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Wavves Keep It Short

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By Ian Gormely (CHARTattack) April 2, 2009 11:27 am
Early hype is a bitch, particularly when you have to tour and prove you're worth all the bits and bytes that bloggers have spent on you. San Diego's Wavves (a.k.a. Nathan Williams), who just released his sophomore album a few weeks ago, have even more to prove. Unlike a group like Black Kids, who are very easy to picture live, Wavvves was...
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Wavves — Wavvves

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By Ian Gormely (CHARTattack) March 20, 2009 4:17 pm
Wavves is The Beatles to No Age's lo-fi Rolling Stones. The San Diego native, otherwise known as Nathan Williams, creates warm surf rock-meets-shoegaze tunes about goths, demons and the beach, often combing his inspirations on tracks like "Beach Goth" and "Beach Demon." Of course, the vocals on the non-instrumental...
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MP3 Roundup: New music from Lee Ranaldo (of Sonic Youth), Field Music, Dirty Three and Wavves covers Misfits

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 13, 2012 2:10 pm
Lee Ranaldo - "Off the Wall" While iconic alt rockers Sonic Youth may be no more, guitarist and founding member Lee Ranaldo will be releasing his ninth solo album, Between the Tides & the Times, this March. Here's the straightforward album cut "Off the Wall," a pleasant preview of what's to come. Check out a decently recorded clip of...
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WATCH: Damian Abraham (of Fucked Up) interviews Wavves

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) October 25, 2011 12:04 pm
"I wanna get Marilyn Manson high." That's how Wavves frontman Nathan Williams concludes this short interview with Damian Abraham, host of The Wedge on MuchMusic (and lead growler of the accalimed Canadian hardcore band Fucked Up). As expected, weed comes up in the coversation a handful of times. So does Tyler, The Creator and Drew Barrymore.The...
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I Read The News Today... For April 27, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 27, 2011 2:29 pm
Seth from Dengue Fever explains what a Mastadong is. And no, it's not as dirty as it sounds (it actually isn't dirty at all): Tokyo Police Club keyboardist and funnyman Graham Wright will release his Shirts Vs. Skins debut solo album on June 28. Chilly Gonzales is going to release what he's calling the world's "first-ever all-orchestral...
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I Read The News Today... For March 24, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 24, 2011 4:21 pm
Quick! Start practicing your falsetto! Bon Iver's long-awaited sophomore album is coming out sometime in June. —Rolling Stone Rufus Wainwright is releasing a box set later this year for all your Judy Garland-inspired needs. —rufuswainwright.com MUTEK's annual Avant_MUTEK series is coming to Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago and New York. International...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 3, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 3, 2011 3:20 pm
Buck 65 has been nominated for two Genie Awards! He's up for best original song and best original score for the work he did on Sook-Yin Lee's Year Of The Carnivore. Elliott Brood are also up for best original song for "West End Sky" from Grown Up Movie Star. Paul J. Spence is also up for best original song for "There's No Place Like Christmas"...
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Video Of The Day: Wavves' "Post Acid"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 21, 2011 3:15 pm
Both today's song and video have the word "acid" in their titles, which we swear wasn't intentional, but anyway...Wavves' Nathan Williams and his bandmates (well, Billy Hayes isn't in the band anymore...) are skateboarding when an alien shows up and follows them throughout sunny California in the video for King Of The Beach's "Post Acid." The...
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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 6, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 6, 2010 2:33 pm
Feist has spoken to The Guardian about her new documentary, and how excited she was to meet Kermit The Frog at the Grammy Awards. Danko Jones want their fans to send them clips and photos of the band playing "Active Volcanoes" live during their upcoming U.S. tour. They'll use the best ones in a new video for the tune. You can send your material to...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 22, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 22, 2010 1:53 pm
The Dears will launch a webcast at 7 p.m. EST today to preview their upcoming Degeneration Street album. The series will continue until the LP comes out Feb. 15. —Livestream Luke Doucet and blues artist Harrison Kennedy both won three Hamilton Music Awards on Sunday night. No, the trophies were not made of steel. —Hamilton Spectator Wavves' Nathan...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 16, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 16, 2010 12:20 pm
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. Weezer's Blue Album/Pinkerton tour is definitely happening. It's being dubbed the Blinkerton Tour. The band will play two dates in markets throughout North America. They'll perform the Blue Album the first night and then Pinkerton the next. —Paste D-Sisive's released a free track called "Feedback (manifesTO)" to support the...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 2, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 2, 2010 12:06 pm
Peter Saville, who's famous for designing album covers for the likes of Joy Division and New Order, has created the new shirts for England's soccer team. They'll wear them for the first time tomorrow when they play Bulgaria in a UEFA European Football Championship qualifying match in London. NME Axl Rose and company packed it in last...
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Wolf Parade Fend Off All Challengers To Remain At #1 For A Third Week

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) August 17, 2010 11:41 am
After several weeks of the usual mid-summer doldrums, things on the campus chart are starting to heat up heading into the historically chaotic period marked by the beginning of the new university school year in September. Here's a glance at the campus chart for the week of Aug. 8 to 14, 2010. Wolf Parade's Expo 86 remains at #1 for a...
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I Read The News Today... For July 5, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff July 5, 2010 12:10 pm
Lady Gaga wants Marilyn Manson to guest on her next album. It sounds weird, but it isn't. It's appropriately freaky. —MTV News Kids, let Drake teach you something about how to treat your mom: When she has surgery, you cancel all your plans. Family first. —CBC News David Bowie's Station To Station will get a deluxe reissue. —Consequence Of...
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Black Lips Bassist Makes Out With Gay Reporter After Explaining Wavves Fight

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 25, 2010 4:11 pm
Wavves' Nathan Williams and the Black Lips' Jared Swilley got into a fist fight last September when Swilley approached Williams at a bar. The incident ended with Swilley and Williams releasing statements containing their own versions of the fight, but Swilley dropped the "F-bomb" (the anti-gay kind) in his story. "That...
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Black Lips, Wavves Members In Alleged Bar Fight

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 28, 2009 10:07 am
Black Lips' Jared Swilley and Wavves' Nathan Williams reportedly got into a fight on Friday night at Brooklyn, N.Y. bar Daddy's after Wavves' show at the city's Market Hotel that night. Swilley has made no secret of his dislike for Williams in the past, calling him a "dick" and a "baby" in previous interviews. According to...
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Wavves — "No Hope Kids"

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By CHARTattack Staff June 29, 2009 12:25 pm
The Pete Ohs-directed (Arcade Fire, Fiery Furnaces) clip for Wavves' "No Hope Kids" sees Nathan Williams and Ryan Ulsh partying it up on stage and off during their recent European tour. Since there's no footage of North American action, that means there's no shots of shoes being thrown at Williams or of Ulsh upending drinks on his head....
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Pumping: Wavves — Wavvves

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) February 17, 2009 1:19 pm
For those of you who aren't in the know, this is the latest hipster hype act. That basically means you can skip 'em, 'cause they suck.
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