Today, Wavves announces the full details of their forthcoming Afraid Of Heights LP which is due on March 26th via Mom + Pop/Warner Bros. Wavves will be touring North America in support of their album and the band is pleased to announce tour dates with FIDLAR and Cheatahs for March and April with tickets going on sale Friday, February 1st. Scroll down to view all of the dates including performances at SXSW.
Straight from the dungeons of L.A., Wavves are releasing Afraid Of Heights, their fourth album and first on the Mom + Pop and Warner Bros. labels. Now a duo consisting of guitarist Nathan Williams and bassist Stephen Pope, they sound bigger, brasher, and shockingly more professional than ever on Afraid Of Heights which positions the band to take their rightful place amongst the pop-punk gods. You know the story by now. Bored dude in his parents’ tool shed-turned-room with no insulation and a record stuck to a hole in the wall to keep the mice out turns on a four-track recorder, fucks around and ends up with two of the oddest, noisiest, and downright catchiest albums in recent memory.
Those two records (the eponymous Wavves the eponyymous Wavvves) were winningly, messily chaotic-grand on a small scale, but not necessarily world-beaters. Which is why when Williams, then solo, linked up with erstwhile Jay Reatard sidemen Stephen Pope (bass) and Billy Hayes (drums) and busted the door down with the stunner that was King Of The Beach, a pop-punk blackout for the DeLonge and Deleuze crowd. After the smoke of King Of The Beach had cleared, Williams and Pope released the Life Sux EP, a testament to the crushing powers of rock n’ roll and also ennui.
Tour Dates
3/12/13 @ SXSW – Austin, TX
3/13/13 @ SXSW – Austin, TX
3/14/13 @ SXSW – Austin, TX
3/15/13 @ SXSW – Austin, TX
3/16/13 @ SXSW – Austin, TX
3/17/13 @ Prophet Bar – Dallas, TX *
3/19/13 @ Club Congress – Tucson, AZ *
3/20/13 @ Echo – Los Angeles, CA *
3/21/13 @ Casbah – San Diego, CA *
3/22/13 @ Bottom of the Hill – San Francisco, CA *
3/23/13 @ Velvet Jones – Santa Barbara, CA !
3/27/13 @ Larimer Lounge – Denver, CO *
3/28/13 @ Waiting Room – Omaha, NE *
3/29/13 @ 7th Street Entry – Minneapolis, MN *
3/30/13 @ Rave Bar – Milwaukee, WI *
4/01/13 @ Subterranean – Chicago, IL *
4/02/13 @ Basement – Columbus, OH *
4/03/13 @ Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH *
4/04/13 @ Magic Stick (Lounge) – Detroit, MI *
4/05/13 @ Horshoe – Toronto, ON *
4/06/13 @ Salla Rosa – Montreal, QC *
4/08/13 @ Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA *
4/09/13 @ Johnny Brendas – Philadelphia, PA *
4/11/13 @ Glasslands – Brooklyn, NY *
4/12/13 @ Shea Stadium – Brooklyn, NY *
4/13/13 @ Rock & Roll Hotel – Washington, DC *
4/15/13 @ Drunken Unicorn – Atlanta, GA *
4/16/13 @ Mercy Lounge – Nashville, TN *
4/18/13 @ Fitzgerald’s – Houston, TX *
4/20/13 @ Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, AZ *
4/21/13 @ The Smell – Los Angeles, CA *
* w/ FIDLAR and Cheatahs
! w/ Cheatahs
