On the strength our their debut album, Gorilla Manor, Local Natives’s fanbase is growing steadily. The Californian indie rock outfit has quickly risen from the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake to touring the both the US and Europe, playing festivals like Bonnaroo and the Leeds Music Festival. The five piece band seems to be apart of a new movement of American bands influenced by the Afro-Pop stylings of Paul Simon. The band crafts interesting multi-part harmonies of wandering lyrics that’ll have you huming before you know it. The band recently played a impromtu show at the East End of London that drew a crowd of 200 fans. The band didn’t even bring amplifiers, because they expected only like ten or so people to show up. Local Natives played six songs for the capacity crowd and even stuck around to have a few beers with audience members. The band will be on the road until at least October. Check out Local Natives’ upcoming tour dates here.

 The Raconteurs, the famous indie- rock group, did their performance on May 17^th at Irvine in California. They added some new tour dates to their current headline tour of U.S which includes second shows in many cities in North America. After their U.S tour, they will fly to Europe for a number of concerts and for taking part in summer festivals. Through the tour, they will support the new studio album “Consolers of the Lonely” released in late March. The current tour of the band will end on August 9^th with the performance at the New American Music Union Festival in Pittsburgh.