Nathan Williams, singer-songwriter of Wavves, ... (Fat Possum), and the night at a Barcelona festival when his touring drummer, Ryan Ulsh, frustrated with his behavior, abandoned him onstage.

So Wavves — Williams, joined live by Ulsh — had a lot to prove Wednesday night at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom, in their first U.S. appearance since Primavera.

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Although he's a solo act, it takes a band to replicate the Wavves sound on stage. After onstage spats with former drummer Ryan Ulsh, Nathan began touring with Billy Hayes and Stephen Pope, who ...

In May 2009, Nathan Williams, founder and frontman of California lo-fi surf-punk outfit Wavves, found himself at the centre of a media frenzy following an onstage altercation that came to a ...

As drummer Ryan struggled in vain to find a tempo for Nathan's seasick improvisation, the music slowly turned into a half-speed, instrumental approximation of the Wavves ballad "Weed Demon"-- a ...

Nathan Williams’s MySpace seems to indicate that Wavves have picked up a new, fulltime member–Zach Hill, who I guess we can stop identifying as a... THE FRONT. Before the ...

California punks Wavves have made some more lineup changes. While the group have had some stability for the last year, following exits from skinsmen Ryan Ulsh and Zach Hill, drummer Billy Hayes ...

Wavves blame ‘ecstasy, valium and xanax’ for disastrous Primavera show. ... had a cup of beer poured over his head by drummer Ryan Ulsh, reports Idolator.com.

On a purely superficial level Nathan Williams aka Wavves is a Wu Tang Clan enthusiast and slack-eyed purveyor of lo-fi surf punk. When you dig a little deeper however, Williams stands as a greater ...

Last month, Nathan Williams, the force behind the San Diego noise-pop entity Wavves, played a self-destructive mess of a set at Barcelona's Primavera Sound Festival.As Pitchfork's Ryan Schreiber ...