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Wavves
An unlikely success story, Wavves were the undisciplined, ramshackle, lo-fi
brainchild of San Diego counter-culture hero and skateboarder Nathan Williams.
He was 21, working as an office clerk and writing a hip-hop blog when he started
making primitive bedroom recordings of his songs on an old cassette recorder and
circulated them on the Internet. Their raw DIY charm and crude energy, offering
resentful messages of disenchantment and gloom, caused a major stir online and
Williams released a constant stream of new material to further fuel interest.
With Williams joined by drumm...
