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 ...

Last year, the San Diego rock band Wavves made headlines by announcing it was “dis-inviting” supporters of then presidential candidate Donald J. Trump — along with “racists, homophobes, anyone who ...

Surf-punk rock band Wavves will perform at Cornell on April 8, according to a press release from the Cornell Concert Commission. The concert will be held in Bailey Hall and is open to the public. The ...

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A rainy night in North Park failed to keep the punk-rock masses away from the Observatory for Wavves’ San Diego tour stop. After a rollicking set by Chicago rockers Twin Peaks, Nathan Williams ...

On Sept. 27, the San Diego surf-punk band Wavves had its first rehearsal in nearly two years, just four days before heading out on their first tour since before the pandemic. The reason for the ...

I remember when Wavves’s King of the Beach came out in the summer of 2010. Wavves was the perfect band for me at the time: they had all the melody and fun of bratty pop-punk, but balanced snotty ...

On the heels of a surprise collaborative album released just last month with Cloud Nothings, indie rock band Wavves are readying to drop their fifth studio album V. With the album reported to be a ...

Wavves is ready to wave bye-bye to Donald Trump supporters, racists and homophobes. The San Diego-bred rock band is dis-inviting Trump supporters, racists, homophobes, anyone who blames rape victims ...

Wavves 3.0 – with drummer Billy Hayes and bassist Stephen Pope, who wrote two and one songs, respectively, on King of the Beach – had a round of NY shows back in June. That included gigs at Kniting ...

Bassist Stephen Pope joined Wavves two days before the indie surf band was set to leave for a weeklong European tour. "Luckily, if you’re a musician, you don’t have that many other opportunities of ...

Pop punk with a sprinkling of emotional trauma and relationship problems is an equation that California pop-punk band Wavves is pushing on its newest album “V” due out Oct. 2. Coming out playing a ...