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Wavves
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Some bands are so good they deserve their own genre and DOO-WAVE is the term exactly one person (hi!) is using to describe the exhilarating doo-wop surf-punk made by San Diego's Wavves.

Wavves is the work of Nathan Williams, who writes the classic rap blog Ghost Ramp and makes tapes of awesome songs he says are inspired by "the sun. And feeling like shit." His explosive new single Beach Demon assaults the monotony of endless suburban sunshine with zigzagging harmonies and a blitzkrieg of fuzzed-out noise.

“Beach Demon is about getting drunk on the beach and not having or feeling any real purpose in your life," explains Nathan. "That's why the chorus is 'going nowhere, I'm going nowhere', this overwhelming feeling of unimportance in the real scheme of things, ya know?" And Weed Demon, the languid, freewheeling b-side, what's that about? "Weed Demon is about weed." Ah. Of course.

-NME.com
Smith Westerns
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The Smith Westerns are from Chicago, and as far as we can tell are either named after a tourist trinket manufacturer in Tacoma or a chain of honkytonk restaurants in south England. Maybe both. Imagine being on family vacation somewhere kind of corny and sucky but running into a girl or boy who is also on family vacation in the same corny, sucky place. You guys buy each other pins from the gift shop at the foot of a rollercoaster, maybe they’re little cowboy hats. You throw some skeeball. Then you go back to your hometowns and write each other crazy letters for the rest of the summer while listening to Marc Bolan. That’s what this song sounds like. So maybe they know what they’re doing with the name.
- LAST FM
Total Slacker
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