Wavves played a show with The-Dream last night. That’s the lede here. Forget the weird games the pop punk star might be playing with his audience, forget the myth he’s building as he stages his triumphant early career comeback, forget whether the production on his new album means he can’t call himself lo-fi anymore. He Read More
This past weekend a 23-year-old stoner from San Diego made a play for king of New York. Nathan Williams, whose band Wavves is known for sugary, petulant punk songs about being bored and smoking weed, opened the L Magazine’s Northside Festival on Thursday night with a sold-out show at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg. It Read More
Last night’s afterparty for lo-fi pop punk phenom Wavves was over before it even really started. What was supposed to be an all-night hang-out at a D.I.Y. space in Bushwick marking the first night of this weekend’s Northside Festival turned instead into a lot of freaked-out standing around when somebody at the party threw Read More
