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Wavves Setlist
Tour Dates
04/02/13 Columbus, OH The Basement
04/03/13 Cleveland Heights, OH Grog Shop 04/04/13 Detroit, MI Magic Stick Lounge 04/05/13 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern 04/06/13 Montreal, QC La Sala Rossa 04/08/13 Boston, MA Brighton Music Hall 04/09/13 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda's 04/11/13 Brooklyn, NY Glasslands Gallery 04/12/13 New York, NY Shea Stadium 04/13/13 Washington, DC Rock & Roll Hotel 04/14/13 Raleigh, NC King's Barcade 04/15/13 Atlanta, GA Drunken Unicorn 04/16/13 Nashville, TN The Mercy Lounge 04/18/13 Houston, TX Fitzgerald's 04/20/13 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom 04/21/13 Los Angeles, CA The Smell 04/22/13 Los Angeles, CA The Smell 08/03/13 Niagara, ON Butler's 08/04/13 Chicago, IL Grant Park Read More Once the hype machine roars to life, it's nearly impossible to ignore. Either you the spectator are borne up in its jaws, clamped irreversibly, or, arms akimbo, you stand and squint
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Wavves w/ FIDLAR and Cheatahs
7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN
Friday, March 29, 2013
The Entry was loud Friday night, all night. – It was not the kind of three band lineup you want to forget your earplugs to, if you usually bring them. The room was sweaty as well, but with a packed house, there wasn’t a lot you could do about that, except to move with the crowd.
UK-based Cheatahs, led by Canadian Nathan Hewitt started the night with a brief 30 min. set, playing songs from their debut, Extended Plays, including the single ‘The Swan’, which is getting radio airplay on local public radio. Their 90s inspired blend of churning guitars and heavy melodies never quite got off the launching pad in a set that was enjoyable, but hardly memorable.
Southern California’s FIDLAR followed, in support of their debut album on Mom & Pop, with an explosive 45min of punk/surf rock, set that threw the crowd immediately into a whipped up, sweat-dripped frenzy that swirled the crowd as one, from one wall edge to the opposite. From “Cheap Beer” to “Stoked and Broke” (“...cause that’s what we are”, intro'd singer Zac Carper) to “Cocaine” and “Got No Money”, the tempo kept chugging, the crowd moving, sweating and pogo-ing as one on the floor.
“Max Can’t Surf”, “the Waiting Room” and “Wake Bake Skate”, kept the throngs moving, beer tossed in the air, crashing into a final farewell which was met by large applause, evident that much of the crowd was there to see FIDLAR, or at least ended up won over by them.
After a brief intermission, fellow So Cal garage punk/pop cohorts Wavves blasted in with an equally relentless 52min set (no encore, apparently not ‘punk’ to do so). “Idiot” appropriately started their set, only to be hindered early on, by lack of a channel in singer Nathan Williams’ monitor speakers. "Bug," from 2011’s Life Sux EP followed by "Take on the World" next, before the band played its recent and maybe most accessible song to date, "Demon to Lean On”, from the new ‘Afraid of Heights’ which understandably got a noisy positive response, despite being so early into the set.
Williams, who has had a sometimes notorious reputation in the past, seemed playful and relaxed over the course of the set- mocking random shout-outs from audience members, warbling through a verse of RHCP’s “Under the Bridge” and taking a red knit hat that someone had thrown on stage and literally biting it in half, before tossing it back into the crowd.
Bassist Stephen Pope was his 80s blonde-maned best, holding down the lower end along with drummer Jacob Cooper, and guitarist Alex Gates roared away on guitar, sporting the remnants of a black left eye, that likely has some good story behind it. Even FIDLAR lead singer Zac Carper got into the festivities mid-set, leaping out from backstage to crowd surf and held high enough to scale the rafters in the small club, making for the inevitable “FIDLAR on the Roof” reference.
Other highlights included “Sail to the Sun” and “Green Eyes”, ending with a jagged cover of Sonic Youth’s “100%” and ”Post Acid”, that left both band members and crowd exhausted, but exhilarated.
7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN
Friday, March 29, 2013
The Entry was loud Friday night, all night. – It was not the kind of three band lineup you want to forget your earplugs to, if you usually bring them. The room was sweaty as well, but with a packed house, there wasn’t a lot you could do about that, except to move with the crowd.
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CHEATAHS
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FIDLAR
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“Max Can’t Surf”, “the Waiting Room” and “Wake Bake Skate”, kept the throngs moving, beer tossed in the air, crashing into a final farewell which was met by large applause, evident that much of the crowd was there to see FIDLAR, or at least ended up won over by them.
After a brief intermission, fellow So Cal garage punk/pop cohorts Wavves blasted in with an equally relentless 52min set (no encore, apparently not ‘punk’ to do so). “Idiot” appropriately started their set, only to be hindered early on, by lack of a channel in singer Nathan Williams’ monitor speakers. "Bug," from 2011’s Life Sux EP followed by "Take on the World" next, before the band played its recent and maybe most accessible song to date, "Demon to Lean On”, from the new ‘Afraid of Heights’ which understandably got a noisy positive response, despite being so early into the set.
Williams, who has had a sometimes notorious reputation in the past, seemed playful and relaxed over the course of the set- mocking random shout-outs from audience members, warbling through a verse of RHCP’s “Under the Bridge” and taking a red knit hat that someone had thrown on stage and literally biting it in half, before tossing it back into the crowd.
Bassist Stephen Pope was his 80s blonde-maned best, holding down the lower end along with drummer Jacob Cooper, and guitarist Alex Gates roared away on guitar, sporting the remnants of a black left eye, that likely has some good story behind it. Even FIDLAR lead singer Zac Carper got into the festivities mid-set, leaping out from backstage to crowd surf and held high enough to scale the rafters in the small club, making for the inevitable “FIDLAR on the Roof” reference.
Other highlights included “Sail to the Sun” and “Green Eyes”, ending with a jagged cover of Sonic Youth’s “100%” and ”Post Acid”, that left both band members and crowd exhausted, but exhilarated.
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Wavves at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (03/29/13) |
