gorilla vs. bear's albums of 2008
gorillavsbear.net — ... enough of Wavves' radical "lo-fi beach punk." Listening to Nathan Williams' noisy, fuzzy, endlessly hummable melodies as they hiss out of my barely serviceable tape deck fills me with an inescapable urge to move back to Southern California immediately. Prone to vaguely appropriate/slightly unfair No Age comparisons, although I've heard rumblings that the two are now labelmates. Look for a new LP in February '09 on Destijl. Sidenote: Nathan also has a great rap blog where he posts Jeru tha Damaja videos and other cool shit. [cassette is sold ...

be good to the earth this season
gorillavsbear.net — ... voices in existence: Antony and Kria Brekkan. Essential listening for your alt-holiday season: The b-side features a new track from Drawlings (Abby Portner of Rings) and was recorded with the help of Avey Tare and Rusty Santos. Get the limited 7" here before it's gone forever. ************************** elsewhere: Here's the first "official" mp3 from WAVVES' upcoming Destijl release, Wavvves (three "v"'s), which is due out on ...

be good to the earth this season
gorillavsbear.net — ... voices in existence: Antony and Kria Brekkan. Essential listening for your alt-holiday season: The b-side features a new track from Drawlings (Abby Portner of Rings) and was recorded with the help of Avey Tare and Rusty Santos. Get the limited 7" here before it's gone forever. ************************** elsewhere: Here's the first "official" mp3 from WAVVES' upcoming Destijl release, Wavvves (three "v"'s), which is due out on ...

Best of 2009? WAVVES - Wavvves
THE SKY REPORT — Wavves is: -22 year-old Nathan Daniel William from San Diego. -about to release his second LP, titled Wavvves. -almost guaranteed to hit big in 2009. Touted as "the sound of today's american youth", William has gone from music blogger to blog sensation seemingly overnight. But it's not at all without merit. Within the last year, his collection of bedroom recordings has spawned itself into two highly addictive, lo-fi beach punk LPs that really get under your skin. His prolific output alone should certainly ...

So Bored By Wavves
GIMME TINNITUS blogspot — You maybe heard that noisy noisy lofi indie rock surfer Wavves (with extra V) is going be putting out his new album next year (Feb. 03, 2009) on De Stijl. It will be entitled Wavvves (with two extra Vs). Without further ado, here is the latest Wavves mp3 making the rounds. Downloadable with no extra V: "So Bored" (box.net mp3) Ghost Ramp is here. Woodsist is here. De Stijl is here. Recent forkcast is here. Consider CLICKing - Today's Daytrotter session features ...

The Outsiders: Vol. 23
Stereogum — ... collection. Its tempo kicks like blown-out Can. Wavves - "California Goth" (MP3) "So Bored" and its catchy, snotty teenage ennui comes from Wavvves : Wavves - "So Bored" (MP3) Listen to Wavves in tandem with Blank Dogs (who has a new release on Woodsist, too) and Cold Cave . The self-titled collection is out now via Woodsist . Wavvves (note the extra "v") is out 2/3 via De Stijl . You can get more at his MySpace and his blog , which is worth checking out even if you're not into his music. Posted at 2:22 PM by ...

2009: The Year Of The Consonant? New WAVVES LP In February
Tiny Mix Tapes — ... [image] Nathan Daniel William’s distorted art-surf-pop group, WAVVES has already been called out by the ever-observant online music community (no link, find it yourself people) for superfluous consonant use last year. Including us: Gumshoe talked about WAVVES in his year-end write-up ( ...

Wavves: So Bored (MP3)
Prefix — ... The Wavvves album was recorded onto 4-track tape in William’s bedroom in San Diego. He also blogs at Ghost Ramp, where he talks about his love of hip-hop stars such as the Geto Boys, Jeru the Damaja and Raekwon. William is taking Wavves on the road in January and February, and is playing SXSW in March. Full tour dates listed below. ...

Hot New Band: Wavves
Daily Noise Blog | SPIN.com — ... What do you get when you cross the Beach Boys' sunny melodies with the atonal guitars of Sonic Youth? Wavves, a one-man band starring 22-year-old Nathan Williams, a laid-back San Diego skateboarder who spends his days watching Cops and The Price Is Right, gulps 40s, blogs about hip-hop -- and is set to be one of indie rock's next big things in 2009. ...

Is She There By Nodzzz
GIMME TINNITUS blogspot — ... @ 107th St $3 with Columbia ID $5 everybody else (presented by WBAR Barnard College Radio and Todd P). Also playing are Woods, Blank Dogs, and the mucho-hyped Wavves. Listen: "Is She There" (box.net mp3) The band's blogspot is here. Make A Mess is here. What's Your Rupture is here. Amazon MP3 page is here. eMusic page is here. Consider CLICKing - Speaking of Wavves, nyctaper recorded their recent set @ Market Hotel... here. - ...

live wavves
gorillavsbear.net — (photo) WAVVES played their first NYC shows over the weekend, and our friend NYCTaper was in the building for night one (see below). The NY Times was there Saturday, and writer Jon Caramanica throws out superlatives like "thrilling" and "dynamic" and, uh, "spectacular," in his gushing review. The Fader reviews Caramanica's review here. Download the whole Market Hotel show here. mp3: wavves :: to the dregs (live at market hotel) ***************** ...

Wavves - lots more 2009 Tour Dates (2 NYC shows)
brooklynvegan — ... thing just came about because I was working in this music store in San Diego called Music Trader. It was an awful place filled with racist jocks and douchebags and I just couldn't handle the 9 to 5 so I ended up quitting. The sparkle in my day while I was there had been these nice guys who would just come and in and talk rap records with me. Once I quit the job I suddenly had all this time on my hands and wanted to talk rap records but had no one to talk about them with so I started Ghost Ramp. I'd always listened to rap though because as a kid the two things my mum wouldn't ...

photos: WAVVES in Europe
gorillavsbear.net — wavves WAVVES is in the midst of his (their) first ever European tour, and our good friend Pete Ohs is along for the ride, shooting for some secret upcoming film project he's working on. Pete is also documenting Nathan Williams' trip for us via Polaroid machine; here are some of his shots from the first leg of the month-long tour: digging in prague live in dublin a list, by wavves streets of prague ...

DOWNLOAD: Wavves - So Bored
RCRD LBL — ... ' tunes, "So Bored" sounds like it was recorded from a live session on a transistor radio onto a tape deck; its rogue grittiness is half the thrill. Nathan Williams, the singular phenom behind Wavves, (who also runs the rap blog, Ghost Ramp), will be an ubiquitous figure at year's Austin festivities - he's playing 9 shows in 4 days. ...

wavves vs. the british railway council
gorillavsbear.net — Thanks to whomever left this in the comments: Wavves' "No Hope Kids" soundtracks a creepy British railroad safety PSA from 1977, in which the moral of the story appears to be that playing on the tracks is really fun until everyone dies: ******************** related: HRO blogs about Wavves, a "chill bro who plays gigs in comfortable sports wear." ******************** ...

Wavves
3hive — ... It'll be analogous to the "I was listening to Beck when he was on Bongload" conversations happening 17 years ago. Fat Possum just put out his album, Wavves, last week, but it was live on iTunes months before that. And previously Williams released a slew of cassettes and 7-inch singles on a handful of different labels. Wavves is stirring up a big tsunami in a little pond, jump on board and ride it in before the line-up gets overcrowded. www.fatpossum.com ghostramp.blogspot.com

Wavves: Interview
Prefix — “Just because.” That's the truncated kind of answer you get when asking San Diegan and Wavves frontman Nathan Williams about why he put two V's in his nom de noise. His second album(Wavvves) justly has the blogs all a-buzz. That extra "v" may as well be another swell of knifed-speaker-cone pop. If Williams clams up, a rough drawing on his MySpace page speaks more about the lonely nihilism roiling under all that buzz and fuzz.   It's a Bermuda Triangle of sorts for the marginalized stoner who loves watching Seinfeld and Cops re-runs. ...

Interview with Wavves
The KEXP Blog — ... A big thing you also do is your blog, Ghost Ramp. In it, there’s a lot of hip hop; how do you know about all this stuff?   ...

Fuck You '92: Why We Don't Need An Early 90s Revival
The Quietus | All Articles — ... she asked "Where were you in '92?" on 2007's Kala . It's a question Zomby recently deemed fit to ask again with his rave revival album of the same name. Anyone who has witnessed much hyped noise-pop outfit Wavves in a live setting would be hard-pressed to deny the fact that the band's Nathan Williams is clearly an acolyte of early Beck's slacker ways and Dinosaur Jr.'s lo-fi pop. And when not touring, he likes to post gangster rap clips and links to other ephemera from the era up on his blog . Even the film world is taking part, as producers repackage the early 90s and sell ...

maybe the last wavves post ever?: wavves apologizes
Oh No They Didn't! — ... He apologized for his actions at the festival on his blog but deleted the post. but not before everyone and their mother saved it and reblogged it. ...

Wavves: Wavves Apologizes for Barcelona Meltdown
Prefix — ... Wavves are on a European tour, which currently hangs in the balance. A date tonight in Porto has already been canceled. Williams suggested he was on ecstasy while he was on stage at Primavera, and has talked further about his drug and alcohol abuse in this (now deleted) post on his blog: ...

new wavves video :: "no hope kids"
gorillavsbear.net — New video for "No Hope Kids," composed of footage shot by our friend Pete Ohs on Wavves' first European tour: (via) ************* ...

New Wavves Video : 'No Hope Kids'
The Grizzly Life - A Music Blog For The Music Capital (And Beyond...) — ... Here's a new Wavves video for the song "No Hope Kids", one of Nathan Williams's better songs. The dude had a slight meltdown a little while ago at a Barcelona show, and according to ...

AROUND THE WEB: 06/30/2009
RCRD LBL — (Popo) Popo led The FADER on a tour of the Mad Decent Mausoleum. FACT lists their essential Morgan Geist tunes. Wavves' new video for "So Bored" surfaced on his Ghost Ramp blog yesterday. Via Hillary. Wired went into the studio with the Raveonettes. MTVU ...

Wavves – “No Hope Kid” Video
BUDDYHEAD — ... It’s official, San Diego band Wavves have a pretty good sense of humor. After singer (and only real member it seems) Nathan Williams’ drug-fueled freakout onstage, his bizarre apology and then the canceling of the rest of their Euro-tour… Wavves have responded with a clever new video for their song “No Hope Kid”. The clip shows them on tour, having fun, cruising around Europe, gulping vodka (from the bottle no less), smoking the chronic (well it’s Europe, actually it’s prolly dirt weed), shoving food in their mouths, rocking next to ...

timed pleasure
gorillavsbear.net — ... due soon on Mirror Universe Tapes (in advance of a 7" single in October and two LPs in 2010, all on Carpark). Here's a track from the tape, courtesy of the label: mp3: toro y moi :: timed pleasure In other news, Chaz comes to TX for 3 dates on his U.S. tour next month, including a stop at the Pastime Tavern in Dallas on August 19. *********** elsewhere: New Wavves song posted to his Ghost Ramp blog this evening; Nate says: "This was ...

mp3: wavves | "cool jumper"
gorillavsbear.net — ... New song from Nathan Williams, aka Wavves, who's apparently been joined full-time by Zach Hill. Haters will continue to hate, but this is kind of the jam: ...

New Wavves : 'Cool Jumper' (possibly featuring Zach Hill)
The Grizzly Life - A Music Blog For The Music Capital (And Beyond...) — ... , we were a little taken aback. Williams is kind of luke-warm at times, but he has his moments of brilliance. Hill is a stunningly technical and consistently talented musician, so the contrast between the two names could come off a bit funny, but it seems that their first song together could dispel all that skepticism. In a blog post, Williams linked to a Wavves song entitled "Cool Jumper" and tagged Zach Hill in the post. Throughout the song, the drumming isn't too technical, but it ramps up towards the end. Otherwise, the song comes ...

Yet Another New Wavves Song (& Video) Featuring Zach Hill : 'Hula Hoop'
The Grizzly Life - A Music Blog For The Music Capital (And Beyond...) — I hate to post a lot about one artist in particular, but this new Wavves material is really doing it for me. While it does contain more of the formulaic stuff we've heard in the past from Nathan Williams, you can't help but think that Williams got really really lucky to have the phenom on drums that is Zach Hill. Here's a video of the two playing a new one entitled "Hula Hoop". ...

Wavves Posts Heaps Of New Songs
Twelve Major Chords — ... recently during a Barcelona show with a classic case of the ol’ “meltdowns”. Apparently, performing under the influence of a drug cocktail strong enough to kill three fully grown John Belushi’s helps. Meltdowns aside, all can rejoice - Wavves is well and truly kicking as demonstrated by the fact Williams has been busy posting several new tunes on his awesome weblogspotify Ghost Ramp . First up was ...

WAVVES COMING TO AUSTRALIA (EXCLUSIVE, EXCLUSIVE, Exclusive, exclusive, exclu..)
Twelve Major Chords — [image] We just got off the court after a heated game of fax machine tennis with our main man Nathan Williams AKA Wavves . While that interview will be coming to you in full in the near future - possibly as an .ogg file or chat transcript - we wanted to share this little bomb that he dropped: Wavves will be touring here in late January, early February 2010. Hmmm. Let me put my gig-guide thinking bracelet on…. Can anyone think of any festivals/street parties he’d be bringing it to? Word also has it he’s playing a backyard gig in Summer Hill. Details pending. Look out for the ...

Interview – Wavves
Twelve Major Chords — ... rep was just really interested so we flew to New York and talked about that. But in the beginning it was just mostly friendly things, I suppose. Is this something you will keep up? Or would you like to be grounded? No, I’m in a contract now I’m not sending stuff around. I’d like to go to your street’s New Year’s Eve party. You and Dean close off the street, play some music, get the piñatas out and just go wild. We’re both not touring at that time, I’m sure we’ll have a wild time. Ghost Ramp , your blog was once touted as a “label”. What happened to it being a label? I never ...

13 QUESTIONS WITH NATHAN WILLIAMS OF WAVVES
BUDDYHEAD — ... 12. What band should people reading this be listening to? Best coast. Bitters. Mayyors. Hudson mohawke. 13. Give the internet some words to live by…. we all know it needs some! Get off the fucking Internet. Music: Wavves – “So Bored” Wavves – “No Hope Kids” Wavves – “Mickey Mouse” (demo) Links: http://ghostramp.blogspot.com/ http://www.myspace.com/wavves Videos: ...

Show Preview: WAVVES at Emo's this Saturday
Austinist — ... (No Age, etc.). Their second record and Fat Possum debut Wavvves was well-received, and the band have been out on the road a great deal since its release. Also appearing with Wavves are The Soft Pack. Like WAVVES, they hail from San Diego, but prefer their sound a little more fleshed-out and easier to absorb. Closer to the aesthetic of WAVVES are the garage rock vibers Ganglians, also performing. WAVVES: [website] [myspace] The Soft Pack: [website] [myspace] Ganglians: [ ...

Tonight : Wavves (feat. Zach Hill) @ Emo's
The Grizzly Life - A Music Blog For The Music Capital (And Beyond...) — Wavves has been a polarizing band since its inception and that will probably continue through Nathan Williams' career, but I have to doubt that he minds. Wavves is getting even more interesting with the Zach Hill collaboration, and if you're lucky enough to make it out to tonight's show, you can see it all happening right in front of you. Hill and Williams will be taking the outside stage at ...

Wavves do Daytrotter, move to LA and prove to be scared to party with Buddyhead
BUDDYHEAD — ... who got in some goofy fights with redneck garage rock hillbillies who like to say “FAGGOT” way more than we do (and that’s allot), has a blog where he gives away demos and links lots of hip-hop videos and ended up canceling a European tour cuz he mixed MDMA with some Xanax before going on stage. And that’s when he told the massive festival crowd “Ok Ok, one at a time” as they all yelled at him to play a song. The difference between me fucking up in my 20’s and this dude blowing it now is the wonderful invention of YOUTUBE! ...

listen to samples from Fall Be Kind
gorillavsbear.net — ... GvsB's Albums of 2006 Austin Mixtape best of January 2006 FRIENDS My Old Kentucky Blog You Ain't No Picasso An Aquarium Drunkard Nothing But Green Lights Pinglewood No Pain in Pop Yours Truly Transparent Blog So Much Silence MBV Transmission Hipster Runoff Motel de Moka Rose Quartz elbows the hype machine Raven Sings the Blues Five Tunes GHOST RAMP Gotham Acme Yeezy Skatterbrain Said the Gramophone 20 ...