The Daily Swarm

Zack Hill’s Myspace page:

so last week in los angeles at wavves practice i somehow mangled/broke/exploded my left hand while playing drums.it was immediately apparent that my injury was a little serious. after stopping practice i was unable to make a fist and my lacerations wouldnt stop bleeding. i visited a clinic and found i had two small fractures. one to the knuckles and one on my pointer finger plus some tweaked ligaments(unable to grip). this isnt a first for me but unfortunately the timing of its forced me to NOT be joining nate on the upcoming european wavves tour. bummer! the entire wavves tour will still go down as scheduled with some friends filling in and backing nate. they’re gonna handle it! hit up the shows! on the upside i should be straight in the hands within a few weeks and will be spending this period working on the new marnie stern album and finishing up my next solo release etc,etc,etc! PEACY P

Pitchfork:

Last month, Jay Reatard’s rhythm section—bassist Stephen Pope and drummer Billy Hayes—quit Reatard’s band. (It led to this spectacularly irate Tweet from Reatard himself.) But now, it looks like the dust has settled.

As previously reported, Reatard has himself a brand new rhythm section. And as for Pope and Hayes, we can now report that the two of them have hooked up with yet another volatile indie frontman (and creative speller): Wavves mastermind Nathan Williams.

Drowned In Sound message board:

BE WARNED if you’re seeing WAVVES live…..

ZACH HILL has broken his wrist and ISN‘T doing the tour (the band or promoter failed to mention this on the door)

WAVVVVVVVESS are only playing a 25 minute set BUT charging full price at the door.

I only came to see Zach Hill drum, but the unreasonable prick promoter wouldn’t give me my money back after only being in the venue under 30 seconds (!) when I found out he wasn’t playing from the merch guy.

So, after no luck of a refund, I thought I may as well stick around and give WAVVVVVVES a chance.

25 minutes for a headlining set?! Nathan Williams didn’t even try and fill up the set by himself to make up for having not bothered to put in last minute man hours to practice with his makeshift band, but instead boasted on stage about going off early to ‘smoke weed’. Ummmmm cooooooooooooollllllll. Maybe it was past his bedtime, the prick looks about 5.

It’s not even like those Jay Reatard guys couldn’t have learnt his second rate No Age rip off songs in 5 minutes. Seriously, that was the LAMEST set by a headliner I’ve seen in YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!

Note to WAVVES: Remember not to treat your audience as EXPENDABLE because, there are a million bands out there to choose from to see live, and let’s face it, you’ve got no longevity have you.

You flash in the pan, Macaulay Culkin looking gimp. Go and get stung by bees.