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Lincoln Hall is located at 2424 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago, IL.
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Tue. Feb 08 2011

mtvU Freshman Five & Spin welcomes...

Wavves

Best Coast

No Joy

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Tuesday, February 08 2011 7:00 PM
All Ages $15.00

Lincoln Hall

In the life of Nathan Williams, the year of 2009 will go down as both a highlight reel and a total shit show. Meteorically, feverishly and somewhat improbably, two albums worth of naïve punk rock he recorded behind his parents’ San Diego home as Wavves became a sensation in the world of indie music. As a result, passports got filled, capers got pulled off and lots of good things got said about the music in both print and digital ink, plus in actual human voices. At the same time, fights got fought, situations got hairy and people got indignant and mean.

Oh well. Fuck it. All of it.

What’s important now is that, in the beginning of 2010, Williams made King of the Beach, the new Wavves album. King of the Beach is an adventurous and ambitious record. It cuts deeper into the bleeding throat catharsis and ’60s sunshine soul that Wavves is known for. It also unexpectedly flips out with elements of primitive electronics and psychedelic studio experimentation.

Bethany Cosentino lists the key influences of Best Coast as: boys, California, weed and her cat, Snacks. Sure that simplifies things an awful lot, but it also speaks to the directness and lack of pretention that defines her songwriting: potential boyfriends are pined after, the new guy doesn’t make her feel like the feel old guy did, TV can’t cheer her up, the summer is weird. “I don’t feel the need to mask my shit and try to sound poetic,” Cosentino offers. “I just say what I’m trying to say.”

This straightforward but relatable perspective is showcased in a sound that blends 1950s girl group sincerity, 1960s California pop optimism and 1990s grunge doom. It’s totally dreamy.