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  Watch Wavves Detonate 'Demon to Lean On' for 'Letterman'

  March 28, 2013 – One of the top YouTube search results for Wavves is still a three-year-old video titled "Wavves being a jerk." So when Nathan Williams sneers, ambivalent and not as young anymore, that "you'll die the same loser," "the truth is that it hurts," and "what's it really worth," it's not just unremembered-'90s borrowed nostalgia. …
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  Watch Wavves' Boozy, Cross-Dressing 'Afraid of Heights' Video

  March 26, 2013 – Wavves' new album Afraid of Heights has many echoes of Kurt Cobain, as SPIN's Jessica Hopper notes in her review. …
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• Wavves, 'Afraid of Heights' (Mom + Pop/Warner Bros.)

  March 25, 2013 – At the time of Nevermind's circa-'92 zenith, a host of underground bands riffing off Nirvana would've been unforgivably gauche — as craven as aping the treacly Aerosmith power ballads that bracketed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on radio and MTV playlists. …
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  Wavves Bro Nathan Williams Designs Handsome-Looking Shoe for Nike

  March 22, 2013 – Wavves main brain Nathan Williams has designed his very own shoe for Nike. After all, a King of the Beach and SPIN cover star should have something nice to put on his feet. Plus he wouldn't want to be outdone by Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis, whose shoemaking swag is decidedly pimpish. The acrophobic young Angeleno shared a few photos on Instagram yesterday showing off the handsome blue suede-and-leather kicks. …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: The Strokes, Depeche Mode, Wavves, Flaming Lips, More

  March 20, 2013 – Hump Day! Liven the work week up by streaming new albums from the Strokes, Depeche Mode, Wavves, the Flaming Lips, Yelawolf, and more. …
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  Wavves' Fuzzy, Hyper-Catchy 'Afraid of Heights' Is Now Streaming in Full

  March 18, 2013 – Nirvana, Weezer, and Green Day similarities abound on Wavves' new album Afraid of Heights, out March 26 via Mom + Pop (and one of SPIN's 50 Albums You Gotta Hear in 2013). …
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  Wavves' Curious 'Demon to Lean On' Video Dives Into the Dump

  March 11, 2013 – It's been a fertile several days for videos that are at once instantly memorable but also hard to parse narratively. The Knife's "A Tooth for an Eye" video gracefully showcased a characteristically stellar song, from the duo's upcoming Shaking the Habitual, but beyond an artists' statement about deconstructing gender tropes, it isn't clear why these men are dancing with this young referee. …
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  Wavves Go Big on Grave-Digging Bulldozer 'Demons to Lean On'

  January 29, 2013 – "No hope and no future," Nathan Williams sings more than once on "Demon to Lean On" (via Pitchfork), the second song to emerge from fourth Wavves album Afraid of Heights, due out on March 26 via Mom + Pop (see SPIN's 50 Albums You Gotta Hear in 2013).The line echoes the Sex Pistols' anti-mantra for punk's class of 1977, of course, but it also recalls "No Hope Kids," a scuzzy standout from 2009 sophomore LP Wavvves. …
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  Wavves Approach the Ledge With Jenny Lewis on New Album 'Afraid of Heights'

  January 10, 2013 – "I feel like I was a real cocky motherfucker when I first started doing this," Nathan Williams says of his Wavves project. "I really believed I was the shit. Now, not so much, but as a songwriter, I think I'm better. You know the tone of [2010's] King of the Beach and the first two records? Like, I 'got no car, got no money,' but, I still got my parents' house to live in so it's not that bad. …
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  Wavves' Nathan Williams and Bro Drop Acid-Washed Sweet Valley Mixtape 'Jenova'

  December 26, 2012 – Though Wavves main man (and recent cover co-star) Nathan Williams told SPIN earlier this year that his goal for brotherly beat-making collaboration Sweet Valley was "to make a soundtrack to getting drunk this summer," he and his rhythmically gifted younger sibling Kynan have extended the project's life well into winter. …
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