Video: WaVVes - So Bored

Lo-fi (from the term " Low fidelity ") is a term used to describe music in which the sound is of a lower quality than the usual standard. The qualities of lo-fi are usually achieved by either degrading the quality of the recorded audio, or using certain equipment. ( Wikipedia ) It can be traced back to the days where there wasn't enough technology to make high quality music, so people made shitty quality music instead. Lo-fi started to expand in the 802s when the first four track recorder was invented, meaning you could affordably [...]

Welcome to another edition of The 405 Gig Guide. Here's some of our recommendations for the next week, including a one sentence argument as to why you should attend. If you have any recommendations for us, please feel free to leave them in the comments section below. Our top tip goes to the 1234 Festival as the line-up is pretty darn good! Tuesday 20th July Band/Artist: Silk Flowers Location: Upset the [...]

I'm not sure who made this video but it's pretty funny. Wavves , aka Nathan Williams , is one of the many cool bands playing Pitchfork fest in July.

Il y avait cette dame d'un certain age qui collé serré à moi dans le metro l'autre matin, faisait les mots fléchés du 20 minutes avec insistance ses fesses collaient pour passer le temps j'en profitai pour lire mon horoscope sur son journal : Scorpion un changement important de direction pourrai vous entrainer dans un tout nouveau challenge Ce genre de choses que l'on lit sans trop d'importance, je ne savais pas trop ce que ça pourrait être, puis quelques semaines plus tard je recevais une invitation de la part d'une boite de production américaine célèbre, je pensais [...]

• Wavves - Friends Were Gone

Nathan Daniel Williams likes the letter 'v': he's added another one to the middle of his band's name for this second album, following last year's Wavves . The San Diego native makes decidedly difficult music, taking elements of Dinosaur Jnr, My Bloody Valentine and '60s' surf pop and putting it through an industrial blender so the output is fuzzier, noisier and more dislocated than an argument between a gaggle of demented Polar bears. Sometimes it works spectacularly, like the nervous energy of 'Beach Demon', the dreamy cacophony of slacker anthem 'So Bored' or the sun-kissed doo-wop [...]

The younger Carpenter was checking out this show tonight in Minneapolis. Hopefully we'll be getting a review out of him. If not, you'll just have to enjoy the video and mp3 below. MP3: Wavves-So Bored MP Posted in M@M, MP3 Tagged: Wavves

• Wavves - So Bored

Streamable: Lips (vimeo) by Micachu & The Shapes Downloadable: Lips (beggars mp3) Streamable: A Parking Lot Carnival Live @ SXSW 2009 (vimeo) by Yppah Streamable: Andrew (vimeo) by Crystal Antlers Downloadable: Andrew (the last t&g mp3) Streamable: DOA (youtube) by Jay Reatard Streamable: [...]

• So Bored » 06 So Bored.mp3
• Cause Co-Motion! - Who's Gonna Care?
• Venice is Sinking - Ryan's Song

April is the fourth month which means technically there are only eight months left in the year. It is early spring and a good time to take stock of what's come, gone, and what remains in rotation. Here is a smattering of albums in no particular order that have moved me. Moved me to write this blog post. Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band What [...]

WAVVES /// WORDS: MAREK STEVEN /// PHOTOS: ALEX DE MORA /// Wavves started as a solo, bedroom project for San Diego stoner Nathan Williams. I was sent a link to the MySpace in October last year and like a lot of people, within seconds of listening I was in love with the material. All at once you're hit with the insanely raw production, tasteful chunky riffing and infectious vocal hooks. The influences are retro but the combination of lo-fi sludge and huge melody [...]

Polaroids of Androids just posted this Wavves video for "So Bored" and I was instantly reminded of Christmas at the Chang household. Just joking Mum and Dad, not all Asians are this crazy. Anyway enjoy this out of context Japapnese TV show cum filmclip from the the finest purveyor of scuzzy punk and redundant V's - Nathan Williams. So lo-fi you'd swear he played it over the phone and recorded it on a second hand dictaphone on the freeway.

When I first heard this song (the clear frontrunner for 'song of the year' btw) I thought to myself "the video should have lot's of Asian folk dressed in bright clothes dancing around all happy n shit". Boom.

Okou. Piinlik küll - kell kohe kümme ja postitust polegi Teadagi - olen tegus olnud - arva millega? Laupäeval ju Levikas pidu, valin muusikat. Hea pidu tuleb. Aga vahepeal satun juutuubi ka ja viimase seal vaadatud video siia praegu panengi. Sest Jaapan, teadagi, võrdub fantastika. Wavves - So Bored

Yeah, so I was hanging around Brick Lane the other weekend, you know, just kicking back, looking cool. Maybe I scoped out a new art scene. Maybe I smoked some crack. Whatever I did or didn't do, I most definitely DID pick up a copy of Vice magazine, that free, cooler-then-thou bible for all things young, hip and trendy. This month it was exploring sadness and the limitless possibilities that lie within. Featured inside was Nathan Williams, aka Wavves , a 22 year old who records his entire musical output directly onto computer program GarageBand. It sounds [...]