.nativesunyc's relentless and defiant punk is as ferocious and urgent as it is hopeful. 💿
It was a Sunday night in late August on a rooftop in New York when the metal gate in front of the stage was lifted and passed like a bucket brigade through the hands of a crowd eager to get as close as possible to the Brooklyn-based rock band Native Sun. Soon, bodies, too, surfed through the air. I was so lost in the catharsis of the band’s relentless, defiant punk that I didn’t realize the leg I was hoisting up belonged to Danny Gomez, the band’s lead singer who had dived into the crowd.
“The mission statement of this band is to play every show like it's the last one,” Gomez says as he lights a cigarette. “If you're gonna come see us, no matter who's there, what's going on, we're gonna bring that because music for us isn’t a hobby or a trust fund. It’s like sweat and blood. If you mean it, it's okay to show it to people, you know? I think apathy sometimes can lead to nowhere.
“I think the honesty of it all is what sells it,” Espinosa adds. “It feels honest when we are performing.”, whose cover art is an homage to 1970s Sex Pistols news headlines, is a fitting introduction to Native Sun. You can hear influences from Rolling Stones to The Stooges to The Beatles’across its six tracks of fuzzed-out guitar, swirling psych-rock melodies, heavy riffs, and snarly vocals. It’s an EP that is as ferocious and urgent as it is hopeful.
The fact that Native Sun is a group of immigrants is as essential to their punk ethos as is the DIY approach they’ve taken with their music, which is bolstered by a community of artists and photographers who want to be a part of what they’re creating. Barry joined the band after chipping a tooth in the mosh pit of one of Native Sun’s earliest shows — “I was like, damn, you can't fake this,” he says — and James didn’t even shoot concerts before seeing the group live.
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