Native

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

We’re happy to announce that on October 18th our friends over at Topshelf Records will be releasing Native’s Wrestling Moves on vinyl. Wrestling Moves was recorded in 2009 at Red Room Studios with Chris Common (Pelican, These Arms Are Snakes) and originally released on CD in January of 2010 by Sargent House. Stay tuned for more details on how to order it. 

If like me you’ve been excitedly following the recently resurgent musical genre usually classified as “TOTALLY FUCKING AWESOME” you’ll no doubt have heard the name or read the words Sargent House. The American independent label is home to such acts as The Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, Fucking Hella, Russian Fucking Circles, RXFucking Bandits, This Fucking Town Needs Guns, B-Fucking-oris, Fang Fucking Island and one of their most recent signings? A little known Irish dreampop trio … I think they’re called the Adebisis or something like that.

But one of the biggest fucking deals on the Sargent House roster right now is Native (you may notice this write up/review is kind of laced with four letter words, but after you’ve gone and listened to Native’s back catalogue so far I think you’ll understand). Formed from the ashes of two other bands in Valparaiso, Indiana in 2007 the band quickly set about to writing some of the most ball-grabbingly brilliant songs to come out of the American punk underground; they’ve pretty much been on tour ever since. Boasting a median age that will send most other working bands into fits of frustration at their own lack of progress, the band have toured all over the United States and Canada and rumours are abounding of a UK (hopefully encompassing Ireland) and European tour this summer. Native’s blend of a beefy yet agile rhythm section, intricate but visceral guitar work and lyrics laced with expert wordsmanship calls to mind Dischord greats Q and Not U and FUGAZI, both of whom the band collectively count as major influences. One could go on and on about how great Native are, but instead I’m going to talk about how their music does the talking for them.

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Mar 19- Austin, TX @ SXSW Emo’s Annex Sargent House/RLP (official) AA 7:25pm

Native will be playing at the official Sargent House & Rodriguez Lopez Productions show this year at SXSW on Saturday, March 19th at Emo’s Annex - doors at 7:00pm Native on at 7:25pm sharp. - All Ages. Badges & Wristbands first entry, tickets only at door and are first come first serve. Come early and don’t leave it will be packed.
Native ,Cast Spells ,Gypsyblood ,Therapies Son ,Zechs Marquise ,Adebisi Shank 
Le Butcherettes ,Fang Island  & Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group  

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Mar 17- Austin, TX @ Plush - Giant Step Productions (day) 3pm


Mar 19- Austin, TX @ Red 7 - No Sleep/Atticus Party (day) 

Inside Stage
White Apple Tree: 12:00 -12:20 
Aficionado: 12:35 - 12:55 
Mansions: 1:10-1:30
Santah: 1:45-2:05
This Time Next Year: 2:20 - 2:40
Into It Over It: 2:55 - 3:15
Laura Stevenson & The Cans: 3:30 - 3:50
Fake Problems: 4:05 - 4:35
Travis Shettel: 4:50 - 5:30

Outside Stage
Now, Now: 12:10-12:30
TBA DAY OF SHOW: 12:45 - 1:05
The Felix Culpa: 1:20 -1:40
Former Thieves: 1:55 - 2:15
Moving Mountans: 2:30 - 2:50 
Make Do and Mend: 3:05 - 3:25
Native: 3:40 - 4:00
TBA DAY OF SHOW: 4:15 - 4:45
Defeater: 5:00 - 5:40

Native go to the Dirty Laundromat for a chat with Malia James to talk about, Orville Redenbachers roots, gettin’ dissed on the Fork and how losing producer Chris Common’s dog is never fun.

Thanks for the poster by Mark Gamble of Secretly Swedish 

photo by David Summers 

Native have added a ton of shows before heading to Texas. Joining them on most of the March dates will be Caspian and Chiaroscuro. They will be playing a few shows at this years SXSW including the Official Sargent House show on March 19th at Emo’s Annex, then to Dallas to play BroFest and ending the month at Mission Creek Fest in Iowa.

NATIVE MARCH 2011
Feb 18 -Indianapolis, IN @ The Hoosier Dome
Feb 19- Ann Arbor, MI @ The Metal Frat 
Feb 25- DeCatur, IL @ Milliken University &
Feb 26- Grand Rapids, MI @ The DAAC &
Feb 27- Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop &
Mar 02- Covington, KY @ The Mad Hatter
Mar 03 -Pittsburgh, PA @ Smiling Moose
Mar 04- Baltimore, MD @ Golden West Cafe #*
Mar 05- Vienna, VA @ Jammin Java #*
Mar 06- Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter #*
Mar 07- Charlottesville, VA @ Trinity #*
Mar 09- Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor #*
Mar 10- Nashville, TN @ The End #*
Mar 11- Athens, GA @ Caledonia Lounge #* 
Mar 12- Orlando, FL @ Wills Pub #* 
Mar 13- Gainesville, FL @ Atlantic #*
Mar 14- New Orleans, LA @ Howlin’ Wolf #* + more bands
Mar 15- Baton Rouge, LA @ The Spanish Moon #*
Mar 17- Austin, TX @ Plush - Giant Step Productions (day) 3pm
Mar 19- Austin, TX @ Red 7 - No Sleep/Atticus Party (day) 
Mar 19- Austin, TX @ SXSW Emo’s Annex (official) AA
Mar 20- Dallas, TX @ BROFEST at Club Dada 
Mar 30- Iowa City, IA @ MISSION CREEK FEST 
#*=w/Caspian and Chiaroscuro
& = w/ Xerxes 
!! = w/ Cast Spells, Adebisi Shank, Gypsyblood, Therapies Son, Fang Island, Zechs Marquise, Le Butcherettes & Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group

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Native playing Backseat Crew live in Melbourne, FL on August 14, 2010. Big thanks to Erick R. Wilczynski & his boys for shooting and editing it. 

Native, a noisy prog-core quartet from Northwest Indiana, are playing two shows this weekend at the Bottom of the Hill in support of their last album, Wrestling Moves, which combines all the rhythmic intricacy and interlocking near-melodies and committed yelling of post-hardcore exemplars like These Arms Are Snakes. Also playing are Orange County psych-core heroes RX Bandits, whose Mandala just came out, and Floridian punk stalwarts Fake Problems. Check it out — you’ve got two weekend nights to get it right. Below, Native’s Ed O’Neill answers some questions with disarming straightforwardness.

How’s the tour going so far?
Tour is going well so far. It’s definitely a new experience for us playing such big venues, so we’re still getting the hang of it.

How did your tour with RX Bandits come about?
We’re both on Sargent House and have some common friends, so it kind of just worked out and came together. RX was cool enough to have us along on these couple of weekends of shows.

What was your best set so far?
Our best set so far was probably at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Cafe.

Where are you most looking forward to playing? 
We’re definitely looking forward to Los Angeles and San Francisco, but also stoked to return to Fresno on an off date of the tour.

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From Sargent House

Native, how we love these guys! This is the EP that started it all for us, one listen and I was hooked. So we wanted to share it all with you. So for the next week Download Native’s first EP,  We Delete; Erase for FREE - and don’t you miss them out on tour! 

From now until October 15th, Tastemakers Magazine has curated a free download of their hand picked tracks from the wonderful label Sargent House. Check out the tracklist below and make sure you download the compilation while you can!

DOWNLOAD :: Tastemakers Magazine’s Sargent House Picks – [LINK]

TRACKLISTING:
Gypsyblood – “Take Your Picture”
Technology feat. Aaron Chapman from Nurses – “New Weird Pop”
Tera Melos – “Aped”
Zach Hill – “Memo To The Man”
Fang Island – “Sideswiper”
Native – “Backseat Crew”
RX Bandits – “Breakfast Cat”
Maps & Atlases – “Witch”
Good Old War – “Get Some”
This Town Needs Guns – “Zebra”
Lisa Papineau – “Annette Tessier”
Cast Spells – “Letters”
Omar Rodriguez Lopez – “Ojo Al Cristo De Plata”

Native have only been around for three years, but they’ve already developed a name for themselves with their unique blend of hardcore music and an indie aesthetic. Inforty’s own Matt Sokol teamed up with Jon Scranton of the college radio station WHNU to interview the band in Boston during their ongoing tour with This Town Needs Guns. 

Q: Let’s go around and introduce ourselves.

Ed: My name’s Ed and I play guitar.
Bobby: I’m Bobby, I play bass and do some vocals.
Nick: I’m Nick, I play drums.
Dan: I’m Dan, I play guitar.

Q: Where are you guys from and how long have you been playing together?

Ed: We’re from a town in northeast Indiana called El Porrazo. We’ve been playing together for almost three years as Native.

Q: What are some of your major influences as far as other bands out there?

Dan: One of my favorite guitarists of all time is Kaki King. I would really enjoy to – not in a weird way – just to hang out with her, just to see what she does. A day in the life. So if you’re listening – hey, my name’s Dan.

Ed: This Town Needs Guns – it’s really a pleasure to be touring with them right now.

Bobby: I would say they’re an influence, we listened to them even before we ever met them and we had their album Animals and listened to that quite a bit at home so it’s pretty cool to be out on the road with them now.

Dan: It was cool because we saw them in a record shop, in an in-store, they did an acoustic set and it was really cool to see that. Just to see them as humans moreso than superhuman music making machines. It’s cool to see how it’s broken down and see some thought process behind the music you can recognize and stuff like that.

Q: You came out with the most recent album Wrestling Moves last year right, ’09?

Bobby: Well, it technically came out in January but we’ve had it for over a year now so it’s been way too long. We finished writing that in April and went and recorded it the day after we finished it which was really good timing on our part, and then it was in our hands pressed and everything in October and we just kinda sold it at shows locally for a while and then it officially came out in January like we said.

Q: Can you describe how you worked out that album, how you put it together and all that? As far as production and writing?

Ed: We kind of tortured ourselves to write that album, we just locked ourselves in Dan’s parents’ basement and wrote it over the course of about three months.

Dan: Our writing process is kind of interesting, but nothing new to anybody. It’s write a song and then scrap it and rewrite it… and then maybe take one of those parts from the two versions that you have and then rewrite that and then make it backwards and then rewrite it, and then rewrite it, and then scrap everything again and rewrite it. So that’s kind of our writing process, so it was a long process of that. So that ten times. So we got down to the wire eventually.

Bobby: We probably wrote 25 songs for Wrestling Moves, we only kept ten of them. It’s because we weren’t very happy with a lot of it. So it was a pretty extensive process, writing it.

Q: Are you working on anything new for an upcoming album? That just came out a few months ago.

Ed: We’re not writing so much in the sense of writing for an album, we’re just trying to write new songs in order to stay fresh for us.

Dan: Write things that represent us now, moreso than it did a year ago or a year and a half ago. I mean the oldest song on that CD, the first song we wrote for that album was Legoland, and that was written the summer after we were a band, so it’s old compared to the other ones. So what we’re doing now is just essentially taking our process of rewriting rewriting rewriting and applying that to now so that it makes sense and everything.

Q: What’s the weirdest thing that’s ever happened to you at a show?

Bobby: The first time we went to Canada in October of 2008, we played the major cities Ontario and Montreal, and then we needed a show between Toronto and Montreal so the band that we were going on tour with met some girl who threw together a show in Napanee Ontario which was the hometown of Avril Lavigne, and I think actually a lot of her high school classmates were there. They were all “oh we’re so proud of her” and everything but really it was just the backwoods of Ontario.

Ed: I don’t remember them being proud of her.

Bobby: No, I remember they said that they were proud of her.

Ed: I heard a lot of horrible things about her.

Bobby: Well yeah, they said a lot of horrible things about her too but they said they were proud of her and her music or whatever. The house was on a hill and then in the back it was just like a huge backyard and they had built a stage but the stage was one level and then where the drummer would sit was like ten feet above the rest of it.

Ed: The stage was bricks and piles of rocks with plywood on top of it. That was the stage.

Bobby: We were pretty much ready to leave when we got there but we saw that they had put the trouble into building that stage so we thought we should play so us and the band that we were on tour with were gonna play two songs each. When we were setting up the guy who was running the show was super drunk and he was singing Journey karaoke through the PA system and he ended up stepping on Dan’s glasses and smashing them on the stage. It was just a disaster.

Dan: Don’t forget the bonfire.

Bobby: Oh, they started this huge bonfire and it was so big that the Napanee fire department came and put it out five minutes into the bonfire, it was huge. It was like as tall as the house.

Dan: They lit it and then the fire department put it out. It was insane.

Bobby: Yeah, so that was pretty extreme. And then we seriously played and then left. We got out of there as soon as we could. I guess a bunch of fights broke out after we left. Our friend was watching us that was in the other band and the mom of the dude that was running the show was like hitting on him or something and then the dude wanted to fight Derryl, it was ridiculous.

Q: So how did this tour come about, with This Town Needs Guns?

Ed: That was more set up, because we didn’t actually know this Town Needs Guns until they got here, it was more set up by Sargent House and they wanted This Town Needs Guns to come over and they thought it would be a good match for us to go out with them and it has been, it’s been actually a really great match. Kids that are coming to see them will watch us and vice versa, and I think people really appreciate and have a good time watching both of us, so it’s been a really awesome time thus far, really awesome dudes.

Bobby: Not to mention we have very comparable senses of humor, which is really nice. We weren’t really sure what to expect but there were a couple lines early on in the tour that a couple of them said that were like wow that’s something we would say. So that’s pretty entertaining thus far.

Matt: How did the whole Sargent House thing come about? How did you get involved with that label?

Ed: I guess it was weird, Sargent House doesn’t take submissions so it was always a label that even when I was in high school a lot of bands that I liked were on it and it was always something kind of cool that I kept up with. Randomly one day they messaged us on myspace saying that they thought we were cool and just wanted a demo. I guess we released something on Big Scary Monsters in the UK and they work with Sargent House or they kept in touch and Kev told Cathy about us and she heard about us so she wanted a demo. We sent her one and she was really cool about it so we kept in touch with them and then over time she just said “fuck it, let’s work together” and we’ve been working with them ever since. It’s been pretty cool.

Bobby: Ironically enough I think Kev was on the phone with Cathy about This Town Needs Guns when he first told her, he’s just like have you heard of Native from Indiana and I think when she checked out our myspace the first thing she said was oh they’re very young, or something like that. She’s been very cool to us ever since.

Sargent House & Rodriguez Lopez ask: What is absolutely necessary for a great holiday weekend? SALES ! 

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In honor of all BBQ’s across this great planet we bring you the Sargent House / Rodriguez Lopez Productions $5 or less for any file size you want download sale! 

This weekend through June 1st. All artists in our digital record shop  will have full albums / tracks/ eps ranging anywhere from FREE to $5 and if you just want to hear their albums you can do that too, that is always Free.

Also remember, if you want to kick down some extra you can always donate more than the minimum. If you love the band do it, it really helps them out. 

SARGENT HOUSE/RLP - ALL ARTISTS IN ONE PLACE STORE 

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BIG SIR 
BYGONES 
CAST SPELLS 
DAUGHTERS
DAYS AWAY 
DE FACTO 
FANG ISLAND 
GOOD OLD WAR 
LE BUTCHERETTES 
LISA PAPINEAU 
LOVE YOU MOON 
MAPS & ATLASES 
NATIVE 
NURSES
OMAR RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ 
RED FANG
RED SPAROWES
RX BANDITS
TERA MELOS
THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS
ZECHS MARQUISE 

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Native will be playing their first SXSW this year, so who better to roll out to Austin with than their best friends La Dispute.

NATIVE SHOWS  
March 14 - St Louis, MO @Lemp Art Center ^^
March 15 - Oklahoma City, OK @Bad Grannys Bazaar ^^
March 16 - Fort Worth, TX @ 1919 Hemphill ^^ *
March 18 - Austin, TX @ Plush ^^ && and Good Old War
March 19 - Austin, TX -SARGENT HOUSE SHOW @ SXSW @ Habana Calle 6 *** March 20 - Austin, TX @ Mellow Mushroom ^^ * && and Brother Ghost
March 21 - Austin, TX @ Red 7 @8:45pm

^^ = w/ La Dispute
*** = w/ Fang Island, The Chinese Stars, Good Old War, Cast Spells
&& = w/ Touche Amore
* = w/ Sohns