @ The Bottom of the Hill
Mar 05, 2013 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza
Mar 06, 2013 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
Mar 07, 2013 - Boise, ID @ The Red Room
Mar 08, 2013 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
Mar 09, 2013 - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
Mar 10, 2013 - Omaha, NE @ The West Wing (No Caspian)
Mar 11, 2013 - Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Music Hall
Mar 12, 2013 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue 7th Street Entry
Mar 13, 2013 - Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
Mar 14, 2013 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
Mar 15, 2013 - St Louis, MO @ The Firebird
Mar 16, 2013 - Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
Mar 18, 2013 - Toronto, ON  @ The Garrison
Mar 19, 2013 - Lansing, MI  @ Mac’s Bar
Mar 20, 2013 - Newport, KY @ Southgate House
Mar 21, 2013 - Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop
Mar 22, 2013 - Pittsburgh, PA  @ Smiling Moose
Mar 23, 2013 - Buffalo, NY  @ Big Orbit Soundlab
Mar 24, 2013 - Burlington, VT @ Signal Kitchen
NATIVE ONLY
Mar 25, 2013 - Montreal, QC @ L’escogriffe Cafe Bar
Mar 26, 2013 - Kitchener, ON @ The Jam Hole
Mar 27, 2013 - Toledo, OH @ Mickey Finn’s
April 5, 2013 - Urbana, IL @ Channing Murray Foundation (Skeletal Lightning Fest)

SEE ALL SHOW DETAILS & UPDATES HERE

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Native have just announced that they will be touring with good friends Caspian starting in Los Angeles on March 1st. We will be adding a few more shows of their own on the way so stay tuned.

SEE ALL SHOW DETAILS HERE


CASPIAN & NATIVE TOUR 2013
Mar 01, 2013 - Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex also w/ Junius
Mar 02, 2013 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar And Lounge
Mar 03, 2013 - San Francisco, CA @ The Bottom of the Hill
Mar 05, 2013 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza
Mar 06, 2013 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
Mar 08, 2013 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
Mar 09, 2013 - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
Mar 11, 2013 - Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Music Hall
Mar 12, 2013 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue 7th Street Entry
Mar 13, 2013 - Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
Mar 14, 2013 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
Mar 15, 2013 - St Louis, MO @ The Firebird
Mar 16, 2013 - Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
Mar 18, 2013 - Toronto, ON  @ The Garrison
Mar 19, 2013 - Lansing, MI  @ Mac’s Bar
Mar 20, 2013 - Newport, KY @ Southgate House
Mar 21, 2013 - Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop
Mar 22, 2013 - Pittsburgh, PA  @ Smiling Moose
Mar 23, 2013 - Buffalo, NY  @ Big Orbit Soundlab
Mar 24, 2013 - Burlington, VT @ Signal Kitchen

Dan and Ed from Native sat down with Zarif Miah from The Math Rock Blog to discuss things such as the political/social agenda of the upcoming album coming out in 2013 on Sargent House, the ever-changing ways of acquiring music, the pros and cons of digitalisation, gun control policies and much more.

The collaborative efforts of Pink Mist and Zine & Not Heard, however, put me firmly in my place on the 9th December 2012 – the date of Native‘s first ever London show to be exact, four or so years in the making. An overriding sense of gratification filled the Old Blue Last on the brisk winter’s night; each band grateful to us, the audience, for taking the time to appreciate what it is they do, whilst we thanked them with our clapping hands and wolf whistles for creating such glorious music. All three acts were so expertly selected and placed that although varied, they collectively projected a similar theme – the complexities of Suffer Like G Did paired with the relentlessness of TROPICS fusing to create a well-crafted bridge that seamlessly lead to Native…

…After opening with the intro to end all intros, ‘Backseat Crew’, Native proceeded to play strictly new material, which they apologized for on several occasions. I, however, thought that this out with the old approach was an admirable one, giving the audience a genuine insight into just how far they’ve traveled – in both a musical and literal sense – since the release of ‘Wrestling Moves’; which, for those who don’t know, was almost a whopping three years ago! Imagine how exhilarating it would be, after playing the same songs to the same people in the same places for so long, to have a new, highly developed sound and subsequent repertoire. I’d want to do nothing but share this discovery with the world. With this in mind, I think they deserved to play the majority of what they’ve been toiling over for literal years, especially to a predominantly unfamiliar audience; the ideal, unbiased recipient of the new. It’s apparent that Native have collectively been through a lot since ‘Wrestling Moves’ first graced our ears, and even more so since their inception, overcoming what was previously in their way to unlock a deeper, darker side; later creating music akin to both the likes of ‘We Delete; Erase’ and the aforementioned album, but so very different.

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We asked Bobby Markos of Indiana based 4-piece Native to write a few words about the bands upcoming record (Dropping early 2013 via Sargent House) and told him he could write whatever he wanted. What we got a was an intimate, poetically abstract, stream of consciousness approach to the bands recording process. Without spoiling it, or interjecting my own interpretations, read what Bobby had to say below.

Bobby Markos
Native album piece

He sat in front of the building with his head buried in his hands.
The faint sound of passing traffic surrounded him from the highway sitting just south.
The scent and uncomfortable warmth in the small room where the four of them sat became
too much, so they all moved into different locations.
They all had the same question, “Why are we doing this to ourselves?”
A question never answered. There is no conceivable answer.
That night a major milestone was met. The seventh of eight compositions was completed.

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Native is a four piece band from Indiana with one of the coolest/weirdest sounds in recent memory. It’s heavy and aggressive and discordant but the members of Native are also absurdly proficient from instrument to instrument, so it makes for a pretty awesome combination of technicality and slush. A new album is due out sometime in 2013 on Sargent House and “Books On Tape” is our first look at it, live at The Altar Bar.

Native performing a new song off of their upcoming 2012 album. Taken in Pittsburgh, PA at The Smiling Moose. Filmed by David Summers 

Native will be supporting Narrows on two of their East Coast shows as well as playing two of their own shows in Pittsburgh and Purchase with locals to be announced.

March 7th Cleveland, OH @ The Grog Shop w/ Narrows
March 8th Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie w/ Narrows
March 9th Purchase, NY @ SUNY Purchase *FREE SHOW*
March 10th Pittsburgh, PA @ Smiling Moose

Native will be joining Thursday, Maylene And The Sons of Disaster & Zechs Marquise for some tour dates this winter. Below are those dates as well as a few others shows which  have different lineups most with Look Mexico. Click on the links for the exact lineups for each show. 

NATIVE LIVE 
Oct 27 - Tallahassee, FL @ The Engine Room
Oct 30 - Gainesville, FL @ The Atlantic
Oct 31 - Orlando, FL @ Stardust Lounge
Nov 01 - Ybor City, FL @ The Crowbar
Nov 03 - Athens, GA @ Caledonia Lounge w/ Tera Melos
Nov 04 - Nashville, TN @ Little Hamilton Collective
Nov 05 - Indianapolis, IN @ The Hoosier Dome 

Thursday, Maylene & The Sons of Disaster, Zechs Marquise, Native Shows 
Nov 23 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza 
Nov 25 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House 
Nov 26 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar // Early show Big Lineup
Nov 27 - Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater 
Nov 28 - Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop
Nov 29 - Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups (native only)
Nov 30 - Atlanta, GA @ The Loft
Dec 01 - Cincinatti, OH @ 20th Century Theater 
Dec 02 - Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge 
Dec 03 - Detroit, MI @ The Eagle 

Wrestling Moves is now on Vinyl and available for Pre-Order at Topshelf Records

First pressing is of 500 split between 100 Clear w/ Orange Splatter, 150 Maroon, and 250 Black. This item includes a copy of the album on vinyl and will come with a download card. - Orders will ship in October. Click HERE for more info